Yes, but the N64 still had more or less “better” looking games. Even though the PSX had higher resolution textures, it was no match for the N64’s feature of perspective correct geometry and texture mapping. The PSX’s affine texture mapping and vertex snapping due to imprecise floating point math could not be hidden on a CRT, unless the 3D was really, really tiny. This is why so many PSX games opted to use pre-rendered backgrounds instead of rendering in full 3D, whereas this was a rarely used method in N64 games. It was basically a cheat, because the CRT masked (sometimes more convincingly than other times) the fact that the background was just a JPEG. Fully 3D games on the PSX just look 100% worse when compared to their N64 or PC counterparts, and its almost purely because of these quirks of the PSX.
For example, ignoring the minor texture improvements, comparing Metal Gear Solid on PSX vs MGS Integral on PC, all things like for like (same resolution, same display, point texture filtering, etc), MGS Integral looks a million times better because it has perspective correct geometry and texture mapping. Now personally, I always prefer MGS on the PSX because I like that weird quirk and consider it part of the “true experience,” but ultimately this is a graphical weakness of the PSX, and one that even CRTs could not do much to hide.
Played the original Gran Turismo on a modern TV with my family last Christmas and it was honestly really distracting seeing geometry jump an actual appreciable distance on the bigger screen.
Popping the CD I had of GT 2 into my old 2010 MacBook was so bad lol. I remember seeing review quotes when it started up that said “life-like graphics” and then looked at the trees that were just two perpendicular 2D images and thinking “yea, whatever you say”.
Yeah but Coco had round booba whereas Lara and Tawna had triangles so…… check mate liberal. Don’t look at Aya from Parasite 1 and 2 those are exceptions.
I know two couples who met in WoW. One of them is still married and just had a child. The other had a child almost immediately and aren’t together anymore.
I seriously don’t think this game gets enough credit. It basically invented the combat system used in a bunch of AAA titles today. Like the Batman games. Sure they have been refined and improved it, but it was revolutionary at the time.
I recently went through getting it to run on Linux. It’s one of the only Bungie games I haven’t played. Shockingly in depth combat, I’m enjoying it, but I’m bad at combo based fighting games, so I’m playing it in very bite sized pieces.
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