Thread 724724242

Post game visuals that stuck with you since childhood

Scenes from the game, menus, loading screen artwork, cover art, character art, anything visual that makes you stop and think "damn.."

>>724724242 (OP)
I love the dark colors they used in gen II in general.

Something about this moment always stuck with me.

>>724724242 (OP)
Soul. One of the best looking aesthetics for a pixel art based game.

>>724724242 (OP)
This used to be revolutionary back then

>>724724242 (OP)
Gen 2 is the peak of pokemon's artstyle. It literally never improved from there.

home

>>724724242 (OP)
why are the flowers jiggly ballsacks?

>>724724551
It reminds me of 90s cartoons before they all changed to digital animation in the 2000s. Probably had something to do with the lack of backlight on the GBC.

>>724725589
If your balls look like that you should go to a hospital.

Stop making me remember that Gamefreak used to be seen as competent in regards to visuals.

>>724725589
It's to highlight the diversity and inclusiveness of gen 2's fanbase.

>>724725737
damn, I can't believe Nintendo made the first video game with a female protagonist ever.

>>724725589
everyone who liked Johto was very homosexual. see the same 2 faggots repeating the same shit and spamming the same images like in every Johto /v/ thread

>>724725639
i mean i got 2 of them. if you have a blue or green mouth you should go to the hospital or see a therapist

>>724725691
Only on the Gameboy, hence why they continued to make games for the 1989 platform until 2002.

>>724725797
It's just proof that the only people who like gen 2 started with it.

>>724725943
>>724726350
This. I'm glad normal people finally see the light. Those early zoomers are unfortunately doomed to suck gen ii's cock forever.

>>724726130
The kind of post only a retarded ESL 12 year old could make.

>>724724242 (OP)
>you can't hear pictures
uhm

>>724726490
Your post does not have a complete sentence, ESLtranny.

>>724726420
Johto really is the zoomer region. Early 1996 zoomzooms started with GSC and late zoomies started with HGSS.

>Even just starting a thread with an image of Gen II attracts the anti-Gen II schizo
RIP thread

>>724726581
>earrape fucked kanto remix
ew

>>724726984
>I ran out of shit to samefag about
Sorry to hear that.

Not sure why, but Eternal Champions' visuals always stuck with me. It looks way better than almost every other Genesis game. The backgrounds are so detailed I would put them above SF2's backgrounds in terms of quality.

>>724727271
dayum

>>724724242 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5d1rrbNo3o

Venus lighthouse has never left my head even after all these years.

>>724724242 (OP)
The sewage biome of all things from Marathon 2: Durandal has always resonated me, the bright yellow-green glow of the lamps, that color filter when you go underwater, and that metallic earthy texture, copper + chartreuse remain my favorite two color pair to this day

This place felt like a dream and a nightmare.

Delta: Hidden Forbidden Holyground
https://youtu.be/CCMkh8MRMNQ

>>724728335
game?

>>724728538
Bomberman 64

>>724728335
i used to wander around blue resort and green garden all the time. kino game

>>724725737
>by Flora Merigold
Why are trannies always so obvious? Why can't they at least TRY to blend in by picking a subtle name? When I hear the name Flora Merigold I can't but imagine some lanky pasty white disgusting tranny that wears fishnet arm sleeves, practices "dark arts" and has a cauldron in his father's basement.

I can still hear the rain in my head.

>>724724551
They are very vibrant

>>724725539
I don’t have any pics in my phone but check out chained echoes. The intro has a City with this same aesthetic but in 2D pixel form that you can somewhat explore

For some reason I have always found HoMM2 menu screen really nice and comforting.

>>724724242 (OP)
For childhood there's a few but playing Ridge Racer for the first time, coming from SMK, blew my 6 year old mind. Also gave me a love of most arcade-style games, they're gameplay in its purest form.

>>724726532
This Series is the reason why we can't say that Kojima is a hack.

