i will firmly uphold there was something magical about video games in the millennial categories. Don't get me wrong, we're in a golden era of gaming availability and indie games, and maybe I was just a dumb kid, but it was magical watching the march of technology explode like that.
I'm not too blinded by nostalgia to demand you play on original hardware or that every game has aged well, but that whole 90s period was such radical change and transformation that hasn't been matched since. In 1990, the most advanced console you could buy was what, a Neo Geo? You were restricted to cartridges that could do sprite graphics. 3D games were strikingly rare, maybe if you were one of the few people who had a home PC. Game consoles using discs hadn't been invented yet. Hell it wasn't even common for game developers to get credited for the games they worked on.
By 2000 you could get a Dreamcast or a PS2. There had been such an explosion of technology that online games were common. Half-Life redefined how to engage with a story in games. Games with full voice acting were seen as normal. You could put a movie in your PS2 and watch it. Games had gone from displaying zero polygons to 16 million per second.
I'm still stunned at how quickly everything moved in that decade only for it to go stagnant. Half-Life came out only 5 years after DOOM. Super Mario 64 came out only 11 years after Super Mario Bros on the NES. The Resident Evil remake came out in 2002, only 6 years after the release of the original in 1996. The successor games are so much more advanced they make the previous one look like piddly little toys. It's ludicrous.
Maybe it's diminishing returns or what, but the only new thing in games that compares is VR, and yet the tech there is impressive, but doesn't feel like the sudden jolts and leaps I saw as a kid. Anyone else feel this way?
Nothing will ever rival the 90s in gaming. Whole gaming genres and subgenres were invented. FPS, RTS, 4X, 3d platformers, Metrodvanias, ARPG in the style of Diablo. The first modern fighting game was Street Fighter 2 in '91, and it completely laid the groundwork for what a fighting game is to the point where pre-SF2 fighting games like Karate Champ probably don't even register as fighting games for most people.
i will firmly uphold there was something magical about video games in the millennial categories. Don't get me wrong, we're in a golden era of gaming availability and indie games, and maybe I was just a dumb kid, but it was magical watching the march of technology explode like that.
I'm not too blinded by nostalgia to demand you play on original hardware or that every game has aged well, but that whole 90s period was such radical change and transformation that hasn't been matched since. In 1990, the most advanced console you could buy was what, a Neo Geo? You were restricted to cartridges that could do sprite graphics. 3D games were strikingly rare, maybe if you were one of the few people who had a home PC. Game consoles using discs hadn't been invented yet. Hell it wasn't even common for game developers to get credited for the games they worked on.
By 2000 you could get a Dreamcast or a PS2. There had been such an explosion of technology that online games were common. Half-Life redefined how to engage with a story in games. Games with full voice acting were seen as normal. You could put a movie in your PS2 and watch it. Games had gone from displaying zero polygons to 16 million per second.
I'm still stunned at how quickly everything moved in that decade only for it to go stagnant. Half-Life came out only 5 years after DOOM. Super Mario 64 came out only 11 years after Super Mario Bros on the NES. The Resident Evil remake came out in 2002, only 6 years after the release of the original in 1996. The successor games are so much more advanced they make the previous one look like piddly little toys. It's ludicrous.
Maybe it's diminishing returns or what, but the only new thing in games that compares is VR, and yet the tech there is impressive, but doesn't feel like the sudden jolts and leaps I saw as a kid. Anyone else feel this way?
Nothing will ever rival the 90s in gaming. Whole gaming genres and subgenres were invented. FPS, RTS, 4X, 3d platformers, Metrodvanias, ARPG in the style of Diablo. The first modern fighting game was Street Fighter 2 in '91, and it completely laid the groundwork for what a fighting game is to the point where pre-SF2 fighting games like Karate Champ probably don't even register as fighting games for most people.
deleted by creator