/vr/ - Retro Games

>the PS1/Saturn still looks good
>still

The very fact that people use this expression means that their reasoning is wrong to begin with.
"Still" looks good would mean that games keep looking better and better with time.
That is what companies want customer to believe so they keep buying new stuff, they make them believe there is "progress" and everything new is better than everything that was made before.

Sure, technologically speaking you have more polygon and pixels.
That doesn't mean the art direction will look good.
A game that looked good or bad in 1995 still looks good or bad in 2013. Nothing has changed about it.

Now, the problem is that customers and, even worse, pro reviewers, solely focus on the technical aspect when judging the looks of a game. Look at reviews, they're going to fucking tell you how many polygons there is and if there is a lot will give it a good, regardless of art direction; and will never judge the art itself.

It's as if they were judging how a movie looks according to the resolution its shown at.

>>983441
Whatever.