>>724729745
>"post game visuals"
>posts ai fan art

>>724725606
The night time in GSC looks so good because of the predefined color palette. As the game changes from Morning to Day to Night, it uses a completely different color palette for each of the three times. In nearly all games today, dynamic lighting and color filters are used instead. There very little hand-crafted detail when it comes to defining how an environment changes in certain lighting compared to the old 2D sprite games.

>>724729881
What's the difference between playing against a bot and playing against the computer

>>724729641
Seems cool, I was looking for a new game.

>>724726420
>>724725943
>>724725737
>>724726904

holy shit i thought the schizo that shits up every thread gen 2 ever gets mentioned in was just a board legend

>>724729203
harvest moon?

>>724730730
sup yawnie

>>724730251
The bot is a third party hosting or setting up the game or whatever

>>724730730
kek ok dude

>>724725207
>>724730503
i dont get it. why the cigarette and blindfold?

>>724731282
wow what great proof, not like there havent been browser scripts that can do that for decades

>>724731510
its pleasant to puff in the dark

>>724731556
>4chanx
Kek

>>724731556
and your proof it's all one schizo? oh wait you're the schizo?

>>724731510
Old trope where people being executed are blindfolded and get one last cigarette
It's saying the cartridge guys are gonna hang themselves because they were btfo by disc games

>>724724242 (OP)
This picture is my red apple. I can see it and play the game in my head.

>>724731770
>>724731897
wow, thanks, kind of morbid... in today's standards
the world really changed in just a few years, huh...

Hey You Pikachu was a terrible game, but I remember loving exploring the different areas with Pikachu as a kid. It was like having your dumb pet follow you around, but you still loved him anyway.

>>724732397
It's just a different audience. Printing in a gaming magazine = your audience is nerdy guys and young boys. basically the same audience that frequents this board. How many times have you seen "__fags on suicide watch" here?
whereas marketing today goes through whole commitees designed to make it as inoffensive as possible so it doesn't get automatically banned. You couldn't even reference su*c*de or someone being heckin unalived without the almighty algorithm sending your ad to the shadow realm.

>>724732397
Magazine ads basically reached peak edge in the late 90s to mid 00s. Absolutely no fucks were given.

>>724724242 (OP)
Good thread

>>724732817
The second half anyway. Johtonigger faggots can kill themselves.

>>724732591
yeah true. recently south park clips where cartman threatens his gf to kill himself if she dumps him resurfaced. it kinda sounds weird to make threats suicide, because it has become so taboo nowadays. and i understand it, bullying, mental heath, depression and shit like that appears all over the news, but still, people have changed a lot really fast. and im just 29, im not that fucking old goddamnit
are people really cornflakes? has the culture changed that much? i dont know

>>724724551
GSC had such good visuals. Very little visual bloat and absolutely beautiful colors

Pokemon Crystal was such a beautiful game.

>>724730730
He's real but it's best to just ignore him, he'll obsessively stalk this thread now for the rest of the day.

>>724732665
Stylistically it eye-catchingly stands out, the tongue-in-cheek innuendo is in small print that makes you focus in to read it. Back when marketers could still be creative and could use all the tools of manipulation available to them.

>>724733025
Personally I think all culture is now filtered through the same narrow band of online platforms, and that's why our culture hasn't changed in like 15 years besides whatever the platforms demanded. It's too centralized to create anything new except when the platform owners bring the hammer down and manually change something.

Like you mention how people changed, but really they're still watching and listening to and playing mostly the same shit from 15 years ago, just in a more advertiser friendly way.

>>724733196
>Kris gets pounded on the train
Topkeek

>>724733196
>bouncing up and down on a train
What the fuck did Gamefreak mean by this?

>>724733197
>source: I'm seething and brown

I don't know what it is about pokemon's gen 2, but the colors they picked were the best imho

Sometimes booster tower's song pops in my head
If i want to humm a song for any reason there is a 30% chance it ill be booster tower's
And the image in my head will follow

>>724733442
>>724733474
You know? I'm shocked I've never seen a lewd parody of that.

I wish modern developers understood the importance of colors and contrast.
Even in realismslop it can be done, but most just stick to the washed out default color palette of Unreal Engine and call it a day.

