DarkoMaledictus
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Personally don't think any of these look great except some n64 cartoony style games. 2D and cartoony games age much better, 3d look horrible after just a few years.
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3D N64/PS1/Saturn games that still look good
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Agreed, love that game, sure wish it was on EU PSN (together with Chrono Cross, Legend of Mana, Xenogears and all the other missing Square games).
Deified Data
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I'll exclude games like FFVIII and IX because so much of what makes them look good is pre-rendered. So for my real answer I'll say Ape Escape:
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Extra Sauce
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The Crash games were in their own league.
The 12 principles of animation in game form.
I hope Naughty Dog goes back to a cartoony style one day.
Yep, S11 was straight PS1 tech. System 12 had a faster cpu so games like Tekken 3 had to be pared down a bit. SoulCalibur was also a PS1 based game in arcades, then it got up-ported to DC.
a lot of the images being used in this thread display much cleaner & higher resolution images than what we actually saw on a regular tv screen back when gaming in the mid nineties.
c'mon guys, as good as some of these games look, a lot of these pictures are NOT accurate representation of the actual games themselves running on their native systems.
here's what CBFD looks more like in native res:
threads of fate, for ex, looks more like this:
and less like this:
c'mon guys, as good as some of these games look, a lot of these pictures are NOT accurate representation of the actual games themselves running on their native systems.
here's what CBFD looks more like in native res:
threads of fate, for ex, looks more like this:
and less like this:
soxinthebox
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Love the look of that Saturn Quake video you posted.
Uncle Rupee
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Actually, I think it is the only one.
Same here.......never knew that the saturn version of Quake ran so well and looked so solid.
Fudgepuppy
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This thread has me wishing I played more Mega Man Legends when I borrowed it from my aunt.
Theognosis
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Still pictures really do not do Panzer Dragoon Zwei justice, it needs to be seen in motion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P0KFEhiFbE
What a great game
Damn, Panzer Dragoon Zwei is a masterpiece. Gorgeous visuals. Sublime music. Just beautiful.
Theognosis
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Nevermind, my initial picks were sprite based.
Anyway
Last Bronx:
Keep in mind this game was 60fps.
All Japan Pro Wrestling:
Also 60fps on Saturn.
And note that VF2 and Last Bronx were in hires. So smooth.
I don't really see why.
efyu_lemonardo
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N64 seems to have aged the worst..
At least PSX and Saturn games clean up nice when rendered at a higher resolution.
At least PSX and Saturn games clean up nice when rendered at a higher resolution.
Canis lupus
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You saw that thread and you can't think of one even though people filed the thread with pictures of good looking Gen 5 games?
This is a Dreamcast games, mate. Not a Saturn one.
On topic:
Pandemonium on Saturn and PSX looks great.
In motion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiCjkJZ5vtU
Giant robots destruction: Virtual On
As usual it looks and feels way better in motion and with the pad in hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwmnppqfiQ
And the most important part: that thing is still a blast to play. So much fun.
There is an arcade perfect version for the PS2 (Japan only) if you want a better polycount and dualstick goodness.
As usual it looks and feels way better in motion and with the pad in hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwmnppqfiQ
And the most important part: that thing is still a blast to play. So much fun.
There is an arcade perfect version for the PS2 (Japan only) if you want a better polycount and dualstick goodness.
a lot of the images being used in this thread display much cleaner & higher resolution images than what we actually saw on a regular tv screen back when gaming in the mid nineties.
c'mon guys, as good as some of these games look, a lot of these pictures are NOT accurate representation of the actual games themselves running on their native systems.
here's what CBFD looks more like in native res:
Woo RF Defence Force!
Kresnik258
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Based on what I've seen in this thread, I'd say it's a toss up between Crash, Spyro & Banjo.
I think the pre-rendered look of Resident Evil 3 & Final Fantasy VII has held up fantastically well though. That Mako Reactor gif looks stunning.
I think the pre-rendered look of Resident Evil 3 & Final Fantasy VII has held up fantastically well though. That Mako Reactor gif looks stunning.
Kill it with fire.
Sometime I wonder how many who partecipate in this kind of thread actually had play the games on real hardware recently.
