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[nkarafo]

I dare you to beat my example.

There are ugly games and then there's the "what the hell am i looking at" Batman Forever for the Game Boy. I literally don't know what some of these backgrounds are suppose to represent.

A couple of screens i made with a Game Boy shader:

And a couple i found from later levels:

This is a finished product that got sold for money. Look at those flat, empty surfaces, look at those smudges and those garbled things. Just look at it!

 

[SantaC]

Well it is the gameboy classic. It was a 4-bit portable. I can think of worse games with better specs

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[KàIRóS]

 

[nkarafo]

Well it is the gameboy classic. It was a 4-bit portable. I can think of worse games with better specs.

4-bit?

It's an 8bit handheld. This game doesn't look like this because of the hardware, it looks like this because of the shitty developers.

 

[DrJohnGalt]

I don't think you can really compare Atari to NES to Gameboy to PS1, PS2, etc thru today, but hoo boy there are some odd looking ducks out there.

 

[SantaC]

4-bit?

It's an 8bit handheld. This game doesn't look like this because of the hardware, it looks like this because of the shitty developers.

Could of sworn it was 4-bit but I guess I was wrong.

 

[mcz117chief]

When it comes to PS4 I think NAtURAL DOCtRINE, aside from being an amazing game, has sub PS2 level graphics

 

[PumpkinPie]

All the games posted so far look fine for their respective hardware

 

[Insane Metal]

almost all *N64 games*

 

[alabtrosMyster]

4-bit?

It's an 8bit handheld. This game doesn't look like this because of the hardware, it looks like this because of the shitty developers.

Actually the graphics aren't even 4 bits, that would mean it has the ability to show 16 colors on screen! They're actually 2 bits if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Weilthain]

mostly everything ps1 n64 era looks a bit awful.

 

[Stuart360]

Well it is the gameboy classic. It was a 4-bit portable. I can think of worse games with better specs

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Dude i have been trying to remember this game for ages. This is that launch/early PS1 game called something Soldier right?. Man i couldnt remember the game for the life of me lol, thanks for posting this screen.

 

[stranno]

Microid's Iznogoud for Playstation is one of the worst looking platform games i've ever seen. Its really awful, and one of those games where you never know if you can stand in a platform or it is just part of the background.

Yeah, the same Microids that will bring the probably-crappy remake of XIII.

 

[PendekarRajawali]

All the games posted so far look fine for their respective hardware

Agreed.
Ugliness =/= hardware limitation.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Current gen? Fire Emblem 3 Houses.

 

[Stuart360]

mostly everything ps1 n64 era looks a bit awful.

Some N64 games actually look pretty good, when running through Project64 at high resolutions. PS1 games look awful though because of the unfiltered textures, and shimmering and warping polygons.
I can go back to N64 games, but cant play PS1/Saturn games anymore.

 

[stranno]

Agreed.
Ugliness =/= hardware limitation.

Nah, Batman just looks awful. Original DMG-01 can do things like this:

 

[nkarafo]

All the games posted so far look fine for their respective hardware

Agreed.
Ugliness =/= hardware limitation.

You look at the Batman game on the Game Boy and say "it looks fine for a Game Boy game"?

Have you ever seen other Game Boy games?

This isn't ugly because of the hardware. Look at the art direction and the way they designed these backgrounds. Every other Game Boy game looks better than this : /

 

[buizel]

 

[stranno]

There are quite a few worse looking racing games on Wii than Cruisn'. I'd say every single game from Data Design Interactive (the Playstation 2's Phoenix Games of Wii).

Urban Extreme could be the worst of them. It does not only look terrible, it runs like 5-10FPS sometimes. And, as far as i played, it is completely unplayable due unresponsive controls.

 

[nkarafo]

Here's another Game Boy Game. I guess it looks just as ugly as Batman Forever because "hardware limitation"

It doesn't have to do with art direction and design skills at all!

Yeah, i guess both look "good enough for the hardware"....

 

[ShirAhava]

Not trolling I seriously hate the way modern games look

Nothing appealing or interesting about this to me just generic bullshit

 

[nkarafo]

Actually the graphics aren't even 4 bits, that would mean it has the ability to show 16 colors on screen! They're actually 2 bits if I'm not mistaken.

It has an 8bit CPU / architecture.

Technical data

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www.nintendo.co.uk

 

[Stuart360]

 

[Stuart360]

Wow it actually took 22 posts before someone posted an XB1 game, you're slipping Gaf!.

