Thread 713978631

Post old games that still look beautiful

>>713979063
>>2011
Fuck me.

There are PS3 games that look worse than this shit.

>>713979063
Too bad the game sucks balls.

>>713979063
>ninokuni
>old
that's not... no it cant be

>>713978631 (OP)
>exact same picture
>exact same subject
why not go through the minimal effort of picking a slightly different one?

>>713979635
fucking this. The gameplay became so shit I couldn't continue playing, despite absolutely adoring the artstyle and characters

>>713978631 (OP)
I have 1 rule in life
If I can see the pixels, I ain't playing it

>>713980729
This nigga doesn't play games

>>713980729
Good, more Japanese girls for me.

Okami 2006 PS2 and Okamiden 2010 DS

>>713978631 (OP)
>beauty is in the eye of the beholder
That's what people with shit taste say when they like ugly shit

I still like the blocky textureless games I liked 30 years ago but I'd never say some ugly pixelated mess made due to limitations in technology is"beautifhl" most things in this thread look like shit

>>713980993
played this shit so much as a kid

>>713981641
You're just stupid, it's okay, someone has to be so it might as well be you

>>713981780
>>713981851
Literally timeless art direction.

Art style is important. Anything going for realism is not going to last.

>>713978890
I wish i knew how to play this game.

>>713978890
Why are them all so fat?

>>713978890
That's KOF 12 right? I remember those sprites but the background stage was different in 13

>>713982384
Whale themed stage

>>713979478
There are PS5 games that look worse.

minecraft

>>713982883
>>713982924
>not old
>looks like shit

>>713983350
It's from 2 generations ago. That's old.

>>713981917
yea timelessly shit

>>713982883
>>713982924
holy kino...

GoW2 in 3x Resolution looks really good,way ahead of it's time.Hell,even the PS3 GOW was ahead of it's time in terms of graphics

>>713978631 (OP)
whats the best version for 12? theres like 3 versions with different job systems

has a certain timeless je ne se quoi

Art design and direction is the reason these games still look good.

The reason a lot of 7th gen games look like ass is because they prioritised realistic looking graphics over art direction, so they look outdated today. Meanwhile the exceptions of that era that prioritised art direction like Dishonored and Bioshock look timeless despite being graphically dated.

everything either looks ass, is modded or its from an enhanced edition
obviously pixel shit aged the least since its a style still used to this day but good luck with anything 3d from the late 90s

>>713983721
All the ports have missing effects and details.

>>713983721
the remaster, IMO, simply because it has the built in speedup feature

only Real Ones™ can appreciate a truly timeless beauty

>>713978631 (OP)
Yoshis Island

>>713984113
holy shit this. That feature alone makes it completely worth getting

>>713984090
didn't they fix that in the steam version

>>713978631 (OP)
Old games objectively look better than new games.

>>713978631 (OP)
Breed the Buns!

>>713984367
>watching grayfruit stream
>he's complaining some newspaper called deltarune an "80's atari-styled game", claiming that was boomerspeak for 'pixel art'
frustrating because undertale/deltarunes 'style' of unshaded, flat colored objects is the closest we've been to 80's atari graphics without specifically making an homage to that era. it isn't pixel art at all, it's more like mspaint slop

>>713979827
Why does it look so comic like? Black outline, bold colours, limited palette, it's that simple... Masaka?!

>>713983721
Legitimately does not matter. They all play the same, the License Board/Job System is not deep or clever enough to change the gameplay or result in varying degrees of player engagement.
Watch the movie on youtube, because that's all XII (and FF in general) is.
For reference, I played the original on my PS2 and just played Zodiac Age for the first time last year. The only notable difference was>>713984113
Same goes for the Pixel Remaster.
Funny how the best compliment you can give modern era Final Fantasy releases is the addition of the potential to skip the gameplay almost entirely.
That's how dogshit this series is and has always been. So many great concept artists, visual effects artists, musicians and voice actors wasted on arguably the worst game designers in the history of the medium.

it's simple
art direction > visual fidelity

>>713985294
So post some good looking shots.

>>713985179
>worst game designers in the history of the medium
Sadly that's just how the japs like it and they wouldn't have it any other way

>>713982708
NIGGA HOW?!! HOW THE FUCK IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!!

>>713985179
>Watch the movie on youtube, because that's all XII (and FF in general) is.
>arguably the worst game designers
why the hyperbole
have you ever played any other random jrpg or game even to say this

I like Wii-level 3D
It's not as limited as PS2, but isn't overly detailed (and brown) like PS3-era

>>713985631
i guy i knew hated Dragon Age Origins because "you press one button and watch them fight" (he barely got past the grey warden ritual, and played on easy)

he beat dragon age 2 5 times

>>713985819
>It's not as limited as PS2,
Barely.

>>713979657
>Back when ubishit haven't fallen for the uglification of all women

>>713985551
idk mang, a lot of my favorite games have also come from Japs. I'm pretty sure it's just the ones at Square, or their approach to RPGs in general.
I genuinely do not understand how you make a game, call it an RPG, and have the player have less than zero emphasis on how the game and/or story play out, with a cast entirely comprised of preset characters in a static world and storyline.
"JRPG" is just a misnomer for Adventure game with shoddy gameplay, regardless if it's Action or Strategy-focused (Turn-Based).
Shit, this series may as well be rebranded as a VN. The writing is pretty much on par with Ace Attorney.

>>713983456
LMAO SMOKED THAT NERDS ASS!

>>713979909
>Eddy smacking himself in the head with a cane.webm

>>713985819
What game?

