The technology was just not there yet for the constant closeups and in-your-face 3D graphics that the console was doing. The PS1 had a better approach towards the era, often utilizing pre-rendered backgrounds, cgi or anime cutscenes, and otherwise using 3D in ways to try and hide the imperfections of the medium at the time. While N64 in general really tried to push something that wasn't yet there, so its games will forever have that extremely rough feel to them, like being permanently stuck in a Tekken 1 cutscene. The decision to use cartridges certainly had an influence on making all 3D all the time more necessary because of the lack of storage.Also, Nintendo relied heavily on first party games, whereas Sony relied almost entirely on third party games. With third party you have an entire array of devs with different approaches to 3D, a lot of them also working on Arcades and having a lot of experience with 3D graphics, so the scene was advancing very rapidly on the PS1. While Nintendo basically had to figure out 3D on their own, in-house, and have it carry the console.
N64 screwed itself over with having extremely small texture buffers. it can only handle 4kb at a time. ps1 had 2kb but it could work around it by seeking the copybacking the ram from disc. n64 had no such copyback feature.
>>735157668The parkinson's textures make every 3D PS1 game look like garbage making the N64 win by default
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>>735157668>"Hindsight tells me this 3D is bad!"People of the time were amazed by 3D even of N64's caliber. Evidence: Goldeneye sold pretty well and was held in very high regard. If all you knew was Super Mario World, of course polygon graphics were going to be novel and impressive.
>>735158539>People of the time were amazed by 3D even of N64's caliberNo they weren't, dumb zoomer. Arcades had 3D graphics leagues above the shitty N64 visuals since the early 90s. Nobody was "amazed" with it, people just accepted that this ugly shit was the best thing you can have at home. Just like nobody was impressed with the shitty Gameboy graphics since Super Nintendo and Genesis already existed, but it was the best thing you can have on the go.
>>735157984kek tendies actually believe this
>>735157668>The decision to use cartridges certainly had an influence on making all 3D all the time more necessary because of the lack of storageas it should be
>>735158971WOW look at the tech on display in arcades circa 1997!AMAZING! SO MUCH BETTER THAN GOLDENEYE!!!Shut the fuck up, you history retconning zoomer.
>>735159186That's the Saturn version, which isn't regarded very well by anyone. Although it's still fun like all Sega games. Here's another close up model from another Sega game, this time the arcade hardware matches the home hardware.The facial animation is really cool for 1996. Detailed and lively.
>>735157668It was an era of improvisation and Nintendo Rare got it right.Sovl.
>>735159827>tendie copium
>>735157668are you mongoloid? rare carried N64 and their games at the time shits on present gaystation. you faggots don't know what gameplay is, it's just moviegame after moviegame.
>>735158971I grew up in a small town with almost no arcades (there were machines here and there in various businesses, but often old ones, and the cabinets were never the main attraction.). Having 3D games available at home that don't take a quarter for every life was indeed an extremely exciting development.
>>735159901>rare carried N64 and their games at the timeAgreed.>shits on present gaystationUtterly insane statement. Brits are only good for racers and Rare was barely making them, and were massively outclassed. PS1's wealth of superior Japanese devs raped them harder than Argonaut's founder rapes Miyamotos daughter.
>>735158284Kek.
Imagine hating your boss so much you call the worst gun after them.
>>735159901>seething tendie
>>735159627This is also the opening cutscene. The normal gameplay does not look like this.>Although it's still funWe aren't arguing about fun or there wouldn't be a problem with Goldeneye.
>>735157668This makes tendie niggers seethe in rage
>>735160121enjoy your moviegame anime slop and banjo kazooie from wish
>>735157668Idk I thought it was kind of funny. Ps1 games looked like motion blurred blocks.
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The only kids with ps1s were social outcasts and nobody liked themAll the chads had N64s and played 4 player kino with their friends
>>735157668PS1 looked so much better
>>735160397this, owning a playstation was a quick way to get excluded from everything, every school shooter owns a playstation, coincidence?
