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curl-6 on 12 May 2021
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah it's a lot like that for me too; I do a lot of retro gaming and when I go back and play something on PS1 or the original Xbox for example my mind kinda sets its expectations according to the hardware and I can appreciate them by their own standards.

That said, some games have definitely aged better than others haha.

This actually got me thinking, I've been playing the original RE games on PS1 (well, haven't gotten to 3 yet since I'm doing them in order and 2 has a lot of replay value ), and man 1 is wayyyyyyy more ugly than 2. 2 actually has a very nice aesthetic for a PS1 game. 1 by comparison is pretty bad looking. I don't think it helps that they want for a less cluttered, less detailed, more barren aesthetic for the environments. 2 is so lively in comparison. 

Yeah, I guess a lot of that might come down to learning how to better maximise the hardware or getting hold of more powerful rigs for making the pre-rendered CG stuff.

It's like how nothing in the early life of the SNES looks as good as Donkey Kong Country, or nothing in the first few years of PS3/360 comes close to Uncharted 3 or Gears of War 3.