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Low poly love [WARNING - Image Intensive]
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KatamariOnTheRocks
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I love that low poly look and really hope it's the next step for Indies as most games we've had have been made to look like Pixel Art and I much prefer Low Poly. The people that dislike it are tech snobs that can't play anything more than a year old because "It hasn't aged well" I have no problem playing any game released in any year because I can enjoy a piece of entertainment for what it is, not when it was released.
That looks really cool, I've always wondered what it would look like for someone to try that, have you tried importing models and rendering them at a higher res for a similar effect? I know it may be asking alot, but if you could recreate a small scene with textures, models, and emulate the lighting methods they used it'd be really interesting to see how that'd turn out. Just a suggestion in case you want to take your UE4 experiment a step further
That looks really cool, I've always wondered what it would look like for someone to try that, have you tried importing models and rendering them at a higher res for a similar effect? I know it may be asking alot, but if you could recreate a small scene with textures, models, and emulate the lighting methods they used it'd be really interesting to see how that'd turn out. Just a suggestion in case you want to take your UE4 experiment a step further
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.
I'm guessing the textures were natively crafted in that resolution to begin with instead of just downscaling them from high resolution originals, where things like sharp lines and edges tend to get really dilluted. Hell, I even think Quake 1 had hand-crafted mipmaps from what I remember.
I was drooling over the idea of making an old school 3D game in UE4 earlier and now you've just wetted my apetite further.
More_Badass
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Microsoft Chad
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I find this threads OP funny because none of those games can run on any 90's hardware as is outside maybe the Dreamcast.
ThatStupidLion
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just finished my first playthrough of Klonoa.
was such a pleasure - wonderful game.
was such a pleasure - wonderful game.
KatamariOnTheRocks
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just finished my first playthrough of Klonoa.
was such a pleasure - wonderful game.
Wait a second, you played an old game years after release and your eyes didn't fall out of your head from all those poorly aged graphics? /s
This is proof that games with an attractive aesthetic and art style "hold up" definitively. I hate when people dismiss great games simply because they came out a certain amount of time ago. Yes, it may be frustrating to play a game that lacks mechanics that the genre has since adapted but that's like being mad that black and white films weren't made in color.
Junahu
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That's almost assuredly the way low poly games will be made to look now. When people invoke low-poly, they want the viewer to notice the lack of polygons, because it's an art choice.
During the days of early textured-3D, developers went out of their way to hide their polygon use with clever textures, gouraud shading, and other tricks. They didn't want to look old or dated. They didn't want to be a 16bit sprite rpg, or a janky angular PS1 platformer.
And that's the part of retro game design that people never really account for.
You won't find much in the way of low-poly as a restriction nowadays, outside of LOD models.
or Pokemon Blast
No doubt, MGS1's textures are pretty much pixel art.
More_Badass
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Puzzle wise, it's simple and easy, but it's more of a musical and artistic experience than a game.Pocco Eco is a neat looking game on iOS with the more modern low poly aesthetic
the game didnt run too well on my old phone so i dont know if its actually a good game or not, but it looks neat
IamDodongo
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Mega Man Legends will always look amazing to me.
Corronchilejano
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OP refers to the aesthetics only.
John McClane skin for Action Quake 2 (or just Quake 2).
Holy crap, I used the HELL out of that skin in AQ2.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Wow, could you post the video from those gifs please?
I have no clue what you are talking about.
More_Badass
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=NAWouIYfK7w
That second GIF is the only footage from the video. The first was a GIF posted on the dev's site
Vivin is a gaffer working on the game
yo this game looks amazing.
Definitely followed on twitter for the news.Highly anticipated.
I really loved Stunt Race FX way back. I never owned it, but rented it multiple times from our local video store. It was definitely my first console game I played with polygons, although I'm sure I had played a few PC games with them prior to it. Certainly not as good looking as some great examples here, but it's what sticks out in my mind when someone mentions 'low poly games'.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Still waiting for Kenneth Fejer to make (a) PC game(s) featuring his low-poly, colorful low-res-textured modeling. The guy's talented with using as few tris as possible, in coordination with readable, detailed textures, in order to first replicate and then make his own the look of games like Rockman Dash. I'm not sure if he'd want to use the models in game engines like those made for the fifth-generation consoles, though; for me they'd look just as great in higher rendering resolutions.
