28th January 2015, 4:53 PM
Eternal Darkness had good load times too you ol' sourpuss.
I didn't play much of Luigi's Mansion but yeah, the graphics were great. The characters finally looked like the rendered models on the manuals! For Mario Sunshine, I did notice a drop between the cutscenes (FMV) and gameplay. I remember being a hardass when I was playing Star Fox Adventures, carefully zooming the camera in on the character and panning around it. I wanted to affirm that the nice fur shading they did for the cut scenes was also present during gameplay. You know, so I could enjoy the game.
That was the least of the game's problems, I can usually force myself to finish a game but I'll probably never plop in SFA again. Maybe when I'm an old man. There's a reason I keep these things around dammit!
But on the topic of next-gen graphics, I remember being enamored with screenshots from Silent Hill 3. "Holy crap, look how good it looks, how is that possible, I want a PS2 I wish I wasn't a Nintendo fanboy :(" Well, that and I only had time/money for so many games. Now that I've played the game... eh. Worst one up to that point. It wasn't bad, but they tried so hard to be scary that it pushed it to the point of tedium. Christ, room-after-room, then some lame brief cutscene that doesn't explain anything, ugh. When does this game start? It's all a blur. Good for a series of creepy moments, but fuck that slog.
Silent Hill 1's grainy graphics work perfectly for the nightmarish feeling of the game. The second iteration of the series has a better story, but did not resonate with me the same way. I'm playing through SH1 for maybe the fourth time, and even 15 years later it STILL floors me, whereas I think I beat SH2 once and ended up youtubing the rest of the endings.
Weltall, do you have a link to your novelization of... um, it was the 2nd game, right? I think that one was your favorite.
Shattered Memories is up there, probably neck-in-neck with Silent Hill 2.
Anyway, this went off on an ABF-esque tangent.
Quote:SJ, do you recall being outright shocked playing Luigi's Mansion for the first time? I was like "It's like watching Wallace and Gromit, right there!" and then I opened a door and was all "THAT was a load time! There was no load time! It's the future, and we'll never have load times again!"
I didn't play much of Luigi's Mansion but yeah, the graphics were great. The characters finally looked like the rendered models on the manuals! For Mario Sunshine, I did notice a drop between the cutscenes (FMV) and gameplay. I remember being a hardass when I was playing Star Fox Adventures, carefully zooming the camera in on the character and panning around it. I wanted to affirm that the nice fur shading they did for the cut scenes was also present during gameplay. You know, so I could enjoy the game.
That was the least of the game's problems, I can usually force myself to finish a game but I'll probably never plop in SFA again. Maybe when I'm an old man. There's a reason I keep these things around dammit!
But on the topic of next-gen graphics, I remember being enamored with screenshots from Silent Hill 3. "Holy crap, look how good it looks, how is that possible, I want a PS2 I wish I wasn't a Nintendo fanboy :(" Well, that and I only had time/money for so many games. Now that I've played the game... eh. Worst one up to that point. It wasn't bad, but they tried so hard to be scary that it pushed it to the point of tedium. Christ, room-after-room, then some lame brief cutscene that doesn't explain anything, ugh. When does this game start? It's all a blur. Good for a series of creepy moments, but fuck that slog.
Silent Hill 1's grainy graphics work perfectly for the nightmarish feeling of the game. The second iteration of the series has a better story, but did not resonate with me the same way. I'm playing through SH1 for maybe the fourth time, and even 15 years later it STILL floors me, whereas I think I beat SH2 once and ended up youtubing the rest of the endings.
Weltall, do you have a link to your novelization of... um, it was the 2nd game, right? I think that one was your favorite.
Shattered Memories is up there, probably neck-in-neck with Silent Hill 2.
Anyway, this went off on an ABF-esque tangent.