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Quake II - Which screenshot looks correct, or better to you?
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Number 1. Game was made for 3D accelerators so the filtered look was what the devs intended. Number 2 is only popular because of Minecraft kiddies growing up with that game's unfiltered textures.
Number 1 can be what the devs intended while also looking worse.
Basically this
Basically this
They hated him because he told the truth.
Quake 2 was fully intended to be played with 3D accelerator filtering.
1 is how I remember it looking as a kid. I kind of prefer it this way, just like I'd prefer Quake one with nearest (or no filtering, whatever the case was for playing Q1 way back).
2 looks better for most surfaces due to increased detail. MC's hands and the door textures look worse, but enemies look better.
2 looks better for most surfaces due to increased detail. MC's hands and the door textures look worse, but enemies look better.
#1 looks like Quake 2 with a 3D accelerator, which is how it was meant to be played. I prefer #1.
#2 looks like Quake 1 (to me) because I always played it without texture filtering.
#2 looks like Quake 1 (to me) because I always played it without texture filtering.
Yep. Could live with the models, but not without the lightmaps.
I probably go for 2 mostly, but in this case, 1 makes the kind of smudgy looking textures work better in creating the atmosphere that it seems to be going for. The jagged lines are too distracting in the other version.
What is 3:4?
The screenshots are both 1024x768, which is a 4:3 aspect ratio and is correct for the time period.
Not all of them, but yes, there is definitely a subset of Minecraft kids who ended up getting into retro games like this and are infesting the discourse with shit about how the only way to play all these boomer shooters is with unfiltered textures.
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1 looks like fucking dogshit so all OG PC gamers who enjoy it like that are clowns.
i think they both have ups and downs even though 1 is the intended look. I think the environments look better filtered; I like the chunky unfiltered look on characters a lot.
this feels like a bit much. EDIT: as does the above, jeez. It's not like one look endangers the other.
this feels like a bit much. EDIT: as does the above, jeez. It's not like one look endangers the other.
1 looks like N64 textures and 2 looks like PS1 textures
I guess 2 probably looks better but I kinda prefer 1? I dunno, I'd probably change my mind constantly.
I guess 2 probably looks better but I kinda prefer 1? I dunno, I'd probably change my mind constantly.
I always used software mode for competitive online play (which is number 2 but without colored lights). The improved clarity/visibility actually helped winning matches over 3d accelerated look, as long as your PC could run it at high enough framerate at higher resolutions.
Also (and this one I never tested beyond how it 'felt', so maybe I'm wrong) I could have sworn software renderer had noticeably lower input lag (when at roughly equivalent performance of course), which was another reason I preferred it.