Thread 724005698

Beach aesthetics are cool, but what i really miss is the 2000s city nights

>>724005754
max payne 1?

>>724005754
I hope the Max Payne remakes (assuming Remedy doesn't die before they're done) can capture the mood. The Noir York sections in Alan Wake 2 were very appealing visually at least.

>>724005698 (OP)

Nothing beats 2000s urban game settings

>>724005698 (OP)
I live in a mud hut, so I find urban night visuals like >>724005963 spooky.

There's something really comfy about this 2000s blocky era

>>724009927
>>724010050
Very reminiscent of Dude Sex.

>>724012289
It's just a follow up to Perfect Dork really.

>>724012731
Makes sense.

imagine if omikron had been a good game

>>724013801
Fahrenheit was good for the snowy city vibes, but not for much else.

>>724013801
I don't even remember what I read about it around 20 years ago. Only that it was technologically troubled, which was more like the norm back then.

holy shit it's boomer in here

>>724005698 (OP)
If you miss it, you should know that you can visit it in virtual reality. I've been there, it's comfy. VR Chat

>>724005698 (OP)
Agreed.

this is my type of thread

game: UT99

>>724016874
Is that a community map? Don't remember it from the game's roster.

>>724017015
yea it is

>>724017126
>epictownv2

>>724009590

99% of remakes are shit.

>>724017631
hoping for that 1%. I've won poker hands with lower odds than this.

>>724017405
Game?

2000's urban core:

Max Payne 1 (2 as well but not as memorable)
swart 4
Darkness 2007
FEAR
getting up (mark echo's)
L4D
Condemned (literally the game)
Vampires Bloodlines
GTA 3 and 4
Matrix
Kane Lynch (underrated)
classic Splinter Cell titles (a few levels)
Hitman Contracts and Blood Money
Prototype

these are released in the 2000's depicting it's contemporary environment, we don't count games that depict futuristic settings or I'll be here typing til christmas (but it is a sister-aeshtetic in my eyes as it was also urban and gritty)

>>724018139
filename retard

first the darkenss

The 2000s was just the 90s with a hangover

1999 was the peak of human civilization

>>724017126
>Phobos
>Deck 16
>Gothic
>probably Fetid
>who knows what else
I missed that. Just had a practice session and while I'm rusty as a truck that spent 50 years near a sea shore I still came out on top in a Masterful practice match. Barely, with a -13 score for a while.

VTMB is 90's coded.

>>724018408
Adding Tony Hawks Underground on the list

excellent taste

>>724018826
how do you play ? is there a github page ?

>>724019569
God I love how dirty and bleak Manhunt is. A real shame about 2...

>>724020208
Yep, Carcer City always creeps me out

>>724018719
>1999 was the peak of human civilization
pretty sure it was the 50s

>>724020089
I just launch the same game I've installed in apparently 2006. I suck so much now that I've come second to last on Liandri but it's my favourite map for a reason because the second match I came first with a respectable lead. Long way to getting back into reliably beating Godlike on Hardcore and otherwise.

>>724020089
I still have an archive, and it's not 2006 but close enough (2010) and I think it's an UHA archive as 7z fails to even open it. I can upload it if you want. Not sure it will work out of the box on whatever "modern" OS you use as modern MS kept getting worse and worse and pretty sure they've thrown out a lot of backwards compatibility after 7.

Also found a 7z and repacked it with a newer version. Will upload in a few minutes.

>>724020908
There were no video games in the 50s. It can not be the best.

all of this looks absolutely depressing and lifeless

UT99
https://limewire.com/d/wtD3n#K4gQqgEqxQ

Is very this map are okay?

Is you this love normal behavior?

>>724010615
Bro - Urban Chaos (pc) was awesome. The latter half of the game threw me when I was a kid.Good taste. Kind wish they'd remake it, but it just wouldn't be the same.

>>724005698 (OP)
close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP_3oo3RCGo

a lot of these images looks ten times better than the new gamefreak game

>>724024217
>posts some gay shit
>uses a Fred durst Pepe
Youre dishonoring the badge. Get it together.

