Shocked to NOT see this:
This, Silent Hill and FF9 are probably the best-looking PS1 poly-based games.
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Low poly love [WARNING - Image Intensive]
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This, Silent Hill and FF9 are probably the best-looking PS1 poly-based games.
Sega Model 2 era was the height of this style.
Motor Raid
Gunblade NY
Low-poly but looked so much cleaner than the home console titles of the time.
I have never even heard of these games. Now I have to research. Gorgeous models.
Most of the images show games unaltered. The only difference is that they are images taken by direct capture, and you are not viewing them through an old CRT television. The games (and therefore) models themselves have not been altered. At least, with most of the images I posted.
Some of the the sewer sections where your flashlight "reflects" off the water still sells the environment really well. They leveraged every technical shortcoming to work in their favor in that game. It was like...expressionism but with pixels instead of paint.
Naked Snake
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Absolutely love low poly graphics, especially PS1 and Quake-era PC games, and of course SEGA's arcade games are the GOAT. I think PS1 graphics aged better than N64 graphics, although I preferred the latter back then.
I remember downloading this about a year ago and it looks pretty good for a game that essentially looks like a PS1/SAT game
https://youtu.be/YzAkfREVtDk
im assuming its a fan game based on gun griffon since I've never actually played the real ones myself
https://youtu.be/YzAkfREVtDk
im assuming its a fan game based on gun griffon since I've never actually played the real ones myself
Duane Cunningham
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Just like anything else, I don't think you can be honest by saying "everything from that era is ugly/awesome". It's just down to the art direction. Crash Bandicoot and MGS had style beyond just being a product of their time. Plenty of games did look like ass, sure, but you can say that of any generation.
Actually, to be more accurate, realism gets dated and stylized art direction is more likely to endure. Which is why say, Mega Man 2 looks better today than Contra.
Actually, to be more accurate, realism gets dated and stylized art direction is more likely to endure. Which is why say, Mega Man 2 looks better today than Contra.
efyu_lemonardo
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you know, I think there's more to it than that.
I honestly can go back to basically any era :/ I can play new PC games with high settings and going back to archaic hardware and it doesn't bother me one bit.
I think you hit it right on the head, actually. Although it varies from game to game. But really the rule, but something we can take away with a large number of titles from the era. Games like Resident Evil (which were "realistic") still look great.
Various FFIX models:
Notice that the unfiltered textures look better
Yup. This one in particular is just amazing.
Von Krukru
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To be honest, I'm far far far FAR more in love with 16Bit pixel art. That said, between the shaded-to-hell supermegapolycount models of today and the barely working early 3D days that pushed artists to their limits I'll always side with the limited early works. Mostly because I am a firm subscriber to the "limitation breeds excellence" mantra, but also because I have a thing for stylized art.
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efyu_lemonardo
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I think you hit it right on the head, actually. Although it varies from game to game. But really the rule, but something we can take away with a large number of titles from the era. Games like Resident Evil (which were "realistic") still look great.
Yup. This one in particular is just amazing.
I think it's a good example of the kind of style barely seen on N64. Of course, it probably wouldn't have been possible on PSX either without pre rendered backgrounds.
Fushichou187
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Jeezus. Everything on that tumblr is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!
Junahu
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Isn't that an in-battle model? You know, for the fully 3D battles that PSX Final Fantasy games have?
3D-Printed FFVII figures:
You can kind of tell what they'd look like with realistic shaders.
holy shit these are awesome
is anyone selling them?
are they based on the actual models?
efyu_lemonardo
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You're right. So replace "pre-rendered backgrounds" with "a limited scope highly optimized for a very particular scenario". The point was it's not something you could normally do with any type of game. Also I seem to remember FFIX using pre-rendered backgrounds for some of the GFs and stuff in battle mode.
cubicle47b
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I'd be all over that 3D version of Advance Wars. OR ANY VERSION OF ADVANCE WARS!
NoFaceNico
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I don't think I've seen Ape Escape mentioned yet.
I love that game and the gameplay still holds up today!
I love that game and the gameplay still holds up today!
These particular figures were pulled from the store they were being sold on because Square Enix gave them a cease and desist.
