To be fair, this is how everyone looked in the 90s.
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In the case of Civilization it is true: modern Civs use cartoonish-caricatirish style, and this image is indeed more realistic.
Civ vacillates between realistic and cartoonish.
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On a 14" CRT monitor? It looked fantastic! .... or maybe it was just the radiation I was feeling?
I was so poor, I could only get EGA. My rich friends had VGA. 256 colors. So many colors.
Every game is just an HD rerelease of Pong.
I mean, that was literal in the case of anything on the 2600 or 7800.
CIV 5s Alexander the great awoke something in me..
What did it awake?
Flaming bisexuality
Same, brother... same
😆 awesome
I remember saying these exact words the first time I saw the original X-wing on the PC with VGA graphics.
For me it was Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
Some vga games still hold up
I don't think I ever had a point where I felt things reached a pinnacle. Photo-realistic was a goal, but nothing reached that. Some games looked good and I could be impressed with 3d, but that excitement was about how good they were getting, so anticipating what they would look like in the future
I still don't know a single photorealistic game except for some military simulators or flight simulator
No, still evolving. I'm sure if it ever got to some sci-fi, brain-jacked virtual reality, people would still be chasing elusive more realistic experiences
This is what I love about looking back at the past. We always thought it can’t get better then it did.
Even Crysis, which was the pinnacle of graphics at one point, looks really outdated nowadays.
We were so easily impressed.
Caeser of the Legion*
Degenerates like you belong on a cross
The PS1/PS2 era was the highlight of gaming. Before it was pixelated and after it was enshitificated due always online / subscriptions etc.
we got better titties now tho.
Fair enough.
I played through all Tomb Raider PSx on my RetroPi at least twice.
That was my thought the first time I walked into an arcade room and watched the first Virtua Fighter running on a big screen.
I was amazed when Rome Total War came out. 20 years later, the game looks like it was made on Windows Paint. At least Creative Assembly remastered the game.
I remember playing some racing game on the Sega saturn and thinking the same