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Dated visuals you still think look amazing
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IcyRhythms
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Left 4 Dead as well.
I wish they would release this on PSN.
Still pic ain't gonna cut it for this (Golden Sun) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DatHLd1uO2g
The Chaos Engine.
This game came out in 1993.
Bitmap Brothers knew their stuff. Their art looked like the refined sort of stuff you find in enthusiast pixelart communities today that seldom ever actually end up in modern indie games.
Jonneh3003
Banned
I love Legend of Mana so much, great to see that it's still beautiful.
Jonneh3003
Banned
I was getting that too from Avast, everything seems ok though.
ALLseeingEYE
Member
I didn't get to play Lion King much, but I was really impressed with what I saw. Disney had a great run on Genesis.
I've always heard that as well, and you can tell the animation was done by great talent.
Earthworm Jim also had awesome, quality animation back in the day. Seeing these games were revelations for me back then. It showed how significantly better a side-scroller could look when skilled animators were hired. Even simply things, like making sure the character didn't slide and looked like his footsteps matched his running speed made a significant visual quality difference.
Earthworm Jim
Mr. Poolman
Member
I disagree.
MGS1 looked like ass from day 1.
Gameplay was great and story too, but to me, it was never a good looking game.
Now, on topic.
I like Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines' graphics.
Mods make it even better!
UnemployedVillain
Member
I still don't know how this was possible. I mean, it wasn't even in HD and it was a freakin launch title
Wyndstryker
Member
Secret of Mana Intro
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3
This is my feelings exactly
Though Vagrant Story is a great example of really dated 3d visuals that somehow look great
spazchicken
Member
Sky Gunner
pillowtalk
Member
I love how they made the environments look in Zwei. It always made it feel like the game is a lot bigger whenever I see the horizon, and it made me wonder what there is to explore beyond the boundary.
well I was going to post Panzer Dragoon Saga. It might look pretty bad in stills, in action it's something else, the game has some really good camera panning that makes it feel all cinematic, compared with FF7/8, the game feels way more advanced and ahead.
Panzer Dragoon Orta looks really good too, it's probably all we will ever get of this world in a more defined 3D look. The art direction of the series was just too good.
Panzer Dragoon Orta looks really good too, it's probably all we will ever get of this world in a more defined 3D look. The art direction of the series was just too good.
Yep. Conker was pure witchcraft
Irobot82
Member
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive. Why why WHY nobody doesn't make games which look like this??
have you checked out Hard West and 12 is better than 6?
If it's isometric tactical combat you're after there is always Wasteland 2 and Deadstate
If it's pretty 2-D isometric backgrounds nothing is better than Pillars of Eternity
Turin Turambar
Member
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.
"timeless aesthetic"
/watches a sport cars driving around normal generic city by night and normal roads.
...
ok.
Another nods for Vagrant Story
This is a great shot. Each pixel in the texture work is seemingly deliberate, kind of like pixel art. A lot of PS1 games shouldn't have their textures filtered when emulated. Look at these textures from MGS1, unfiltered:
So, for all the people who enjoy the aesthetic of Metal Gear Solid, I extracted some textures from the game and dropped them into a scene in Unreal Engine 4 a while ago. The nearest neighbor filtering on the low res textures, rendered with really nice IQ looks ace. The texture work in MGS is actually really nice considering they were working with sub 64x64 textures for most of the game.
The keypad for example would become a blurry mess otherwise.
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.
revolverjgw
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I think this is the game I played the most on my Mega Drive, Road Rash 2:
https://my.mixtape.moe/gfrpoc.webm
https://my.mixtape.moe/gfrpoc.webm
Kind of curious what your definition of "timeless" is.
Dust-by-Monday
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Silent Hill 3 on PS2 for sure!
cj_iwakura
Member
It still looks amazing, shame the rotoscoped animation is so rare.I remember thinking The Last Express looked amazing when it first released.
Picture is from the re-release but the image quality is the same.
Breath of Fire 3 and 4. Backgrounds don't really hold up, but the fucking sprites, man.
Honestly if a FF7 remake was just making the battle models the world models it'd still look really good. The 3D battle models all look fine for the PS1 era, the rendered backgrounds still hold up, just the character models in the world look out of place.FF7
I know people don't think so but I still love the visuals.
DarknessTear
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SaGa Frontier 2
lensoftruth
Member
Dated = style of that time, came be used criticaly.
PS2 games look dated, I think most of the great games look better than anything we get now. The Majority of Nintendo games always look ace, lucasarts adventures, naughty dog and most 2d arcade games look a million miles better than the shit AAA games give us.
PS2 games look dated, I think most of the great games look better than anything we get now. The Majority of Nintendo games always look ace, lucasarts adventures, naughty dog and most 2d arcade games look a million miles better than the shit AAA games give us.
Mr. Nice_Guy
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I remember this blowing me away when it came out, as it was the first game I got for me GameCube. I can't believe it held up this well.
Dice//
Banned
Breath of Fire 3 and 4. Backgrounds don't really hold up, but the fucking sprites, man.
God yes.
lensoftruth
Member
FF7
I know people don't think so but I still love the visuals.
Come on, FF7 looked shit at the time apart from the big spell call things. Backdrops were brilliant but the cutscenes were awful. Surprised that people where impressed, especially as 6 was better an didn't need any of that.
MikeE21286
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I still like how Suikoden 2 looks
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
You might be able to make an argument for a couple areas in Kingdom Hearts, but Wonderland looks like a kid's shoebox diorama. I played it last year and I couldn't get over how many favors my memory had been doing for that game's visuals.
LongDongJunon
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Daytona USA
I know this is the saturn ver but as an aside:
Anything running on model 2 is still beautiful to this day.
The Baron Count
Member
Silent Hill 3 on PS2 for sure!
Christ.
I really can't decide between this and Shadow of the Colossus as the best looking PS2 game.
lensoftruth
Member
Every time I see a Quake II screenshot it has too much detail - always played in low-detail as it was easier to see other players in deathmatch 
Incitemaybe
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It's good to see a thread like this, it's refreshing to see what others remember and appreciate