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today is the 25th anniversary of Star Ocean, and the 20th anniversary of Max Payne

>> No.7974551
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>>7974542
>Star Ocean 1 and Max Payne were released only 5 years apart

>> No.7974568

>>7974551
i was a few days off with star ocean, my bad, but yea you are 100% right they're only 5 years apart, which really demonstrates the jump in technology back then
>July 19, 1996

>> No.7975419

>>7974568
It feels like that should have been 10 or 15 years instead, what the fuck.

>> No.7976335

>>7974551
mid-90s to mid-00s was a wild time.

>> No.7976348

The only Star Ocean I played was Integrity And Faithlessness and it was fucking awful. Are the older ones worth playing?

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>>7976335
This is one thing that's almost impossible to convey to gen Z. They're so used to games like Fortnite being relevant for 10 years straight they don't understand how dizzingly fast gaming advanced in the 90s. Every six months there was some new game representing a giant leap over the last big thing. We didn't spend years playing a single game back then. We kept looking forward to the next big thing.

>> No.7977415

>>7974551
>>7974551
hooooly shit

>>7974568
yeah and 5 years in 2001 was "retro", "ancient"

>> No.7977424

>>7976431
The quality of animation has seen some improvements in the last 10 years. You have games that are bigger with destructible and constructible environments, and that's going to continue. It's kind of funny that one of the biggest leaps in design was fucking minecraft, which looks superficially like a PS1 game.

>> No.7977425

>>7974542
I hope this game and Final Fantasy Tactics are able to work on a PS Vita running Adrenaline.

>> No.7977432

>>7977424
Fortnite doesn't use voxels, just a ton of wall actors

>> No.7977437

>>7977424
I mean if you watch Incredibles 1 and 2 and Toy Story 3 and 4 side by side it's pretty evident where the visual advancement went but it's clear we've hit the wall. The next improvement is ray tracing which barely anyone can even notice or give a damn about. I only see a grim future with feminists and protestants getting together to censor creativity and take away privacy more and more. We've probably enjoyed maximum societal freedom and it's all downhill from here.

>> No.7977549

How much you guys wanna bet the Star Ocean schizo poster is going to show up in this thread?

>> No.7977569

>>7976348
Play till the end of time. Bad level design but the combat system is super fun, plus hard optional bosses and big numbers

>> No.7977580

>>7977424
>games that are bigger with destructible and constructible environments, and that's going to continue
You mean like the Red Faction series which started on the PS2 two decades ago?

>> No.7977587

>>7977437
Steam sells porn games on the front page but ok

>> No.7977649

>>7977437
>>7977587
well one thing SJWs and porn have in common is the utter death of creativity

>> No.7977750

>>7977587
Yeah protestants are irrelevant, no one listens to them. SJWs on the other hand actually work in the industry and constantly push their ideals on the games they work on so he's right about that although I don't know if we could call it censorship.

>> No.7978306

>>7977424
>It's kind of funny that one of the biggest leaps in design was fucking minecraft
not really, it's obvious that tacking on more detailed texture maps onto more polygoned models isn't how you innovate on game design

>> No.7979096

>>7976431
Starcraft was relevant for.... still is.
Quake 3 and CS 1.6 and similar. Plenty of games lasted ages.

>> No.7979101

>>7977437
>raytracing
>barely anyone can even notice or give a damn about
poor and retard take. Stop being poor. Metro with RT is leagues better in every regard. Ghostrunner was too. Among many other games coming out now monthly.

>> No.7979103

>>7977750

Retard detected

>> No.7979163

>>7974551
Star Ocean was also a game known for pushing old hardware, it was released on the SNES late in its cycle. While Max Payne was a PC game, and so the actual technology difference is closer to 11 years.

>> No.7979191

>>7977750
Dumb.

>> No.7979215

>>7979096
Those were exceptions. Today even fighting games last years by milking DLC. All those SFII updates that people eventually got sick of? They all released over a period of three years. Meanwhile Street Fighter V is over five years old.

>> No.7979314

>>7979163
that sucks all the fun out of it

>> No.7979346

>>7979314
Fun out of what?

>> No.7980996

>>7979346
the video game technology making vast jumps around 5th gen

>> No.7981035

>>7974542
and we still don't have a crossover game.