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iiotenki
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with every passing year, i get a little more convinced that we should've never left the ps2 behind as an industry and that if we're to ever solve our budgeting and scope problems, we should go back to making games for it for good and never look back

the people look enough like people on there

we got pretty good at making things look nice on there by the end

it's perfectly capable of rendering things stylishly and you can even throw in halfway decent lipsync or whatever if you wanna get fancy

so few games actually justify their presence on contemporary hardware in terms of actual gameplay design goals and not just, "we want the most shaders and you can't get the most shaders on older hardware"

i dunno

have you seen a latter day ps2 game run through a reputable upscaler on a 4k display?

still looks pretty snazzy, if you ask me

sony even dropped the formal requirement to apply for a system license to publish on there towards the end, if i'm not mistaken

i'm just saying

the ps2 is a pretty good system and it could be even gooder if we picked up where we left off


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Just in terms of graphics? Oh very much yes. PS2 (and GameCube and OG Xbox) still look good, especially if you do some trickery like forcing games to output in 480p where possible, and then scaling that up.

"But we want to be Cinematic™!!!", scream the AAA people - okay, fine, we go one generation further, here's the PS3 and X360, those HAVE to be good enough for you lot.

In the last year I played the PSN versions of Bloodrayne 2, Manhunt & Primal and they all look amazing. Then i threw on Digital Devil Saga and Summoner 2 in my PS2 slim & resolution aside they’re still stunning. Quality art direction carries a game forever.

Yeah, I heard about that exploit pretty much as soon as it was discovered! Super cool stuff, but yeah, definitely crossing my fingers that a more universal solution is maybe eventually found in the future so the PS2 can have a commercial homebrew scene like the Dreamcast. Who knows if that's possible since, yeah, it seems like the DVD drives themselves and whatnot can work pretty differently across generations, but I'll forever dream, ahaha. 🥲