 

[Jack Videogames]

Not trolling I seriously hate the way modern games look

Nothing appealing or interesting about this to me just generic bullshit

There's nothing inherently bad about those graphics. The art is what you hate here.

Bad graphics (and bad... everything, really) could be for example Life of Black Tiger for PS4

 

[Spukc]

gameloft games

 

[stranno]

There's nothing inherently bad about those graphics. The art is what you hate here.

Bad graphics (and bad... everything, really) could be for example Life of Black Tiger for PS4

People just push too hard the Life of Black Tiger joke. Of course it looks amazingly bad for Playstation 4, but it was just a 3 years old Android game at that point. It is a matter of quality control and easy-porting Unity enviroment, not graphics.

The original game was released on July 2014 for Android, i made a video of it, back in the day. For a 2014 Android shovelware game it wasnt that bad (transparency problems were just a classic Mali-400 glitch in Unity).

gameloft games

Gameloft was a quality-standard back in Java ME days. They developed the best looking games ever seen on that platform, i mean, by far. Macrospace, THQ Mobile, GLU, Digital Chocolate, etc didnt come even close to Gameloft level. Their use of the Mobile 3D Graphics API was unbelievable.

They also did the best looking Android/iOS games between ... i'd say 2007-2010. Nowdays they do average quality games for iOS/Android but Gameloft Madrid NOVA series and Gameloft Barcelona Asphalt series still look great.

 

[Fbh]

That NDS king Kong game. I get that the console wasn't very strong but holy shit

 

[stranno]

That NDS king Kong game. I get that the console wasn't very strong but holy shit

At least it was a first-person shooter. It could have been another Java ME Gameloft port, like other DS games.

But i agree, it doesnt look good. Ubisoft should have hired n-Space (the kings of the FPS games in DS) instead of Ubisoft Casablanca. They did a great job with Prince of Persia: The Fallen King tho.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Love the platform, love the current-gen ports when they’re done well, but the more... questionable ports on Switch definitely qualify for this.

I don’t have screens, but Rocket League at launch, before fixes, was something else.

Not trolling I seriously hate the way modern games look

Nothing appealing or interesting about this to me just generic bullshit

This man is why we had an entire generation focusing on the colors brown and gray. Both of these look fantastic, and about as far away from generic as you can get.

 

[Jack Videogames]

The original game was released on July 2014 for Android, i made a video of it, back in the day. For a 2014 Android shovelware game it wasnt that bad.

And then you have games like Shadowgun releasing in Android back in 2011, a full 3 years before, or NOVA 3 in 2012. Life of Black Tiger might not be complete trash in Android, but it's definitely near the bottom of the barrel.





Back to the thread topic, we also have, The Unknown City for PS4

 

[Spukc]

People just push too hard the Life of Black Tiger joke. Of course it looks amazingly bad for Playstation 4, but it was just a 3 years old Android game at that point. It is a matter of quality control and easy-porting Unity enviroment, not graphics.

The original game was released on July 2014 for Android, i made a video of it, back in the day. For a 2014 Android shovelware game it wasnt that bad (transparency problems were just a classic Mali-400 glitch in Unity).




Gameloft was a quality-standard back in Java ME days. They developed the best looking games ever seen on that platform, i mean, by far. Macrospace, THQ Mobile, GLU, Digital Chocolate, etc didnt come even close to Gameloft level. Their use of the Mobile 3D Graphics API was unbelievable.

They also did the best looking Android/iOS games between ... i'd say 2007-2010. Nowdays they do average quality games for iOS/Android but Gameloft Madrid NOVA series and Gameloft Barcelona Asphalt series still look great.

wrong
gameloft is and was always shit,
they got big by ripping of other games,
talk about generic.

 

[stranno]

And then you have games like Shadowgun releasing in Android back in 2011, a full 3 years before, or NOVA 3 in 2012. Life of Black Tiger might not be complete trash in Android, but it's definitely near the bottom of the barrel.

Three years, right. But Shadowgun was a Unity 5.3 game while Life Of Black Tiger was a Unity 4.6 game. There is quite a leap there in terms of effects and graphical resources.

Shadowgun was a Madfinger (Dead Trigger) game, they were really close to Nvidia and Tegra technology, and they launched like one game every year of two years. While 1C was just a little studio launching like 10-20 games every year.

I mean, it was bad but not that bad. Blame Sony zero quality control and the publisher (not 1C Games) for the Playstation 4 port.

wrong
gameloft is and was always shit,
they got big by ripping of other games,
talk about generic.