>>713986209
Lookd like Phantasy Star Online.

>>713981780
>>713981851
Love old gen jungles and vegetation
>>713985943
Honestly, it's enough. A lot of the best looking PS2 games were -really- pushing the hardware past it's limits.
Wii handled transparency, FX, and loads of texture maps in a scene way better.
Haunting Grounds is still the best looking PS2 game ever

>>713985631
It's not hyperbole.
Square's long history of producing nothing notable gameplay-wise makes them strong contenders in my opinion. Sure, there are technically worse, borderline unplayable games made by people/teams that subsequently disappeared off the face of the earth, but a team like Square, for as long as they've been going, with as much disposable income they have?
Yeah, I'd argue their leads are some of the worst, most incompetent individuals of the 21st century. I'll give 'em a break for early titles, even through the late 90s, but they've produced nothing worthwhile in this century, and we're a quarter of the way through it.
I will admit that the implication that XII or any FF should be watched on YT as a movie is hyperbole, considering it implies that any FF has a coherent and/or compelling storyline that isn't overly long for the sake of mystery box revelations.

>>713984090
Doesn't the weather change in some areas? I mean maybe they really fucked it up, not surprised.

>>713986006
Japs like their JRPGs the way they are, that's why they all played the same and sold tons anyway up until recently, when Square started experimenting with real time combat which resulted in a sales decline

Graphical fidelity already peaked with crysis. Lazy developers try conflate art direction with graphical fidelity and get ugly results.

>>713986209
>>713986297
It's Earth Seeker, a MonHun-Pikmin-PSO-like
It's a weird combo that doesn't really work but the game itself is interesting as a sum rather than on individual mechanics

>>71398641
>20 years
>barely improvement, but often much worse results
It's ridiculous

>>713988470
The cover looks awesome, the game like shit. Why is that exactly?

>>713987101
Fair enough, I just wish they required a second brain cell to succeed at. Beating any Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy title has never felt like an accomplishment, more like an on-rails emotional experience derived exclusively from the aforementioned (artists, musicians) than anything game-related.
Can't imagine anybody in Japan has ever thought about a "that part" in a game they actually want to replay for the sake of playing it, rather than the emotional high spiked by the music or a sequence of dialogue.
And all I can and have been asking of Square for two decades now is
>Why not both?
For reference, Dragon's Dogma, flawed as it is, has some of my favorite gameplay AND story sequences. Games like Chess (strategy) can give that same high if you're facing a competitor who gives you some actual competition, and FF has none. The player is irrelevant to the gameplay, and it makes me sad.

>>713988509
10x more expensive too

>>713985179
You are wrong, a retard, and didn't do the side quests

>>713988680
It's not "shit" but the combat is very menu-based.
You have an "action-meter" that builds up every few seconds. You spend it on skills (time pauses while you menu), and lining up certain skills gives benefits.

(At the point of the game I'm in, idk about later) there's no reason for you physically attack the monster. The Pikmin get elemental spells, chaining spells turns them into absolute nukes, so just dodging around, casting spells, and occasionally using the "Call" command to move them to safety is the best combat method. It gets kinda boring but there's an occasional challenging/cool fight.

The real interest in this game is how each quest is vastly different from the last. The common objective is "get the item", but it's a puzzle to get to it.
Sometimes the Pikmin have to physically carry it back to base.
Other times it's locked in a certain part of the map and you need to get a monster part to get to it.

Like in the earlier clip. I had to find the Railgun monster -which was physically inaccessible across a ravine- so I had to blast it with spells while dodging the railgun shots until it decided to change areas. Once I killed it, it drops an item that can be used to nullify lasers, which were blocking my access to the treasure/goal.

>>713979478
jesus christ you're fucking right. I feel like it isn't a fair comparison. Silent Hill 3 was basically running around a dark box with a shitty flashlight.

>>713990285
this looks very Dark Cloud 2 coded

>>713989842
Almost if there are leeches sucking funding dry, like sweetbabyinc. They aren't mere propaganda, they are advancing civilisation and the Multiverse and even god. That's how important they are.

>>713985616
bethesda is incompetent and only kept afloat by simps

>>713984090
right side looks like it's glitching

>>713990285
>It gets kinda boring
Obviously. It does look mediocre in every way. Personally, I think it would've been better if the game has ingame graphics like shown on the cover and a more unique battle mechanic. Such a game could be among the best releases in a year, as pokemon + arpg is really needed, as its always mediocre at best. Imagine the game would have a kick ass story, decent story telling, an unique magic system, cool monsters to tame and train and interesting side content. Easily a top 10 release of the year.

>>713978631 (OP)
When do the vidya makers admit we peaked long ago and start going back?

>>713979478
>>713979657
>>713978631 (OP)
Good choices, might I add the Metroid Primes and Metro 2013?

this footage is not real life, but i know it's almost indistinguishable

>>713985134
it's called cel shading, zoomie

Why are the npcs talking so slowly?

>>713985819
>>713986303
>>713990285
I like this level of fidelity. There's enough detail in the props and environments but a lot of it is painted in the textures. Makes for a clean and readable style. Modern games pushing graphical fidelity are pure eye rape.

>>713990947
How is town building in 2 compared to 1?

>>713980387
Good? The sprites look like they've been cut and pasted with a scissor

>>713991285
I got filtered by 1 as a kid and never went back to it, really should, but 2's is pretty fun.
You get a set of basically guidelines you have to follow to rebuild each town the right way but can do a buncha extra stuff outside of them.

