Originally Posted by
Emperor Megas
It's interesting...I honestly felt the exact opposite. In 1997 I thought that most of the games looked HORRIBLE. Like pixelated messeds...tech demos, and little more. By and large, I found the games of that generation to be utterly lacking in charm, something I felt 2D games generations before had in spades.
There were plenty of exceptions, of course. Games like Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei, Tempest 2000 and NiGHTS into Dreams were, and are still, some of my favorite games. But I felt that they were just that, exceptions, not the rule.