Prerendered stuff still holds well as long as it's presented on their original resolution (ie tiny) or with the proper display (CRT). Our modern high resolution LCD screens have killed the beauty in the prerendered stuff.
A game like The Longest Journey (PC,1998) has like the most beautiful prerendered background ever. It was gorgeous at the time, it's still is if using a CRT monitor set as 640x480 and would probably look on par with modern games on the same display and resolution thanks to that prerendering (model polycount isn't very good though). But on modern LCD screens and resolution? The game looks like shit. scaled pixels everywhere, when it's not blurry it's jaggy. The crappiness that is LCD display and its fixed resolution (different for every screen) meant the death of prerendered backgrounds. Unless the game is full 3D rendering at whatever resolution the display uses, it will look like crap.
That's not how it looks on a PS1. That's taken from a PSP, and so looks smoother than what it originally looked like.
Giant robots destruction: Virtual On
As usual it looks and feels way better in motion and with the pad in hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwmnppqfiQ
And the most important part: that thing is still a blast to play. So much fun.
There is an arcade perfect version for the PS2 (Japan only) if you want a better polycount and dualstick goodness.
PS2/PS3/360 versions are also way closer to the arcade version mechanically. The Saturn port is hard to recommend these days, I think, but it's a nice port from a technical perspective given the hardware.
efyu_lemonardo
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I'm referring to how the games look running on an emulator today, which is where I'd be playing them.
Floating Runner still looks great due to running at 60 fps. I believe it's the only 3D platformer from that console generation to do so.
Watch the video on this page and be blown away by the smoothness.
Watch the video on this page and be blown away by the smoothness.
I never considered smoothness to be that important in that generation, since there wasn't enough detail in the images to even make a smooth framerate a necessity. You could easily keep track of things happening on screen despite a lower framerate, because it was simply harder to lose things.
Well I strongly disagree. I think even simple undetailed 3D graphics look great when running at a high framerate, compared to moderately detailed graphics running at a lower framerate. I would take F-Zero X at 60 fps every day over Ridge Racer 4 at 30, as well.
Oops. Misread, thought Dreamcast was included. Thanks for the correction.
Trojita
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It's always important to remember that old games pre-HD played on LCD or Plasma will always look worse than you remember, because they actually do look worse because these games weren't meant to be played on hdtv's that don't scale well and don't have scan lines. Using a SDTV and capturing the image is always the best way to get a true representation, but a lot of times that actual clarity of the image can't be caught because you are taking an image of an image.
Combichristoffersen
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jhmtehgamr20xx
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Dunno; Xtreme was really innovative for what they were trying to do. Also w/ its format the stages would've been tighter paced and structured (just by the nature 2D games tend to be, Xtreme would've been 2.5D like a Klonoa or Tomba 2 in that way).
Anyway, I don't think I've got much that hasn't already been said, but I'll try:
Galerians
Powerslave
Sega Rally Championship (don't know if it's already been mentioned, trying to avoid obvious choices)
Omega Boost
UmJammer Lammy (can't decide if it fits "2D" more than "3D")
Slap Happy Rhythm Busters
Virtual On
Racing games have always been the pinnacle of gaming graphics IMO
And yet you fail to post a pic of R4 or Wipeout XL!!!
Haha, I reckon. JPEG compression =/= 240p goodness.
papersleeves
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R4 was easily the best looking racer of the generation.
Watch out! A Black Falcon might appear!
sixteen-bit
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ABF is banned though
a lot of the images being used in this thread display much cleaner & higher resolution images than what we actually saw on a regular tv screen back when gaming in the mid nineties.
c'mon guys, as good as some of these games look, a lot of these pictures are NOT accurate representation of the actual games themselves running on their native systems.
here's what CBFD looks more like in native res
The games had macroblocking and .jpg artifacts at their native res?
I thought those were the arcade version? PS2/PS3/360 being just the emulated Model 2 original.
Use RF for something close to these special features!
R4 was easily the best looking racer of the generation.
I fully approve the posting of native res gifs and would like to see more on this thread.
Fancy Clown
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R4 was easily the best looking racer of the generation.
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