>>713990947
never because normalfags are massive graphics whores

>>713991873
it's the only thing they care about really

>>713991727
Mirror's edge is really the pentacle of good art direction. That game is so beautiful in spite of its age.

>>713992027
its depressing seeing people in twitch streams for geoff showcases or whatever turn off the second there's anything 2D or doesn't look like the newest CoD.

>>713991873
Are they? Consider how Minecraft, Roblox or phone games are a massive success amongst them. Graphicwhorism these days almost works exclusively for millennials and journos.

>>713992271
To be fair, Ori is quite gay. Being 2D has nothing to do with it.

>>713992476
nuh uh

>>713985616
Competency crisis, also Bethesda is known for its nepotism hiring practices.

>>713985819
>>713986303
>>713990285
That looks amazing, I'll check it out later.

Mirror's Edge

>>713992878
BTW, Saudi oil princes are funding a new not-Metal Slug (Blackfinger Jet)

>>713982850
how did they do it

>>713993178
imagine being so rich you can just fund game projects when you feel like it

What's this weird campaign to pretend that RT only implements reflections, and somehow is inferior to the double room method of the past?

>>713992378
I think people stopped being graphics whores due to how graphics now look the same as they did 10 years ago. If I didn't know better, you could tell me that this >>713982883 was Death Stranding 2 footage and I'd probably believe it.

a lot of stylized games from the 2000s look great even now

>>713992676
>Competency crisis
It's really just greed.

>>713979635
>>713980689
filtered
2's gameplay sucks fucking balls though. way to take a decently addicting real time monster catching game and turn it into a total braindead boring slog

imo the best looking ps1 game is omega boost
ps2 is a tie between rogue galaxy, ffxii and black

>>713994058
That's cheating, one uses fixed cameras and the other doesn't. Fixed cameras allows some image composition which is a huge boost to visuals, basically painting a picture.

>>713980387
what is it about old fighting games that just made them so much better than any modern ones?

Rayman 3. This game has many gorgeous areas. At the end of the day the fairy council the most relaxing place to chill.

>>713994404
>Bloody Roar 2

Oh my God you just reminded me of a core memory. My whole family used to gather around the Playstation on Saturdays and play video games or watch movies. Bloody Roar 2 was one of our most played games although we had Bloody Roar 1 as well. I used to play Yugo and Long. My step father would play Fox in BR1 and Jenny in BR2. My little brother used to play Sting. After that we'd watch Rush Hour 2 until it was time for bed. I remember I used to take the in game manual to school and draw the characters in it. Both Bloody Roar and Final Fantasy 7. My mom got me a sketchbook to practice but even before that she used to bring printer paper from her job so I'd always have something to sketch on

>>713979657
>>713982737
game?

>>713995504

I know >>713979657 is the Prince of Persia reboot. Funny thing is I remember no one liked it at the time

>>713985434
nta, but there you go

>>713992098
>pentacle
you mean pinacle?

>>713995504
Second one is Sudeki. I wouldn't say it's a nice looking game or a fun one.

>>713985179
>ree i hate games and you should too, everything is shit, just watch someone else play it on youtube
>god why am i so lonely and everyone hates me
why are you on the video game board if you arent going to engage with the topic
fuck off shitposter

>>713994358
did the free camera put all that fog in?

>>713996427
That's just modern engines being retarded but that's besides the point.

>>713986432
It's definitely hyperbole and it's additional hyperbole to say they've added "nothing" to the genre despite the many and intense changes they've made to dozens of JRPGs that have spiced up the formulas, ESPECIALLY considering FFXII has probably one of the most controversial systems in gaming period that I don't believe has ever been tried before or sense.

I'd bet money that your "gameplay innovations" that you're trying to argue for are either centered entirely around "choice" like you want a CYOA, or based on non-gaming related items like minute attention to details that are irrelevant for 99% of the spectrum of games out there in general, let alone appropriate for a JRPG.

>2002
This game on crt still looks fucking fantastic

>>713991749
I re-played DC2 recently. It was very nostalgic at first but then I remembered how tedious the levels were. And then I got to the golfing...

>>713980130
fucking soul

>>713997215
Oh God this takes me back. I don't know if you're actually playing on a CRT. And if you are then I don't know where you are in game. But if you can, can you go to the Moonflow and take a picture? I'm front of the lake with all the Pyreflies? If memory serves, it's right after you leave Djose Temple

1998

>>713997508
This feels so familiar. Is this Fighting Force 2?

>>713997598
mgs

>>713985616
Modern studio's artists cant texture a skin to save their lives, they throw everything on high polygon models and hope for the best.

>>713997763
I'm stupid as fuck, I don't know why I defaulted to a game no one knows exists

>>713997459
I am playing on a crt pic related is right after the crusaders fight sin. I wish I could anon, but this is my first time playing the game and I am currently right before the boss fight in the ice place. When I can freely wander around will do.

>>713981780
This is by far the best looking area in the game with the most annoying monsters

>>713995625
Yeah it was a clear down-grade from the previous games. Then again that was typical for most franchises back in gen 7. Repeat after me: generation 7 ruined video gaming.

>>713998010
>but this is my first time playing the game
Shit, sorry I won't spoil because you have an A+ experience ahead of you. You must've just got out of Macalania Woods, another beautiful location. Have fun because the game is gonna start stepping on the gas and there's a lot of memories immortalized for me in that game.

>>713995625
it's not a good game, so yeah

>>713998168
It's strange. I was gonna argue that Gen 7 turning video games into multimedia stations is what led to the influx of casuals which then led to the cursed scripture

>we're streamlining X for a broader audience

But then I realized that technically speaking, it was Gen 6 that really kicked off the multimedia video game console. Every PS2 was bundled with a DVD and music CD player which put one in every household. So why was gaming able to retain its identity in the Gen 6 era but got lost in Gen 7? Was it the advent of the internet being in every home, that answer feels too simple to explain how bad things had got.

