zeldaring said:
IcaroRibeiro said:
I find interesting that you guys talk about being impressed with 5th gen consoles
When I played them as a kid my first thought was I couldn't sometimes even understand what I was looking at and definitely knew games needed to look better lol. One of the reasons why I often choose 2D games over 3D games was my difficulty to process all those formless polygons which were often important doors and items
I had the same impression during 6th gen, although to a much lesser extent. When I played Final Fantasy X (a game with very good graphics by its time) I couldn't help but think "How long it will take to games look as good as the animated cutscenes?"
The first time in my life I felt "ok games now look good" was 8th gen. 7th gen had some realistic games, but colour pallet and artstyle used to be dreadful shades of gray and sepia, there are exceptions though
For me 8th and 9th gen graphics are enough. We hit a point where technology allow artists to manifest nicely their creative side and develop complex and beautiful world universes. Colour are back in games, no more boring grey and brown, and characters models are sufficient to display emotions which is essential to more narrative-driven games
The models and background are "realistic enough" for me to instantly understand everything on screen, so even an ugly game like PUBG is definitely playable to an extent I will not suffer from bad/confusing graphics
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That's crazy as kids we don't tend to be picky or over analyze things. Any game in Nes was fun as long as it had cool characters from my favorite cartoons. I was blown away by n64 it was the first 3d system I saw. I was blown away by street fighter alpha on playstation I was in country where we didn't have access to n64 or playstation. When I saw golden eye, wave race, and Mario 64 I was blown away like never before. I got a dreamcast but it didn't blow me away until mgs2 and gt3 they blew me away with the lighting it looked like movie, then the last game was resident evil 4. Graphics are stunning now but you get to 37-40 nothing really blows you away anymore .
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You don't need to over-analyze things to perceive quality. I was 7 to 12 years old when I played 5th and 6th gen consoles. By that time I watched Harry Potter movies, X Men movies and Star War movies. Computer generated Imagery was mainstream already, and after watching a movie the models in videogames definitely looked uglier to my kids eyes
I still played and enjoyed games, but I can't remember having any sort wow factor with graphics until 7th gen
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