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[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago (12 children)

The N64 WASN'T capable... The game came prepackaged with a RAM upgrade to handle the additional polygons

[–] frezik@midwest.social 21 points 5 months ago (5 children)

RAM helps with textures, not polygons.

Which might be the actual difference between these two. N64 tended to use a lot of gouraud shading instead of textures; that means a solid color with some brightness changes to simulate lighting. It had plenty of graphical horsepower to make things round-ish otherwise.

Laura Croft, on the other hand, has fully textured clothes, but the polygon count is limited.

[–] phuntis@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

lara her names lara not laura why can americans not get her names lara

It's almost like we have a distinct dialect og English, wow imagine that a country with a slightly different culture from yours

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