>>724732976
Kek calm down

>>724733559
Here is where the Johto samefag begins bitchposting because he cannot argue against the anti gen 2 fags without bringing up comfy or you just had to be there.

>>724733513
see >>724733648

>>724733583
This is so damn crisp and contrasty, it feels so "right", like those perfectly cut metal shapes falling back into place, there's nothing you can do to make it look any better

>>724724242 (OP)
Gen 2 is undefeated in atmosphere.

>>724724551
what the unknown text?
>Possess ......T [cant tell off memory] THE [word hald shown] WORLD
what's the fully message?

Good old File City.

>>724733559
Yeah, almost not other game manages to look so good with such a limited pallet. The gameboy color was an oddly capable machine in the right hands.

>>724733868
TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP
*same chirping sound in a 5 second loop*^
Pure soul, doe

>>724732397
>open up video game magazine
>see this

>>724724242 (OP)
OOT was so kino

My first video game memory.

>>724733973
It's actually incredible how effective it is, devs today might think "let's vary up the steps, the duration between them, the sound intensity, the different surfaces, also the background nature sounds etc so they player doesn't notice they're loops" but that'd just make them forgettable and blend in with the noise

>>724733868
I loved this place

>>724730883
Looks like A Wonderful Life on Gamecube

the imperial city always gets me

>>724734153
For me it was hyrule town
>>724733868
Pure unfiltered kino I wanted to live here

>>724733196
Is it, though?

>>724734928
The colors on the left lack a certain depth and richness. It's more detailed sure, but there's a simplicity GSC manages to pull off, with the bold midnight blues and bright goldenrod yells that almost no other game of it's size at that time pulled off.

Even the greens used in that image. Lufias is a very literal "green" the first choice you'd go to when making a grass color, Pokemon's is a slightly drab almost olive color there. It gives the world a more distinct characterization.

>>724734928
More detail isn't always better, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Pokemon.

>>724734928
Left is unironically too busy, especially on the tiny GBC screen it was originally released on. It must have looked kind of smeared.

>>724724242 (OP)
The death tower stage in Flashback. Those glass and neon accents coming through in the dark... weirdly comfy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEhgD_bCmM

>>724734928
Lufia looks straight up better. Any comments about gen 2's graphics is only in comparison to other Pokemon games.

>>724724551
soul...

>>724734928
A middle ground would be perfect, they can keep the tile approach just make the tiles look better

>>724724551
Why did this image cause so much seething? I think these look neat.

she has big jugs...................

>>724736820
I didn't see any seething about this post.

>>724736839
nice

>>724733683
>>724737041

>>724724446
trash
>>724725004
>>724734694
trash
>>724725539
sovl
>>724728173
sovl

>>724729260
>ywn have hot sweaty sex fucking your maple gf in the sauna again

>>724737217
>>724733683 is not related to that post. Show me a single reply or reference to that post that caused seethe.

>>724737427
Why else would they mention comfy? The image is literally titled.
>Pokemon gen II comfy.png

>Show me a single reply or reference to that post that caused seethe.
You sound like a seether too lmfao.

>>724724242 (OP)
pokemon having nighttime was surreal to me

>>724737558
You're either a newfag or pretending to be retarded. I think you got confused with which post you samefagged.

>>724733683 was right
>>724733851
>>724735804
>>724736820
>>724737663

>>724738002
>You're either a newfag or pretending to be retarded. I think you got confused with which post you samefagged.
This doesn.t even make sense. Why would that post randomly bring up the word comfy if it wasn't with what I linked in mind? I know you're playing dumb but it's fine. I will accept your cope.

>>724738234
you spam comfy in every single johto thread faggot

>>724738750
>you spam comfy in every single johto thread faggot
Oh, you're a schizo not a retard. Carry on then.

>>724728173
Always neat to recognize when the Roland SC-88 has been used thanks to Golden Sun's usage of it. Turns out the Japanese absolutely loved it and used sound samples from it everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjHBM_0NOPg
The chorus sample in here ought to be familiar.

>>724724242 (OP)
Games really do just become that little bit better with a simple day/night cycle

>>724739068
>>724738096

>>724738234
You truly are a newfag. Carry on.

