JcDent

But looking back at old magazines, gaming TV shows, and message boards of the era, the sentiment was extremely common. A lot of the gaming community was so gassed up about the leap to 3D that they viewed 2D games as obsolete as black-and-white movies. When official publications reviewed 2D games that they had to push positively, they seemed ashamed or in denial about the game being 2D, and tried to talk up its other graphical features (Okay I’m talking about Nintendo Power specifically in this case).

This sentiment didn’t really begin to die until the late-00s retro boom and the simultaneous dawn of console indie games. A whole decade of people losing their shit if they saw sprites, lol

Which is silly considering how few RTS games actually do anything with the third axis [insert Weird War II joke here].

I'm glad games don't have to look AAA these days. It was very annoying to hear OG Mound and Blade catching flack for visuals + I remember mid games looking like shit because they tried to reach AAA visuals.

Joke's on them, 2D games age more gracefully.

The Edgerunners show make the Sandevistan look like this extra cool superweapon

And then you play CP2077, set like a year or two after, and every third gangster has one. It's mildly annoying in a fight.

There are also three dozen skills that automatically slow down time when you are being perceived, live in a society or hear a THRUUD ad without requiring an implant that replaces the cyberjacking suite with bullet time.

There's even the stupid Karenzikov - the Slide-devistan - and its Defenzikov upgrade that makes it into a Dash-devistan as well.

God, if I ever end up writing a review for CP2077, I'll put out 5,000 words on what more interesting implant ideas could have been harvested from System Shock 1, all of the Deus Exes, even the isometric Shadowruns...

You know, lessons other than "make a game that's good, not bad"