Both screenshots should be taken at the same zoom level for a fair comparison. I prefer the old graphics too, the new filter is too blurry and I find the black outline horrible (I always deactivate it). They look like cartoony sprites artificially pasted over a background from another game. Instead of sharp and clean graphics, the filter in 2.0 makes characters look like blobs of color. Are the characters turning into slimes?
I wonder if the fact that my first love of D&D came from my experiences playing tabletop 1st edition AD&D with very fondly remembered friends during my senior year in high school and first years of college, in 1982-1987, has something to do with this? Could it be that the early computer games I love so much duplicate that tabletop experience in a solitaire form better than any of the later offerings from game developers? Have the developers lost touch with the magic of the tabletop gaming experience?
I'm about to replay the original BG1 on Gog.com to see if I can recapture the feeling that I'm missing again.
Does anyone else understand or have insights into what I'm trying to get at here?
@BelgarathMTH I'm hearing you on FM here. It was the same for me and in that same time period. The fantasy games then were most definitely geared to someone used to PnP. Early HOMM, Pool of Radiance games, Bard's Tale. Temple Of Apshai by Epyx was a favorite as well. The top down view like BG goes along with many of those I liked.
I do think those formative years in an earlier time of computer technology, combined with the earliest version of D&D most definitely stays with one to a certain extent.
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Ok. How do you get those original BG1 beauties in EE?
This...
...looks so much better than this...
My colorblindness hates me a lot of late.
It was the same for me and in that same time period. The fantasy games then were most definitely geared to someone used to PnP. Early HOMM, Pool of Radiance games, Bard's Tale. Temple Of Apshai by Epyx was a favorite as well.
The top down view like BG goes along with many of those I liked.
I do think those formative years in an earlier time of computer technology, combined with the earliest version of D&D most definitely stays with one to a certain extent.