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o.o what game is this
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What game has the best sprites?
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o.o what game is this
Baller. PhD
Banned
Dragon's Crown for Vita/PS3.
Oh wow, the Diablos armour from Monster Hunter looks very similar to that - too similar to be a coincidence. His weapon looks just like the Undertaker Lance as well.Red Earth/Warzard sprites are pretty neat
CPS3 system FTW.
There must be a bunch of nods to other Capcom games in the MH series...
KOFXIII sprites are beautiful, but it's all about dat flop for me.
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
Looked up the trailer, that game looks pretty sweet!
vagabondarts
Member
I have fond memories of Breath of Fire IV
sadly, I have no visual examples
sadly, I have no visual examples
linko9
Member
Wow good catch, that lance is most definitely a callback to the sprite in question. Not completely sure about the armor, but looks pretty close.
And wow at that Card Sagas Wars. Looks amazing... too bad I'm terrible at traditional fighting games.
Some of the Diablos Armor in the other MH games looks pretty similar in design to it. The pic listed wasn't a good example.
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
I was always fond of Apollo Justice's sprites:
What drove me up the wall though was how they reused old assets so much. I mean what the fuck? Also this:
doesn't look right.
What drove me up the wall though was how they reused old assets so much. I mean what the fuck? Also this:
A perfect example of "less is more" in videogame graphics. Your imagination is half of the arts impact.
Just by looking at the sprites, I can almost guarantee they have used every possible help they could. Including 3D models.
MisterHero
Super Member
The Player sprites are really impressive considering the avatar systemDungeon Fighter Online has some interesting sprite work:
they're relatively simple, but visible equipment is something I'd expect more often from a 3D game
I'm pretty sure the game is animated with flash or a flash based program.
A steller thread.
No Castlevania SotN love?
SotN sprites don't shine in a vacuum like for example Street Fighter sprites do. SotN works because of the amazing backgrounds and varied enemies/characters/effects on screen imo.
Anuxinamoon
Shaper Divine
3 pages without this? GAF, I am disappoint.
I was going to post Dragons crown but you beat me to it
Never say always.
Three Dirty Dwarves on the Saturn.
http://youtu.be/LEg--_pH260?t=4m42s
http://youtu.be/LEg--_pH260?t=4m42s
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Ghost Trick doesn't use polygons. They're hand animated sprites.
EDIT: But to contribute to the thread:
WHY IS THERE NO MENTION OF MOTW?!
The animation is almost as fluid as SF3, but nothing is rotoscoped.
That's why I love SNK.
Also Metal Slug 3:
I love every burning and exploding animation in every Metal Slug game. It's so detailed and fluidly animated and just overall awesome.
Keith Stack
Banned
Flash isn't the only program used to create vector graphics ya know.
On that note, Vectorman has some pretty mind-blowing sprite work.
We talked about animating, not drawing the characters.
I never say never.
George Claw M.D.
Member
People have been listing Vanillaware as a blanket vote for many of their games, but I guess it doesn't hurt to post more examples.3 pages without this? GAF, I am disappoint.
<-- I approve!
Hard to disagree. The sprite animations in Metal Slug are amazingly fluid, the collection of characters, items, enemies, vehicles and backgrounds is colossal, and the amounts of details they have is astonishing.
Lots of good stuff mentioned already.
I've always been a fan of SotN's sprites, though I can't find many good gifs.
This is what I came to mention. Pretty much all of the 2D Castlevania games from SotN and after have great spritework and animation.
It's pretty much the smooth, smooth animation that wins me over. I always loved watching how the main characters moved.
Also, this. Definitely this.
Pretty much the king of dot drawings. Awesome thread btw and i'm down with this new school shit if it means more games like Rayman Origins.
Last I heard, they're fully animated 3D models converted to sprites. They're not pixeled or hand drawn.
perfectnight
Banned
In the realm of RPGs, Breath of Fire III and IV take the top. Easily.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Garou MotW
R-Type
Final Fight
R-Type
Final Fight
InfiniDragon
Member
BOFIV did have some badass sprites, I was particularly a fan of Fou-Lu's:
That dude fought like a boss.
twisteddeeds
Member
BOFIV did have some badass sprites, I was particularly a fan of Fou-Lu's:
That dude fought like a boss.
Why Capcom... WhyTF have you not brought this ip back this gen.......
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????
/rant..
Anything Vanillaware really, nearly all their games are beautiful..
Finaika
Member
It was released in 1989.
Chrono Helix
Member
I don't have a gif of this, but the animation of the waves amazed me.
EDIT: So, in that Vanillaware interview posted earlier
Sounds like he was planning Dragon's Crown since then.
Ha! Great pick! I forgot about all the super work in that game.
RoninChaos
Member
Street Fighter III series.
NSMB's mix of bland pseudo-2D prerenders and lackluster legit 2D made it look like a shareware game from 1999 that you'd download from Tucows or Happy Puppy. DKCR wasn't nearly as egregious since it was full 3D and they only used that weird frame buffer trick to make certain things behave like sprites.
I mentioned it
SNK love; Sorry for the "flash racism" but how can you compare that to the godly and impossible work on some pixel art sprite. It's.. i can stay stuck in front of a third strike or metal slug sprite for 10 minutes...
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
The SEGA Saturn really is an enigma. It was the last console where 2D had some sort of real push. Even the Nintendo DS rarely had 2D games pushed to the limit outside a specific few.
Kumatanchi was one of them:
By the way was this game any good?
Ghost Trick doesn't use polygons. They're hand animated sprites.
EDIT: But to contribute to the thread:
WHY IS THERE NO MENTION OF MOTW?!
The animation is almost as fluid as SF3, but nothing is rotoscoped.
That's why I love SNK.
Also Metal Slug 3:
I love every burning and exploding animation in every Metal Slug game. It's so detailed and fluidly animated and just overall awesome.
Yeah SNK is incredible. Its too bad that the upstarting the fighting genre went to Capcom. SNK was so close but no cigar. Its too bad they practically have became irrrelevant outside of King of Fighters, which is still niche everywhere. It also sucks that they were forced to work on two decade old hardware for years. But still they were amazing.
They're backgrounds for their game were pretty damn good as well.
