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Yes, this effect is fascinating. I've been playing de_dust2 for 20 years. And in my mind the quality has always felt essentially the same, through CS, CS:Sour
by xnorswap 3y ago
Yes, this effect is fascinating.
I've been playing de_dust2 for 20 years.
And in my mind the quality has always felt essentially the same, through CS, CS:Source, CS:GO and now CS2.
Each was a significant rendering upgrade. And I know I could never go back an iteration, but going forward as it has, the game in my mind's eye is just how CS looks and how it's always looked.
I'm the opposite about "retro" gaming though. Having experienced better fidelity and more readable fonts and better sound, I struggle to play games which don't have that, or worse, deliberately choose bad font rendering as a "retro" effect.
It's why one of my favourite games is Factorio, because it's almost the opposite of retro.
Despite being sprite based, it's the cutting edge of modern sprite rendering. The sprites are generated from 3d renders, and you don't find yourself suddenly in 640x480 or crappy fonts out of some nod to the ages.