I can't imagine not having proper bump mapping, displacement mapping, AO, point lights, edge lights the material room and the like.

I look at how bad old "best" P4 renders look, compared with the "best" P7 renders, and P4 stuff just looks like so dated and unrealistic.

My old amiga and atari 800 artwork sufer the same fate.

This seems like a thread form like 5 years ago that never made it through the que, and finally resurfaced... kind of amusing more then anything else, actually.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.