What's the oldest gen that still looks fine to you graphically?

[Pemalite]

mountaindewslave said:

Pemalite said:
Starting with the 4th gen/SNES era there were games that aged stupidly well... And others. Not so much.
Case in point: Donkey Kong and Killer Instinct have aged well. StarFox? Not so much.

On the Nintendo 64, Smash Brothers still looks decent. Golden Eye? Nope.

On the PS1, Final Fantasy 8 still looks great, mostly thanks to the pre-rendered backdrops.

So for me, it's not really the generation so much as the art and technical techniques used to render the games... Besides being a PC gamer you tend not to look at things in generations anyway.

but picking games that were innovative for their time would be silly. Of course the first of its kind often looks poor. Star Fox for the SNES was extremely ambitious at the time and even had a unique chip component added (SFX?) to make it possible

Goldeneye was essentially the first home console game of its style and arguably built the FPS genre. I would also argue that Goldeneye is extremely replayable and views fine.

Now if you play 007 Goldeneye on a giant television toay that stretches the resolution, yes, it will look terrible. but the same applies to practically any games from that era. It looks pretty good on a CRT TV to me today

FF Viii has good cutscenes. main game appearance? ehhh. I would argue the PS1 Final Fantasy games have aged poorly. Most PS1 titles have

You are only re-affirming my point, it's not so much the platform or generation that matters, but the individual game itself.

As for Final Fantasy 8, I had it on PC back then, not Playstation... And we could use 3dfx Glide too, so my rose coloured glasses have a different tint. :P