Will anyone be crazy enough to make a PS1 throwback game?

[brob]

Early polygon graffix look cool as shit. In Virtua Fighter 4 Evo you could unlock Model 1 character models. It was some bomb ass shit. Blocky Goh was slapping everyone. I was really bummed when that didn't make it in to VF5. Wipeout on PS1 was superamazingcool too. In general I think less realistic graphics are cool because it's abstracts it a little and you have to fill in blanks.

As polygonal graphics become cheaper and easier to do I think a lot of indies will move from their fancy retro pixel art. Maybe there will be some fancy model 1~2 looking stuff then.

[Don Flamenco]

there's nostalgia about the general look (and especially the sound) of nes games, as well as nostalgia about the gameplay.  how far this stuff goes, who knows?  SE released a new "16-bit" Final Fantasy game that looked more 32-bit 2D but played like a 16-bit FF and almost everyone larfed it off, so I can't say with confidence a new "32-bit" FF game would do much better.  I mean, if they throw Cloud in it, then yeah, we're talking.  But a wholly original cast and story?  I dunno.

With the proper marketing, it'd be a pretty big deal.   I mean, I have no idea what game you're referring to with the 32 bit sprite game, so that's the first problem.  is it on ps3/360?   Needs to be there too. 

if they made Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 2: Advent Adults as a PS1 throwback-- that would literally have the best chance of any PS1 style game possible.

Early polygon graffix look cool as shit. In Virtua Fighter 4 Evo you could unlock Model 1 character models. It was some bomb ass shit. Blocky Goh was slapping everyone. I was really bummed when that didn't make it in to VF5.

off topic, but i played some VF4:Evo the other day and there are so many things in that game that should've made it to the next title at least, but that also needed to be standard in the genre.   

[Bloodwake]

PS1 was the infancy for quite a few things in consoles. Console FPS controls, three dimensional graphics on a wide scale and rumble in controllers are just a few things.

it there is a throwback to PS1/N64 it is more likely going to be a game like Banjo-Kazooie rather than some of the other games mentioned in this thread. A lot of those 3D platformers have actually aged pretty well. Mario 64 is another good example.

[Don Flamenco]

i should grab a small, cheap crt.  and a psone from a pawn shop that has them for like $10.   

[Cerveza mas fina]

I dunno, he seems to mention the floating-point rounding problem that caused shimmering polygons, and those were pretty much there all the way through the PSX's life, albeit to varying degrees.

agreed on vf2, but daytona saturn looked and ran like absolute shit.  at least hold up something like sega rally.  or heck, even nights, though it strained the saturn badly at times as well.

Daytona was rushed like hell for launch, daytona cce was much better, and the two extra tracks were sweet.

[Himu]

Early polygon graffix look cool as shit. In Virtua Fighter 4 Evo you could unlock Model 1 character models. It was some bomb ass shit. Blocky Goh was slapping everyone. I was really bummed when that didn't make it in to VF5. Wipeout on PS1 was superamazingcool too. In general I think less realistic graphics are cool because it's abstracts it a little and you have to fill in blanks.

As polygonal graphics become cheaper and easier to do I think a lot of indies will move from their fancy retro pixel art. Maybe there will be some fancy model 1~2 looking stuff then.

I agree. I always felt like I was the only person to enjoy the abstraction of (some) early 3d titles.

[Cerveza mas fina]

The feel of the driving was a bit different but it was really good. Don't remember the music though.

[Stoney Mason]

In general like I said I detest the low poly look. There are a few example though like the Virtua Fighter look which I always liked. I also thought Interstate 76 looked good although that's mainly due to the combination of art style with the low polys.





  :'(

btw with all the Kickstarter shit, I wish someone would kickstart a game like interstate 76.

[Himu]

Interstate 76 looks so fucking dapper. the girl and black guy could use the same detail on their faces as the dude in the middle but :damn

[Cerveza mas fina]

[Himu]

Too blocky. Interstate 76 and VF2 shots posted  also have better image quality. They're also stylized and minimalist whereas that strives to be realistic. No go.

[Don Flamenco]

Light gun games don't work on plasmas, right?

[cool breeze]

Nope.  I looked into this last year and the 'solution' is buying sensor based guns that work like the Wii or Guncon 3 that aren't very good.  One was called the top shot or something and cost like $70+ so I didn't bother.  The other thing I tried was just using the Wii remote with emulators on PC, and it mostly worked as well as the Wii.  Doesn't replicate the lightgun feeling exactly; more like moving a cursor on the screen.

[Don Flamenco]

well, my hands are tied then.   i guess crts are like $10 at goodwill these days.

[brob]

RIP

[Himu]

[Don Flamenco]

(Image removed from quote.)

RIP

ha, i was just looking at that at a local place.  they got it with the gun for $25!   

I read a thing in one amazon review so i don't know how trustworthy it is, said that guncon 1s are broken a lot or fragile?   Any truth to that?