Why do all Nintendo 64 games look so fucking ugly?It's not just because they're early 3D games, since there are good-looking PS1 games, and that console isn't nearly as powerful as the N64.
N64's hardware anti-aliasing involves dividing the screen up into tiny squares (kinda like mpeg compression) in order to blend the colored pixels together to create a smoother image. The resolution is small enough that it ends up creating more artifacts and weird jaggies as a result.
>>12046272Harware is like the human brain: it may have potential for worthwhile things and still be wasted in dumb blanket generalizations in a board that's struggling with subzero post quality to begin with.
>>12046272I think n64 games look good
ugly was cool, it still is
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>>12046318Nah
Can't defend this
>>12046418Substantiative
Playstation looks pixelated and has jagged edges and warping, N64 has blurry textures, Saturn was a bitch to code for, and even then it was just a slightly different flavor of Playstaion graphics. The obvious move is to use solid textures on n64 like Mario 64 or F-Zero. They are simple but look great. I like the N64 look when they avoid the obvious vaseline smear. Later games like Conker or Paper Mario look really good. Perfect Dark has framerate issues but the graphics themselves look good. I even like the Zelda OOT graphics, which wasn’t all that late. But even some 2d games on N64 have the shmear, like Mischief Makers. But those jaggies and warping aren’t there.PS1 has those textures that bounce around as you move and jagged, pixelated edges. But the textures look way more detailed. So the obvious thing to do is emphasize its strengths. Alien: Resurrection looks amazing. N64 can’t do anything like it. Something like Jumping Flash, with a lot of shaded polyogons would look better on N64, and the areas could be a lot bigger.As for the Saturn, it had some infinite plane stuff the PS1 couldn’t do, and it didn’t have the N64 blur. Only Sega (and Lobotomy) could really make it sing though. I think Panzer Dragoon 2 and 3 both showed off some tricks the PS1 couldnt do. And of course its a 2d powerhouse. I even prefer the Saturn version of Tomb Raider because there’s less wobble. But generally, Saturn sucked , got shitty PS1 ports and nobody gave a shitBy the time the Dreamcast came out, it had more than N64 processing capabilities with better than PS1 textures and we moved on from the tradeoff and got both.
>>12046285this, plus these games weren't meant to be seen on a high-resolution lcd or phone screen
i was admiring an environment that i consider to have used N64's at-the-time-understood capabilities very well, namely, OoT's forest temple. it's quite typical of the graphics on this console that even rather beautiful environments like this one are often characteristically blemished. for example, the northwestern courtyard room achieves this unmistakable, haunting beauty in its overall layout, haziness, the dimmed daylight, the water, etc. but then you have this really fucked up looking juncture point where all the tri's mesh at the foot of the bridge across the pond, and it looks like absolute ass because the textures for the grass patches and path dont line up or even come close to hiding the polygons' seams.
>>12046449PS1 looks the best. Dreamcast mogs all of them.
>>12046449The N64 version doesn't have any relation to the others. It was developed by a different studio and published by THQ.
PS1 could do a billion textures. That's why the PS1 was able to punch above its weight in certain games. The N64 was being held back by the fact that cartridges hold little data compared to CDs.
>>12046449There's a lot of PS1 games that look fucking hideous too, some will say ps1's wobbly, warping textures and jaggy polygons are soul yet sometimes it makes me think the game is about to explode.N64 has good looking games (mostly from Rare).
>>12046596>et sometimes it makes me think the game is about to explodeWhen? In what games?
>>12046272>Why do all Nintendo 64 games look so fucking ugly?Why are you so gay?Vela sexo
>>12046272Because you play them on emulator at 5x the resolution and not on a CRT
>>12046272Because the youtube said so
>>12046272Sin and Punishment is the ugliest game ever made.