FF 7

>>724026539
good shit on calling him out

There's something about these environments that is more than compelling and I can't articulate why.

>>724029668
For all the shit and flaws it was real. Genuine.

>>724029668
it takes you too another place familiar but distant

>>724029524
dromund kaas.... home...

>>724005698 (OP)
I just like how maps look like source engine. Like in Garry's Mod. At least the ones with effort put into them.

it also feels like nowhere in the world is lonely anymore, theres always someone around no matter where you are.

>>724009590
Have you seen modern Remedy?

>>724012289
first pic is, but it's Revision mod

>>724019301
Kingpin has some major bullshit game design, but the aesthetics are godly.

>>724030178
Yup, they're still making ludo.

>>724030485
beautiful art direction, too bad the game is horrendous dogshit

>>724030485
>game ruined by nig
Ehh...

>>724018408
>>724019301
You're missing Half-Life 2 mod: Grey/standalone game: Remorse the List. The Warriors, Project Crypt, and if I'm being honest some newer indie games called Pigface and Butcher's Creek.
And I suppose maybe Jawbreaker if I were to stretch that list, but the gameplay was just meh and it doesn't look early 2000s so maybe forget it.

>>724030069
Close but you still haven’t figured it out yet. We are surrounded by people at all times but individuals have never felt lonelier.


Also


pprrrt!!!!! BbrbrbrP!! (__)0(__) [\spoiler]

>>724030725
nice
Game?

>>724032848
Generation Zero

>>724005698 (OP)
Big City Nights, first thing I thought of reading that sentence.
>2000 Man was the second thing I thought of (RIP Ace).
>>724014037
Get off my lawn zoomer.

>>724005698 (OP)
Is there any guides on companion mods or archives with saves or edited files? I see shit like Lily being listed in pda but she is just not doing anything and none of dialogues lead anywhere

>>724031840
Oh and I forgot, traque too>>724018408
>>724019301

Otherwise that's mostly everything for Urban Decay that I know. But you deff need to include The Warriors regardless.

>>724019957
man i wish i liked u2... the difficulty settings suck, the forced tuning is a crime in a game like this and a there are WAY too many races that are just copypaste of one another...

Robocop Rogue City has this vibe

>>724030950
>AAAAAAHHHH NIGGERS

>>724005698 (OP)
>the tomorrow of yesterday is now the future of the past

>>724033914
you know the people who worked on this game loved robocop. They nailed everything from looks to gameplay

>>724033556
I didnt include warriors because they do not depict contemporary era of the release (that is the 2000's) and I explicitly mentioned that in that post thinking that someone would bring up the warriors

>>724034264
>The sneed of yesterday is the feed of tomorrow

I made one in Minecraft (PS4) some years ago.

>>724009590
It would be really, REALLY fucking difficult for them to fuck it up. So you can bet it will be dead on arrival.

>>724013946
I remember thinking it was good right up until fucking angels started flying at him and attacking. At that moment I knew I had traded in like a quarter of my gaming collection in for fucking garbage.

>>724035350
too much grass, needs more concrete

>>724029941
Some Garry's Mod maps are just oozing with atmosphere that I wished they belonged to real games.

>>724005698 (OP)
Which Batman game was this?

>>724015043
The fog as a way to hold back on draw distance added so much soul.

NIGHTMARE modpack for Left 4 Dead 2

>>724035835
wasn't there a yt vid where someone explores this map in vr (non autistically), it was around 2020/21, such a great vid

>>724036216
Holy soul

>>724029941
>>724035835
Figure I'll post one more.

>>724029941
de_nightfever.
was my favorite when i played css. check it out.
>>724030069
you know, this description reminds me of how the old gta games felt. odd mix of this + isolation. hearing the sounds of the world around you and watching npc's and cars fade into the distance.
>>724030105
tried to get into this game numerous times, but always dropped it. very high quality maps + visuals tho. it's why i kept trying it.

>>724030105
gamu?

>>724005698 (OP)
Technology is not good enough for it yet

>>724029668
It's the contrast. Modern videogames rarely get this dark and contrasty.