>>713993490
Based Chibichad. I loved the sense of immersion in the rooms when you're 2 inches tall.

>>713978631 (OP)
2008.

>>713985616
>>scene where 15 characters made with character creator sliders are on screen at once on a detailed open world background
vs
>>scene where there's a single handcrafted character on a blurry mess of a background and nothing else
woow i wonder how it's possible

Waku Waku 7 (1996)
>https://youtu.be/B4nAT4LRllk?t=805&si=9Up5ZjayOlCunUz4

>>713993178
>pixel art characters
>HD backgrounds
why

>>713997262
Man, fuck Spheda

>>713998018
In the same game that these exist?

>>713999035
Idk, but they are overhauling the visuals so it doesn't look as cheap. This is the newest video I could find:
https://youtu.be/K_nsImL-1N4

>>713990947
Old bad, old racist, old prejudiced. Only new. Only progress.

super mario bros 1 aged incredibly well

Kirby 64 is one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqpeQMw3V4

>>713993756
Style and content > graphics

>>713981780
Why was PSO2 SO fucking shit
God I want to go back

>>713978631 (OP)
pic unrelated?

>>713993153
still have no idea how they made minimalism look good

Practically all SNES games still look good as well as most other 16 bit games.

>>713984367
I don't remember FF7 being that bright. There's definitely some filter in that screenshot.

>>713978631 (OP)
I love ff12 but I'll forever be haunted by that memory of driving back from the shop with my family with a copy of ff12 and the music tracks, pulling out the music disc from the music collection and bluntly realizing that the ost for this game was gonna be fucking ass when it started playing. Embarrassment was so bad I left the disc in the car CD player when we came home.

>>713993153
I do not remember the game having so much specular aliasing

>>714001348
valkyrie profile?

>>713980943
jungle levels are so fun i don't understand why they had to ruin this game with the shitty aliens
Everyone dropped Far Cry because the mutants in the later half are extremely unfun to fight i guess Crytek didn't get that memo

>>713991175
Sure, but that's barely all it takes, is it? Few games nail the comic look. That one looks OK, but certainly doesn't feel comic like.

>>714002843
wow looks better with bloom disabled imo

>>713993343
Imagine having a 50k member family.

>Mayans believed the world went through multiple cycles
>The third cycle began in 8239 BC and ended 13 baktuns later in 3114 BC
>The fourth cycle began in 3114 BC and people thought it would follow the same pattern and end 13 baktuns later in 2012 AD
>They were right the whole time, and now we're in the shit plane of existence
In case you ever wondered why you don't see soul in most vidya and other media anymore, there's your answer.

>>713993756
Why do they look good? Genuine asking.

>>714006335
What else do they say? Did they had vidya or... Idk, dice?

>>714006373
its the art direction + talent + we hit the time most video game graphics started to look real good

>>713992676
>Competency crisis

I'm keeping an eye out for this phrase

>>713991749
I remember my brother playing this game and staring her ass

>>713983721
PC with mods.

>>713978631 (OP)
Game?

>>714006871
what game? looks real nice

>>714006721
A combination of talent and timing. I can accept that.

>>714006871
Ryutaama

>>714007369
Is it good?

played the ghost rider god of war ps2 game, good game

>>713983721
you just play the pc version because it has the most content, you get to do the 100 floor arena thing
and no matter which version you play you'd use speed up anyway, whether in built or frameskip because walking through places backtracking is so fucking slow due to the zone sizes

>>713984004
revenant is a fucking great game

the higher the resolution/clarity/zoom levle, the mor etalent it requires. because you can see flaws more clearly

most devs arnt cut for such high precision graphics and its a waste anyway. it should only be for big shot who know wtf they re doing but the game industry is an industry of parasites trying to rides sliptstreams and pretend their games are as good as actual good games (like a lot of industries really)

2002.

>>713978631 (OP)
2008

>>713991285
worse, because town building in 1 was
>here are town parts, put them together and place them how you like
town building in 2 is
>you have to craft a bunch of bricks and trees with limited/farmable resource, then craft town parts with those bricks or stone, then place them
it results in you having to grind more and pushing decision paralysis on the player by giving them too wide a choice with little or no input on what they should be doing, and having to change it all when you place down a character and they say "i want a brick house not a stone or wood house" after you already made them, leading to you just not putting anything down most of the time until you have the entire town ready to go - but the game stops you doing that because you need to place down people into houses to get their quests to progress the story in some cases
it makes town building just less comfy and less fun than it was in 1

>>714003137
Yes

>>714001348
>not even nibelung valesti

>>713979478
I want to cum on her face if you know what I mean

>>714008767
elaborate

>>713978631 (OP)
>tfw no more tropical kino in games
take me back

>>714003137
>>714008469
Redpill me on Valkyrie Profile. I keep seeing that game come up and it looks really cool on the boxart but I keep missing opportunities to play it. Is it like Star Ocean or something?

>>713983852
god i miss top down dungeon style zelda games. Any games that has this formula?

>>713979063

>we may ever get another console ni no kuni game because they made an mmorpg instead / the 2nd game might not have sold enough

Come on man we need more rpgs these days among these years of being flooded with shooters or souls clones.

