Games that were graphically impressive for their time, but are ugly now.

[mjk45]

S.Peelman said:

I actually hardly ever think something that looked good back then looks ugly now. When I play something older, I just get in that state of mind where you just judge things relative to what they can be. The things I find ugly now are also the things I found ugly back then and those are usually terrible and terrible looking games to begin with. I’m talking Superman 64 or Bubsy 3D. Good stuff like the 64 Zeldas, Banjo or Crash still look good to me. Nevermind the better stuff from the 4th and 6th gen.

Superman 64.  it's only fault was ambition and that lead to us seeing the finest most impenetrable fog ever made, but this also shows ambitions darkside of not knowing when to stop and the end result lead to it hiding the entire game. So this should be a cautionary tale of how  ambition is evil,we got lucky and dodged a bullet that time only because they didn't call it Batman 64 so it flopped and we didn't have disasters like Sir David Attenborough having to change Planet Earth to Planet Fog. 

There were unexpected future consequences however, like the Silent Hill fog being held up to the same lofty standards set by Superman 64 that in turn lead a frustrated Konami to develop a gambling problem.

later actions show clear evidence that further frustration also saw Konami take to drink and drugs, whose use not only lead them to start believing it was a curse but the descent went further resulting in them holding an exorcism by setting fire to digital copies of PE and driving Kojima from their midst.

Now comes the summary, we should all take heed of the fact that our Road Safety Boards were right to warn us that fog is dangerous but they let us down by not also warning of ambition.