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[JoV]

PC games like Patrician 3 still look amazing to me

 

[oneida]

Virtua Fighter 3, 1996

 

[PSYGN]

Black (2005)

Visually stunning shooter on PS2, spectacle still holds up today.

Yep!

 

[jett]

I think megaman legends 1 and 2 hold up well for a ps1 game.

Megaman Legends aged well

I honestly think The MegaMan Legends games have a great style and still look great. If you want to do a game that looks like PSONE games, MegaMan Legends is the way to go.

YEAH gonna post me some Mega Man Legends too. Two of the best visually enduring 3D PS1 games.

 

[post-S]

MGS2
Shadow of Colossus

 

[Maligna]

Nothing else looked this good in 1999. I'd say Shenmue still looked impressive right up until half way through the PS360 era.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

This entire series had a visual style I've never seen in another game ever again.

 

[sn00zer]

YEAH gonna post me some Mega Man Legends too. Two of the best visually enduring 3D PS1 games.

Would love to see a modern game with pixel art textures and flat light....could look incredible with some density

 

[Necro900]

Surprised nobody has posted this yet!

A technical marvel for its time, it's still greatly enjoyable today.

 

[Floridian]

Gta 4. People complain it looked too gray or yellow but it still looks like an acceptable representation of NY to me.

 

[Lagamorph]

I remember thinking Vectorman on the Mega Drive looking freaking incredible for a 16-bit game.

 

[nOoblet16]

Gta 4. People complain it looked too gray or yellow but it still looks like an acceptable representation of NY to me.

Think the problem with GTA4 was that it used a very heavy blur filter to make everything blurry. The saturated lighting didn't help either but that was supposedly a thing that time last gen.

The city itself looks great, except for the traffic in Manhattan.

 

[radios shipping overview]

The sprites in Sega's superscaler arcade games still impress me. Of course, the effect is better in motion.

And the original Virtua Racing still looks and sounds amazing to me - again, best in motion. It looks incredibly smooth and has a great sense of speed.

 

[NecromorphTX]

Parasite Eve 2

 

[345triangle]

"timeless aesthetic"

/watches a sport cars driving around normal generic city by night and normal roads.

...

ok.

ridge racer type 4 is the goddamn definition of timeless aesthetic. what other game looks anything like it?

 

[sheamus]

I Still think otogi 2 looks amazing and I would kill for remaster on the Xbox one

Unfortunately I don't have a picture of it but I do have a YouTube video

http://youtu.be/Cs_sVoCd5-4

 

[Jobbs]

Ugh. It's downright criminal that we're getting a scaled down mobile/3DS port (or is that remake?) instead of the HD remaster that the game truly deserves.

I usually prefer rereleases with support for modern features like trophies/achievements and whatnot. But this is one case where I'm really glad I held on to my PS2 copy. I really should look into how to set up a PS2 emulator to run it on my PC.

I have my PS2 copy but I don't have a PS2 around to play it on. I genuinely want to play Dragon Quest 8 again, my favorite RPG of all time, and I can't. Playing it on 3DS sounds crappy but I might do it.

 

[Screenboy]

Fzero GX, still the greatest racer of all time.

 

[Nimby]

SaGa Frontier II

Digital Devil Saga

 

[NastyBook]

I keep posting the same Ridge Racer Type 4 gifs every time a similar thread pops up, man it just looks so fucking great to this day. It just has a timeless aesthetic.

And to this day, it still has my favorite GUI design in any game. Readable, clean, unique and gorgeous. What more can you ask for?

I fully endorse this post for President of the United States in 2016.

 

[Hale_C]

Silpheed (SEGA CD). Totally blew me away at the time. Still pretty cool to see ships disintegrate into chunky triangles.

 

[Olly88]

Not going to post any 2D games, because IMO if they looked good then, then they still look good.

Driver on the PS1 always appeals to me. The buildings, shops and backgrounds etc always look so inviting and mysterious to me. I wish I could go in them

 

[MrCunningham]

I know this is the saturn ver but as an aside:

Anything running on model 2 is still beautiful to this day.

No, that's the arcade game. This is what the Saturn port looks like:

 

[wingedarcher7]

This is pretty much gonna be Wind Waker: The Thread

But I don't even think Wind Waker looks dated, unlike other games in this thread that actually do look dated, but still look fine despite that.

 

[Red]

I honestly feel like there is potential for a return to pre-rendered backgrounds.

I wish (sort of).

Problem is when backgrounds don't scale well to higher resolutions.

 

[jett]

The sprites in Sega's superscaler arcade games still impress me. Of course, the effect is better in motion.

