Mr_No said:
I have to agree with you on this. Crash does look better than SM64 (but both are good games), and the 2D Mario games had an charm that the 3D game couldn't replicate. |
I strongly disagree, Naughty Dog did a great job with Crash on the psx, it was a nice looking game but I remember when I was a child, I play hell lot of Crash on my PSX and one day I saw a n64 on a shop for the first time in my life and Mario 64 was running, I played for 5 minutes and almost die of excitemente, until that moment I never saw graphics like those, never, it was vastly superior to Crash , they looked more solid, more clear, more complex and way more open and ambitious and it was very obvious in that time that Mario 64 looked better than Crash there was not even a discussion about it. Now people think in how they looked on emulators and on their memories and not how they really looked running on their original consoles, but I do remember the impact of the contrast between playing Crash daily and suddlenly playing Mario 64 for a few minutes when I had not a clue that N64 was more powerfull, and it was quite impressive and obviously superior, Crash was maybe superior on some textures and his design was specially thinked to have extremely poligonal graphics so the model design feel less outdated than some M64 models that struggle to turn some 2D characters in 3D (like Bowser...) but overall, M64 looked better.
