Those systems were capable of that. Because of how timing worked, memory constraints, how graphics were drawn, and a whole host of other issues, realistically it's hard to quantify the actual frame rate in those old systems. That's why you get oddities on old hardware that you just don't get anymore , like slowdown, sprite flicker, missing sprites, etc.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, but good Lord, by what metric? Even if you're an uber-weeaboo, the majority of those Working Designs RPGs eventually came to the PS1.
I found anti-aliasing absolutely mandatory in the Resident Evil 2 remake. I don't know the technical details of why it renders this way, but it looked like something with how specular reflections are handled made every jagged edge pure white and turned the game into a shimmering mess.
Saturn was the greatest 2d gaming machine ever made, the true successor to the Genesis and the SNES , the PS1 had a lot of 3d games that were popular at the time but have aged like milk, the Saturn's library in contrast has stood the test of time.
Co-op games with randoms suck because everyone is retarded, versus games suck because everyone is retarded, but the matchmaking intentionally sabotages you if you're not retarded, because the retards spend more money than you so they have to be appeased.
A lot of gore came from advances in physics engines. Stuff like blown off limbs, special kill animations, head-shot death animations, blood spatter that was physics based, rag doll physics. One of the major selling points of many games were things like rag doll physics allowing more immersion. So that every death wasn't the same single animation over and over. It was a way of showing the power of a new gaming engine.
New monitors make lower refresh rates look like shit. Newer lcds have faster response times and oled screens have almost instant response times so the transition from one frame to another has less blur. This is good for 120hz and above but 60 and especially 30 fps looks very poor. Try playing a game at 30 fps on an oled screen it will look like a powerpoint presentation.
This. After playing Perfect Dark I never wanted to go back to it.
NES did sprite flickering because of the hardcoded limit of 8 sprites on screen. Trying to force a 9th sprite would just result in it being invisible because the part of the object attribute memory in your piss processing unit only has 32 bytes, and each sprite uses 4 bytes each. So you just shuffle your sprites around each frame and you can squeeze in more, at the cost of flickering. Because your sprites are disappearing and reappearing each frame.
If this is arguable, it's only arguable from a thousand yard view in 2024. At the time its price point and relative lack of launch titles sealed its fate. It was a bit of a status symbol for a year or so but with PS1 and then 64 offering similar graphics at a lower price point it was DOA.
Nostalgia, like a lot of things
This really depends on the types of retro games that you play, if you try playing for example Neo Geo games you'll immediately notice just how fun those games still are to play, they've aged like fine wine, now if you decide to play something made during the stone age of gaming, for example games made for the Commodore 64 or the ZX Spectrum that's where you start running into more badly aged games.
