Even with PS3 and 360 which are sometimes called the HD twins you saw different ecosystems of genres and ports between the two often being spectacular failures. Even the multiconsole games almost always had a clear winner between the two, usually the 360.
I know you probably know, but it's so funny sony thought the CEL architecture would pan out. Console manufactures seem to forgot, the numbers you theoretically can get on paper are meaningless if very few devs know how to make use of them. The only games that look truly better than the 360, were the later naughty dog games like uncharted 3 and TLOU. As you said the averge 360->ps3 port at the best had worse lighting/reflections or at worse a shittier frame-rate(too).
Wow, their website looks basic as ever. I cannot believe they're shutting down by the end of this month. I guess preservation is a threat nowadays.
I still think Nixxes 2015 port of Rise of the Tomb Raider to 360 looks better than literally anything on PS3.
Looks like he's still uploading AppImage builds on his Github release page.
There needs to be a word like retro that can be used on early 3d games. They're too different then the sprite based 2d games to be roped in with them, but also too different from the later 3d games to be modern.
Early 3D games still kept the style and spirit of 8 and 16-bit, so they should still qualify as retro/classic. They started to change drastically enough in the late 90s/early 2000s to be considered modern by today’s standards. But since the 2010s started catering to the lowest common denominator to self-deprecating degrees, that should be called the “meta” era. Some say we’ve moved past that time and are in a revival, while others say we’re still in the meta era.
That really is what it comes down to for, apparently, a lot of people. I had to dig up this Penny Arcade comic from 13 years ago.
I always just keep true retro to 20th century gaming, with maybe some leeway for games after the turn of the millennium if the hardware was released before.
Years ago I had remembered how bad Penny Arcade's art was getting and it was already on the decline. 2013 looks really good compared to now.
I had one of these semi-recently before giving it to a friend. It's a nice system, even has a proper ISA slot so you can put a fully compatible sound card in.
If I were to find pixel art of an apple with realistic lighting, IE: it has a cast shadow, it has reflective light, it even has a highlight, but it's all hand painted in.