Why so much dark though? Honestly i think it had something to do with CRT being the defacto standard for so long and CRTs have perfect black levels.

>>724039060
ballisticNG

>>724036049
Yep, definitely.

Good thread. I actually can't fault Bloodlines 2 for its night city, it looks great in most places, the problem is that it's empty as fuck and there's literally nothing you do in the overworld besides fighting some random goons, and the game itself is shit.

>>724041920
I also have no idea how to remove UI

>>724005698 (OP)
I hate real life cities.
I'm too autistic for the constant noise, lights shining through gaps in your blinds at 4am, frequent bizarre stinks caused by overflowing stormwater drains, incessant helicopters ferrying boomer cardiac patients and raped minority women to hospital and the ever-present mirror windows on high rise buildings that overlook you at all times and you can't see them but you know people might be in there. Watching you. Looking. With their eyes.

>>724005698 (OP)
Check out my Gmod map. It's 2000's urban dark citykino

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3430625966&searchtext=lower

>>724045146
All I'm getting from most of these is that vertex colour lighting your environment is very important.

>anons reposting some of my screenshots
feels warm and fuzzy man

>>724043027
Looks fantastic

>>724033660
Yup, U1 is better.

>>724043027
How long did it take?

>>724049442
I miss that short era of 3d vidya where textures were just photographs.

>>724005698 (OP)
soul
the only "recent" game that gives me similar feeling is deus ex human revolution, detroit was cool

>>724049508
First map I made. Took about 2 weeks of 3 hours and a restart midway once. I was learning hammer as I went.

>>724043027
>>724051246
Not bad though it's missing something. Could've used some better colors, maybe?

>>724051246
Wish I had a means of exporting Hammer maps to Godot or Unity. I'm just so used to the brush style of workflow that I can't get with Blender. Looking good for a first map though. Only thing I'd suggest is lightmap shadows for the underside of the table/chairs in that diner.

BAN
LED
ADS
RETVRN
TO
PVPER

>>724029556
forced soul

>>724030473
Love it how everything jiggles and wobbles with the OpenGL renderer like they were made of jello. The game was hard as fuck at least in the beginning, men built like tanks of jiggly meat beating you up with lead pipes and eating 9mm bullets for breakfast

>>724051703
>Wish I had a means of exporting Hammer maps to Godot or Unity
This is already possible for both
There's nothing about a game engine that prevents importing data, you just need to make an importer for it. Source engine and even Quake .bsp can be imported to both engines

You could have at least tried to look into it anon
https://github.com/H2xDev/GodotVMF

Good thread lads

First half of Fighting Force is about brawling in the city with alternate paths to take.

>>724052221
NT in the Mirrors Edge universe.

Play Transmissions: Element 120

Free source mod on steam that shows the upper limit of autism in Source Engine mapping. Solo Dev and it took years iirc.

>>724005698 (OP)
None of this will come back in the rest of the American US mcEmpire’s dwindling cultural existence because zoomies like to eat literal human fecal matter and liquid squirting shit
Zoomers are content with shitslop like infinite sportsnigger ball zoomblox zoomcraft valheim zoomnite ass creed pig shit, and devs know it

How has cyberpunk not been posted yet?

>>724055498
>zoomers reee
>posts a millennial
what did he mean by this?

>>724055557
this is about 00s city night aesthetics

>>724015043
I always found GTA3 depressing which is why I didnt look back when Vice City and San Andreas came out. Sunny with palm trees clears hard.

>>724029668
It's the clean graphics. Simple square shapes and lines with baked lighting. Your eyes read a area instantly and know what is in the gamespace and what isn't. It's pleasant on the eyes.

Modern game has smooth rounded plastic look, tons of clutter everywhere and harsh dynamic lighting. It's ugly.

>>724024217
Tell me you're missing a frontal cortex without telling me

>>724019569
>>724020208
>I GOT A NOSE FOR THE DAMNED AND IT'S TELLING ME THAT YOU'RE HIDING HERE SOMEWHERE

>>724056251
And modern games are obsessed with REALISM, and top it off all maps have markers or yellow paint telling you where to go or which items can be used. It just takes you out of the experience entirely.

