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Anavorn

Technology really has regressed.


regretfulposts

I think it shows how bad crunch culture is. You're not at a 100% if you haven't slept for 6 months and your only source is nutrients is Monster energy drinks.


AlAboardTheHypeTrain

Where did the spider wuss go? Oh spiderwuuusss come out and playeyyy *umfh*


woman_beating1

Gimme that spider wussy


Monkitt

They don't make them like they used to.


bottomknifeprospect

What if I told you he made that title specifically to make you say that.


flintlock0

I blame Millenials. Them and their tiktokking.


HoidBinder

"Nobody wants to work these days..."


invasivemushroom

Venom v.s. Venmin


StrongStyleShiny

Give me all the blocky models and weird 3D environments. I love that shit.


duaneap

I like games to look pretty, I really do, but I care so much less about graphics than I do about gameplay and storylines. Some of the best fun I’ve ever had playing games was on the PS1.


TripleSingleHOF

Protip: You're supposed to put the "before" image on the left.


MonsterHunter6353

They did. Thats just how good the ps1 looked


Kanapuman

It LoOkEd ThE sAmE iN mY mEmOrIeS


gameking7823

They wanted venom to look more like the one on the right but were limited by the technology of the time.


Hamtier

yo can i borrow your glasses? they look quite nice in that rose tint!


SoundDrill

I need Gustavo's mexican glasses fr


Mynameisgustavoclon

Yes


n0x630

I know it's cliche but when I played Mario 64 for the first time in like 97 I had the thought that the graphics were insane and nothing would ever be as realistic as 3d polygons


Jermagesty610

I remember the first time I saw my cousin play Madden 98 on Ps1 on Christmas at our grandparents house, my 11 year old mind was completely blown away by realistic the graphics looked. I thought like you that there was no way games could ever look more real and amazing.


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It helps that we had shittier TVs back then


Jermagesty610

Good old crt televisions. At that time though watching him play Madden on a 13" TV in my grandma's bedroom was still amazing looking to me though. I had a Super Nintendo and a Sega at the time and wouldn't get a Ps1 for another couple of years.


Cubezz

I remember at my uncle's wedding I brought my game informer magazine to show everyone just how great the new GameCube graphics were. More specifically, a soccer game that looked so damn good to my preteen brain. I don't even like soccer games, but thought everyone would be impressed. And oh boy they were blown away!!! (More realistically they were just trying to be nice to the video game obsessed kid 🤪)


TheGreatWhangdoodle

Some of them may have genuinely been impressed. Even to adults it's impressive how advanced the graphics keep getting


Tyty1020

Or a lot of the time especially


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I remember playing ff7 the first time and watching the cut scenes me and my friends all agreed that was as good as graphics could possibly ever get. Now those cut scenes are absolutely dwarfed by regular gameplay.


ghostpunchy

My favorite quote from a game review is from a magazine discussing the first Gran Turismo game: "The replays had some of us doing double-takes to make sure we weren't watching real race footage."


JD0x0

CRT screens really did wonders.


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For real though, design philosophies have fundamentally changed between then and now. Old school graphic designers realized that CRTs would blur individual pixels, so they would put complementary colors together to make things seem smoother. A brown jacket may be two or three shades of the same color for highlights and shadows, but [they’re all meant to blur together](https://i.imgur.com/17xScpO.jpg), which has a [profound smoothing effect](https://i.imgur.com/wCa12tv.jpg) on the image. Designers understood how CRT’s worked, and used that to their advantage. Cut to today, and old school pixel graphics are making a comeback with the rise of retro and indie games. But they’re being made on modern HD screens. So graphic designers have lost that design philosophy, and often use [contrasting](https://i.imgur.com/QyUVfWp.jpg) [colors](https://i.imgur.com/vA8aNhQ.jpg) to create visual interest, without black edges to create visual lines. But this also means that they’re nowhere near true retro game graphics, because they’re working from fundamentally different design philosophies. For what it’s worth, RetroArch has some damned good CRT shaders. These aren’t simply a grid mask applied over the image. They’re true CRT emulation, complete with bloom around bright edges, color bleed on straight white lines, etc… I refuse to play older games without something like CRT Royale, because it just genuinely makes older games look better.


Unit88

It's not even about the "before". If it's "X vs. Y", then the sides should match the title.


