Personally, my beef is with framerate issues, on PC (but to some extend they're excused since it's such an unpredictable platform) but
especially on consoles. The PS3 seems a really bad culprit when it comes to this. Every game I played on that thing slowed down to a crawl at times. Considering it's supposed to be the strongest of the consoles, I was kinda shocked by it. Motorstorm was especially bad, it was simply unplayable (and videos of the release version have had the same problem, so I know that it wasn't just a bug in the demo version).
I don't think the graphics have to be super stunning, as long as everything runs smoothly. Especially with a fucking racing game, I mean what the hell were they thinking? "It doesn't have to go fast, as long as it's pretty and has lotsa bumpmapping, cause people will pay attention to that going at 90mph up a cliff!"
There are plenty of other "quality" games on various consoles that have the same problem, so this is just an example that I can remember off the top of my head. But it really annoys the fuck out of me. We should NEVER have to deal with slowdown, it's Goddamn ridiculous.
What's really bad though is that reviewers don't seem to notice, or don't care. I haven't seen
one review with a game with
obvious slowdown take note of it.
And yeah I agree that the Saturn was a really awesome console for its time, especially compared to the "polygon-vomit" of PSX. Too bad Sega did everything they possibly could to sabotage its success. Still, there's a couple awesome games on it, totally worth snagging if you see it for a couple bucks, especially one of Japanese region (or a modded one). Also, the SSF emulator is becoming pretty good (though you need a hefty PC to play the games at a decent framerate).
How ya doing, buddy?
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