Were you old enough to have owned a 3rd/4th gen console(e.g. SNES, NES, Master System, Genesis, Turbografx-16, etc.) when they were still the "current gen" platforms? E.g. Older millennials, Gen X, and upwards?
How did you feel about the leap to 3D with 5th gen consoles(N64/PS1/Saturn) and arcade games or early to mid-90s PC stuff like Quake? What did you think when you saw a real 3D game for the first time?
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>Were you old enough to have owned a 3rd/4th gen console(e.g. SNES, NES, Master System, Genesis, Turbografx-16, etc.) when they were still the "current gen" platforms? E.g. Older millennials, Gen X, and upwards?
Yes, born 88.
>How did you feel about the leap to 3D with 5th gen consoles(N64/PS1/Saturn) and arcade games or early to mid-90s PC stuff like Quake? What did you think when you saw a real 3D game for the first time?
I honest to god thought the early madden games actually looked like real NFL football on TV. Its fucking laughable now but it was a huge leap.
3D was such a massive deal in the 90s.
There was no going back in my mind.
Also, the transition from 4th to 5th gen was my first generation transition. And I was expecting future generations to be just as industry altering as 5th gen was. Of course, nothing was really as big of a changer as leaping from 2D to 3D was. Future generations ended up disappointing me.
I remember when I thought the N64 was the pinnacle of graphics
Nope. First console I owned was Gamecube. A lot of 5th gen and older stuff looks weird to me.
>Were you old enough to have owned a 3rd/4th gen console(e.g. SNES, NES, Master System, Genesis, Turbografx-16, etc.) when they were still the "current gen" platforms?
Yes, had a Megadrive
>How did you feel about the leap to 3D
I played my Megadrive and had handhelds for the longest time as a child. I think my second home console was a PS2. Played Kingdom Hearts on it and hated it, confused me so much and I just wanted to go back to my Pokemon or Sonic games.
I see so many people saying how 3D games blew their minds back then but I remember feeling really annoyed and thinking it was pointless.
Was I just retarded?
Yes.
transition to 3d was fucking inSAAAANE. super mario 64 and OoT felt huge
I thought Doom was cool when my friend got it on his PC but I was a console kid. Mario 64 blew my mind when I played the demo at target.
When I got my Genesis it was pretty EOL, but there were some good titles after 95
>How did you feel about the leap to 3D with 5th gen consoles(N64/PS1/Saturn)
It was fucking horrific. EVERY fucking game just HAD to be 3D, which would have been great, if the graphics weren't so fucking bad that it made you not want to look at 3D graphics.
The same for me. Blew my fucking mind seeing Mario 64. I can still remember those TV spots. Mario swinging Bowser around or getting milk from a fridge.
And the leap to Gamecube, Xbox, PS2 was impressive. And I think there now developers had a lot more to work with, they didn't generally have to worry about an upper limit of data, and that's where you start really seeing modern games take form. Action games like DMC. The twin stick controls of shooters and stuff like that.
Maybe it was because by 7th gen I was a young adult wrapping up college and buying stuff with my own paychecks, but now it just feels like we're making games prettier, and because of the graphics race you don't see that many "interesting" games. It's all too safe, just shooters and open world RPGs and open world shooters and open world shooter RPGs.
But I'm pretty happy with the Swtich's library and there's a lot of neat indie stuff coming out, things like run n gun games, shoot em ups and other genres that the big AAAs don't pursue because they won't sell millions of copies, so it's not like a total dark age or anything.
Grew up on Sega Master System, SNES, old gameboys. The jump to 3D was unbelievable. Being able to look around the environment, to see and play in an extra dimension in front of you felt sort of like people trying modern VR games for the first time. I thought, "it's never going to get any better than this." The graphics weren't "shitty" back then. They were mindblowing, particularly games like MGS, which really were the best representation. I believe the first one I played was FF7 game setup at Electronics Boutique, which zoomies know as Gamestop. I had no idea what I was doing in the subway and just ran around fighting battles because it was amazing to see how everything looked, sounded, and felt to play with a new dimension. All of the games were REALLY out there in terms of ideas and gameplay. Nobody really knew what they were doing with this new 3D space and that was part of the charm because you could see them experimenting with all sorts of new wild shit and everyone was loving it because there was no standard, no baseline, much like VR right now, which is as good of an analogy that I can come up with.
for consoles i didn't like it. even then the 3d looked primitive and the appearance of that imprecise 'analog stick' thing didn't sit well with me.
for pc it was a different story, i guess because of the natural immersiveness and responsiveness of fps games and the fact that the gainz between gpu generations were staggering. i remember when gpu accelerated dynamic lighting was a THING and you could fire a rocket down a hallway and have it light up everything around it.
