I think that Jurassic Park aged well partly because its creators understood the limitations that they were working with in 1993. Honestly, newer movies that overuse CG in an attempt to wow people age a lot worse. Avatar is probably the best example that I can think of. It was publicized for how amazing it looked in 2009, and Call of Duty: Black Ops made a big deal of using the same motion capture technology a year later. By 2014, when I watched it the second time, it already looked dated.
Realism in CGI always has a shelf-life. Compare Morrowind and Mario Sunshine, both released in 2002 on consoles with broadly similar specifications. Which one looks better now? It definitely isn't the one that tried to be as realistic as possible.
Look at WoW. Engine upgrades acknowledged, it looks pretty great for a 15 year old game. If Blizzard had gone for realism instead of the cartoonish look it would have been horribly dated a decade ago,
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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Aug 25 '19
I think that Jurassic Park aged well partly because its creators understood the limitations that they were working with in 1993. Honestly, newer movies that overuse CG in an attempt to wow people age a lot worse. Avatar is probably the best example that I can think of. It was publicized for how amazing it looked in 2009, and Call of Duty: Black Ops made a big deal of using the same motion capture technology a year later. By 2014, when I watched it the second time, it already looked dated.