• Lembot_0004@discuss.online
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    8 months ago

    but were slide shows

    Well, it was a while ago, so I don’t remember details… But a slide show? I believe you’re exaggerating. A lot.

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      8 months ago

      Give me an example of a better game at the time because I don’t remember seeing any.

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        8 months ago

        Why do you expect a better game? I said “evolution”. Do you understand the meaning of this word in full?

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          8 months ago

          Other games were really shitty. Show us an equivalent or a slightly worse game instead of arguing.

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            8 months ago

            Elite was working on crazy slow machines from somewhere in the middle of the 80s, progressing from wire graphics to filled polygons. All was crazy fast. Not sure if there was a textured version, though.

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              8 months ago

              The video is about software optimization. Elite was a simple wireframe. It didn’t have shading. It didn’t have mixed bitmaps placed in the 3d space.

              The video linked doesn’t claim Wolf 3D was the first 3d game.

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      8 months ago

      Ultima Underworld was painfully slow.

      Other 3d games with bitmap graphic that came out before were actual slide shows. Like Eye of the Beholder. You’d press a key and get the different 3d view as a single frame. Other real time 3d games at the time were 3d polygon based like Elite.