>Electronics Boutique, which zoomies know as Gamestop
Growing up in the 90s in one of the largest US metropolitan areas, I remember all these chains like
>Babbage's
>Electronics Boutique, later EB Games
>Funcoland
being distinct chains, all having their own advertising fliers, and then gradually being taken over by what would eventually become Gamestop.
And now I'm watching these Gamestops shut down and leave these outlets empty. Two of the ones that shut down near my house are now a weed dispensary and a Little Caesar's.
Born in '88, parents bought an NES a couple of years before I was born then got a SNES when I was 4. I'll never forget playing Super Mario 64 for the first time on a kiosk in Fred Meyers during late '96.
Not a console, but I had a 386 pc and a friend of mine had a Nintendo 64. Mario 64 felt surreal at the time. Like, the first area before entering the castle with the birds singing, in my mind it was so HUGE and expansible. I had the same experience again with Doom, on a 486 pc.
Had a Genesis during 4th gen and an N64 during 5th gen. At the time, the graphical/dimensional leap was mind-blowing. Going from side-scrolling sprites to polygons that can move in all directions was incredible. In retrospect, though, 5th gen 3D games were ass. Shitty frame rate, shitty textures, shitty controls often, shitty low-poly models, shitty draw distance. 5th gen 2D games were superior to 4th gen, from a technical standpoint, but there's too few of them (especially on the N64) because everyone was too enamored with rudimentary 3D. Like another user said, watching the commercial for the new Madden each year looked so realistic back then, but nowadays, we'd be insane to think those blocky-ass graphics looked real.
Some were great at what they were trying to convey.
Some were just fucking eerie.
I let my cousin molest me so I could play splatter house 3 on his genesis
Quake 2 was pretty cool. I got a new PC with TWO VooDoo 2s in it and that thing lasted me until I got a 670.
What impoverish banana republic do you hail from?
I'm in my 30s, VooDoo 2s in SLI were richfag specs before you were born.
I find it hard to believe you were playing new releases for 14 years with minimal issues.
No. Most current stuff I owned at the time was a Gamecube in 2005.
Then it was a DS Lite in 2007 and Wii in 2010
First console was an SNES in 2002.
Because I wasn't. I didn't really play video games anymore when I started college in 2003. I didn't start playing video games again until 2013 when my fiance died. I honestly thought the angry video game nerd was just a series of reaction images until 2014 or so. I never watched one of his videos until this year. It's kinda neat seeing all the youtube stuff I've missed.
I was born in '77. I always got consoles late, but I always had them for a bit of their initial runs. Started with the NES, then Snes, then Sega Saturn, and so on.
personally, I loved cartoons and thought the SNES was the absolute pinnacle of art. All those tasty preview shots of Saturn, PC-FX, and Neo Geo games had my mouth watering at the incredible animation and anime art style. those blocky Playstation graphics? I could not give less of a shit. Toshinden had some phenomenal character designs, but the in game graphics were so chunky you couldn't even tell what was what. That shit was UGLY. The N64 was so bad I never even bothered to try the demo machines at Toys R Us.
obviously, I was too judgmental. the games looked like shit, until you saw them actually move. When I finally got a PS1, I had a blast with games like Rage Racer, Jumping Flash 2, and Final Fantasy 7. that shitty game engine with the jaggy texture rendering hosted some incredible experiences. Honestly, I am still waiting for indie devs to get tired of pixel art and start making low-poly 3D, like the PS1, N64, and Saturn. that stuff is beautiful in high resolution
Still fascinates me that the SNES (ie super Famicom) was still in production until 2006.
Can still get mint condition ones for $30 in Japan
agreed. especially since the higher resolution meant that 2D games were so beautiful that you could cry.
Astal was a launch title. pretty big leap over the Snes and Genesis, even if the gameplay was a little thin
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Yes, right in the prime age as a child born in the mid-80s. Those 5th gen consoles blew my mind as a kid in a way that I don't think could be replicated again. I remember being awestruck by the leap from the NES to the Genesis/SNES, but this was on a completely different level. I used to get Nintendo Power and remembering reading and looking at the beta screens of the Ultra 64 hundreds of times thinking how cool it was. When the N64 came out -- I first got to play Mario 64 at a Sears display while my dad shopped for tools. Playing felt almost instinctual -- it was completely different than most anything I had played before but I just fell into seamlessly as I wandered around Jolly Roger Bay to that incredible music. If I was hypothetically forced to lose all my vidya memories outside one single moment of my choice, I'd choose that 30 minutes in Sears without a shred of hesitation.
3d was so amazing to me that it made me not bother with 2d games that I had been drooling over in magazines for months anticipating their release. I got a PlayStation the day it came out and I didnt play another 2d game until like 2010 when I discovered emulators and got nostalgic.