I also think models rendered in id Tech 2 look cool because of how unstable and jittery they render, as in the character models ripple all over yet never explode like that would imply (based on visual language/patterns I've absorbed).
I also think models rendered in id Tech 2 look cool because of how unstable and jittery they render, as in the character models ripple all over yet never explode like that would imply (based on visual language/patterns I've absorbed).
Emperor Bohe
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what? some of those pictures are of PS1 games like Tekken 2 & Rival Schools, or the Saturn version of VF Remix
Correctomundo
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Thanks. Thought I was the only one that doesn't understand what he's saying.
Microsoft Chad
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Emulated gifs of PS1/Saturn games. was the point I was making.
Slamtastic
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Thanks to that other thread for reminding me of the existence of the X-Men Quake mod.
But what purpose does this serve in this thread? Who said the images weren't taken via emulators (sans the PC titles, of course). Are you even ware of what this thread is about in the first place? Or did you see some screenshots, and hit the reply button?
BIGWORM
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Allen with the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure poses...
Hopefully we see more indies try out more ambitious 3D games with low-poly graphics. I just wish more would give up the Minecraft aesthetic.
I keep wondering when they'll start pumping out immersive sims on the same level as System Shock 2 or Deus Ex, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that no one is going to be able to make games that deep unless they actually stick to 1999 graphics at best. Even Dishonored is a sort of concession to this idea since it has a stylized look that's not as heavily detailed as Deus Ex Human Revolution.
We have a few coming around I guess. Eldridch, Delver, Spirits of Xanadu, Starshock, etc.
Most pixel indie games wouldn't run on 90's hardware.
I keep wondering when they'll start pumping out immersive sims on the same level as System Shock 2 or Deus Ex, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that no one is going to be able to make games that deep unless they actually stick to 1999 graphics at best. Even Dishonored is a sort of concession to this idea since it has a stylized look that's not as heavily detailed as Deus Ex Human Revolution.
We have a few coming around I guess. Eldridch, Delver, Spirits of Xanadu, Starshock, etc.
Most pixel indie games wouldn't run on 90's hardware.
Haha i was reading your post going "But man we already got some" and was about to rattle off those exact games
More_Badass
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Wings of Saint Nazaire has an impressive art style that still calls back to older games and an older aesthetic
Scooter155
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No Morrowind love?
Holy Nostalgia Bomb Batman. I played an unhealthy amount of Morrowind when I was younger.
Also Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles and FFIX are some of my favorite low-poly stuff ever. Art direction was flawless.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Thanks for the information!
The PS1 era FF games hold up so well on the Vita, granted the graphics are more charming than they are impressive now.
A lot of games from that era have some sort of magic that is really rare today, I can't quite put my finger on it.
Oh and the PlayStation version of Klonoa looks just about a billion times lovelier than the Wii version.
More_Badass
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Some more low poly games
The Flame In The Flood
The Sun Also Rises
Innerspace
The Flame In The Flood
The Sun Also Rises
Innerspace
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
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The lack of bilinear texture filtering kills this aesthetic for me. I loved both the PS1 and the Saturn but it was an ugly time, especially as a gamer with a PC/3D accelerator, and coming from the lovely 16 bit 2D hand-crafted feel to the dead pre-rendered backgrounds, blurry low-res textures, pixel crawl of the PS1 and Saturn, etc., I would not say that it was a beautiful time.
Console 3D gaming impressed me with the Dreamcast. Most games were still low-poly but had much better textures and texture filtering.
Console 3D gaming impressed me with the Dreamcast. Most games were still low-poly but had much better textures and texture filtering.
A lot of the low-poly indie games being posted aren't really scratching my itch, so here are a couple of games that do this right IMO:
"Cautious V" by Jordan Speer aka. Beefstrong on itch.io
You can play it here
A game in progress called "Crypt Underworld" by Lily Zone aka. neotenomie on itch.io
You can watch a short video of in-progress gameplay here
Oh and for those of you who don't know about itch.io, it's basically indie/free games paradise.
"Cautious V" by Jordan Speer aka. Beefstrong on itch.io
You can play it here
A game in progress called "Crypt Underworld" by Lily Zone aka. neotenomie on itch.io
You can watch a short video of in-progress gameplay here
Oh and for those of you who don't know about itch.io, it's basically indie/free games paradise.
Lightning Count
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Great game but could the developers national bias be any more obvious? The Japanese snowboarders stats easily beat his nearest rival and make the the others look comical.
