Retro Gaming Thread

Post by **Hawq** » Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:49 am

booo no Postal 2 on the list

Post by **ian** » Fri Dec 13, 2024 5:54 am

Dr. Zoidberg wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 9:12 pm

I always wondered why wipeout on Saturn felt smoother to play than PS1. That video explains so much, even if it did drone on. Because the Saturn was playing it so damn slow it didn't have a chance to slow down as much as the PS1 version the second you had 2 things moving on screen

And that video also highlights something that didn't used to bug! me as much. (Bug! Get it? It's a Saturn game! Get it?) The Saturn was hopeless with transparency.

In the later days of the Saturn (1997 and 1998) while the PS1 was getting some comparatively good looking games, the Saturn was hamstrung looking primitive all because it couldn't do transparency good enough. Even Burning Rangers and Panzer Dragoon Saga which were the last great games on the system looked a little 1995 jank simply because water and glass effects looked like they were stuck on the Super Nintendo.

Not that I'm putting marks against either Burning Rangers or Panzer Dragoon Saga, they're both phenomenal games, but if the Saturn had ever gotten better, they would have been so much more than they ended up being.

Post by **Hawq** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:03 am

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Post by **Hawq** » Mon Dec 16, 2024 7:26 am

Ah the Archie 3000, memories of towards the end of my school days when about 5 of these replaced a few of the BBC Micros, no more getting 'lost in the mist' as we could now enjoy the likes of Zarch & so on, any other old gits remember this?. At home I went Amiga of course but the Archie was fun.