>>714008962
it is by the same people who made star ocean, but it is nothing like star ocean. it's just a neat story with good designs, lots of missable stuff though, combat isn't that great depth wise but it's visually and audibly good. vp2 is the better gameplay game

>>713986209
I'm guessing one of the earlier Monster Hunter games.

>>714008628
Here
https://files.catbox.moe/g2vt99.mp4
>>714008962
Just play it and see if you like it. Why do I have to "redpill" you on it?

>>713982883
>>713982924
what game?

>>714008863
benis on face

>>714009312
>bow valkyrie
meta gamer right here. her nibelung valesti animation is far less cool unfortunately

>>714007708
oh damn i forgot this game existed, i remember i didnt finish it because it was difficult at one point

and then they made every game in the series after it look progressively worse for some reason

>>714009237
We just had Expedition 33 and some kusoge RPGs this year.

>>713992878
The animation in these games are too good.

>>713978631 (OP)
2008

Games don't age

Imagine today's graphics with 90s/2000s art direction

>>713984113
The PS2 IZJS version has the speedup. They didn't even improve on that, they just added the shitty blur, broken widescreen and called it a day.

>>713985616
>>713982708
Lighting, you plebs. Basic shit.

>>713985179
Kek are you that jealous contrarian SaGafag?

>>714009312
That's not the full Nibelung Valesti, where's that big-ass spear toss at the end bro?!

>>714009867
>>714010025
Post smexy Judith plx!

I bet Hrist's game will look even better!

>>714007701
yes

>>713980130
What is this? Looks cool

>>714010131
>spear
u wot
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/ygmc2om8.webm
catbox refusing to upload for me so I'm using this for now

>>713998376
sadly I know many twists already. But I am happy to see how it turns out.

>>714010741
I think it's that racing RPG Square only released on Japan.

>>714010741
Im not 100% sure but it's probably Racing lagoon a mix of Jrpg and street racing game, it's japan exclusive but it got fan translation

>>714010131
>>714010835
https://youtu.be/kQV30D3zFdo?t=37

>>713998879
Lul, back in my more autistic years, I wrote a 450,000 word fanfiction about this game, set around 2030 where economics collapse gave rise to a new, high tech industrial tribal era and a return to extreme, high stakes, extreme risk sports to keep the masses entertained.

One bored trillionaire buys a couple of obsolete air craft carriers from a weakened American government and launches an actual "Motorstorm Festival" that tours around the world, free of the laws and restrictions that could so easily be imposed just a decade ago.. It draws millions of people for reasons from partying to concerts to the no holds barred racing in which literally anything goes in your attempt to reach the 100 million dollar prize, with teams professional, criminal and fragmented all competing.

Starts with some young dude trying to avoid suicide who just about manages to exercise his way to a more concrete state of mind and decides to enter the qualifiers being held that year on Bolivia's reopened "Death Road".

Based on a game, filtered through reality. The crashes and tactics were depressing and brutal lol, but the laptop on which I was writing it was lost in a fire...

>>714009291
That looks nothing like any Monster Hunter game.
It's >>713988470

1998

>>714008767
In english doc?

Playing through Primal right now, and I think if I had played this game back in 2003, I would have had my socks blown.

>>714011292
>throws a spear at him
>can't equip a spear in game
makes you think

>>713983426
Intentionally being dense to feel smart by "correcting" somebody. This whole thread could be just PS3/PS4 games, but anyone who isn't a pedantic sperg understands that the actual point of this thread is "video games that look great despite noticeably outdated graphical capabilities"

Every single one of these games would look way better with path tracing.

>>714011873
What's this, Rune?

>>714012312
She makes three appear, one more doesn't hurt

>>714010274
Have some of her hometown specialty instead.

>>713978631 (OP)
https://legendofdragoon.org/projects/severed-chains/

2009

>Can't decide between prerendered backgrounds and pixel art animation.
>What about both

>>714009867
I hate the bloom in Vesperia, makes it look terrible.

I distinctly remember one time in the airport as a 9-year-old looking through some gaming magazine in a book shop and seeing this game in the pages and s0ifacing/losing my diarrhea over it, being blown by the visuals, and seeing what the game was promising.

I wonder what the gaming industry would be like today if we had gotten a Werewolf RPG back in 1999.

>>713997867
fighting force 2 is a disgrace knowing how good the first game was

>>714012465
the very first Unreal

>>713980387
bros, I miss when games had this much soul

2005

>>714009693
>kusoge RPGs
name 3

>>713980943
this was the beginning of the end.
instead of making a video game, devs now say "does our game look like Crysis 1?".

>>714009318
mgs ground zeros or some shit

>>713983896
This, max payne 2 also
They look good and still have total visual clarity, I love this era of graphics

>>714015248
chaos theory's graphics were some fucking sorcery or black magic or something.

>>713984119
>only Real Ones™
>Posts the neutered mass market version and not the far superior original

>>714009234
Nope, any visually similar game will have bullshit "Dark Souls inspired" nonsense attached.

>>714013446
this is pre-rendered

>>713998964
>open world slop is inherently broken and shitty from even the most basic ground level
yeeeeep

>>714016614
Close Combat?

>>714016998
Mod for sudden strike 2

>>714009951
it's only 2x and not 4x
IZJS had broken widescreen too
PC can remove all the ugly graphical stuff

>>713982534
yeah it's kof 12 honestly i prefer a lot of the 12 stages to the changes the made to them in 13

Almost 10 years

alan wake
sc chaos theory
age of empires 3

tons of sprite based games
2d>3d

202X

>>714018073
>posting a game from 2016... bro.....

>>714018073
>No interactivity with the enviroment
>Enemies dissapear once killed
>Not even bullet decals
Too many shortcomings.