>>724056251
This. It has irked me for decades that 90% of gamers and devs are obsessed with fidelity and graphics, and how now GPUs cost twice the price of a full PC + a monitor back in the day, but games look exactly the same, have 0 gameplay, they look ugly and have no aesthetics. Majority of games look like 3d asset flips now. No soul. When will they learn that less is more. Your video games don't need to look like real life or even like movies - they just need to look like fucking video games.

>>724018408
It's a shame most of these games suck. Only Blood Money, MP1, and VTMB are good.

>>724005698 (OP)
The best aesthetics are the ones you never ever see again

>>724013801
As someone who still has the three disk foldout, I do. Still fucking loved that game. Anachronix kind of made up for it despite bombing.

Still, the dialogue alone…back when they made games for gamers and passion because we were nerds. Now everything is normies and I’m old.

nights should be orange from sodium vapour lamps

>secret kino aesthetic
>blood omen 2 city levels
>soldier of fortune 2
>007 night fire

>>724057864
>driver 2
>crazy taxi

>>724058071
Sorry meant driver 3

Also add true crime streets of la

>>724005698 (OP)

It's both hilarious and really, really, really sad that Pokemon ZA actually looks worse and sounds worse than Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines in every single way.

No voice acting, no NPC specific animations for conversations, the environment is way more sophisticated. Also, the art design in Bloodlines is not only way stronger but despite being from 2004 actually manages to have a more livable city environment, it's a world that actually reacts to player actions beyond "here's something that
wants to fight you".

Troika is the antithesis of Game Freak / TPC.
Pure soul vs truly soulless.

>>724005698 (OP)
You don't enjoy modern lighting?

I never played GTA 3 or Shenmue, any mandatory mods or are they good as-is? Shenmue playable on PC with kbm?

>>724056608
megalolz

>>724053770
I bet this is from the remustard version

>>724059683
You'd be wrong.

>>724060259
I bet it didn't look so vibrant. Or maybe it was the shitty 17inch LCDs of the time

>>724060413
>LCD
Found your problem.

>>724030725
was gonna say this looks exactly like sweden then i looked it up and it's set in sweden. very cool

>>724029941
I see INFRA assets but it's no place I recognize. What is that

>>724060764
alternative 80's sweden in which sweden mattered

>>724028907
>
whats this one?

>>724062730
They have some comfy environments in the game. Wish I could get my friends to play it more than one evening in total.

>>724057836
>tfw my neighborhood still has orange lights
night walks are still peak

>>724009927
>>724005963
>>724005754
I was extremely fortunate to grow up with these games

>>724064121
Midgar was my favorite part of FF7.

Batman and Robin for Playstation has great aesthetics but literally everything else about the game is shit

>>724020908
>women couldnt vote
>no civil rights
ah, youre a r/pol edgelord

>>724019846
what's the best way to play GTA3?

>>724065826
PC version with all the ps2 content restored. Looks cleaner than upscaled through pcsx2, has a vastly more stable framerate and you can the option of both controller or kb/m.

>>724057035
Couldn't reverse search this one, what game?

>>724066802
Looks like need for speed underground 1 to me.

>>724062994
Max Payne

>>724065354
Or maybe he likes that a family in his country could afford so much without both parents slaving away in cubicles with endless overtimes. Or that they could afford more than 0.33 children per family. Or that day to day life felt much safer in middle class neighbourhoods, which were larger and more numerous. Or he doesn't like the fed doing fed things like what happened in 1971.
Maybe he considers the downsides an acceptable sacrifice for that. Maybe he even believes that the downsides can be circumvented or even fixed. You never asked. You just jumped to retarded conclusion right away. Just like the strawman you dragged in, you're also exactly the same part of the retarded "culture" "war", just with a different coat of paint.

>>724065354
can you blame him for being nostalgic about the times where the industry was still in the us and the companies had to actually pay taxes?

