Water looking great was kind of a selling point. You could sell consoles by comparing "our water game" to "their water game". Gaming magazines sold it pretty hard, too.
Its funny how many times I used to see pretty blocky graphics but then next to it there was extremely realistic water. At some point devs must've found a way to just make really good water with no performance loss
It's definitely lost something though, I've heard it brought up a few times this gen that Nintendo games have good looking water. I think the distinction is making water as realistic as possible versus making water look how we think water is supposed to look.
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u/ErraticDragon Aug 23 '26
Water looking great was kind of a selling point. You could sell consoles by comparing "our water game" to "their water game". Gaming magazines sold it pretty hard, too.