2D games versus 3D games

[Kitsunexus]

OK if you were stuck on a desert island and could only play one type of game for the rest of your life, would it be 2D or 3D?

As for me, I voted 2D, because there's a lot more 2D games that are meaningful to me than there are meaningful 3D games.


NOTE: 2D games also include 2.5D games like DOOM and other raycasters, but not 2D-esque 3D games like Klonoa or Strider 2.

Although on a technical level, they're more 2D, voxel games I am considering 3D.


For any smartass out there, Holosseum and Time Traveler are 2D!

[Tablet]

Hmmmm very difficult, I love all the old 2D platform games, Then again i love 3D RTS/RPG games. I don't think I can choose between the 2 so I love them both 

[Necromancer]

2D!  3D!  That's just too damn many Ds.  1D is where it's at, suckas! 

Fun games are fun games.  It doesn't matter to me how many Ds are involved, though double Ds are always a lot of fun.

[Turbo D]

I demand 4-D give it to me NoW!!! 

[nat]

2D, no contest.

I love approximately 7,564,989 2D games.

By comparison, I probably only love around 22 3D games.

[Keranu]

4D, duh! I gotta have the latest of everything.

[Joe Redifer]

NOTE: 2D games also include 2.5D games like DOOM and other raycasters, but not 2D-esque 3D games like Klonoa or Strider 2.

That's a bit backwards since Doom plays in a 3D environment however Strider 2 takes place in a 2D environment.

[Black Tiger]

I'd rather have all 2D games over what we get nowadays.

[SignOfZeta]

I play almost nothing but 2D even now. The only time I was really somewhat into 3D was when the DC was still kicking. Now that its dead, so is 3D, IMO.

I play almost nothing but DC, DS, GBA, SS, PCE, and sometimes Cube.

If I were to forsake all 3D as of right now, it was hardly have any effect on me except...Rez. Giving up Rez would be hard.

[Turbo D]

I still love my dreamcast  I even go online with it occasionally. It hooks up to my lcd monitor and has broadband 

[Joe Redifer]

What do you do with your DC online?  Mine has a broadband adapter as well.  I can surf the internet using it.  I think POD Speedzone might still work online.  I got online in that game a few years back and the two other guys were absolutely floored that someone else besides them was online.

[TR0N]

I like both some games work well in 2d while i can,say the same for 3d as well.

Still..i wish konami would get the hint that castlevania should stay 2d 

[nat]

If I were to forsake all 3D as of right now, it was hardly have any effect on me except...Rez. Giving up Rez would be hard.

I still need to get a copy of Rez. I've never played it. It's that good, huh?

[Kitsunexus]

I actually have been playing a LOT of Tekken: Dark Resurrection lately, so I actually am torn between 3D and 2D, since Tekken is about as crack-esque as Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo.

[SignOfZeta]

If I were to forsake all 3D as of right now, it was hardly have any effect on me except...Rez. Giving up Rez would be hard.

I still need to get a copy of Rez. I've never played it. It's that good, huh?

Well, for me it is. Its not for everyone. It uses aesthetics like Tron, or Tempest, gameplay much like Panzer Dragoon, and explores themes such as dystopian future, far flung human evolution beyond the biological and (if played loud enough and large enough) takes to to the fringe of altered states without the use of E. Although, I'm sure E would help.

Requires: large speakers/headphones and a big VGA display.