Pemalite said:
curl-6 said:
Honestly as much as I whinge about the wow factor no longer being there, the reduction in quantum graphical leaps is somewhat softened for me since, as a child of 4th and 5th gen who remembers having my mind blown by Starfox 64, there are Xbox 360 games that still impress me visually. Heck, even some Wii games still look nice in my book. As interesting as I find the tech side of things, art direction and performance are more important nowdays, I find.
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The one thing I hated about Gen 6 and 7 was the abuse of bloom. It was terrible and makes games look ugly to me personally.
It wasn't untill about half way through the generation when techniques like texture and mesh streaming... And the push towards baked shadow and lighting that games started to have a complex look.
Art does make the difference though, it really does.
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Yeah, a lot of games in 2005-2008 overused bloom to an obnoxious degree. There were some games that used it well though; Metroid Prime 3 for example employed it tastefully and it looked quite nice. 60fps also helps when it comes to how well something ages graphically, cos while textures, shaders, etc will all advance with time, 60fps will always be silky smooth. ;)
