PS2 - improved over time

[LowercaseE]

I think this is true of any system for the most part. As programmers learn over time how to best exploit a systems power, the games get better. This is quite clear even going back to the Atari and NES.

[Harrison]

There is one system that is the exception to that, the N64. Nintendo did such a great job creating Mario 64 and releasing it at the launch of the N64, and no other game really bettered it.

As for Playstation games looking horrible, it is true that many did look quite ugly, but others looked very impressive too. I thought the first Tomb Raider on the Playstation looked great and I sometimes would stand in areas of a level just looking around at the level design. I doubt the first Tomb Raider would look quite as good to me now if I were to play it again.

[Submeg]

Lol I don't think it would...just like the original Tekken looks disturbing

[Harrison]

The first Tekken was horrible. But the second one still looks OK, and the third was a huge improvement.

[J T]

There is one system that is the exception to that, the N64. Nintendo did such a great job creating Mario 64 and releasing it at the launch of the N64, and no other game really bettered it.

True, it looked good. But then with a bright, primary coloured fantasy world it was always going to look good despite any technical limitations of the system. I think that game is a good example of art direction and design being worth more to many than the ability to throw a gajillion textured anti aliased polygons and particles about (see also Zelda OoT, and the recent Twilight Princess).

[rayzorblue]

I concur JT the twighlight princess is a good example it looks great despite the obvious limitations of Nintendo's system and it will stand the test of time i would imagine.

[Harrison]

That is indeed true. Twighlight Princess shows that you can make a great looking game on the Wii, although it does look very similar on the Gamecube!

This is in stark contrast to many of the first wave of Wii releases with good really bad. Have you seen the Wii version of Farcry? To say it is bad is an understatement. If you didn't know you might think it was running on an N64 it is that bad!

[Submeg]

So Farcry is really bad? I was considering getting that

[Harrison]

FarCry is great on other systems. The PC version is still the best, with the Xbox and PS2 versions being pretty good. It's just the Wii version that is really bad which is strange when they managed to make decent versions for the last gen systems.