I have been playing quit a bit on the snes,and found something quit strange(and i guess ironic in a certain way)

A lot of snes games look a lot better then most ps1/n64 games did.

They had a LOT more details in them,the characters looks a lot better in term of details( example chrono / cloud strife)

Walking around the forest in chrono trigger iam in awe how it looks and whas thinking to myself,there is no ps1/n64 3d forest that looks as detailed as this.

And yet,we all wanted to play the next gen of consoles solely because it whas "3d"

Strange and ironic,to me at least.

16 bit era games have aged better than many of the rougher 3D games of the N64-PS1 era. That's the magic of pixel art, if it's good, it ages like fine wine.

I mean, it makes some sense that 'matured' sprites looked better than rudimentary polygons. It's part of why I have more nostalgia for the GBA than the DS, for example. That said, PS1 era visuals are starting to see their own nostalgic resurgence.

Indeed they do.

16/32 bit 2D games aged so well. Early 3D ones did not.

Depends.

There are some great looking PS1 and N64 games like Ocarina of Time or FF8-9, and a lot of 16 bit games look like ass. FF4 had kind of blah visuals.

Just about any sprite-based Saturn game looks better than anything on Genesis/SNES. Astal and Princess Crown are still gorgeous games.

Yeah something like Super Mario World still looks nice today and always will. The 4th gen is when 2D games got refined enough to be really high quality a lot more often which is why the 2D games on the 5th gen consoles like Symphony of the Night hold up better. It's a style of game that was already fairly refined a few years earlier vs a style that was still in its early years. 3D games from that time are basically the equivalent of 2D games on the NES, there are ones that still hold up well but most of them are really outdated visually and gameplay wise compared to games from today.

Depends.

The tech was still new so the designs became way more outdated than the SNES designs which didnt have the issue that the early 3D games had because the NES existed.

There were several good titles on the SNES that looked really good though like Chrono Trigger was just amazing at the time.

2D pixel art really bloomed and matured in the 4th gen, whereas 3D graphics were still in their infancy in the 5th.

That said, I still think some 3D games on PS1/N64/Saturn hold up okay considering the technical limitations of the time, like say Banjo Kazooie, Starfox 64, Vagrant Story, Legacy of Kain, the Panzer Dragoon games, etc.

SuperFX 3D games have also aged fairly well. I.E. Starfox, mostly because it wasn't *trying* to be realistic, it was trying to be artistic.

In saying that, 2D Nintendo 64 and Playstation 1 games do look better than their SNES alternatives. I.E. Yoshi's Story 64.