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[NinjaCoachZ]

Final Fantasy IX. One of the final PS1 games and an amazing showcase of how to push it to the limits.

Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Some of the finest and most fluid spritework in history, made in direct response to Street Fighter III.

 

[Morfeo]

Space Harrier looks amazing still, and that game is from what, 1986?

 

[Jonneh3003]

Agreed. I think all three games hold up really well.

Also still in love with Super Mario World's visuals. What a beauty.

Your avatar reminds me of another beautiful game.

 

[serenewarfare]

Viewtiful Joe still looks amazing to me.

 

[Ludger Kresnik]

Viewtiful Joe in HD would be ridiculous.

 

[low-G]

I agree with a good half of the posts in this thread...

Tomb Raider 1 on PS1, the atmosphere seeps through the visuals. So good.

 

[bomblord1]

P.N. 03

 

[Courage]

Idk how dated you can call it, but I really wanna pick Halo 3

 

[koopathecat]

Glad to see the love for Auto Modelista. On a similar note ill suggest XIII. Always loved the way that game was presented.

 

[valeo]

Vagrant Story

I remember buying Vagrant Story when I was kid - I got about 30 minutes in and gave up because I thought it looked like a muddy mess.

 

[PositiveGamer]

My jaw drop when I first picked up this game.. it was so damn beautiful and 60fps.. albeit it wasn't the same as the arcade.. but wow Sega pulled everything to get this game running the way it did on the Saturn..

 

[Jonneh3003]

Idk how dated you can call it, but I really wanna pick Halo 3

Game looks even better in The Master Chief Collection too, Bungie did a great job visually with Halo 3 but I seem to remember critics bashing it in this regard?

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

Viewtiful Joe still looks amazing to me.

Anything cel-shaded has aged magnificently.

 

[Zeta Oni]

Zone of Enders 2

 

[Leona Lewis]

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?

The presentation in Type-4 puts most modern games to shame, really. And that MUSIC, too.

A streak-free polish, a perfectly cohesive package that only 90s Namco could provide.

 

[Ceadeus]

Counter strike 1.6

 

[univariate]

 

[Coroner]

Guild Wars.

 

[taa0098]

Paper Mario: TTYD

The only acceptable answer. It's mindblowing to me that this game came out over 10 years ago and it still looks amazing, it's an art style that doesn't quit.

I'll also throw in Chrono Trigger.

X STRIKE IS THE HYPEST SHIT

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

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.

This is a PS1 game?

Holy shit, that's beautiful.

 

[MetalSlug]

Running Jet Set Radio at high resolution looks fantastic.

 

[-MD-]

Still looks better than some modern games to me.

Timeless game.

 

[Courage]

Game looks even better in The Master Chief Collection too, Bungie did a great job visually with Halo 3 but I seem to remember critics bashing it in this regard?

Yeah I remember that. It wasn't technically impressive at release, but the game shines with its art direction/design and color palette above all.

 

[Ra1den]

Metal gear solid 2's tanker sequence still has not been exceeded in terms of rain effects. The rain actually looked and behaved like rain, swirling in the wind etc. Even the generally good looking modern games have rain that looks like falling toothpicks from the sky.

 

[Oblivion]

I'll never get over how clean that game looks. Amazing IQ for a GC game.

 

[Human_me]

Factor 5 were gods.
It's just a shame they are no longer around.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Dr. Slump. I first saw this game earlier this year, but I really love the way it looks

It's a PSone game released in '99 by Bandai.

 

[UrbanRats]

Games from the ps2 era are too new to even qualify, imo.
At that point you'd be listing a lot of games, from SotC, to RE4.

 

[Tame Deity]

I love how Starcraft looks in game, and it will probably look great til the end of time.

 

[LordOcidax]

Thats looks really good even for today standars.

 

[Zakkath]

Chrono Trigger still holds up very well.

 

[Nazo]

Psychonauts:

OG Wind Waker:

 

[Driw3r]

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive. Why why WHY nobody doesn't make games which look like this??

 

[TheAdmiester]

Halo CE.

(I'd also appreciate a .gif of the particle collisions if anyone can find one)

This is from 2001.

 

[Shahed]

Chrono Cross in terms of presentation is the best game I've ever played. It looked amazing back in the day, and I still think it looks nicer than most games I play now

That was on the PS1. I can't even imagine how good it would look now with today's tecnology

 

[Sesuadra]

FFIX easily for me

 

[Jonneh3003]

Throwing another in:

The Fear Effect duo still look gorgeous

 

[PositiveGamer]

Jaggies and blockiness welcome! Let's admire the games that managed to pull off beauty while being held back by the limitations of their systems.

I volunteer Panzer Dragoon Saga!




I can't find many screenshots to do it justice but i'm replaying the game at the moment and i'm stunned by what it can make the Saturn do. There are moments where it still looks astonishing today.

I just wanted to add this.. this scene is from zwei.. this is the first time you fly in the game... my jaw literally drop when I saw this.. the sunset... the music.. the atmosphere.. it was just amazing!!

 

[Sinatar]

Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Some of the finest and most fluid spritework in history, made in direct response to Street Fighter III.

I love SNK's spritework. Even the KOF games which are a mishmash of sprites from various different games/years looks fantastic to me.

 

[CLEEK]

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.

I still believe that RRT4 is the most technically accomplished game I've ever played. Having owned a PS1 since launch, I got to experience the gradual improvement in quality in games. But still, even towards the end, most games still had the same PS1 quirks. Wobbly textures, polygon tearing, pop in etc.

Type 4 was rock solid. It felt like the world had been carved out of stone. No glitching. An incredible draw distance, unmatched by any other PS1 game. Everything in Gouraud shaded. Frame rate never dips. Beautiful use of lighting.

 

[ClutchAnderson]

auto modellista

Sweet zombie jesus yes! I was trying to describe how awesome this game was to a co-worker and he thought I was insane!

That whole motif is dope in my opinion.

 

[Sölf]

I also add World of Warcraft. While Blizzard is updating it's engine slowly with each patch and expansion, it still looks "dated", but damn does it still look good. I blame the comic look, which just ages so much better. Looking at it in 5 years it will still look great, while stuff liek Guild Wars 2 will probably look bad again.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Throwing another in:

The Fear Effect duo still look gorgeous

Inferno looked great as well. It was always strange that Kronos had trouble finding someone to pick it up. The first two games reviewed very well, and I think they both sold pretty well.

 

[todd360]

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

 

[Dr.brain64]

Halo 1 on xbox. I could not believe my eyes that a game could run so well with those graphics.

 

[saher]

Street Fighter 3 3rd strrike

Sonic Adventures

 

[normanski]

Final Fantasy VIII/IX

Dragon's Lair.

MGS2.

Tekken 3 was a miracle on PS1 and still looks great to this day.

Sonic 1/2/3/ Sonic & Knuckles.

Broken Sword.

Virtua Fighter 5 is stunning on PS3 too.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

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?

Vagrant Story looks really great, but this will has always a place in the videogames museum as one of the most artistically cohesive games ever made. From the presentation, the FMV, the design of the course and ending in the music.

What a perfect package.

 

[Fluffhead14]

Always thought the Donkey Kong Country SNES series held up.

 

[JP]

Total 2 - PS1 - 1997