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Anyone else love good, low poly art?

I love looking at this game in HD. I would buy a HD rerelease on PC without the pop-in. The game could easily draw the entire world on any modern machine so taking out the pop-in and making it 1080p would be amazing. I wish I'd owned this on PS2 back in the day.

I own the original Saturn version as well as the Genesis version.

Yeah, me too. I wish I had a PC that could run a PS2 emulator with it in HD. They really should re-release this game without the pop-in and in 1080p@60fps.

That looks pretty amazing still.

I know! The PS2 version is slightly upgraded though; the wheels are a higher poly rate and the game runs 60fps. The actual arcade version ran at 30fps, even though 60 was fairly standard for most Sega arcade racers like OutRun, Daytona USA, Sega Rally etc.
 
fucking love angular low poly flatshaded stuff. one of my most favourite things. a lot of this on amiga.

like elite 2 frontier, hunter, midwinter etc

b17 flying fortress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXsMHBA4Cc
carrier command https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF9sZUv23yM
a nice elite 2 frontier video was posted earlier in the thread
falcon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO7kMwR8pmA
hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUKY0Q0CDE
infestation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yzoZCrn7wc
midwinter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18V1U3Cqei0
populous.. kind of, almost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiin0IkJ9Fs
stunt car racer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hpdj4mAxxM

Sky Rogue is something everyone should be up on:

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yeah, fucking love this. I'd be okay if every game had this art style
 

rbanke

Member
Man, I love good, low poly art. More powerful PC's and consoles make simple art styles really pop (great lighting models and ultra sharp IQ makes a world of difference from the PSX days...where everything was ugly)

Anyone else wish there were more adventure games with low poly art? I want to make a huge, open world Skyrim-esque action RPG with these fucking graphics:


Who's with me?

I'm with you. It's funny, back in the PS1/N64 days, I really despised 3d games because I thought they looked terrible. Years later I realise it wasn't the polygonal games I hated, it was the IQ. Everything was jaggy and shimmery and looked horrible but today I look at those games with tons of AA running great and it looks awesome. I especially remember the first time I saw Mario 64 running in an emulator with a ton of AA and it looked so great.

I could certainly stand to see more games using art like you posted.
 
Artstyle really triumphs any hardware limitations.

This game is ageless.

I would say that in the case of Homeworld, hardware limitations informed the art style. Many designers tried to force complicated designs into low poly counts, but it's obvious that Homeworld ships were designed to work within that limited technical palette and make the most of it. Great design is timeless.
 

Coreda

Member
Bumping as this flew into my radar: else Heart.Break() (Trailer)

It's a part point-and-click, part town life sim made by a small Swedish indie team with an almost paper craft-looking lo-poly style that reminds me somewhat of the Dreamcast and early Animal Crossing. See the tumblr dev blog here for various gameplay clips and screenshots. Set for release sometime in 2015.


The dialog could be much improved, but from a visual standpoint it's winning me over. They're also calling on any devs who want to create mini arcade games for the various bars in the town.
 

sn00zer

Member
Im kind of shocked no one has tried to do a GTA style game filled to the brim with low poly characters.....could probably put thousands in a city nowadays if you limit your poly amount
 

kinn

Member
Im kind of shocked no one has tried to do a GTA style game filled to the brim with low poly characters.....could probably put thousands in a city nowadays if you limit your poly amount

Agreed. This would be great. Something like last gen GTA engine made on next gen hardware.
 
Sorry for the necro bump, but I don't think I should clutter up the forum with another thread about low poly stuff... I just saw that Mega Man Legends is on sale right now and it just brought back a ton of fond memories. Back in the day, we used to wonder what games would look like in ten years and now I want more games that look like MML.


YIIK: A Postmodern RPG


Devil Daggers

I love how one is so clean and the other is gritty. Would it be worth learning how to model/texture as a hobby just to do low poly stuff? If so, what program(s) would you recommend?
 

Accoun

Member
Since this thread was already bumped this year, I might as well bump it again. Some new stuff from the Polycount low-poly thread. Amazing.

Mrawolf (author of Slain):
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Littlenorwegians:
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Retro-Lowpoly

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Poribo:
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Esanany:
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Peltz

Member
Bound in PSVR has absolutely mind-blowing low poly art. It really needs to be seen in PSVR to be appreciated fully though:

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Although I'm not a big fan of the game itself, the presence of the headset makes the graphics just about the most impressive I've ever seen.
 
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