| curl-6 said: Yeah stuff like Rogue Squadron 2/3 or Starfox Adventures that made heavy use of Gamecube's multitexturing capabilities likely couldn't be done on PS2 as Sony's system was slower at these operations. The Rogue Squadron games for instance threw around a ton of bumpmapping while running at 60fps with very high polygon counts. RE4 had to be downgraded to run on PS2, with lower polygon models, lower rez textures, and missing details and lighting effects. |
Such a great generation of consoles but despite winning that generation I was most disappointed with the PS2. I used to have a setup with a Panasonic AE100 projector so could see every pixel and the PS2 was always disappointing on the big screen. I had the early Gamecube that allowed for progressive scan 480p Gamecube games using Nintendo's component cable and the visual quality was fantastic at the time. I couldn't believe how good the Roque Squadron games looked. The only console that looked better in visual clarity was the Dreamcast because of its VGA output which the projector did a more vivid image with than component but of course the Gamecube overall had much more impressive games although Dreamcast still had some very impressive titles visually like Shenmue, Soul Calibur and Dead or Alive 2. You would think the xbox would be best but it's component output wasn't as clean as Gamecube and the image ended up not being as vivid. It was like the Xbox had a standard LCD display and gamecube was OLED in comparison. PS2 image quality was pretty awful from its component output but that is mainly down to the low resolution and poor textures I think although I think I played a fair bit of Gran Turismo on it. Great times. When it came to sound though, PS2 was second only to original Xbox. The 5.1 surround sound output was much better than the sound of Gamecube and Dreamcast both just had 2 channel sound and Dolby Prologic type surround systems. Not much sound immersion at all. The Rogue Squadron games made the effort and probably the best sound from Gamecube but still a little weak.
