True. However back when these games were state of the art, you somehow were able to imagine the graphics to be better than what was actually on screen. At least that's how it felt to me (played my first games in the early 90s).
Of course, although in the 90s there were also some that stood out in terms of graphics and soundtrack 10 years ahead of the rest, like MDK, a real gem.
Now you can play it for free, right in your browser
Well, I grew up with my first games being in the early 90s, and I'd argue the majority of that era still stand up visually today. Look at Sonic 3, Secret of Mana, Outrun, Turtles in Time, etc. They all still look fantastic. Even many NES and Master System titles still hold up today like Super Mario Bros 3 and Kirby's Adventure.
It was earlier, the Atari 2600 era to be exact, that needed an imagination...
Mario meets long term workplace illness. Unfortunately I don’t think Mario belongs to a union. Bowser be like “just one more castle and you’ll make it big here Mario”
Yeah, that botheres me, too. Also when a game is labeled to have "psx graphics" and it just means that they use low res textures without filtering but at the same time it has real time shadows, requires 4GB VRAM and uses bunch of other modern techniques.
Because either the person who made this face the AI some extra prompting, which might explained the other oddities, or this isn't the work of AI at all.
Mario is suffering from incontinence these days. Dude is well over 70 years old maybe 80. He was a master plumber back in the early to mid 70s, so he would have been 25 bach then, at least.
There's AI that can sometimes do hands okay. It still often fucks up, so a human has to curate the work. And ideally selectively prompt the AI to regenerate parts of the image until the whole thing is perfect. I think Midjourney has the best performance so far. You can take a look for yourself in one of the many AI art communities. They're sadly not as active here as they were on Reddit, but there's imageai and stablediffusion communities (I forget the instance)
Yeah I have stable diffusion (installed on my PC, works great with my rtx 3080 12gb) and it is scarily good. You have to inpaint and regen a fair bit if you want ideal results but it takes no time at all.
I can see how designers and artists are concerned.