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[JigglesBunny]

Devil's Third.

 

[Man God]

Mario Tennis 64.

 

[Madao]

F-Zero X is interesting because it holds up thanks to being a 60 fps game. the game's pictures look like nothing special but it's a game that shines when being played.

 

[2SeeKU]

Shadowman N64

Top Gear Overdrive N64

 

[Roubjon]

Breath of Fire IV is almost perfect graphically. I wouldn't change a single thing about it.

It's visually amazing and I never hear it mentioned anywhere really. It's a shame.

 

[RiZ III]

I started playing Zelda OoT and thought it still looked fantastic. It's amazing because when I stopped to look at things, everythjng is using a super low res blurry texture, but props to the artists because they still made it look good.

 

[7DollarHagane]

I played sled storm yesterday and thought it looked and played very good. Very smooth and well animated.

 

[womp]

Silent Bomber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmijj6duhwA

Both graphically, and gameplay.

Was trying to find a non emulated looking video...

 

[Irishmantis]

No love for Rayman?

 

[nkarafo]

I second Waverace and it's water/wave effects.

 

[Retromelon]

When i started playing conkers bad fur day i was shocked at how good it looked for its time. It was nearly early ps2 quality visually.

 

[KORNdoggy]

Plus other similar games like abes odysee and exodus.

 

[RedSwirl]

Until we achieve photorealism I think having good art direction will always be more important than realism. Ironically, it's important for some games to still push that realism envelope so we'll actually get there someday. It's just that all those games in the attempt will someday look like shit. Even Crysis 3 at max settings will look like shit one day.

And man, I really want some JRPG developer to do the Pillars of Eternity thing and make hand-drawn or pre-rendered backgrounds but in 1080p.

 

[ugh_the_boot]

I think the PS1 and Saturn hold up way better than the N64 because there are way more 2d games on those consoles. 2d games are almost timeless in their look (gameplay is another thing though lol).

 

[kinn]

Plus other similar games like abes odysee and exodus.

Delfine game? Heart of Darkness?

 

[The Baron Count]

Crash hands down

Yeah...I don't think much even comes close on the PS1 honestly.

 

[Zoloft Sonic]

If we're talking 3D games-only, Kirby 64 takes the cake for me.

It's pretty amazing how well it holds up. Beautiful polygon work.

 

[jett]

Devil's Third.

We're talking about games that hold up graphically here.

 

[wintermute181]

How can people say Wipeout XL and not also include Wipeout 3? That shit was black magic.

 

[Gorger]

Remember being very impressed with

 

[Alo81]

Wonder Project J2 on the Nintendo 64 still looks absolutely stunning.
[Screenshots taken from Darkangel's post on the thread "How much more powerful was the N64 compared to the PlayStation anyway?", page 21, made in 2012.]

These look wonderful.

 

[SebastianM]

We're talking about games that hold up graphically here.

Im pretty sure it was a joke.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Devil's Third.

holy shit. I had to watch the video to make sure it was real!

 

[MrBadger]

Mighty No. 9.

On a serious note, a lot of sprite-based games on PS1 hold up wonderfully. For all the flaws of the original Rayman, the visuals still look great. I wish there were more sprite-based games in that era.

If we're talking 3D, I still think Crash Warped looks pretty damn good

 

[Glix]

I cant really deal with people posting screens from emulators with filter, upped rez, etc...

really defeats the purpose of a thread like this..

On topic...

Gran Turismo

Fear Effect

Omega Boost

Mario 64

 

[Jonneh3003]

3 pages and no Conker?!

 

[Dagobert Duck]

3 pages and no Conker?!

Conker is even on the first page...

Crash Bandicoot 1-3 as well as Crash Team Racing hold up nicely...

Mario 64 and Smash are by votes for N64

Turok is unplayable for me though...it almost hurts

 

[Tizoc]

Street Fighter EX2 was at one point my fav. looking PS1 game.

 

[Toxa]

no tekken 3 or Parasite eve 2 ?

 

[Terrell]

Tetrisphere (N64) still looks hot.

Oh man, I want another one so bad. And no, Shatter Crash for iOS doesn't fucking count.

The PS1 still had some of the best sprite work for the era imo. Especially megaman X4

Clearly you didn't ever play a Saturn game in your life, then. No, Saturn was the king of sprite-based games in that era, just not enough games that took advantage of it.

 

[Jonneh3003]

Conker is even on the first page...

Crash Bandicoot 1-3 as well as Crash Team Racing hold up nicely...

Mario 64 and Smash are by votes for N64

Turok is unplayable for me though...it almost hurts

My bad

 

[redcrayon]

I think it's fairly common opinion that 2D pixel art from the 8 bit/16 bit era of consoles held up a bit better than PS1 or N64, but I want to hear what you guys think are games that stand above their peers from that time.

2D pixel art from the PS1 era

 

[Lutherian]

World Driver Championship. Activate that Letterbox mode !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-PNa3mGZQ0

 

[bryanee]

Is there any video footage of Saturn Shenmue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZUcPQAMvg

 

[Cheeseman Battitude]

this game is going to look so good in Rare Replay

Unless they leave it like that.

 

[Markitron]

Banjo looks relatively OK, as does F-Zero X.

 

[Gardex]

The Crash Bandicoot games is an obvious choice.
2D games like Yoshi's Story and Rayman are also up there

I'd also like to vouch for the Pokemon Stadium games as they had extremely good looking models

 

[Yrael]

Yoshi's Story.

 

[jett]

Im pretty sure it was a joke.

I'm pretty sure my post was a joke too.

 

[th4tguy]

I think mixed 2D/3D RPG visuals pretty much peaked with Breath of Fire 4.



Just gotta watch out for emulator screenshots that completely ruin the coherence between the 2D and 3D assets.

Now if only we could get bof3 for psp (digital) here in the states.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Played in their original form and not running on an emulator that's improving everything?

I'd say nothing outside of 2D sprite based games.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

Gex Enter the Gecko seems pretty ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3I3icX6u8U

 

[Irminsul]

Plus other similar games like abes odysee and exodus.

Oh yeah, Heart of Darkness still looks nice. I wonder whether I could get the PC version to run which I have somewhere…

Also, I don't think there's another game with that many creative death animations, especially as you're playing a kid.

 

[FloatOn]

Saga Frontier 2 was beautiful

as was Final Fantasy Tactics

 

[SpokkX]

Adventures of Lomax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hUi_B0CdY

Damn that looks great

Misssed that game during the 32 bit era and i love lemmings

 

[synce]

Parasite Eve 2 still packs more atmosphere than many games today

 

[Worldshaker]

Ogre Battle 64 holds up very well today

 

[MaxwellParrish]

I still think Vagrant Story looks good today. The artstyle and presentation is just fantastic.

Can't agree more with this: I find its grafics really timeless. Anyway I think a lot of PS games (don't know about N64, 'cause I didn't have the console) still look great, from the Crash trilogy to Klonoa, from Wip3out to RR4 to Micromachines.

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Best Looking N64 games
1. Turok: Rage Wars
2. Shadowman 64
3. Forsaken 64
4. World Driver Championship

People mention RARE and Factor 5, but those games ran at like 10 frames per second. Acclaim's Iguana and Probe teams had quite the grip on N64 hardware.

 

[Glix]

I had to come back in here to agree with:

Heart of Darkness and the first two oddworld games still look great.

The last time i played Wild 9s i remember being very impressed.

Also South Park Chefs Luv Shack is a shitty shitty game but looks just like the cartoon. (Im in the credits of the n64 rev! My only credits appearance!)