cinnamonandgravy
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blew my mind when it came out, but ill need to be 90 and have a hardcore neurodegenerative disease to truly enjoy it again
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The gap between Super Mario Bros and Super Mario 64 is 11 years
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buenoblue
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Yeah yeah everything is shit now I get it
March Climber
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Angry_Megalodon
I understand what you mean but you can't beat their nostalgia, the game is rigged. The house(nostalgia) always wins. Always.
You will simply have to wait until 2044 when a new batch of people finally feel nostalgic about a game you're discussing.
I feel like there's mind-blowing leaps in environmental interactivity that would be similar to the leaps that we experienced each generation in the 90's, but the gains in technology necessary to pull them off are so vast to accomplish in time, that you would need something like 20 years of time to pass to realize them.
I remember in the early 2000's playing a first-person shooter and thinking one day you'd be able to shoot an assault rifle into a tree and have splinters flying off everywhere before the tree eventually snaps in two and falls down realistically. Photorealism is easy compared to being able to expect stuff like that on the regular.
I remember in the early 2000's playing a first-person shooter and thinking one day you'd be able to shoot an assault rifle into a tree and have splinters flying off everywhere before the tree eventually snaps in two and falls down realistically. Photorealism is easy compared to being able to expect stuff like that on the regular.
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NeoIkaruGAF
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2-3 years were a geological age in tech back then.
A game 2 years old felt like a generation prior. In 1994 Street Fighter II seemed archaic already. We got so many iterations of a title in such a short time, and every one was visibly improving upon its predecessor.
Today the gaming world is waiting with bated breath the DLC to a game that’s fundamentally the same as its 13yo originator.
A game 2 years old felt like a generation prior. In 1994 Street Fighter II seemed archaic already. We got so many iterations of a title in such a short time, and every one was visibly improving upon its predecessor.
Today the gaming world is waiting with bated breath the DLC to a game that’s fundamentally the same as its 13yo originator.
CamHostage
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Sure, but then again, the gap between Beauty and the Beast (with one main scene of CGI) and Toy Story (with all-CGI animation) was just 4 years; the gap between Toy Story and previous CGI animated cartoons was infinite because nothing else like it came before*.
We're talking about sudden revolutions of technology, and we only get those sudden revolutions every once in a great while; what comes after is evolution of the form, and it is rarely as formidable a jump once the technology matures.
That pioneering period of game technology was unusually active with radical revolutions of technology, from "missile sprites" to traditional 8/16 bit sprite blocks to polygons to graphics acceleration to textures to deferred rendering to PBR and all kinds of things in between. Now, we've figured out how to make games (or at least, we think we have the best way games to make games, and it's hard to think of alternatives even though some roads are untrodden out there,) and change is natural rather than ballistic.
The one constant was Mario, who was lucky enough to be of a brand surviving and thriving from these changes, capable of riding each wave in.
(*Technically, Toy Story's history as the "first" all-CGI feature-length movie is in contention; a movie called Cassiopia has other claims to historic milepoints in CGI animation, even though it didn't get distribution until a year later and is not nearly at the same production quality level.)
We're talking about sudden revolutions of technology, and we only get those sudden revolutions every once in a great while; what comes after is evolution of the form, and it is rarely as formidable a jump once the technology matures.
That pioneering period of game technology was unusually active with radical revolutions of technology, from "missile sprites" to traditional 8/16 bit sprite blocks to polygons to graphics acceleration to textures to deferred rendering to PBR and all kinds of things in between. Now, we've figured out how to make games (or at least, we think we have the best way games to make games, and it's hard to think of alternatives even though some roads are untrodden out there,) and change is natural rather than ballistic.
The one constant was Mario, who was lucky enough to be of a brand surviving and thriving from these changes, capable of riding each wave in.
(*Technically, Toy Story's history as the "first" all-CGI feature-length movie is in contention; a movie called Cassiopia has other claims to historic milepoints in CGI animation, even though it didn't get distribution until a year later and is not nearly at the same production quality level.)
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Jack Package
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I was so, so lucky to be a kid in the golden age of gaming. Super Mario Bros was my first game. Without Mario, I'm not typing this post.
I will never forget the first time I got to play Mario 64 at home. Me, my sis, and my mum all round my wee tv, all of us with big daft smiles on our faces shouting "WOW!" at every little thing.
I still play it now, and I still marvel at it. Most Mario games make me feel like I'm 5 again and playing SMB for the first time, there's an honest to God magic about them no one else can replicate except Nintendo themselves with a handful of other titles.
I will never forget the first time I got to play Mario 64 at home. Me, my sis, and my mum all round my wee tv, all of us with big daft smiles on our faces shouting "WOW!" at every little thing.
I still play it now, and I still marvel at it. Most Mario games make me feel like I'm 5 again and playing SMB for the first time, there's an honest to God magic about them no one else can replicate except Nintendo themselves with a handful of other titles.
Dacvak
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My fuckin dude.
Hoddi
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It's also appropriate since SMB released closer to WWII than today.I believe this gif is obligatory for these types of discussions.
Guerilla Munch
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no tech advancement has given me the feeling I had playing Mario 64 for the first time at the Toys R Us demo kiosk, not even VR
Trilobit
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Advancements felt bigger back then because we were still in the early days of gaming. As tech matures improvements become gradually lower.
We went from this
To the fucking moon in 60 years
And now we're going back there! Progress!
Imagine being a kid in the 60s fantasizing about what humans would do in space in the coming 60 years. And then you get teleported to the year 2024 and find this news article:
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Evil Smurf King
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Classic Gaf second post, keep the tradition aliveI believe this gif is obligatory for these types of discussions.
Astral Dog
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Nintendo knows that their games need to be remembered and celebrated 10 years after the day of release,not for their graphics but because they were good, i can't wait to see Metroid Prime 2 remastered, since it was an even better sequel that unfortunately was ignored by most gamers, they better show up this time
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