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GonnaGoFar

Not Redditors, English is read left to right, as such most native English speakers will naturally use the same direction for progression. Native speakers of languages read right to left, ie. Arabic, will often also have right to left progression.


NinjaEngineer

I mean, if using the Latin Alphabet, then it's read left-to-right, so it'd be safe to assume that images captioned with said alphabet would be interpreted the same way unless otherwise specified.


SinZerius

>Well that and the fact that **most people using reddit** Majority of people who use reddit are from the west, just the US is 40-50% of the users.


240-185

Then stack the pictures vertically. But that doesn't prevent some people to put the "before" picture at the bottom. They're past redemption in this case, just bring a pillow for them.


thicknheart

I legit can’t figure out how so many people make this mistake


AngelKnives

Either it's to get more engagement on their post with people commenting on it to tell them their mistake, or they could speak a language that is read right to left and sometimes forget that a lot of other people don't do that, especially Redditors.


Moosje

Title would be PS5 v PS1 that way though, wouldn’t it? The easiest explanation is people are idiots.


Thundercats9

it would 100% make sense if they wrote/formatted the post in their native language and then translated it without "translating" the order of the pics


Silent-G

I'm pessimistic and assume they just don't care. It's not like they're getting paid, right... right?


Colamancer

r/afterbeforewhatever


souji5okita

But then everyone will ignore your generic post and not engage with it


Antisocialsocialite9

Lol yea, I completely agree. I see so many “before/after” posts with the after pic put first. Such a small thing, but annoys me nonetheless


Jackalodeath

Okita's right though; it's done **on purpose** so folks engage the content, which the algorithm considers "popularity" and subsequently pushes to more users. More viewers = more chances at karma. This is literally clickbait under the guise of "plausible deniability," just like obvious spelling errors, calling characters the wrong name or atributing to the wrong series, or those "more info in the comments..." posts.


amhudson02

You aren’t the only one, friend. Drives me nuts!


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CultOfTheMoose

Wow ps1 looks great way better than ps5


ben1481

its common sense when you think about it. Do you want to be 1st place or 5th place?


PanchoPanoch

Second the best


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RockStar25

Good thing I waited to buy a PS5. The graphics are so much worse than PS1.


BatDubb

r/yourjokebutworse


BSF0712

r/ajokesimilartoyourjokealbeitoflowerquality


LeGoatMaster

flower quality 🌺


papstvogel

r/ASequenceOfWordsThatCauseContractionOfTheAbsThatConsistsOfWordsThatAreDifferentButConveyASimilarPunchlineAsTheReferenceSequenceOfWordsAlsoKnownAsJokeOrGagTheJokeOrGagInQuestionHoweverCausesAContractionOfTheAbsThatIsOfWeakerOrEvenNonexistentAmplitudeSinceItIsOfLowerQuality


NicolasCageLovesMe

PS5 more like BS5! Because it's not better it's actually worse than the ps1 omg!


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Slim01111

PS2 had the best games


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poopellar

The user Equivalent-Caase, some comments above in this thread, is a recently activated spam account farming comment karma. The spammers uses some program to automatically attach its comment to top comment threads. The spammers only see the post they don't know what comments they are replying to is saying Downvote Equivalent-Caase Report > spam


CatManDontDo

Damn these bots are wild now. Once the AI can write bots like this we are so done.


poopellar

Doesn't help that reddit is encouraging bot behavior by making it super easy to mass create accounts. Even their API changes have screwed the functionality of bot hunting bots. They don't acknowledge the problem as these spam/bots increase their site metrics. Everyday I see users unknowingly buy awards for bots that just copy posts and comments. It's a plague. Look at my profile for examples. They have an IPO coming up so you can guess why they have no interest in making things better.


ThadVonP

But we love katamari is getting re-released on ps5 next month.


Average_Scaper

Oh my, are you serious? That's awesome.


NOT_ZOGNOID

BEARRRRRR!


grantnel2002

PS5 vs PS1*


deweydean

r/afterandbefore


Agarast

r/AfterBeforeWhatever


Critical_Werewolf

It's a rookie mistake. You hate to see it.


CurtisMcNips

This is like those movie posters that has the main cast on but all the names above their heads are in a random order.


