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[Xliskin]

C'mon indie devs I want games with this art style you can do it

Can someone explain to me why I'm more impressed by these sprites from many years ago more so than the 3D graphics of today's mainstream video games? And I'm not being nostalgic either. I've seen some sprites here only for the first time and I'm in awe.

Maybe how beautiful they look with the little power compared to today's hardware

 

[7roject28]

I didn't know about a few of the games mentioned here.
Overall I'd say Capcom's CPS2 and CPS3 games had fantastic work done in them visually, and so did the Neo Geo of course.



What the fuck even is this?

Axelay on the SNES

 

[Olimar]

Waku Waku 7

I had no idea this game was being ported to Switch and especially with a March launch window in Japan. Hopefully they make their way stateside with Nintendo's new region-free attitude!

 

[OnFire331]

PoPoLoCrois Monogatari (PS1) is freaking beautiful.

 

[jett]

I don't think Mother 3 is the most impressive but it's perfection to me. There is a lot of detail to animation.

M3 definitely has a lot of personality.

 

[hampig]

PoPoLoCrois Monogatari (PS1) is freaking beautiful.

This speaks to me. Is that game good?

 

[mnemonicj]

This thread was over before it even started...see the GOAT:

 

[What The Forest Taught Me]

Legend of Mana

Still one of my favorite video game backgrounds of all time!

 

[HyperZone<3]

sorry to bump the thread, but I was going through and taken aback that the absurdly great animation from Heart of Darkness didn't get a mention.

 

[YankeeDonB]

Came to say Suikoden 2. Incredible amount of detail and personality packed into those. But OP already had it covered...

 

[Lime]

SaGa Frontier 2 had an excellent sprite + watercolor background combo that IMO works better than Legend of Mana's, which came later.

And of course this isn't up on PSN

EDIT: Whoops, looks like I got directed from the other thread to this thread and thought I was replying in the other one. Sorry for the bump.

 

[disappeared]

PoPoLoCrois Monogatari (PS1) is freaking beautiful.

Was this ever translated to english, officially or fan-translated? I remember almost importing one of the games in this series way back.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Replaying Layer Section the other day I couldn't help appreciating the sprite work. Lots of cool effects too, that Taito F3 was a beast.

 

[Masked Devil]

Didn't hate BoF4, but always preferred 3 to it: