/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10902728
>excellent texture wok
>baroque details upon the ceilings and walls, instead of just flat geometry
>ambient lighting being utilized within certain sectors
>interesting architecture
>extremely detailed and large levels
>full interactive 3D with verticality, water, AI, scripting, etc

It's very sophisticated. In fact, it's almost unbelievable to me that it released in 1996, because it's leagues ahead of the rest of the industry (barring Doom and Duke 3D, which are also unbelievable achievements). Quake 1 was undoubtedly the greatest accomplishment of true 3D games when it released. Please humor me, what do you think is better?

Quake.
Quake.

Western games were always better at 3D level design.

This is a fact.

Starting with Doom, Western games tried to achieve new levels of depth in a 3D space by using verticality, environment, interactivity, etc. The earliest Japanese 3D games were unambitious. Final Fantasy and Resident Evil were essentially still 2D games, just with 3D graphics. An obvious hallmark of Japanese 3D games is that they are largely based around 2D arenas and flat level design. This was true in the era of the PS1, and it still continued far into the 2000s, never evolving. There are only some exceptions in Japanese game design, like Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time.

Japanese designers never mastered 3D design like the West did. Quake, Thief, Half-Life, Doom, Duke Nukem, Unreal.

>>9538146
>all storyfag shit

Anons, what are your *actual* favorite moments in gaming, in terms of gameplay, level design, innovation, etc? For me, it was playing stuff like Doom, Quake, Duke 3D and Mario 64 for the first time.