Seems weird to me that this is a "low quality thread" or that we really care that much about low quality threads given the dearth of new threads about misc topics, but w/e. Wish there were some examples too.
It's hit or miss. It's something that's always surprising going back to old games when your imagination used to fill in the voids of these areas. I think of a game like Syphon Filter, which at the time to me felt like I was rushing through this bustling metropolis of intrigue and espionage, only to see the clips of the game 25 years later and it's like, a room of monotextures, wall, floor, ceiling.
When all you know is what you're playing at the moment, your brain really glosses over or fills in the details for you, and your imagination makes the world. I still kinda love stuff like that, even when you have times like this:
And I was just like "YEah, this is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played" at the time.
I know this is a PSX game, not PS2, but seems to be to the point about empty rooms and my brain filling in the details. I think that's something that's a little disappointing about the discussion today, that as the fidelity of games go up, there's less, I dunno the word, I guess, less tolerance for any errors or things where something might be lackluster, because someone will find it, screen shot it, make it a meme, and then we're having arguments about "LOL YOU SAY THIS GAME ISN'T COMPLETELY BROKEN, WHAT???"
Felt this way about GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition. Now, make no doubt, that game *should not* have shipped the way it did. It should have shipped 1+ month later with the patches Rockstar/Grove ST games implemented post release. Some of those issues were so blatant, so bad, I can't believe they got past even a cursory exam. The fucking completely broken rain that made all of the games legitimately unplayable in the rain at night was the biggest thing to me. But then I thought it got into this celebration of pettiness, where it was like "LOL look at this poster on a wall inside a casino in Las Venturas, it's supposed to say 'Unlimited Chips' and it says 'Umlighted Chirs!" LOL," and at that point it's like ... yeah, I mean, that's sloppy clearly AI upscaled textures, but...... of all the things.... that's pretty damn minor. And then 3 or 6 months later when most of those oversights were fixed with patches, something that should have happened prior to release, we're still holding onto those nuggets in time and it gets to this level of pettiness that I don't remember being present 25 years ago.
