Unscientific anecdote, but I’m in a video games discord with a bunch of people younger than I am, and it appears that they’re becoming nostalgic for the N64 era game aesthetics and that is surely a sign of the end times. Hands down the ugliest period of all of gaming history. - ThreadSky

stonkers.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Unscientific anecdote, but I’m in a video games discord with a bunch of people younger than I am, and it appears that they’re becoming nostalgic for the N64 era game aesthetics and that is surely a sign of the end times.

Hands down the ugliest period of all of gaming history.

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trickyc66.bsky.social•2 days ago

27fps, one for every polygon in the player character model

patrickchapman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nostalgia for PS1 games baffles me more. I thought they were hideous back then and they're just an assault on the eyes now.

comedianx.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’d usually agree with this, but atlyss, and the original metal gear solid for some reason don’t look all that bad to me.

patrickchapman.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's true actually. I think there are some exceptions, like Metal Gear.

stonkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

I agree! (Except for my beloved Final Fantasy VII, which is a perfect game from top to bottom and I won’t hear a bad word about it!!!)

ziyyigo-tipyigo.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'll take the bait!

Having a low-poly Cloud wandering around extremely flat pre-renedered backgrounds was immersion-breaking and only slightly more "3D" than King's Quest.

Disc 1 felt like a letdown after the prior game on the SNES.

stonkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

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stonkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

jk, it’s a perfectly reasonable reaction, even if I loved it with my whole heart.

I do really actually like the pre-rendered backgrounds, I think they’re painterly, but the low poly character forms was a big step down from the cute little pixel sprites of FF3/6, agreed

ziyyigo-tipyigo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here's a Debate you can drop into the channel, for chaos purposes:

https://www.retrorgb.com/n64blur.html

adrew.dadguy.online•2 days ago

like the console or the actual game graphics?

stonkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

both, some of them have vintage consoles, but mostly they pine for the graphics and are hoping new games begin to emulate the look like previous nostalgia games emulated the 2D pixel graphics of the earlier 90s

syx98.bsky.social•2 days ago

I still think the NES color pallate is the ugliest.

fudgeshicle.bsky.social•2 days ago

You put Aidyn Chronicles in right now and look at that game and tell me it's bad for real. (Whatever you do, NEVER look the game up. Seriously)

stonkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

[immediately looks it up] oh no my eyeballs

fudgeshicle.bsky.social•2 days ago

You when you saw.

scenemorulez.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s charming, had simple gameplay, and was pretty easy to understand! A lot of games nowadays I think just try way too hard to appeal to an audience that just want a fun game, not a showcase of beautiful graphics. I’m of the opinion that low quality graphics are cute + focus should be on gameplay 💕

stonkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

I agree! But sadly, I also think the gameplay (particularly the exploration) in most of those early 3D 64bit games was garbage 😭

stonkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m just not the right audience for it, I went straight from SNES to PS1, skipping the 64bit consoles entirely, so I have zero nostalgia for it, I just kinda hate how it looks and runs

scenemorulez.bsky.social•2 days ago

Completely fair! I think story and functionality are also included in gameplay; games from Dreamcast, Wii, and Gamecube are my favorite personally. I think older games just had easier controls and didn’t need hour-long introductions to learn how to play

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