>>714018093
i forgot:
heroes of might and magic 5

>>714018150
Technically it counts because it runs on (heavily edited) OpenRA engine. Wheren't these guys from Spain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWpwrmzX8QE

i whish this is not the nostalgia speaking, but SF3 (1997) is one of the most gorgeous games of all time

2008

>>714020246
Game name?

>>714020473
Coffin Explorer.

>>714020473
Womb Breeder

>>714020473
god of war

>>713980387
NIPPON ICHI

>>714020473
Tomb Raider Underworld

>>713985616
By all accounts the Starfield assets are supposed to be more detailed and complex even for a filler NPC character, since the assets are shared with character creation and all. But modern lighting is tantamount to everything realistic-looking games need to look even remotely presentable. Get a shot of anyone standing around indoors with no spotlights and dynamics about, and it will always, unavoidably, indubitably look like absolute rancid dogshit.
Old games lacking those dynamics had to make sure their characters generally look good in almost any context around the game, plus Silent Hill 3 has the advantage of cinematic presentation being an intent, versus Starfield being open world shit that just needs a generalized whatever for the lighting to handle.

I wish that inde devs would make graphics like this or Max Payne
Peak 2001 graphics

2002

>>714013564
I wish legend of mana's gameplay was as good as its graphics

>>713979063
>>714009237
Ni No Kuni 2 sucked ass
Gameplay was repetitive, the story was bad, sidequests were mmo-like (fetch me 10 bear asses), etc.

>>714009234
It's not out yet but Under the Island looks promising

>>714000132
FUCK, I remember this game. So pretty

Beautiful water made with just a few very simple effects/tricks.

>>714022380
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxxuMo_H6Y0

I wish companies cared enough about their games to put in this much detail still.

>>714022380
I got FFXI shortly after it released, realize two weeks in that I had no interest in actually playing the game and just spent the next two weeks exploring as much of the world as I could because the game was so pretty. Led to fun moments of higher level players bailing my ass out in area's I had no business to be walking around just to take in the sites.

>>714011170
You're correct. Parasite Eve also a had a really cool city map. The Front Missions for the PS1 and to a lesser extent Xenogears did it well too.

>>714021141
That the PS1 Lain game?

>>713985819
We NEED to go back.

Doom 3 still looks amazing.

>>713996047
The girl's asses are still unmatched, god bless the perverted nigga who worked on those models

>>713978631 (OP)
>2010 (i think)
few games beat stalker's atmosphere

>>713978631 (OP)
Ivalice is just amazing.

>>714021141
What is this

>>713978631 (OP)
>1999

>>713978631 (OP)
i want fran to pee in my mouth

>>714010310
Alicia's THICC thighs...

>>714024635
>not only did Toy Story 2 come out in the 90s, so did the Toy Story video games
Were they trying to release this stuff before Y2K?

>>713991285
awful idk why people praise it more, dark cloud 1 had buildings that each served a purpose. they thematically made sense too.

dark cloud 2 just throws generic building assets at you and makes you place them around to fill a quota for a checklist, also they have resource costs this time to build which is annoying. It's not even worth spending any time making a town that looks good because the real version of the town in the past/future version of the area all prebuilt depending on your checklist progress in the present.

Time travel also becomes entirely inaccessible in the endgame chapter so its retarded.

bad game.

>>714024473
I really hope the FFT remake is an indication that we might get new Ivalice content in the near future.

2006

>>713982708
>>713985616
>>713990676
retards

RTX ON

The sprites are baked in filtered it wasn't me

>>714025747
Still looks worse.

>>714025747
SH3 still looks better kek
retard

>>714025747
>that soulless stare ready to nag you at the first opportunity

>>714025747
Left still looks better

>>714025747
Starfield woman looks like a porcelain doll, straight up dead.

>>714025984
>>714025997
>>714026183
>>714026237
Being a contrarian isn't a personality.

>>714026349
awful

Far Cry (2204)

I can't believe that HL2 still has better facial animations than most games. And it's fucking dynamic facial animations.

>>714011334
Uh start writing it again???

>>714026515
*2004

>>714025747
silent hill 3 still looks better lmao

>>714026349
But you're the contrarian here? Self own?

>>713984367
Depends. I think that many times they make the mistake that "cleaning" the image somehow equate to improving the quality.

In a similar way happens to remastered OST too, in which they add or remove iconic sounds, instead to just increase the quality of it.
The only time I truly liked more every remastered OST I can think of, was for Final Fantasy XII Zodiac Age.

>>713980130
shame this game actually sucks cock, it has such a sick atmosphere

>>714026563
Mocap is completely useless. It’s literally just an excuse to use a program that launders money through a college

>>714025914
What is this? I just got that nostalgic feeling from the characters and feel like I've played it before, I'm almost certain I rented this at some point.

>>714026458
>>714026628
>>714026675
>t.

>>714025747
artistically left still looks better lol
shaders < art direction

>>714026563
The dead space ones impressed me but theres only like 5 minutes of it total, still looked good

>>714026824
Eternal Poison

>>714026893
>artistically
Kek, what a cope.

>>714025041
seeing how low effort it is, you're dumb

>>714027023
Just awful skin shading

>Starshit apologist are still trying to cope about the shitty game
lmao

breath of fire 4
Digimon World 1
Digimon world 3

One game I liked was this game I forgot the name of but it was a comic book hero wearing red saving his girlfriend. never beat it but it was pretty cool aside from the main character being a typical dudebro chad who gets laid within the firsr minute.