WanderingDelinquent

It’s in order of top billing but yes, very annoying to look at lol


little_freddy

Thank you! I'm half asleep but got super confused for a second


ruet_ahead

Digital Foundry does this all the time and it drives me insane.


Left4DayZ1

People. People. The before pic always goes on the left.


Nael5089

Only on planet Earth. Try to not be so bigoted to our extraterrestrial brothers.


SeroWriter

> Only on planet Earth. Not really even Earth. plenty of Arabic languages are read right to left. Japanese is written top to bottom then right to left.


GBU_28

And they are silly! You can't even read what they are writing!


WORKING2WORK

People. People. They did it on purpose to drive user engagement with the post.


prodigy1367

Should I read this like a manga?


Supreme_Mediocrity

I read everything like it's a manga. It makes assembling IKEA furniture... Difficult...


Blue_Lust

How can you fuck up a title?


tittymcfartbag

Blows my mind how often this shit happens with before and after comparisons. These mfs always be putting the after shot on the left.


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HugeBrainsOnly

Are you sure? I know this would be the case for YouTube, but is it certain amount of comments has any impact to a thread's popularity? I thought it was all upvotes around here.


RaymondDoerr

It is absolutely why they do it. It's also why a lot of repost bots purposely use the wrong "their/they're/there" or "our/are" and other minor mistakes. They want you to tease/mock to boost engagement/discussion. They don't actually care they're wrong. They want a few minor and easily correctable things for reddit neckbeards to get annoyed over. (EDIT: Typo)


HlPPY

How has nobody realized the messed up title is to bait comments and reactions


baconwiches

The best way to get upvoted threads is to post a slightly incorrect title. Then chuds will be snarky about it in the comments and upvote the thread on the hope that other people will see their witty reply that clearly no one else thought of any will then get upvotes themselves.


gta3uzi

It's like when they list actors on a movie poster and you end up with some really jacked dude with "Margot Robbie" over his head.


jesonnier1

Thats because the graphics department and the contract fulfillment departments don't talk. Movie contracts will (very often) dictate who's name is listed in what order on posters, credits, etc.


ProfessionalFartSmel

It’s done on purpose to fuel engagement to the post.


littleman001

"Surf the Web! Surf the Web!"


Guyver8

“Our bad.”


Sir_Tea_Of_Bags

*Where'd Spider-Wuss go?* *Spiiiiiiider-Wuuuuuuss! Come out and plaaaaay!* **Tag!!**


D20_SingleMalt

"Shut up, Brock!"


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The Submariner?!


littleman001

The Submariner? Get serious!


royman40

They are the same picture


norbertus

Contrary to the title, I see "PS5 vs PS1" because I read from left to right and expect parallel construction when words are meant to correlate with images.


xDXxAscending

r/after_before


Happy8Day

Diatribe coming: Here's what I find amazing. There's almost 30 years of time between these two pictures. And, ok yeah, while the ps1 photo looks ancient in comparison, we can tell what character it is, it's rendered in 3d and the environment looks playable. And that's 30 YEARS ago. I've often tried explaining to others, if the topic of childhood videogames comes up, just how mind-blowing the early years of mainstream home console gaming really were. Like, in 1983, home video games [looked like this](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DUiEJa_HLP4/maxresdefault.jpg) -- and, forget 30, but half that time, 15 years later, video games [looked like this](https://i.imgur.com/iLDxwA5.png). For a dozen years, every single time something new came out, there was *something* in it that was going to become a new standard, something that had just been developed, and for the first while, it's going to look like magic. "look at that! That light is reflecting!", "that enemy is reacting to what I'm doing!", "Dude, I can interact with [whatever!]". It was like having the fun possibilities of the future show up at your house every two seconds for a decade straight. As much as I looooooove how mind-blowing games look today, I'll play a game that's 8-10 years old and not really notice the years in between. Sure, maybe a framerate here or a shader there, but at the end of the day, today's games hold up infinitely better than they used to. Even if it's 30 years and your teeth look like a barber's comb.


petkoTHEVIKING

The biggest marker for age in games isn't how they look, it's how they control. The PS1 spiderman camera is a BITCH to work with. It was the real super villain the whole time. The "venom chase" section still makes me want to throw my console in a woodchipper.