It's possible that they are being sold somewhere else though, you would need to look.
They are literally 3D prints of the actual in game models.
Shifty1897
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Teknopathetic
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Hoshigami is better than FFT.
Since the thread was linked earlier I guess I'll quote the thing I posted in another early 3D thread about how it will likely look (at least when more games with defined textures come along, compared to the mostly flat-shaded look that currently used):
I thought I put together a small selection of shots from modern mods for various games to show a vague approximation of how a modern early 3D game would actually look like, rather than the PS1/N64 type mess people seem to think they would be (also listed the game and mod name). Of course there's plenty more of this out there, and a couple of these arguably aren't even the best of the best visually:
(Doom - Sunder)
(Quake - Map Jam 2 Tronyn's map)
(Tomb Raider - Mists of Avalon)
(Unreal - Don't Shoot the Chest)
(Unreal - Project Zephon)
Edit: Added another Unreal shot because I thought the first didn't have a very good angle. I've still kept the old one though.
I liked it too, lol, but I never finished it until it got re-released on DS. Not better than FFT, though, IMO :x
GoldandBlue
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My friend told me the game wasn't very fun to play but the models in DB Origins were impressive.
Oh wow, those look fantastic, good one, can't wait for DQXI
sixteen-bit
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I'm probably one of the few people who prefers the look of PS1 Klonoa to the Wii remake
Love me some 2.5D
Love me some 2.5D
Interesting, I always felt the opposite.
When I was young it seemed like PS1 graphics were broken/unfinished because of the un-smoothed textures and the messed-up polygons; as if they were incomplete or missing stuff. Turns out that was pretty accurate (missing texture filtering, AA, and depth correction).
Even today unfiltered textures feel cold, and makes me wish I could turn on 3D Acceleration or something like that.
SolidSnakex
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Dr. Slump (PSone) still looks great. It has that Mega Man Legends/Tron Bonne look
butzopower
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I really liked the 80s toy robot aesthetic of Virtual On, which seems like it stylistically could have developed out of low polygon constraints.
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I think this was from someone in GAF:
I think I realize why I like low-poly so much: It reminds me of action figures, like GI Joes. something about knowing where the points of articulation can be. Such as these MK renders above. Reminds me of the MK action figures I had growing up.
the toy-like aspect is really what I love also
Princess Viola
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I don't think the MML games will ever not look good.
Indeed, point-sampled/Nearest neighbor textures are the better choice in those games.
Sadly Ps1 version didn't have sub-pixel precision rendering and texture minification filtering was crap, so it looked bad in movement.
I'm pretty sure that the nearest-neighbor filtering with 16xAF, sub-pixel precision and perhaps pixel perfect AA would be the way to go with modern hardware.
SSAA would be important, as it would give those point-sampled textures sub-pixel movement information. (most noticeable in completely vertical or horizontal texel edges.)
SuperChoco
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Some from Final Fantasy 3
I also really like Bravely Default and FF: Four Heroes of Light. Yoshida's artstyle just fits low poly models very well.
I also really like Bravely Default and FF: Four Heroes of Light. Yoshida's artstyle just fits low poly models very well.
memoryswap
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The arcade version in particular had some extremely minimalist graphics but was nevertheless intensely immersive.
smashballTaz
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Agreed. Really wanna know the name of the super colourful psychedelic looking game.
Retrocore9
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I feel exactly the same way. Used to prefer the N64 graphics at the time but I now prefer the PSX style. I think it had to do with the main N64 characters being alittle better rendered and maybe the faster cart loading. But now the blurry mess backgrounds of the N64 just look terrible compared to the cleaner psx.
Which one? If you're talking about the one in the OP, it was just some random tumblr image
I'm surprised no one posted anything from Monument Valley yet in this thread:
I loved zombies' textures from the original RE1. They were grotesque and gruesome at the same time. A lot better than what we got in RE2 (yellow people with blood on their faces :|).
Low poly awesomeness. And to think, when I played some of the games in this thread on release all I saw was amazing graphics.
I loved zombies' textures from the original RE1. They were grotesque and gruesome at the same time. A lot better than what we got in RE2 (yellow people with blood on their faces :|).
