The industry was not ready for 3D graphics and the 3D games of that era were all ugly as fuck!

>>11839684 (OP)
new and shiny always wins the hearts of rubes. toy story looks like shit in 1996 compared to aladdin, hell new cgi animation looks like shit from a more artistic eye, but people lap it up

>>11839684 (OP)
That depends on the genre. 3D racers like picrel made 2D racers irrelevant.

>>11839709
LOL no!

>>11839684 (OP)
I've always thought it was really lame how quickly we.moved from 2D to 3D and how much the industry and journalists encouraged this move.

>>11839684 (OP)
Obviously they WERE ready considering the failure of the Saturn and the phenomenal success of the ps1
>But but but they were ugly!!!
Only compared to future tech. When they came out, no one thought that way

>>11839937
>Only compared to future tech.
Older tech, too.

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>>11839684 (OP)
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I hate this meme that "5th gen wasn't ready for 3D"
Do people really like platformers and fighting games that much (90% of 2D games are one of those)
Imagine wishing for an alternate reality where instead of playing Resident Evil, Tenchu, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid etc you just get more Marios

And that decade had some great 2D games like Metal Slug X, Worms Armageddon or Castlevania SotN for example, so they're bitching for no reason

>>11839684 (OP)
Everyone went crazy for 3D, that shit sold like hotcakes. We were ready for something new. If you don't agree then you probably weren't even around at the time.

>>11840176
>Resident Evil, Tenchu, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid
None of these games feel a step beyond "experimental"

>>11840176
We already had racing games and Metal Gear before 3D.

>>11840176
100% agree

The best thing with 5 Gen is the mix 2D/3D ,a diversity of experience like no other generation (4G lack 3D games,6G lack 2D games)

>>11840203
This. We all got hyped up Everytime a new console came out because each iteration actually brought extensive upgrades to the capabilities of the systems. The 3d capabilities were good enough to blow people's minds. I don't think op understand because he never lived in a world where 3d wasnt everywhere. Movies didn't usually use 3dfx until the 90s and the ones that did, it was very noticabley bad. I remember watching final fantasy the spirits within and thinking it was nearly real, just because it was so much more advanced that what we had really seen before.

>>11839684 (OP)
> ugly as fuck
Better than the Vaseline smears of later 3d.

>>11840176
Yes, you can never have too many platformers. But the death of the genre came in 6th gen, not 5th. 5th gen consoles did get platformers, and some top tier SNES platformers were released during the 5th gen.
I was pissed off about the lack of 2d games during 6th gen, not 5th.

>>11839684 (OP)
What do you mean "the industry was not ready for 3D graphics?" Did you think game developers were just going to magically become good at 3D graphics by waiting a decade before working on a 3D game? They had to start somewhere.

>>11840334
Yea I loved playes Rock n Roll Racing, Biker Mice from Mars, Top Gear 1/2/3 and Super Mario Kart (this one is actually 3D idk), but racing is one of those genres that really improved going to 3D
And I actually prefer 2D platformers over 3D most of the time so I'm not complaining about having too many of them, but I'm glad Crash 1/2/3 and Tomba 2 (never played 1) existed instead of getting even more 2D ones

>>11840203
I didn't but I had superior taste as a kid.

Toy Story was shit compared to Aladdin just like Tekken was shit compared to Street Fighter Alpha

>>11839684 (OP)
i don't think anyone will seriously try to argue that "3D" looked good in 1996

>>11839684 (OP)
>2D PARADISE
Wow thanks for the helpful thread, anon. All the examples you gave are just breathtaking.

kek enjoy your dithering sega cope fags

>>11839684 (OP)
Yeah this is the thing about the Saturn, it was a 2D powerhouse so it was awesome from a modern perspective of the sprite graphics appreciator but it was the wrong console at the time in every possible way.

Also the PS1 could do 2D also so it was just a badly designed console, I still love it though.

>>11841383
If it didn't look good, the ps1 would have failed.

>>11841430
Works on my CRT. Soul.

I'll just say it, fuck the saturn, sega should've gone all in on the 32x

>>11841430
Yeah it is what it is, it was for CRT. Looks weird on modern displays but w/e doesn't bother me that much.

>>11841482
Yeah and rap music is good just because subhumans like it

>>11840334
>We already had racing games
If you wanted polygonal racers, you had to go to an arcade or make due with 16 bit games that required expensive addon chips
>and Metal Gear before 3D.
Yes, if you were Japanese. Otherwise you got a shitty NES port of MG1 and Snakes Revenge

>>11841492
>shitty2X
>sucks at bitmap graphics
>renders flat shaded polys, textures kill performance
>only brings a single PWM channel for audio
Retard

>>11841772
If only they released MG1 and 2 on the Genesis or SNES. What could have been. What could have been...

Tomb Raider looks like shit and plays like a tank.

>>11842118

>>11841792
You're in luck, Metal Gear was recently ported to the Genesis

https://youtu.be/fZYD-plta88?t=70

>>11841792
>MG2 on SNES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYyoDDhZOqs

>>11841772
The point is, these experiences could be replicated on 2D hardware. Metal Gear Solid could have easily been a top-down 2D game, that’s exactly how it plays.

>>11842368
Based.

>>11840158
>>11839959
>a-am I fitting in?

>>11839684 (OP)
I'm glad we got a generation with so much variety, Saturn with more 2D, N64 with more 3D, and PS1 with more of a middle ground, it was all great.

>>11841373
>was shit compared to Street Fighter Alpha
3D fighting games were a huge mistake!

>>11839909
>how quickly we.moved from 2D to 3D
we had 2d since 77. going to 3d in 94 isn’t that quickly

>>11839684 (OP)
I guess they just expected the 2d games to go above and beyond like mega man x4 or sotn

>>11841430
Do you ever stop?

>>11839684 (OP)
its nice that saturnfag (fags?) keeps making pro saturn thread s I love the saturn and I recall there used to be an anti saturn nintentard that colonized this board. Segafags winning

>>11839684 (OP)
much as I like the saturn PS1 had plenty of 2d games and could do both

>>11845651
Nintendo still rent freely?

>>11839684 (OP)
Saturn isn't even good at 2D though. It can't do transparency.

>>11840143

the cadence of that guys voice pisses me off so much, sounds like a male valley girl.

>>11845693
PS1 2d titles were notoriously nerfed, like marvel vs capcom having no tag team and frames being cut out of every 2d fighter
>i dont like fighting games!
Well face it, in 1996 the main 2d enthusiasts were fighting game fans

>>11845139
We've had 3D since Atari's Battlezone in 1980. Sega was so far behind.

>>11841430
Fuck you sonyfag!