I’m thinking about the AVGN and how Nintendo makes you pay to play shitty emulator games from like 50 years ago.
Especially for the very old games like atari lol
I’m thinking about the AVGN and how Nintendo makes you pay to play shitty emulator games from like 50 years ago.
Especially for the very old games like atari lol
Depends on how far back counts as retro. Your thought that no one plays Atari games is more or less true, and I would even say most NES titles aren't particularly known or popular. SNES territory is where we see a lot of games that are just as playable as modern indie titles.
A lot of the SNES JRPG's hold up really well imo.
Absolutely! And some of them like Chrono Trigger are still gorgeous
FFVI looks incredible even today.
For sure! A lot of them are getting remakes too, I thought the recent Live-a-live rerelease was really excellent. Doing the fantasy chapter in iambic pentameter was :chefs-kiss:
2D graphics went though the same weird uncanny-valley growing pains as 3D, kinda like how the PS1 has this janky "bless them they're trying" charm to it but the N64 just kinda looks bad. Super old vector graphics and lots of colorful arcade games still hold up, but the Atari looks like pastel ass.
N64 looks bad? Conker looks so good, banjo, Mario games. They had the limitations defined by hardware and made that shit look awesome within those limits. Just full disagreement about those. Games that wanted (or even want now) to look realistic never hold up and are kinda boring. The good art knows it's limits and defines the art by what is fun and nice within them
PS1 even at the time was usually embarrassingly ugly because it came right after the sort of pinnacle of 2D graphics and it was an aesthetic downgrade for the most part.
N64 games didn't have the little pre recorded videos but the graphics themselves hold up better