>>713992271
I didn't like the 2nd game as much but the ori games are actually so pretty it's nuts

>>714027240
More like he's baiting you

>>714026889
Another self own? Are you doing a bit?

>>714026513
This is the remake though, not the PSP version.

i always liked that kind of style

can't believe /v/ is disucssing games for once

>>713985819
I've always considered it an awkward in-between. PS2 was artistic, PS4 was kino.

>>713995625
It was way ahead of its time, If they would re-release it people will probably love it now.
Also they never released the dlc-sequel of it on PC, the fuckers

>>713986417
Uh, what's this? Holy based.

>>713978631 (OP)
I miss this game
I miss farming mobs for a full day and feeling like only two hours passed
I miss thinking graphics couldn't possibly get better in my lifetime
I miss just enjoying everything the game offered instead of looking for flaws at every minute
I miss being a happy child

>>714026889
sorry todd nobody liked shartfield

>>714027780
Jesus, you must be such an embarassment for your parents

>>714026087
>one color drowning everything

Looks like shit.

>>713995087
Comfy.

>>713995851
I think you both mean pinnacal.

>>714001348
>>714009312
I love this style of spell animation/effects

>>714026889
Liking troonfield isn’t a personality

>>714006871
>>714009867
>>714010025
>tfw no isekai-trope themed MMORPG with this style

>>714025041
How do you still not realize that Square Enix is a soulless corp doing easy money grabs with remakes and are not the same Square Soft that you used to love?
>B-B-BUT THEY ARE REMAKING IT FROM SCRATCH!
and it still looks bad

>>713981780
>>713981851
I'm still playing to this day.
I love PSO.
Why can't I drop my fucking RR...

>>714029676
>>714029859
>>714029927

>>714015947
a lot of devs back then had mastered the tricks of the era to make most of what they had

it's insane how bad most modern games look in comparison despite having much higher quality assets

>>714018150
Just how many angles did they render those sprites in?

>>714022380
Blows my mind that FFXI ran on the PS2 and still looks as good as it does.

>>714025914
Looks like prerendered sprites but they blurred the fuck out of them for some reason. Still a neat style but I wish they were just a little bit less blurry.

Just gonna post this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ISlVt5nF2c

>>714030047
I keep praying indie devs can get to maybe Dreamcast, possibly 6th gen level graphics but I know they don’t have the team of artists and masters that the actual development teams of the era had.

>>713982708
This cracks me up, everytime.

>>713984649
>what is mother/earthbound

>>713992098
>pentacle
dis mufukka really out here casting spells on us

>>714030651
I mean nowadays you can get by with a lot of cheats allowed by modern engines so really you only need someone capable of the art and art direction

a lot of indie games trying to do some sort of retro 3d tend to fall short on the art direction part imo

>>714000478
good color and light usage
a lost art nowdays

>>713994358
Elysium was still low budget that barely looked better than early PS3 games. Also a stupid game in general. No wonder nobody gave a shit about it, especially the actual VP fans who've been waiting for a Hrist game for decades.

>>713988835
>the definition of the RPG genre isn't a sum of game mechanics but the ability to play dressup and have a bioware romance dialogue
What in the barely aware retardslop analysis

2003

>>714031279
Yeah, i will say some of the n64 throwback games do a pretty good job, plus they don’t have the vasoline smear.

>>713992676
Hey cool it with the anti-Indian dog whistles

>>714026515
does it look better than instincts?

>>714028763
Man... this hits hard...

>>714031848
dishonest as it is modded to hell

it a lot of case, the reason new games don't look as good as old is the quality of the skybox and lights
good skyboxes is a lost art

>breaking the rules
gothic in UE5 in first person

>>713979971
*2006
But, still valid. Gorgeous game.

>>714032615
The game first released on arcades in 2003, then got a console port in 2004/2005, Coast 2 Coast was just an updated version of the port and that was in 2006, but the game itself is originally from 2003

>>714032813
game?

Fantasy games are called Native-Isekai, because the real fantasy games involve things like owning a house or find a wife that loves you or having children.

>>714032813
wait isn't that an area in frontier, didn't you need a jap phone line to register before it died and private servers became a thing?

Where did all the soul go bros? I miss it

>>714032897
Some old Monster Hunter

>>713980995
Okami is one of my favorite games ever.
Okamiden is trash and shouldn't exist. Disaster in every field except the music.

>>714032042
>capital I in indian
Cringe.

>>714033448
It's a proper noun.
I capitalize the J in Jews too.

>>714033580
they're called kikes and you should murder them not capitalize them

>>714010037
It's not just lighting retard, it's the texture work and aggressive use of normal maps. Might as well be literal wizardry by today's standards.

>>714001810
Probably the first time I see someone complain about FFXII's soundtrack.
The music for dalmasca estersand still plays joyfully in my head to this day.

>>714033580
Holy Cringe.

I don't often see people bring up Jet Force Gemini when talking about Golden Age Rare, but I think it is one of their best looking games and definitely one of the best looking N64 games.
Has some really nice, large environments.
Happy it's playable on the Switch, but without proper button remapping, it is kind of a mess to play with Joycons. Guess you can buy that N64 controller.

>>714033684
Cope Ahmed

>>714034085
Oh no, it's another "you must be for muslims or for jews ONLY" americuck.
Fight for your own people for once.

>>714032884
I thought what you posted was C2C. Doesn't really matter though.
Wish you could still play it online, but I suppose emulation exists for the Xbox/PS2 version.

