Not sure if you played on a CRT in the past, but nonetheless it’s interesting how different things looked. Here is my favorite example.
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How tf does one red pixel get blurred into like 20 wide, but only like 4 tall? That seems sus
The scan lines are horizontal
I'm with you. This doesn't seem right. I know CRTs have an anti-aliasing effect, but this seems to have increased detail. Look at his ascot, for example. It seems to have more detail than the image on the left.
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You still see it on a LCD so I guess it's a sort of "artists rendering if what it looked like" and not what it really looked like. CRTs also blurred like everything especially left-right sort of, so you were used to blurry images for starters.
Source: am old.
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Mind = boggled
My mind has remained boggled to this day.
There is no effect that can be generated that could unboggle it
Salad? Tossed. Eggs? Scrambled. Mind? Boggled.
To be fair, that iconic PS1 texture twitch was Ming-boggling to see in action!
Coming from a Sega Genesis, that shit truly did boggle the mind at the time.
It is kind of silly, in retrospect.
The skeletons that follow me around IRL don't carry oversized buckler shields.
They just quote former failed relationships and keep just out of arms reach.
Bro...
Frankly, it does look exactly like every sword-wielding, walking skeleton I've seen IRL. No notes.
I thought Final Fantasy: Spirits Within looked almost photorealistic when it came out, and now it looks like Toy Story or Shrek compared to modern 3D animation.
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Oh, I remember watching that one as a kid, being annoyed that it had nothing to do with the games I knew and it having a weird plot I could barely follow.
To give full credit to this movie, Final Fantasy games are just as convoluted. You try to condense the plot of the amnesia child soldiers who fight demons from the moon summoned by their teacher/mother in hopes they'll defeat the reincarnated witch who's destined to take over her body (FF8) in an hour and a half with Steve Buscemi, Alec Baldwin, and tell me if it's Oscar worthy. (I have no clue whether the original Japanese cast was as star studded)
I hated that movie as a kid, but I think I hated it more because it didn't follow any of the other convoluted stories I forced myself to understand already.
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Got eyes fixed after optometrist diagnosed the x-ray vision
For me, the first game I was truly like “HOOOOOLY SHIT” was the very opening scene of Final Fantasy 8.. the waves crashing on the beach blew my (16 yo?) mind.
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October 1st, 12:01am
Gimme games like that and I'm all in.
Any recommendations for oldish good "RPG" games that runs on a modern PC (Linux friendly)?
Well, there's Morrowind :D (openMW)
KOTOR I and especially II (with lost levels restoration mod) and Fallout NV.
Planscape Torment got an enhanced edition a few years ago, and the spiritual successor Torment: Tides of Numenera Is fun as well
I've heard arx fatalis is fun and it was released around the same time, you might look into that
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Still seems pretty solid. The background and UI could be more interesting, but the skeletons don't need improving still.
I think this is the most uninteresting part of Morrowind, it's a DLC that is basically "go to this island and kill a metric fuckton of skeletons".
I think these are more representative of the game. It's a bit dated, but insanely atmospheric and modders are still keeping it alive.
Back in the day we called them "expansion packs" instead of DLC because you went to the store and bought them on CD-ROM discs (or DVD-ROM if you had rich parents) because nobody's Internet was fast enough to download a whole photoshopped nude of Cindy Crawford in less than 20 seconds, let alone a whole game expansion.
It all started with that shitty horse armour
I laughed when they brought it out. They warned us and we shrugged them off. Its just fun. Its not going to get out of hand.
How wrong we were.
And then they sold us Skyrim. And then they sold us Skyrim. And then they sold us Fallout. And then they sold us Skyrim. And then
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Yeah I 'member. The good old days when an expansion pack was basically the dev wanting to do another game on the same engine, so they basically released another game's worth of content with it.
Age of Mythology: The Titans comes to mind.
That said, the skelly island was definitely a DLC, as in it had barely any content. Tribunal, and Bloodmoon were expansion packs, and good ones too.
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Fun fact, on release, the UI for Morrowind did not even have health bars for enemies, this was patched in later.
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Me playing Rome:Total War for the first time as a child in an internet cafe. I thought "wow this is so realistic! I feel like I am in the Roman era fighting epic battles!"
That game looked so good for its time they made a whole-ass TV show called Decisive Battles where they used it to recreate famous historical battles. Even my dad who hated video games loved that show. It was one of the only things we ever bonded over.
Tbh it is if if you have undiagnosed myopia
While it wasn't an "indistinguishable from real life" experience, my first really mind blowing experience with graphics was installing my new 3dfx Voodoo and turning on GL
For me it was the face detail and animation in Halo 4. The way the pores and lines on Halsey's face were visible.
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I had to search far and wide in my area for a new graphics card just so I could have the "realistic water" for Morrowind. It was glorious seeing it in action back then.
This looks better than real life.
As of lately? Absolutely.
This is the END for you, s'wit!
If your real life every included cliff racers, you're beyond cursed.
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