2000 as well, with games like Deus Ex, MDK 2, Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate 2, American McGee's Alice, Project IGI, Soldier of Furtune, No One Lives Forever, Colin McRae Rally 2.0, Counter-Strike 1.6, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Motocross Madness 2, Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, Supreme Snowboarding (in the US it came in 2000), Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. And 2001 was also great, Max Payne, Serious Sam, Wolfenstein, Black & White. That great PC gaming era ended in mid-late 2002 IMO, when the PC game developers went to the Xbox.
Glide was an API that allowed the Voodoo chips to shine. Any engine back then could be modified to capitalize on the special 3D chips 3dfx had developed. UE5 hardly has any hardware bias, yet you could say that Glide was to Voodoo as DLSS is to RTX Nvidia chips. Better frame rates, resolution, physics, exclusive features, and optimization for specific hardware. This is what made 3dfx so special.
@@sonicthejetsetbeat7465 Exactly. Ironically, Unreal Engine 1 was literally the Unreal engine 5 of the 90s, and it was considered earth shattering in the visual fidelity and development support that it provided.
Even though I have two voodoo 2's on sli, I decided to use an athon 2000+, 512mb and an fx5200 to play some old games. I used Nglide 1.05 to emulate Glide in windows ME. This way it is possible to use more modern hardware that still has drivers for win95-98-ME.
That means your knowledge of new releases nowadays is surface level. You haven't looked around enough. There has never been an era with so many games to choose, which is the reason the good ones need to be found. If you mostly stick to big names, you'll get exactly that: boring, repetitive and mass commerce only. Creativity in games? Tons of it yet, maybe more than ever.
@luisman369 Even the ones that are "innovative" are released half-finished or don't feel as complete and well-defined as most of the pre-PS4 generation games. There's some innovation now, but many of these older games vigorously pushed every boundary available at the time (hardware, software, social acceptance, marketing, etc.) On top of all that, they didn't nickel and dime you after you paid $60 for a game.
For some reason I skipped this era.. playing doom/duke3d then on windows anno1602, StarCraft, Diablo and then bumped up to half life with my voodoo banshee and later voodoo 3 2000 GTA I played fully in Software didn’t know it had support for 3sat glide even