RetroGaming

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Don’t even bother making a new game unless it supports ray-traced light speculating through the anal-fog discharged from the main character’s arse. Every single pebble too within a 50 mile radius must be able to reflect the dripping, wolf-ey arse sweat drops too at all times using some buzzword engine tech or no one will buy the game

Doom had some pretty dark levels especially in a lot of the additional episodes and I personally think they were amazing. Half-Life 1 and 2 are similar and they're both legendary games. Personally I would put the point where gaming started to go downhill at 2011 (with the release of skyrim).

I don't think there's anything stopping modern games from having the same vibes, and being creative with graphics. I'd say one example of a modern game with high res graphics, realistic water, and even ray tracing, which still looks very unique and distinct is Paradise Killer. Another one that also looks quite modern in some ways while still being very distinct in its own way, is Heaven's Vault. It's a choice made by AAA studios because photorealistic visuals tend to attract more eyes and sell better, even if people get bored of the game quite quickly.

And the thing is, AC Unity - which came out in 2024 - still looks better than the majority of AAA games I see nowadays, and despite the large crowds which are a bit CPU demanding it still has much lower requirements than those games that look worse.

EDIT: And if you just want games that actually look retro and old school, there are some from indie devs doing that; examples include: Dread Delusion, The Case of the Golden Idol, Death Trash, Felvidek, Return of the Obra Dinn.

Lots of good, new stuff in the boomer shooters. If you want to try something like Duke 3D, check out Ion Fury, which was made in a fork of the original Build engine. Seleco and Hedon for modern GZDoom stuff.

Corn Kidz 64 has the best graphics of any game of the last 20 years. I will fight and die on this hill.

The original was great.

I developed an unreasonable hatrid for the GameCube version, however, when my younger brother would wake me up every morning with the sound of "beep, beep, beep, BEEP, BEEP!
WOO HOO! beep, beep, beep, BEEP, Beep! WOO HOO!
beep, beep, beep, BEEP, Beep! WOO HOO!"

It was a solid sequel but god were the sound effects annoyingly repetitive, especially at 7am on a Saturday.

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The 90s were also just a generally good time for gaming. It went from Doom in 1993 to Quake in 1996 and then Half-Life in 1998.

Only issue with the technology is that the waves were not dynamic; they were deterministic/the same every race.

I laugh every time I see the words "literally unplayable" because of minor headache

Started with Atari 2600, now VR simrig racing.

Its a truly unique experience that only WE experienced. Anyone much older, wasn't interested in video games, and anyone much younger, was gaming in realistic 3D before they could understand what was even happening.

I feel it's similar to the person in the early 1900s who had a horse & cart as a kid and experienced the invention of cars, highways, planes and eventually space travel.

My biggest "wow" effect was Gran Turismo (1). The moving reflections on the cars!

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The closest I've felt to those monumental leaps in recent history was the first time I played VR. It feels similarly mind-blowing.

I remember going over to a kid's house that lived up the street from my cousin. He had Pilotwings on Super Nintendo like right after it released. And he had a big screen TV!

My god man, you would not believe how picture perfect those pixels the size of a finger tip were.

I'm 3:30 in and they're just rambling. Who makes this kind of content?

I know the story because I've seen this video where the developers actually talk about how they did it. Watch it instead.

https://youtu.be/izxXGuVL21o?si=7bslPryvGApcJqqm