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2.5D games for the SEGA SATURN
shinhoshi - Feb 26, 2003
  shinhoshi Feb 26, 2003
I remember one game for the SS similar to Shinobi made in 2.5D for the SS but I don't remember its name. It looked very good. Perhaps making 2.5D was the solution for the SS in order to create extremely polished games instead of trying to use full-3D engines.

Does anyone remember 2.5D games for the SS ¿?

 CHAZumaru °_° Feb 26, 2003
What do you call 2.5D ?

 Tony Skyrunner Feb 26, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by shinhoshi@Feb 26, 2003 @ 10:50 AM



 I remember one game for the SS similar to Shinobi made in 2.5D for the SS but I don't remember its name. It looked very good. Perhaps making 2.5D was the solution for the SS in order to create extremely polished games instead of trying to use full-3D engines.



Does anyone remember 2.5D games for the SS ¿[question_mark]


I think you're talking about Psychic Killer Taromaru, it's a good game. There are some "2.5D" games for the Saturn, most of them platformers: Clockwork Knight, Bug! (it's more 2D than 3D), Pandemonium, The Lost World...

 Daniel Eriksson Feb 26, 2003
You might mean Raycasting engines. Like Duke Nukem 3d, the pc version, is acctually a 2.5D engine, you cant really look up and down, its faked. It only draws the screen upwards and stretches it. The Saturnversion though, uses Lobotomys Powerslave engine, which is a real 3D engine (you can have levels over levels, look around freely and so on). Some Saturn FPS games like Alien Trilogy uses a 2.5D raycasting engine.

 Myname Feb 26, 2003
I hope you're not planning on buying a copy of Taromaru .

I don't know why we don't see more 2.5d platformers, it seems logical to me for series' that don't translate well to 3d. Strider 2 and the new Contra are great examples. Apparently the new Castlevania will be made this way too, which would probably tempt me to buy a PS2. Megaman X7 is also going to be 2.5d.. Not related to Saturn, but never mind .

 Tony Skyrunner Feb 26, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Daniel Eriksson@Feb 26, 2003 @ 10:20 PM



 You might mean Raycasting engines.


It's probable -although I don't remember any FPS similar to Shinobi- because he says that they don't use full-3D engines and the games I mentioned DO use 3D polygons.

BTW, I'd say that Alien Trilogy uses real 3D. Anyway, I'm not sure because it's been ages since I last played it

 mtxblau Feb 26, 2003
Steamgear Mash. Very fun game.

 shinhoshi Feb 26, 2003
When I said 2.5D I was refering to side-scrollers made of polygons. It is a very good method to make games that look very good and play very smooth.

Just to name another example on another different system I would name Goemon 2 on the N64. Most part of N64 games don't play very smooth because of the limitation that had the system on pushing polygons. However, Goemon 2 plays very smooth and has very good graphics.

 Myname Feb 26, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by MTXBlau@Feb 27, 2003 @ 06:35 AM



 Steamgear Mash. Very fun game.


I thought Steamgear Mash was isometric.. Might well be wrong though.

 CHAZumaru °_° Feb 26, 2003
ok I see what you mean now. Then yes Clockwork Knight 1&2 are great.

Taromaru is real 2D.

Steamgearmash is isometric indeed.

 Tony Skyrunner Feb 26, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by shinhoshi+Feb 26, 2003 @ 11:40 PM-->
QUOTE(shinhoshi @ Feb 26, 2003 @ 11:40 PM)
When I said 2.5D I was refering to side-scrollers made of polygons. It is a very good method to make games that look very good and play very smooth.



Just to name another example on another different system I would name Goemon 2 on the N64. Most part of N64 games don't play very smooth because of the limitation that had the system on pushing polygons. However, Goemon 2 plays very smooth and has very good graphics.[/b]



Ok, that's what I thought


  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Myname@Feb 26, 2003 @ 11:48 PM