retroking1981 wrote:Easy to forget most were fed up of 2D for the most part. As much as I love the 16Bit era, by the end it was generic as fuck and over flooded with the very genres that the Saturn was great at. The 3D revolution was exactly what gaming needed at the time. I'm sure a good percentage of people that love the Saturn now didn't have one back in the day. The Saturn and DC have a crazy amount of love considering how poorly they sold. I know people like us are a vocal minority talking in small groups but it surprises me they didn't sell better with the amount of retrospective attention they get. Makes me wonder if the Wii U will follow suit.
retroking1981 wrote:Makes me wonder if the Wii U will follow suit.
hunk wrote:I know Sega did a few pc ports of their arcade games but for some reason they never republished them on Steam.
davyK wrote:But the identikit 2D platformers/run & guns of the 16bit era were largely replaced with the same thing viewed from a different angle.
In terms of action games, it took Tomb Raider, Mario 64 and then Zelda OoT to show what 3D game design was all about. It was playing those that I really felt I had to think about the 3D space. The likes of Resident Evil and Final Fantasy VII are important too though. Mechanically, they could have been 2D games, but became much more due to the different perspectives they could create.davyK wrote:You are right, but I think 3D was a bit of emperor's new clothes when it came to game design. it was the same old run around and collect. Of course it made a big difference to driving games and anything with flight. And games like Metal Gear Solid's sneak-em-up made great use of it. The CD capacity gave people pretty pictures to look at too. But the identikit 2D platformers/run & guns of the 16bit era were largely replaced with the same thing viewed from a different angle. But it did give a shot in the arm to the market and mainstream gamers who needed games to look more real piled in. That gave devs the impetus to come up with new stuff so it did make a difference , though not entirely via the reasons many would say it did.
hunk wrote:Sega am1 and am2 arcade ports would absolutely sell bucketloads on steam.
Even if it's just emulation with added online. Vf 1,2 and 3, Daytona, Sega Rally, Virtua cop, HotD, Outrun 1 and 2.
Same goes for Capcom CPS1,2 and 3 titles and SNK neo geo titles.
Why Capcom has never rereleased a SF2,3, darkstalkers, alpha compilation is absolutely silly. Easy money.
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