i am watching a live speed run from the good people at speeddemosarchive (check their site) during one of their marathons. they are playing 1080 snowboarding for the n64.
the game looks horrible.
i will tell you why it does - because they are trying to just make more of what seems to be a better technology than what it is, and it doesn't work.
graphics never make a game. they only enhance a good game, or, if done really badly, make a game look so bad it's terrible.
a lot can be translated to flash in a similar manner i guess, but the point is, the most beautiful game i've seen is metroid prime, and that was released nearly 10 years ago. round about then (and bear in mind that the cube at the time was nowhere near the most powerful console in terms of gpu ability), you had enough technology to make the game look perfectly fine. how about nowadays people actually make games that are worth playing rather than looking pretty? my main gaming platform nowadays is the iphone, and for a reason.
kidray76
I've noticed the trend, as new generations of systems get developed, the better it looks, but the gameplay progressively gets worse and easier.
I mean, there are still NES games I have YET to beat, even with an emulator and game faq, but so far, there hasn't been not ONE xbox game I couldn't beat just by doing the obvious.
I don't know, I guess the younger kids would rather have a game look amazing and jumps right into multi player rather than a well though out, inviting game. Oh well.