| Jpcc86 said: In my personal experience, most old awesome 3d games are terrible by today's standards, but most old awesome 2d games remain awesome. |
Well, 3D was sometimes in it's beginning and it is still evolving. First 3D-titles I counted back then as worse titles then that time 2D-titles,. but people enjoyed it because they were thrilled by the new tech. As they are today, look how many threads are about new tech, new graphic improvements of games and hardware.
2D has evolved too, first games were black-and white or 16 colors with fixed color-table. This looks bad for todays standards:
Hercules monochrom.
4 colors CGA.
16 colors.
256 colors. I couldn't find the same scene in that resolution.
Anyways, after 256 colors and with higher resolution where is still improvement, but beginning with 16 colors and even better with 256 it looks OK and no longer like total crap. And gameplay is in all variants pretty good, but in 256 colors you can enjoy the backgrounds.
So, I would say for 2D the point there it all was OK with VGA 256 color resolution. After that the graphic improved, but it impacted not very much the experience anymore. For 3D (besides more compting power) you needed more colors (to see the lighting pretty good, 16Bit-colors are a must) and more resolution. So 3D has much higher technical needs to look acceptable.