>>724010615
ugh I got to do the necessary legwork to get it working on pc.
I want a remake of sort of it but I know that there is no way that it won't work out terribly

Where is the anti-soul gas????

>>724071641
It has a black female protag, so that alone would make it impossible to duscuss on /v/

>>724005698 (OP)
this thread is depressing, art direction was so much better back then

>>724018719
the 90s with a hangover is infinitely better than what we have now

>>724071843
Be inspired instead of depressed. Improve, create.

>>724005698 (OP)
This is more akin to 1980 city than 2000s one tbfh.

>>724071262
ah nice

People used to shit on it for being a bad sequel but for me the urban industrial setting was excellent.

>>724073442
Which BloodRayne is that?

>>724073606
2

>>724071760
Shut the fuck up you weasely nasal cunt.

>>724033923
yup

cool thread

Cant wait for indie devs to get nostalgic over this era of vidya.

>>724080478
We're 7-10 years away from that. Right now we are psx n shiet.

>>724017631
System Shock and RE2 were good

>>724057970
Beautiful

>>724081003
Sequel when?

>>724005698 (OP)
comfy winter night setting is probably the ONLY thing vtmb2 has done right

>>724017051
this a cs1.6 map or something?
I love downloading obscure cs maps, finding maps lost to time that nobody played. really a weird time capsule, makes me feel like an archaeologist. stumbling upon late 90s-early 2000s artifacts left there like movie posters or songs from the time is fun as fuck

>>724083018
vtmb1 player apartment is peak comfy. I have no idea how they managed to fuck that up in vtmb2. How did they come up with an idea to have a dead cat on the floor in a mold heap in your safehouse?

>>724029941
source engine is so good and comfy

>>724049602
imagine if need for speed had some crazy maps that the old games used to have

>>724054217
>Transmissions: Element 120
nice, i will, always on the lookout for some cool hl2 mods

>>724013801
It was tho, even with it's shitty side gameplay mechanics (gunfight and brawl).

playan Chaser (2003, completely unmodded) and man, look at this motherfucking SCALE.
Now this is oppressive and dystopian, completely mogs CP2077

>>724081294
Never. It would require a proper investigation to even figure out who owns this right now.

>>724085454
Given the series ended with porsche I enjoy what I have.

>>724005698 (OP)
So reverse solarpunk? nightcities essentials.

>>724087661
Love this compilation. Saved.

>>724005963
>>724063828
gta 3 hits different than any other gta. its not even my favorite but this game nailed atmosphere perfectly. can hardly think of any game that does it better

>>724087661
Soul

>>724083946
what's this?

>>724020908
50's where a bubble built on massive amounts of war loot, it was actually the 1850's.

>>724065354
>but muh womens
Lmao.

>>724090650
Me on the bottom

>>724090650
The times you could sit on a soft couch without being afraid that it's soaked in various bodily fluids of hobos and junkies, and it's not ridden with lice and bed bugs.

>>724015043
GTA3 really captures the dreariness of living in urban hell. The gray, foggy, cold dreariness. Every color washed out by overcast skies, trash just floating around everywhere, rude ass people who are all frustrated about the same things you are and wish to go home to try and forget it all for a little while, but they can't because of the never-ending noise and lights outside their window.

>>724091309
it's the permanent audio echo and trail effect that does it for me

>>724014847
buy me a headset then
I sold my Quest 2 a couple of years ago unfortunately

>>724005698 (OP)
irl my experience with being in a night city has been bad. people act like i am a criminal or that i am vile and avoid me. it just makes me want to stay inside

>>724051984
how?

>>724026471
wat map?

>>724071641
Just get the GoG version

>>724091446
but Tyrone... you ARE a criminal

>>724091446
Have you tried being white?

>>724085478
>>724085278
Game?

>>724053427
fuck yeah jews won't let me upload files so i'm glad someone let me scream. I would've chosen a night level though. it's also unbelievable how more detailed it looks in my memory. aesthetic kino

>>724093439
Yakuza 5, this is specifically Sapporo that you only get to visit for one day.