>>714034085
from my point of view they're all shitskins and their lands should be bombed until only sand remains

>>714034715
There's an online scene for PC C2C, there was a surge last year with the release of new fan patches but I don't know if it died down in the meantime

>>714030025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxeXLfCcFE

>>714033936
How well does it run on the switch/2? I never got aorund to finishing it back on the n64, still have it on my shelf. I remember really enjoying parts of it, but the horrible framerates (pal) put a real damper on it

>>714035268
STOP

Any Metal Slug is still a blast to look at.

>>714035412
Played through it with a friend last year and I think it ran about as well as any emulated N64 game. That is, targeting 30fps as it's the NTSC version. Think it's significantly better than OG hardware, but dips will happen when you're blasting shit.

>>714035568
I'll have to get around to it someday. I wish this was the game they'd put on the GC instead of Dinosaur Planet, it already looks great on the N64 aside from the fps

>>714023396
What game is this?

>>714036356
it looks like Super Black Bass but i'm not 100%

>>714036356
>>714036612
it's Super Black Bass 2 on the Super Famicom had to correct myself

>>714036612
>>714036612
Thanks friend. Can never have too much fishing kino

>>714036962
play stellar blade then

>>713978631 (OP)
You first

>>714033936
So many people got filtered by this kino game even back in the day. I loved it.

>>714033158
sauce?

>>713985616
the world will never know anon

>>714012379
>"video games that look great despite noticeably outdated graphical capabilities"

The webm fits this.

>>714039394
>AAA studios be like
>yeah lets just outsource everything to turdworld it will be fine
and simps just eat it up

>>714014954
damn that looks cool

>>713985616
tranny/japanese devs

>>714025747
left looks better

>>714030905
You're thinking of a pentangle.

>>713985616
It is just good texture work, anon.

>>714040129
I am convinced that the first three Spyro games lend themselves best to upscaling. Those clean, simple textures look just as good at pretty much any resolution.

>>714025747
You have to admit the faces in starfield do look really good by Bethesda standards, especially when they had helmets on it looked great

>>713982883
>>713982924
The FOX engine was absolutely amazing for its time, too bad Konami fucked everything up

>>713979909
>>713979063
The English ps3 version came out 2013, only the jap version was 2011. It's old, but I felt like 2011 was still a bit too early.

>>713978631 (OP)
The party character designs in FXII are boring as fuck though, bar the brown rabbit-lady. The non-humans are boring too. It's also boring in gameplay

>>713982384
The designer had some sort of body type fetish.

>>713985616
Western devs have never been good at making attractive people

>>714012379
ps3 is retro now unc. Back to /vr/

>>713978631 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHgBplll8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx5w9r4v8JM

>>713995737
>Blood gulch in the demo
>Silent Cartographer in the demo

They made the perfect demo to sell a game. Heck they even made Sgt Johnson shilling the game at the end

>>714007369
>PAPAPAPAYA PAYA PAYA
back when I still had sovl...

>>714044648
Japan's 2D art has always been great. I miss the PS1 --> early PS2 era when nearly all their output was 2D games. When everyone started transitioning to 3D is when Japanese gaming went to shit.

>>714047125
>I miss the PS1 --> early PS2 era when nearly all their output was 2D games
Me too

These threads always frustrate me because Phantasy Star Online will get posted and the areas look so cool and then if you ask anyone if it's fun to play they go "no".

>>714021285
coom

>>714048576
I dled a couple of games to try because of cool areas posted in these threads and the games themself weren't that great. It's just how it is sometimes.

>>714009237
>Come on man we need more rpgs these days among these years of being flooded with shooters or souls clones.
Anon, are you still living in the 2010's?
>Octopath Traveler 2
>Shin Megami Tensei V / Vengeance
>Dragon Quest trilogy remake
>Kiseki
>Tales of
>Expedition 33
>Live a Live remake
>Like a Dragon
>Metaphor
>FF7R
>P3R
>Triangle Strategy
>Unicorn Overlord
>Eiyuden Chronicles
>Atelier
>SaGa Emerald Beyond
>Raidou remastered
>Star Ocean Second Story R
>Bravely Default 2
And probablt more I forgot

>>714022014
is this the Lara Croft where you go underground in an egyptian like cave and there's dinosaurs down there?
I remember when I was playing it, i got scared shitless of a Gorilla or something, because it would do ridiculous damage. and I would run from it, then check its position, and the fucker kept moving forward. like those videos of cats stalking and whenever you look away they get closer?
shit scared me to my core

>>713979063
Hang on, this just came out a few years ag-

>>713997508
it looks really aesthetic despite the primitive tech

>>714028753
Crysis

>>714005042
what a legendary start to a game
shame about tft

>>714015101
>>714011873
>>714012465
unreal and quake are pure kino, dewd

>>714012284
looks aesthetic as fuck

>>714015248
>CT
I grew up on this shit and I had such high hopes for GVMING.

>>714022014
fucking zamn, I had no idea her ass was that juicy. Is this modded or vanilla? I've never played TR games because I didn't get the appeal of exploring empty ruins as a female.

>>713985294
emulated dos looks pretty good

>>713985551
Most of the best action games come from japan, are we really going to pretend western slop is any better.

>>714052815
Quake at software/pseudo-software renderer engine fork played on CRT at 640x480 with scanlines is pure kino.

>>714050748
This seems like Anniversary, the game previous to the one captured in webm.

>>714020776
more like 2024

>>713997459
Not that guy. I tried with an old save and have no idea wtf I'm doing. It's been so long since I've played that game.

Dragon Quest 8 and Mark of the Kri look great on CRT. Photos online do them no justice.

>>714024832
based Alicia enjoyer