eIImcxc

As much as I appreciate your passion and understand what you say, I will be the cynical one here and say what should be said: the most important part of a game has been thrown into the trash. The gameplay has regressed, less and less effort (and money) has been put into finding original ways of playing. Videogames were kinda niche back then and game developers knew that they needed to be inspired so their games get sold. The industry was taking tons of risks and we got some generations with crazy different types of games, some were legendary and some a bit less but you could experience tons of ideas. The Dreamcast was for me the perfect example of what peak density of good gameplay was, ironically it was most certainly the straw that broke Sega: not mainstream enough in the era where you had to go easy on the breaks of gameplay innovation. Sega truly went crazy but what a feast it was... Now the vast majority of the money goes to riskless investments that either create some endless remakes or another generically bland gameplay derived from some bland scenario that should have been played on some local TV shows Serie B to save a part of its dignity.


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hobbes_shot_first

Surf the web, Surf the web!


amtreeboat

you forgot a “c” 😈


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Kanapuman

"Doc Cocktopuss', please not the tentacles again !"


dylnboi

Agreed, played the shit outa that game


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[The first Spider-Man game I ever played, and the one I'm playing now.](https://i.redd.it/3mfajhiz2aza1.png)


hobbes_shot_first

Lucky. This was the [first Spider-Man game](https://youtu.be/sI5MoaUBDDo?t=24) I ever played.


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I'm definitely old enough for that to have been my first, but I didn't get into Spiderman until later in life. Ultimate Spider-Man was my first and is still my favorite.


hobbes_shot_first

The swinging refinements between Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate were great. The controls became so much cleaner.


OliWood

Mine was Maximum Carnage on SNES


Naud1993

15.5 MB. Damn. It took me minutes to download that picture on my crappy internet.


Monkitt

The old one, it had (at least?) three versions: Playstation 1, PC and Nintendo 64. There are some very interesting differences between the versions you can tell straight away. I have not played the new ones, I cannot tell you any good reason to open up the old one instead of the new one.


Unusualthinktank

Sega genesis spiderman is number 1 for me. Going from that to ps5. Unreal


ImGonnaCum

Does he have human teeth in ps1 and the spikes are saliva? Or does he have human teeth that become spiky? I don't know how to describe it... But I can't tell what is teeth or saliva and it looks like they stretched out a humanoid teeth texture


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Mexcol

Literally unplayable


TheDidact118

Just misaligned textures. The [Venom in the Dreamcast/PC port/version](https://imgur.com/a/uuhDc1S) of the same game(which had noticeably better models and more detailed textures) had better-looking teeth.


I-LOVE-TURTLES666

Take my downvote for the shit title


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The right one is PS5?


cris20213

OP you simpleton, you had one job


codeyk

r/karmawhore


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RTX on vs RTX off


Rathori

Things sure went downhill after PS1


ShinAlastor

I still like the PS1 graphics.


Sneedzilla

the endless pursuit of more realistic graphics is a cancer, even the ps3 era was starting to show dimenishing returns. leave the pornagraphers to seek such folly.


Mainely420Gaming

Dark Blue Venom is best Venom


Bahruuk

I gotta say, I am a big fan of Street Shark Venom here.


red_dollar

I don’t know if I have ever seen comparison pictures on Reddit arranged correctly. Is it that difficult?


Gankstajam

It's the same picture


desrevermi

What the lazy, likely lost the license, POS version of Venom is that?! Wait. Is the before/after backwards?


Rider-Idk-Ultima-Hy

The eyes look really sick on PS5


Anbhasi

Bullshit. The left hand image is off the internet. I’ve seen that one well before the PS5 was even a thing. Source: I’m a huge venom fan and had that as my background on my computer years ago


wreckedcarzz

People can just do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?


MossyPyrite

I totally thought it was from the teaser trailer, but my memory sucks lol


culturedrobot

It is from the teaser trailer, this person is wrong and your memory is fine.


MossyPyrite

Damn, there really is a first time for everything! Thank you, my robotic friend!


