Technology VS Tradition

[InCreator]

...at least on the level of Nintendo/Many AGS games...

Ouch. That was mean...
So a single slash separates AGS game gfx and horrors of 8-bit...?

[Lordhoban]

Many of the AGS games have graphics on par with Nintendo. Some even have worse... but I prefer if the graphics are at least on the level of a standard Nintendo game. Anything less I have a hard time stomaching.

Now, that's not to say there aren't some AGS games that have graphics far outmarking Nintendo... I've seen some pretty nice looking games.

[Gilbert]

You meant Nintendo GameCube?

[Lordhoban]

You meant Nintendo GameCube?

Uumm, no, I meant classic original Nintendo. I don't associate with modern day consoles.  

[Gilbert]

Game & Watch?

[magintz]

I agree with the fact that standards of games have shot up, but company's such as EA have total disregard for actual game-play and are more interested in the money. Obviously a graphically better game will sell better as most customers flip over the case, check out the screenies and read what you can do on it. e.g 1 billion rooms, 20,000 characters, 3d graphocs etc...

If you think about point-and-click adventures, yes they seem to me to be better than most games that are out nowadays, but that's merely my preferance in genre, and they rarely release point and clicks anymore.

[CodeJunkie]

What is meant by having graphics 'on par with Nintendo'?  I'm assuming you mean systems like the SNES since later consoles like the N64 deal mostly with 3D graphics.  I thought that the Nintendo games had very good graphics for their time, and since the technology bar has been raised I find that few AGS games can live up to the new expectations.  Do you instead mean the resolution or number of colours, or general clarity?  Because otherwise I would've thought that Nintendo would be the outright winner most times, not to affront AGS games or their makers, but because Nintendo has professional artists.

[Lordhoban]

Why are we overanalyzing one little comment? This is a message board, not an adventure game. That said, the minimum graphic level I can usually stomach with is either Nintendoish (the original Nintendo, not SNES, not Game cube, THE CLASSIC ORIGINAL! There is only one original.) or AGS games like Larry Vales. While Larry Vales may not be a masterwork of graphics, they are sufficiant enough. Anything below that quality I have a hard time dealing with.

[Gilbert]

So, Game&Watch?

[Shinan]

Nintendo made playing cards before the Game&Watch. Maybe it is the artwork on them that is implied.

[Lordhoban]

Game & Watch? Uumm, no. The NES, the 8 bit system which at least one person seemed to get I was referring to.

[Snarky]

Did the Game&Watch really precede the NES?

psst! Lordhoban ... Gilbot and Shinan are just pulling your leg.

[Lordhoban]

Oh, right. 

Are we getting back on topic, yet? 

Well, I've been reading up on Nintendo history... and eventually came across Laserdisc history. Wow, learning is fun.