/vr/ - Retro Games

the advent of 3D deprived us of reaching the true greatness of 2D gaming. As things were getting epic (think Final Fantasy VI, Super Metroid, Sonic 3 & Knuckles...), 3D came and put everything into a halt. I think 2D gaming never reached it's true maturity, not even with the 32bit titles. The 8 and 16 bit gens were gone too fast, meanwhile each 3D machine dragged for too damned long. I wonder what we could've had if 32/64 bit consoles (& 3D arcades) never entered the battlefield during the 90s. Maybe in an alternate universe gaming reached its own identity instead of aping cinema.