Digital Foundry Retro Discussion [2025]

[Cyan]

This is the first DF Retro episode of 2025. This year looks very promising.

DF Retro: The NEW Grand Theft Auto 3 Dreamcast Port Is A Miracle... And It's Just The Beginning

 

[Shifty Geezer]

This GTA discussion is best held in the Dreamcast thread where it's already a topic...

Could Dreamcast et al handle this/that game/effect? *DC tech retrospective *spawn

Can't believe that Balzak model has more geometry than ryo hazuki model. ryo still ooks better to me (i thought he was around 4k). PD: can you try to get please the test Drive le mans and tokyo xtreme racer 2 polycount per car? PD 2: learning this numbers makes room to no doubt...The PS2 Soul...

forum.beyond3d.com

 

[Riddlewire]

John didn't mention it, but in the first game, you can actually unlock all of those filters and camera angles for play during the actual missions and not just for the replays. You have to beat the game on Hard with the Heavy Traffic setting (a daunting task).
It's a shame there's no free drive mode in the first game. Any exploration you want to do has to take place inside the mission time limits, which are generally in the 2-5 minute range.
Microsoft owns Activision now. Both of these games should be added to Backwards Compatibility.

 

[homerdog]

John didn't mention it, but in the first game, you can actually unlock all of those filters and camera angles for play during the actual missions and not just for the replays. You have to beat the game on Hard with the Heavy Traffic setting (a daunting task).
It's a shame there's no free drive mode in the first game. Any exploration you want to do has to take place inside the mission time limits, which are generally in the 2-5 minute range.
Microsoft owns Activision now. Both of these games should be added to Backwards Compatibility.

The first one blew my mind on the Xbox. It looks like a decent early Xbox 360 game. I would drive around and test the lighting and shadow effects. But nobody seemed to know or care about this game. Glad to see I wasn't crazy for thinking it was on another level.