Archived Sony Gaf: Industry is better without competition (m.neogaf.com)
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Archived Sony Gaf: Industry is better without competition (m.neogaf.com)
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[–] Schopenhauer4ever [S] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
I liked PS1 more than PS2. I thought PS2 was the biggest piece of shit, technologically, that I'd seen relative to hype; its image quality (res, textures) is worse than the Dreamcast's. It was demolished by Xbox in a way that made the tech gap look generational; I remember Itagaki claimed a 500 percent hardware gap (half gen). In some games, it looks like he underestimated.
The PlayStation was awesome in 1995. What makes it unplayable is the early 3D tech of both it and the Saturn. Just hideous.
N64 solved most of that. But the low res textures and fogging from the lack of microcode access (and rambus ram) kill a huge number of games.
Sony is Naughty Dog: Crash Bandicoot is a great platforming GAME, Uncharted is a walking sim with "narrative" set pieces.
[–] BillBugle 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
I hated the playstation
things like wipeout and tomb raider were on pc, and the whole "gaming is for losers in dark bedrooms, we're cool and fresh play us" marketing it had going always made it seem more pathetic than even sega's worst
edit I just noticed you think crash bandicoot was a great game, we aren't ever going to see eye to eye on this
[–] Schopenhauer4ever [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
It's a tight, difficult platformer. No frills. It never struck me as style over substance.
With the remake they're already talking about the added "feature" of lower difficulty because the original was "impossible".
But if anything, Wipeout and Tomb Raider always struck me as cultural aesthetic posing as games. Though Wipeout's aesthetic was enough.