Famicom Dojo Podcast: Needs More Polys

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Apr.08, 2014

We’re four generations deep into reasonably realistic 3D graphics based on nothing more than colored triangles, but if you go back to the first fully 3D console graphics the picture isn’t so pretty. And yet we loved these games all the same. Was it am amazing as we thought, or were we just kidding ourselves? Vinnk and Sean try to take off their rose-colored glasses and give a serious look to the Nintendo 64, Playstation, and Sega Saturn. What game franchises were born in that generation? Which ones met their untimely end?

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Tags: All-Stars Racing Transformed, AM2, Gome Home, Mass Effect, Microsoft, Minish Cap, Sega, Shenmue, Sonic, steam, Super Mario 64, Wii U, Xbox 360, Zelda

Cheeseball

I think Sean is a little bit off about Doom. I seem to remember more angles, and floors being on top of each other in the game. I suppose he was just using a earlier level editor, that wasn’t fully featured.

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

I promise you I am not wrong about this. 😉

RetroDave

Another Great episode.

I personally think Final Fantasy Tactics holds up very well, probably because of the use of sprites instead of the FF7-style polygons. Even Cloud looked better in Tactics than he did in FF7.

Sorry to hear about your face, Vinnk. Hope you heal up soon.
http://hupack.blogspot.com/ Joshua Jaeger

Couldn’t one consider the new wave of games similar to Minecraft or [insert blocky styled 3D game] as a nostalgia call back to early 32-bit games era?

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