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Pick one: pixelated jittery PS1 look or N64 vomit looking textures?
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I'mma say N64 on this one. PS1's jaggy jittery 3D looks really rough blown up on a modern flat-screen TV. It's bearable for games where most of the screen consists of 2D pre-rendered art, but anything purely 3D is a mess. N64 holds up a lot better these days.
Thread about 3D.
*picks game with 2D pre-rendered backgrounds*
RPG in N64:
RPG in PSX:
Just LMAO, give me the PSX (and I love the 64).
Thread about 3D.
*picks game with 2D pre-rendered backgrounds*
RPG in N64:
RPG in PSX:
Just LMAO, give me the PSX (and I love the 64).
Terrible post. One is a pre rendered background (not 3D) and the other is a crap low budget game.
I can do dumb comparisons tooRPG in N64:
RPG in PSX:
Just LMAO, give me the PSX (and I love the 64).
Platformer on PSX:
Platformer on N64:
I don't care that probably 90% of these gifs are from emulators. Both of these systems ought to be appreciated more because people tend to shit on the visuals of this whole era all the time.
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[N64]
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Possibly my favorite era of gaming. You picked great titles to showcase.
I remember going into the status screen in Chrono Cross just to stare at the character models.
While this room looks cool, I would not categorize it like "There is no comparison".
Chrono Cross did an absolutely incredible job of seamlessly mixing well animated realtime character models with pre-rendered backgrounds. Probably the best example of that that I can think of. It's often breathtaking.
I picked N64... but in my heart, i love both. Both consoles have a unique look that i really like. It stabs a dagger into my heart, everytime i hear/see someone complain about the beautiful look of both low poly styles on the N64/PSX.
I am looking forward for more indie games that try and succed with low poly graphics and art style.
I am looking forward for more indie games that try and succed with low poly graphics and art style.
The misc. genre is a bit unfair to the PS1 lol. Do fighting and shmups come under misc? The library is just overwhelmingly stronger imo. I could think of a lot more game types that the PS1 easily comes out on top.
For horror stuff I much prefer the psx style look, but I would never want something like M64 or 007 to look like that. Granted this is heavily influenced by nostalgia but nonetheless the cleaner texture look on N64 made an overall larger impact on me at the time. That said I always did think Ocarina's ground textures were garbage even at the time. The game is amazing but was way too ambitious for the overworld traversal comparative to the limitations of the system. Obviously still glad it was a thing and a very important milestone in gaming 👍
That second one is impressive when you see how her eyes move as well.
Vagrant Story was such an impressive feat on the PS1. Even more so when you think how the team that made it I believe I the same team from Tactics and I believe many of the members never worked on 3D before.
I love both, but the PS1's super pixelated graphics have such a charm. I always loved how it looked
I always hated the jittering of psx games. Even when I was a kid, me and my friend were wondering why everything seemed to be moving. Loved the more "solid" look of N64 games. And while pre-rendered background looked insane on Psx, no game seemed as beautiful as OoT or M'sM. The feeling of big open world was sooo good.
I'm also not a fan of the super pixelated textures, but they can have some charm.
I'm also not a fan of the super pixelated textures, but they can have some charm.
I had both the PS1 and N64 and I definitely played the PS1 more. But that is clearly a step below the graphics in OOT.
Each console had its strengths but if the entire game was rendered in polygons the PS1 was not on the same level.
I am surprised this is a controversial statement because to me at least there is no comparison. Doesn't mean the PS1 is trash, I loved the console. But that was not it's strength.
They used their experience from high quality 2D pixel art and applied it to 3D. The smooth facial animation is done on the textures using the same de-facto motion blurring techniques that were used to get smooth looking animation on low resolution sprites.
I didn't even own a PS1 at the time but I really prefer the look of PS1 games. I like how everything looks sharper (the PS1 lacks the N64's unnecessary blur and antialiasing), I really like how the textures are pixilated, I genuinely love the look of the dithering, and even the non-perspective correct textures.
