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Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

hondaguy97386@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Older games are a laggy mess when there is too much on the screen. Not to mention sprites disappearing. The issue I think is, we have gotten better and better over the decades until recently. We are just seeing a backward slide in performance (for many reasons, not just poor optimization).

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Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’ve only recently (2 years ago) started to play older games I was interested in but never got the time to play. I even got a 16:9 CRT-TV and modded all the original consoles. It toatally depends on the game if it is a smooth and optimized experience or just an unresponsive mess of code.

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- bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah it really does depend on the game, which is obvious, but still. Games that push the hardware are obviously gonna feel laggy
  
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rozodru@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Examples: Virtua Racing on the Genesis or Star Fox on the SNES. they were slow and quite laggy. sure they were essentially pushing the limits of what the console could do and in the case of Star Fox had to have the FX chip in the cartridge but I wouldn't call racing around on the Genesis in Virtua Racing a "smooth" experience.

Other games are like this too with loading. Mortal Kombat CD on the Sega CD. you get to the Shang Tsung fight and the game has to load every time he morphs. Other games would also slow to a crawl if there was a lot on the screen. To your point Ranger X on the Genesis had these little tadpole enemy things that could quickly populate the screen if you didn't take them out quickly and would slow the game down. Same would happen on the PSX with the game Loaded.

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