The best proof of how quickly we forget the questionable nature of 3D graphics' infancy is still the fact that this was considered sexy. Although, really, who can blame people for thinking that? I mean, just look at her. Mmm, that's hot.
Mario 64 was mostly spared from that because it has a distinctly cartoonish style--it's more than a little blocky, but it's clearly not trying for something that actually looks human and failing the way other games of the time did. Also, it's forgiven because it really is that good a game--everything that lady said about its vastness and immersion in the Bad Influence video still feels true even today, at least to me. And yes, Lomax looks surprisingly decent...that was PlayStation? I'd never heard of it, but...wow.
And Accent Core Plus is in a bit of a precarious position as far as its name--it's basically Accent Core (the gameplay is identical, no new moves or rebalancing or anything) but with extra stuff (most notably a story mode, but also survival and other things) and the return of Kliff and Justice. The story mode is an actual continuation that actually takes place after XX's story, and includes all the characters who either weren't around yet or didn't get stories last time. (Mostly Robo-Ky, A.B.A., Order-Sol, and Kliff. Here's Kliff talking to Order-Sol in either Kliff's or Order-Sol's story mode. Yay!) Had this game come first, the fact that it's an actual sequel for the first time since the original XX, along with the other modes and stuff, should more than qualify it for the fact that it should just be called X3 by now. However, the fact that it's the same game as Accent Core but with all this other stuff too means they more or less have to call it Accent Core Plus, because calling it X3 and then saying it's the same as XX Accent Core sounds disingenuous and weird.
(Also, there's the problem that XXX sounds like Guilty Gear Porn and X3 looks like a smiley that ravenworks would use.)
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Date: 2009-05-02 10:38 pm (UTC)Mario 64 was mostly spared from that because it has a distinctly cartoonish style--it's more than a little blocky, but it's clearly not trying for something that actually looks human and failing the way other games of the time did. Also, it's forgiven because it really is that good a game--everything that lady said about its vastness and immersion in the Bad Influence video still feels true even today, at least to me. And yes, Lomax looks surprisingly decent...that was PlayStation? I'd never heard of it, but...wow.
And Accent Core Plus is in a bit of a precarious position as far as its name--it's basically Accent Core (the gameplay is identical, no new moves or rebalancing or anything) but with extra stuff (most notably a story mode, but also survival and other things) and the return of Kliff and Justice. The story mode is an actual continuation that actually takes place after XX's story, and includes all the characters who either weren't around yet or didn't get stories last time. (Mostly Robo-Ky, A.B.A., Order-Sol, and Kliff. Here's Kliff talking to Order-Sol in either Kliff's or Order-Sol's story mode. Yay!) Had this game come first, the fact that it's an actual sequel for the first time since the original XX, along with the other modes and stuff, should more than qualify it for the fact that it should just be called X3 by now. However, the fact that it's the same game as Accent Core but with all this other stuff too means they more or less have to call it Accent Core Plus, because calling it X3 and then saying it's the same as XX Accent Core sounds disingenuous and weird.
(Also, there's the problem that XXX sounds like Guilty Gear Porn and X3 looks like a smiley that