For 3D retro games the PS1 (and to a lesser extent the Saturn) look is both more distinctive and nicer to look at.
For 3D retro games the PS1 (and to a lesser extent the Saturn) look is both more distinctive and nicer to look at.
Yeah, they were very talented.
Makes me want to play that game again. I wonder what it would look like if I busted out the game and got it loaded onto my PS1 Classic and played it on the CRT I have downstairs.
Hooked up via a HMDI to RCA adapter. Sadly my actual PS1 is long dead.
Hell yeah. Vagrant Story possibly the best looking game of the generation.
I had both back in the day and always preferred the clean N64 look. The PS1 felt too visually noisy and harder to parse at a glance because of that
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I love how the weapons are now so iconic yet were literally chosen just because they looked modern and would work really well with limited graphics
For some reason, I don't play the 64 much at all these days (and I play the PS1 even less). However, I recently put in some time with F-Zero X, Space Station Silicon Valley, Mischief Makers, and Wave Race - and man, the N64 really is an excellent system.
What are the PS1 games that hold up best, especially in comparison to N64 games?
Yup. You do the legwork and show me a PS1 game that the N64 couldn't graphically handle, if it didn't have cartridge memory limitations.
N64 could throw down some excellent 2D graphics - and I'm over seeing it getting derided as a weak 2D system.
Admittedly, I'm not sure if these are completely 2D or just look 2D:
Scroll through Mischief Makers bosses (not all are 2D)
Wonder Project J2 showing some nice sprite action.
Edit: More games
Say hello to Bangai-O (obviously graphically better on DC, but it's tough to decide which version is best)
NBA-A-A! HANGTIME! (on first glance, not much better than NBA Jam on PS1 - but side-by-side, it becomes obvious that NBA Jam has worse...everything, really)
I'm not even gonna throw in Yoshi's Story...
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This.
Absolutely one of my favorite games ever. Hunting down an original copy is sometimes rage inducing, but I'm not giving up.
PS1 all day.
Mischief Makers is such an underrated gem on the N64.
I'd love that forgotten game to come back in some form.
I'd love that forgotten game to come back in some form.
While I love unfiltered low-res textures, the warpiness of the PSX graphics looks like shit. So N64.
Crash could do things the N64 games weren't capable of like streaming data from disc to RAM. This meant that individual levels were not limited to the actual RAM size (2MB for the PS1). Andy Gavin of Naughty Dog was something of a pioneer in data streaming 25 years ago.
His recent Interview with Ars Technical is great.
PS1 because despite all of it's faults it could do incredibly fast 3d for the time.
The N64 with it's incredibly limited memory for textures and convoluted architecture meant only the absolute best devs could get a reasonable frame rate out of it. I returned to the system recently and it just chugs compared to most PS1 titles.
The N64 with it's incredibly limited memory for textures and convoluted architecture meant only the absolute best devs could get a reasonable frame rate out of it. I returned to the system recently and it just chugs compared to most PS1 titles.
I think the N64 had the "better graphics" technically, but it had a lack of variety in styles of games.
Games like these to me looked cleaner/better than most of what the N64 had. Most also ran at a better/smoother FPS which helps them in motion:
Omega Boost
Threads of Fate
Tekken 3
Gran Turismo 2
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Wipeout 3
N64 was incredible. I remember thinking the water in Wave Race 64 couldn't get much better. I was amazed when I first saw it.
Both consoles were. It was an amazing generation of gaming to grow up in.
It's fun to go back now and look at the N64 at launch where it had much bigger more open environments than the PS1 and realise that the only reason it did is because it could do it with fewer polygons. On PS1 because of affine texture warping they had to subdivide and use more polygons for terrain to stop it looking like shit, whereas N64 they could just use the bare minimum.
thank you.I don't care that probably 90% of these gifs are from emulators. Both of these systems ought to be appreciated more because people tend to shit on the visuals of this whole era all the time.
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[N64]
[PS1]
RGB is a thing too for the PSX.
I mean, those consoles were made for CRT TVs so no surprise there.