Most of us on VGC experienced the 5th gen, with its gritty and raw 3D, a big innovation for home consoles at the time, but one that seems unlikeable today to some of the same people that glorified it back in the day.
It was blocky, extremely jaggy, low resolution... I could go on... but neverthless, people liked it. With the coming of the 6th gen consoles, people started thinking: was the move into 3rd graphics a premature one? one that the hardware of the time couldn't support well? what if that hardware was used for doing 2d/2.5d graphics? how would the games turn out then? how would this gen be remembered? what would be the impact? how would 6th gen adventure games look without an Ocarina of Time to back them up? JRPG's without FF VII? etc etc...
I'd say, this gen would turn out phenomenal. A combination of powerful HW with optical media (hell, even the N64 carts are perfectly good) would bring fantastic results. Imagine all games in beautiful and clear and colourful 2d, the best sprites you could imagine... all working fast and smooth. A possible impact, a probable one, actually - is seeing all the experemintation with 3D that the 5th gen did, in the 6th...
Discuss!
P.S: The motivation behind this thread is me emulating the SNES - not nostalgia (I was 2-3 when the console peaked =P)... plus I wanna make a 2d game myself.