And the original Virtua Racing still looks and sounds amazing to me - again, best in motion. It looks incredibly smooth and has a great sense of speed.

Rad Mobile is I think the pinnacle of Sega's Super Scalar tech. It's hard to believe it's made up entirely of sprites.

 

[Vampire On Titus]

Resi 1's environments are an ugly barren mess but by Resi 2 capcom had gotten it's shit together and the game genuinely still looks quite good.

I generally love the low poly ps1 aesthetic though. Of course there's tons of ugly ass muddy games as well. But it'd be a cool look to retro revive.

 

[ZeroMaverick]

I wish (sort of).

Problem is when backgrounds don't scale well to higher resolutions.

Couldn't they just make the art super high res? I'd love to see a new game with an art style like this.

 

[REDSLATE]

Halo: Combat Evolved stands out in my mind, so much so that I prefer it over the "Anniversary" artstyle.

Burnout 3: Takedown still looks great.

 

[specdot]

Einhänder
PS1 1997

Straight fire.

Mah man!
Gaf, how y'all go 6 pages without mentioning Polyphony Digital's mech masterpiece is shame on you! For those that don't know, yes, the Gran Turismo guys made a badass mech combat game and never went back to it.
http://youtu.be/ypTqzZIDfHE

 

[Bisnic]

Mass Effect 1.
Game can look pretty rough in most spots, but then you see stuff like this and you can still easily get amazed :

 

[kodecraft]

This is pretty much gonna be Wind Waker: The Thread

The OP states dated visuals. Wind Waker doesn't look dated due to art style.

 

[Vazra]

Beach Spikers

 

[DoT2]

I think super smash bros melee and 64 still look great today.

 

[Pizza]

Warcraft 3 and Gauntlet: Dark Legacy still look amazing imo, I'll also second mega man legends real hard

 

[QisTopTier]

imagine hd sprites for legend of mana

 

[Breads]

The genius of pixel art, tweened 2d art, cell/ cartoon shaded 3d, and prerendered assets is that they all age incredibly well.

I wish more games today look more like Megaman legends and Wind Waker. They have a bright, fun, and ever lasting feel that I don't think I will ever grow tired of.

 

[tuxfool]

Surprised nobody has posted this yet!

A technical marvel for its time, it's still greatly enjoyable today.

Yeah, and to this day remains a destroyer of CPUs.

 

[Zocano]

I love it. I mean it looked amazing crisp and clean for the time, so I can see why it lasts.

Edit: my phone fucking hates me

 

[RowdyReverb]

Did this game always look so good, or is this a particularly flattering screen?

 

[capylikesgames]

I know Megaman Legends was already posted, but this is still worth sharing.

Rocket: Robot on Wheels still stands up really well, compared to a lot of N64 titles. The animation definitely has a lot to do with it. Also, the "vaseline effect" isn't so strong in this one.

Tomba! took advantage of the PS1's polygonal limitations to enhance a 2D landscape. I think the low poly environments, and the sharp sprites compliment each other nicely.

 

[davidbloop]

Did this game always look so good, or is this a particularly flattering screen?

I replay this game regularly still always looks amazing to me

 

[LiK]

If it's 60fps, it still looks amazing because of how smooth it runs.

 

[Breakage]

MGS2. It still amazes me that it came out at the beginning of the PS2's life.

 

[Death Metalist]

The very underrated exclusive, Breakdown(2004) for the Xbox. It's a mix between God Hand and Mirror's Edge.

You drink sodas and eat burgers as well as energy bars to replenish your health, what more do you want?

 

[Celine]

I love, love, love the blocky polygon look to no end.

Unexpected picture.
Hybrid Heaven fan?

 

[klee123]

Anything SNK Neo Geo stuff.

 

[p3n]

Silpheed (SEGA CD). Totally blew me away at the time. Still pretty cool to see ships disintegrate into chunky triangles.

This game right here. Remember this released a few weeks after Star Fox did on SNES.

 

[Lys Skygge]

The very underrated exclusive, Breakdown(2004) for the Xbox. It's a mix between Godhand and Mirror's Edge.



You drink sodas and eat burgers as well as energy bars to replenish your health, what more do you want?

I really wanted to play this game as a kid simply because you could see your body when you look down.

 

[abstract alien]

THE GOAT

I will accept nothing else, the game is old but the visuals havent aged a bit.

The xbox version of this game was terrible. The damn ps2 version is nearly perfect though.

The last time I saw a game a felt like I was in a new generation visually. Not sure if this could ever be topped.