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That hurts a little (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 5 months ago (34 children)

Original Halo was released in 2001, 23 years ago.

Super Mario Bros was released in 1985, 39 years ago.

There is less time between the release of the first SMB and Halo than Halo and the present day, 16 years...

[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (23 children)

It's interesting how much technology has slowed down. Back in the 80s and 90s a 5 year old game looked horribly outdated. Now we're getting close to some 20 year old games still looking pretty decent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Last time I was amazed with graphical progress was with Unreal in 1998. And probably just because I hadn't played Quake 2.

From then on until now it's just been a steady and normal increase in expected quality.

Doom 3 might have come close (and damn, that leaked Alpha was impressive) but by the time it was released it looked just slightly better than everything else.