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Topic	What was the biggest leap between gaming console generations?
KanzarisKelshen 03/07/24 9:13:42 PM #22:	Lopen posted... I mean I guess like "Has enough basic detail and depth to be considered a world" is technically a "more detailed world" Very detailed games existed in the first and second generations, just not graphically. Colossal Cave is from 1976 for example, only four years after Pong. It's hard to say exactly what divides 'actual, real game' games from the first generation from the ones in the second in terms of depth, but they did exist. It was just a hard tradeoff between graphics and gameplay depth is all. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. <cite>KanzarisKelshen posted [p:979248582] in What was t... [t:80715463]...</cite> <quote>Lopen posted... </cite><quote>I mean I guess like"Has enough basic detail and depth to be considered a world" is technically a "more detailed world"</quote>Very detailed games existed in the first and second generations, just not graphically. Colossal Cave is from 1976 for example, only four years after Pong. It's hard to say exactly what divides 'actual, real game' games from the first generation from the ones in the second in terms of depth, but they did exist. It was just a hard tradeoff between graphics and gameplay depth is all. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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