puduhead
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I never managed to successfully negotiate this transition adequately. It didn't help that I left my home world of 2D Southern California in Spring '95 (for a 2-year church mission assignment) only to come back to a consumer civilization virtually taken over by really shitty looking 3D. Some people never got over 'Nam. I never got over the death of 'hand drawn' gameplay.
A recent blog on destructoid helped me to see how 2D -> 3D was not so much a necessary evolution but rather a premature/outright coup of 2D. The blogger made what I thought to be a great analogy to painting and photography which totally opened my mind:
I think that today, with the passage of time, we recognize that 3D games are not the evolutionary next step of 2D games: they are completely different genres in the same way that we recognize photography and painting as two equally valid art forms even though photography was initially heralded as the evolutionary next step and replacement for painting.
-tascar
This is a big reason why emulation became so important to me. Even if it is not specifically a function of retro-gaming. There clearly exists an element of that within this community of gifted and ambitious coders and enthusiasts.
What do you think?
A recent blog on destructoid helped me to see how 2D -> 3D was not so much a necessary evolution but rather a premature/outright coup of 2D. The blogger made what I thought to be a great analogy to painting and photography which totally opened my mind:
I think that today, with the passage of time, we recognize that 3D games are not the evolutionary next step of 2D games: they are completely different genres in the same way that we recognize photography and painting as two equally valid art forms even though photography was initially heralded as the evolutionary next step and replacement for painting.
-tascar
This is a big reason why emulation became so important to me. Even if it is not specifically a function of retro-gaming. There clearly exists an element of that within this community of gifted and ambitious coders and enthusiasts.
What do you think?