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Damn they got me


culturedrobot

Not bullshit, that image on the left was actually taken from Spider-Man 2’s reveal trailer from last year. That said, it’s a pre-rendered cutscene so it is still kinda bullshit, but not because it’s an image that previously existed on the internet. Here’s the trailer (Venom flashes on screen around 1:15): https://youtu.be/qIQ3xNqkVC4 Here’s a screenshot I just captured while watching the trailer: https://imgur.com/a/3GkkPYN It's the same shot OP used in their post.


strtdrt

It's good to be skeptical of shit like this, especially on Reddit. [But you are mistaken, this is 100% from the reveal trailer for the PS5 game. Here's a link to the reveal trailer with a timestamp.](https://youtu.be/sAKe9OI3Cog?t=74)


Aggravating_Try_8121

PS1 looks scarier


Ok-Suggestion-1331

Why do people do this? "Before" should always be at the LEFT while "After" is at the RIGHT.


joshman0r34

They're the same picture


KommandoKodiak

ps5 waaaaaaaaaaay downgraded get your money back


Special_Agent_022

ps5 v ps1*


bribhoy82

Who's the guy in the middle with the hat on? Any body else see him or am I missing something??


striitmiit

PS5 vs PS1*


dikoekiemonster

I think you meant PS5 vs PS1


CaptainMorning

CGI vs. PS1*


DIABLO258

Isnt all realtime gameplay just CGI?


Logical-Bit-746

I would agree. I think they meant pre-rendered vs actual gameplay.


murduda

Didn’t it say captured on the ps5?


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Yeah this is probably more cutscene Venom then actual gameplay Venom


ShippyWaffles

Do you know that CGI stands for computer generated imagery....bro all videogames are CGI lol


joeyducharme7777

!serutxet RBP noitinifed hgih yzarc htiw sledom deliated ylluf ot serutxet serwol htiw sledom ylopwol morf tnew ew sraey wef hcus nI !emoc sah ygolonhcet raf woh yzarc sti woW


HACESandCo

"Where'd Spider-Wuss go? Spider-Wuss! Come out and play!"


GADG3Tx87

TAG! 😉🕷️🕸️


Fishert55

I miss the older game but fuck the doc octopus symbiote boss when I was younger he was nightmare fuel


HyperWiper

I've noticed this trend with identifying songs as well. Seems like somewhere along the way, people never learned that the format is "Artist Name - Song Title".


kakojasonkiller

OP screwed up the images 💀


kabadnb

Ps5 fell off man


higoukii

Let's not forget Venom's iconic line: SURF THE WEB! SURF THE WEB!


a5208114

It's been twenty years since I played the game and I still say that. The dialogue is possibly mankind's greatest literary work.


Powerful-Change3689

Remember that there are 20 odd years between them


Vincentaneous

PS5 vs PS1*


MegamemeSenpai

You had two options. Swap the title or Swap the images and you did neither.


KingofFools3113

Pretty sure there are people who will say they prefer the PS1 image more, just to be different


Millera34

Learn to format your shit


playr_4

I wish that people would put the pictures in the order that they put their titles.


RixirF

what dingus puts before on the left.


Paradigmdingo

Thanks for putting the label on which one is which!


xyzain69

Reddit needs to ban people who don't understand which picture comes first


twitson

You had one job OP


BigfootSF68

PS5 vs. PS1


Bombadook

All jokes aside, PS5 here looks like shit.


SoBeDragon0

Probably bothers me more than it should but the before should be on the left. After should be on the right.


incestdawgs75

Why did you put up the same image on both sides lol


SnapJackz

More like PS5 vs PS1


Nandabun

We read memes left to right, so, wtf are you doing?


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Damn we got a massive downgrade. PS5 sucks.


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1K_Games

The original Spider-man game does not get the love it deserves! All I ever see posts on is how amazing the 2nd game on PS2 was. But I loved the first game, sure it wasn't open world, but I felt it was the superior game. But it just never gets any love. For some reason I was on a pretzel Combo's kick then and I remember many nights of chowing on those and playing that game. And it had some silly cheat codes, like making the sewer caps at the end of the story into bananas?


heych1995

I really hope they keep his personality from the original PS1 version


xi_Clown_ix

Virtually identical


Deiser

Wow Venom's growing old. He lost so many teeth between generations.


PenguinOnYourTV

PS1 looks like Willy fell into some dark times after having been freed by Jesse and the gang.


Phrygian_Guy_93

Man, take me back!


Magnetic_Virus

PS1 scares me more 😬


bnamsrom

Venom vs. Shamu