/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3405034
The best looking Quake I've seen is Quake 2 on the N64. The coloured lights help it a lot and the desaturated textures pick up the lights very well.

>>3405037
"I don't want any colors, colors are gay." - John Romero, 1995

>>3405039
It's not due to a technical limit, there's plenty of other colours on the palette. Plenty of other retro games using 256 colours with more variety as well. They just wanted it to be gritty and grungy and brown was the extent of their vision. It was a creativity limit. They got better at using colours with grit by Quake 3, maybe it was because of Kenneth Scott.