/vr/ - Retro Games

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>Given enough time do you think the DC would have reached early PS2 levels of graphical output?
Dreamcast was pretty close of being maxed out, but I could see it reaching and even slightly surpassing things like Ridge Racer V.

Ridge Racer V is a very good looking early PS2 game though, there's plenty of early PS2 games that look worse than what the Dreamcast was displaying around the same time.

>PS2 was able to achieve more crisp textures but not neccesarily more polygons.
It was the opposite, the PS2 was polygon-pushing monster, but the textures were pretty bland until devs started to understand the architecture better. The PS2 uses its insane bandwidth to transfer textures from main memory to video memory, that's why a direct comparison of Dreamcast's 8MB VRAM x PlayStation 2's 8MB VRAM can be so misleading.

While I actually like Dead or Alive 2 a lot I definitely played it 5x more than I would have otherwise because it looked so amazing.

The game just looked so damn smooth.

Shenmue 1 and 2 while amazing and I replay them every year definitely hooked into me that little bit more because of how amazing they looked (and still do, shenmue 2 especially has aged really damn well)

Before that maybe Agony on the Amiga. That looked amazing and was a mediocre game.

The thing is when it comes to retro games a lot of the time good graphics came with a good game IMO (At least in the 3d era)

I remember playing Colin Mcrae on the ps1 and being like "wow this looks great!" and playing it because of that.

I don't think I ever enjoyed a (retro) game purely because of the graphics. They sure can add to the enjoyment though,