Does it deserve it's reputation as the clunkiest, ugliest graphics, and most aged like milk console?
That would be n64
>>730934878fpbp
>>730935859Pic unrelated?
>>730935859>using still images to compareNice, ps1 looks better in comparison when you can't see the shitty framerate and weird flickering textures. Good job my fellow snoy
>>730936027Not an issue on CRT tvs, zoomie20 fps average is your average N64 game
>>730936325meanwhile not CRT can fix the blurry n64 graphics
>>730936325>crt tv can fix the texture flickering You've never actually played a ps1, have you
>>730934178No. That would be Virtual Boy or any 1-2nd gen system.
>>730934178 Only if you’re judging it by modern standards without context. Yeah, early PS1 stuff looks like abstract art during an earthquake, but it was mind-blowing in 1995. The jank was part of the charm. It was the wild west of 3D-shaky textures, warping polygons, but so many bangers experimenting with what games could be. It ain’t aged great, sure, but clunkiest? Saturn 3D was worse and N64 was blurry AF. PS1 had style through the chaos.
>>730934178 It doesn't have that reputation. The N64 however has the reputation as the console that abused children used to escape the reality of having a terrible father
>>730940063That would only be true in the comparison that Playststion owners never had to deal with a present father who could abuse them in the first place.
>>730934178Saturn was worse in every regard there
>sony criticism thread>"BUT NINTENDO" at the very first postwew
>>730934178it tastes like yogurt?
>>730940146t. weird kid
>>730941095Literally no one else is seething about Sony 24/7
The biggest problem with the PSX isn't even the hardware itself, but the primitive state of 3D art at the time. Take Tomb Raider 1, for example, that game is painfully ugly. It's one of the ugliest games ever made in that generation (I'm excluding the visual abortions that are N64 games because they don't even meet the minimum standards to be taken into consideration, I'm talking about things like Clayfighters 63 1/3, Castlevania 64, etc.).But on the other hand, there are 3D games that are relatively decent artistically speaking. I think Crash Bandicoot is the easiest example for Westerners to understand what I'm talking about.
>>730941095"The tendie cries out as he strikes you."
>>730934178>Reputation>My personal opinion projected onto others
Actually, I've been thinking about it, and maybe a big part of this idea that 3D games were so ugly back then is the fault of the N64, because it has a certain prevalence in American culture, and the Nintendo 64 is by far the console that produced the ugliest games in history, at least from the Famicom onwards.Yes, primitive 3D is kinda ugly sometimes, and the frame rate doesn't help, but there are games that look completely acceptable from a visual standpoint, without being harsh on the eyes.Ridge Racer (1993) is not an ugly game, despite its primitive 3D. And even outside of arcades, such as Screamer (DOS, 1995) or Screamer 2 (DOS, 1996), there are things with acceptable visuals, which was not the case with the terrible N64, and perhaps that is why everyone today thinks that all 3D games in the 1990s were ugly as fuck.https://youtu.be/ZvxvwLHbQ94?si=Ff6D1X899TkEM-6l
OP here. Used wrong pic. Here it is.
>>730934878This.PS1 was full of 2d games that aged very well from this era. PS1 2d games were the peak of 2d games before AAA studios completely moved to 3d. I would argue that PS1 has some of the world's greatest 2d games.N64 only had 3d games and those aged like shit.
If you can play more than an hour of games on this thing I would call you a liar. No it's not "charming" or "sovl" it's just fucking boring
>>730944054Yep the blurriness is a huge fucking issue on N64. And it's because of the cartridges. Because the devs have so little space they had to use really low res textures. Most games were 8mb or 16mb in size. When these textures were designed for 700mb CD's.
>>730934178i had a 64 instead of psx growing up and 64 aged a hell of a lot worseat least psx had some great jrpgs that didn't require much hardware, 64 has fucking NOTHING you'd want to go back to outside of like paper mario and maybe perfect dark
In fact, this phenomenon of people loving the N64 is bizarre and needs to be studied by psychologists.Even when there are videos clearly showing that, in at least 90% of cases, N64 games were total downgrades in virtually every way compared to the other console versions, you'll still find a lot of people commenting on how good the N64's graphics were.Like, it makes no sense at all.You're looking at two games, one is blurry, ugly, with no sharpness at all, with an even worse frame rate, and people seem to deny what is right before their eyes.What kind of collective madness is this? Is it the power of marketing at the time, which painted the N64 as a supercomputer, and which makes people even today feel unable to notice the clear inferiority of these games when placed side by side with their competitors?Example:https://youtu.be/LpaG0qPp7Y0?si=fYIx2ENEdim-gGi2
>>73094501064 was still the better friends console, 4 player split screen games were great and as a kid you didn't give a shit about graphic fidelity
>>730945010It's simple. There is a reason why it is such an American phenomenon. These people were children at the time and this was either their first 3d console after owning a SNES. Or this was their first console at all. To them they seemed like great graphics. When in reality they were blurry as shit and the controls sucked ass too. While PS1 basically invented modern controllers.Also Sega was really stupid delaying the launch of Dreamcast worldwide to 1999. Sega especially should have launched the Dreamcast in USA in 1998 because USA especially then needed it. Saturn didn't get a single game for an entire year before the Dreamcast launched in USA. Saturn was doing fine in Japan if anything they should have delayed the Japanese release and launched in USA first. Instead they launched in USA and 6 months later the PS2 launches in Japan and makes the console look complete obsolete as all the gaming magazines were talking about PS2's performance. Had they launched in 1998 it would have given the Dreamcast a year to collect an audience uncontested before the PS2 launched.
>>730934178>zoomer LARPing>again
>>730934178you had to be there, la psx was the best thing ever.
>>730934878>That would be n64Literally retard takeThe n64 had 4 controller ports, zero load times and twice the graphic horse power as the ps1Even as a little kid in the late 90s the PS1 graphics looked like mediocre shit, the ps1 was mainly popular with mexicans and "urban youth" which explains why you think its good
PSX was next level son