>>735159064he's right though ps1 games were ugly as fuckrich kids had a n64 playing kino like perfect dark and sm64 and inviting all their friends to play mario party or golden eye with 4 players while the poor kids were stuck with a shitty ps1 playing crash or ff7 if they were lucky or shovelware games found in a bargain bin if they weren't maybe occasionally playing with a second player using a gay looking barely working third party controller
Nintendo won the 3D generation. None of those games are as relevant as OOT or Mario 64. Goldeneye > Metal Gear Solid.
>>735161161oot was a very influential game, just not in any measurably good ways.
>>735161308>Navi is the one painting modern games with yellow paint
>>735161515There is a blatant throughline to exactly that. That's correct.
>>735157668BIG
>>735157668Stfu. You weren’t even alive when goldeneye was new. I was. It was considered some seriously beautiful stuff back then. Hindsight makes any game look like shit. You’re a fucking moron.
>>735164020dumb zoomer
>>735157897rare managed to get away with higher res textures by storing them in grayscale and using shaders to color them iirc
Sony couldn't make a good adventure game.
Rare was never good
>>735157668yeah
Unless its a speed run no one ever talks about psx games.
>>735166523holy tendie cope
shieeeet
>>735165773yes
>>735158284kek came here to ask for this
>>735158539Kids today don’t get the difference between “first 3D they saw” and “first 3D the world saw” which is why they don’t understand landmarks.
ayo hol up
>>735157668>the technology was just not there yet for the constant closeups and in-your-face 3D graphics that the console was doing. The PS1 had a better approach towards the eraBy making glorified SNES games. N64 broke the mold and made full 3D worlds which is why it was so highly praised. Mario 64 is a tech demonstration, and literally couldn't run on PS1 because of how weak it was. Goldeneye wasn't possible. OOT wasn't possible. All the most remembered games could ONLY run on N64 with carts.
>>735166313Cruisn' USA was pretty lit tho icl icl
>>735157668I fucking hate retarded zoomers so goddamn much
I often try to do comparisons between my Playstation and N64, but my three Playstations never want to work, despite being well cared for. My N64s all work flawlessly.So N64 wins graphically because it can still produce visuals.
>>735158539>Me when I make shit up like the stupid unc ahh chud I am
>>735157668Don’t care. Didn’t read. Still love the N64.
>>735157668I always thought that gun looked like a black color pencil.
>>735165369That's Konami.
>>735175635gotta clean the tiny eye every year or so, or dust gets on it and if dust gets on it and then on anything else, the eye gets smeared every time you put a disc in and it NEVER works againthey used to sell a cleaning kit just for the PSX which was a disc that spun over the eye and brushed it and the carriage off just because of how fucking obnoxious that was even back in the 90s. so in 2026 it's likely fighting an inch-thick layer of dust between the carousel and diode.
>>735157668fag
>>735157668Nah, its just these guys made golden eye using dark basic on a toaster.
>>735157668 >The PS1 had a better approach towards the era, often utilizing pre-rendered backgrounds, cgi or animeWhat kind of zoomer history revisionism is this?
N64 got most of the landmark games of the generationPS1 had a lot of cult classics and hidden gemsPopularity was largely dependent on regionConsole warring over machines that are older than you is gay as fuck. The real cool kids had a friend who owned the competing console so they had access to both libraries
>>735180390he is right about one thing tho: even Resident Evil 2 had scrutiny from reviewers at the time because of prerendered backgrounds when the N64 advertised all 3D all the time for better or worse. Reviewers were merciless toward anyone making a 2D game at the time, Sony had a policy of rejecting 2D games for localization as did Nintendo. Symphony of the Night got thrashed for being a 2D sidescroller and games like Mischief Makers had reviewers screaming "Aaieeee 2D that's not graphically impressive oh my gooooood" >who cares about reviewsEvery investor and publisher, that's why these 2D games died out outside of handhelds in the 00s for a long time.
If you don't like all three consoles you're a total fucking loser.