They began to rip games like Grand Theft Auto, Uncharted or Starcraft in early Android days. And, still, those rips were the best games of the market, lol.

Name something even close to Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A in 2008, Shadow Guardian in 2010 or StarFront: Collision in 2011..

 

[dirthead]

I think Atari 2600, CGA PC, C64, and Spectrum ZX games are pretty much the worst looking. Even worse than the original Gameboy. There's something about the bright disgusting colors that's really off putting.

So fucking offensive. At least you could tell that Gameboy games had actual artists producing the art. Early computers had so much "programmer art" that they really don't hold up worth a shit.

 

[ReBurn]

Could of sworn it was 4-bit but I guess I was wrong.

Even the atari 2600 was an 8-bit console

 

[Velius]

Never gets old

 

[stranno]

I think Atari 2600, CGA PC, C64, and Spectrum ZX games are pretty much the worst looking. Even worse than the original Gameboy. There's something about the bright disgusting colors that's really off putting.

So fucking offensive. At least you could tell that Gameboy games had actual artists producing the art. Early computers had so much "programmer art" that they really don't hold up worth a shit.

Atari VCS didnt even have a framebuffer for graphics, the display was drawn in every single scanline. So his graphics are not quite comparable to any other videoconsole ever released. Still, they managed to create things like Solaris.



And Spectrum, probably the less capable of those 8-bit computers, had really good looking titles. Like Target Renegade.

 

[Trimesh]

It has an 8bit CPU / architecture.

But it had 2-bit graphics, which is what the poster you were responding to was talking about - I.E. every pixel on the screen could only be one of 4 intensity levels.

 

[Birdo]

This came out in 2014 (Revolution 60)................... 2014.

 

[nkarafo]

But it had 2-bit graphics, which is what the poster you were responding to was talking about - I.E. every pixel on the screen could only be one of 4 intensity levels.

Ok it has 2-bit color. Still, it's not a "4 bit portable" like the first poster who i responded said. It's an 8-bit console.

And the limited colors isn't the reason the game in the OP looks like a garbled mess of random shapes.

 

[Shrap]

Candice Debebe. Hideous beyond compare.

 

[Danjin44]

Current gen? Fire Emblem 3 Houses.

The graphics are not high tech even for Switch game, but it’s far from being “ugly”. I personally like the character designs in 3Houses.

 

[Airola]

So fucking offensive. At least you could tell that Gameboy games had actual artists producing the art. Early computers had so much "programmer art" that they really don't hold up worth a shit.

Honest programmer art beats bad designer art though.

 

[dirthead]

Candice Debebe. Hideous beyond compare.

I think you win. That's terrifying.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

And then you have games like Shadowgun releasing in Android back in 2011, a full 3 years before, or NOVA 3 in 2012. Life of Black Tiger might not be complete trash in Android, but it's definitely near the bottom of the barrel.





Back to the thread topic, we also have, The Unknown City for PS4

That's atrocious for PS4! My word... First gen PS3 games were pushing better visuals.

 

[Afro Republican]

It's a orange box cat.

Look at me chase it around just like a real box cat:

Man, going to need some additional ram to run this game, whew, that's that Jaguar 50000 pixels per second tri-color coordinated 64-bit multi-purpose bus and draw bridge system at work!!

Have you ever seen a more realistic cat? Likely not, it's life like, these graphics are unbelievable, the math is all there. Did you see that Sky Box outside with the clouds? WOWZERS!

 

[Trimesh]

Ok it has 2-bit color. Still, it's not a "4 bit portable" like the first poster who i responded said. It's an 8-bit console.

And the limited colors isn't the reason the game in the OP looks like a garbled mess of random shapes.

Yeah, that's the result of taking graphics that were designed for systems with a higher resolution and greater bit depth on the display and crudely downsampling them rather than redrawing them for the target hardware. It probably worked in a more or less acceptable manner on most platforms, but on the DMG it just ended up as a mess.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

The graphics are not high tech even for Switch game, but it’s far from being “ugly”. I personally like the character designs in 3Houses.

Its just an ugly game in general. From the landscape to low poly character models. I enjoyed said game but it is an eyesore. A console first party game shouldn't look like this.

 

[Trimesh]

It's a orange box cat.

I think that's one of the games where the developer got tired of trying to make the custom chips work and just ran everything on the 68K that was supposed to be used for supervisory purposes only...