>You can't even start a thread about a certain game without some schizo making it their nest
God I wish our overlords did their jobs.

>>724739412
I think what is sad is it's probably just 1 guy.

>>724739412
It's several schizos on both sides. Don't post gen 2 unless you want unfiltered autism.

IN YOU AND I

>>724724551
I wonder if Pokemon can ever go back to pixels. Of course, normies would disregard it and would call that a regression...

12 year old me:
>wtf does this have to do with pine trees?

>>724724242 (OP)
This room that opens with the Insignia Key in the pueblo.

>>724724242 (OP)
Majula. It gets more and more cozy as the game goes by.

>>724724242 (OP)
Daan making me a drink. That was pretty kino.

>>724739748
One of the worst things to happen to the games was the shift to 3D. If they had built upon this aesthetic, they might have really had something on their hands.

>>724742414
That area is HGSS was really pretty, especially for a pokemon game.

>>724724242 (OP)
I always thought that was a hat...

BUT the real visual is the intro battle, Nidoran vs. Gengar. That's just iconic to me.

>>724746472
Iconic

>>724727271
good lord
when people talk about their nostalgic memories for pixel art this is what theyre talking about. stunning command of color.

>>724724242 (OP)
it is visuals but the snes and nes final fantasy menu sounds hit my nostalgia so hard its insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz8xxxQvfjM

Monster Hunter Tri had a ton of them. Something about the slightly grainy filter that the Wii version had made everything have a sort of light-misty feeling that really made it feel like a fantasy world, which is strange cause I don't think of Monster Hunter as very "magical" in general. There's a part on the Deserted Island (I think area 7 or 10, don't remember) where you're inside a giant cave and there's a waterfall coming in from somewhere, and when you look up at the wall, there are windows and doors in a cliff face really high up, and it feels like someone lived there. Always wondered who.

Weirdly, the Wii U version never hit the same. It was a little too clear and HD, which made everything look less mystical and more blocky, and those visuals just never hit the same.

>>724734153
Shit i need ray traced SoH

the whole of this games starting zone is one of my most cherished childhood memories. weirdly some of the best voice acting in all of the ps2 era, including making moneybags a literal gypsy.

Cover of FFVII

Cloud looking up at that fucked up corporate building molded my hate for all money, all financial institutions. Sometimes when walking into a skyscraper I think of that cover for a second

Going up here and soaking in the ps1 atmosphere with the ambient homeworld music is peak Spyro 2 experience.

>>724739737
I remember as a kid really not liking this intro. I loved KH1's opening cutscene so much that my "this is different so I hate it" autism went crazy for KH2

The original Spyro trilogy in general, but the Dr. Shemp skybox in particular made five year old me go holy fucking shit.

>>724730936
Little off topic, but I'm genuinely shocked how much of a fucking wreck /vp/ is in general. Like I thought /v/ and /vg/ had some autistic schizos, but /vp/ really kicks it up.
>Be visiting /vp/ a little after Let's Go Pika/Eevee.
>Get into some argument with some really dumb kid about something, think it might have been like how the mechanics worked for the game.
>He's so bad at arguing that I start thinking he's a literal child, so I switch to trolling him.
>At one point, he typed up a word salad that had nothing to do with anything, so just to rile him up, I just typed "yawn." at him.
>He goes APEshit in his next post.
>LOL
>Someone who was posting and agreeing with me gets replied to by him going apeshit too.
>lol.
>Someone else where I could kind of see the argument being related gets an apeshit reply, calling him a "yawnfag."
>l-lol...?
>Someone who was on HIS side of the argument gets an apeshit reply too with "yawnfag."
>uh...is he alright?
>Apparently there is a schizo boogieman on the board people call Yawnfag for some reason, and I just accidentally triggered him (or possibly even others) into thinking their boogieman was real.

Somebody needs to get that board therapy and/or Jesus.

It really does feel like you're at mercenary college.

>>724750693
genwar schizos are the most dedicated autists on the internet

>>724750693
my friends and I have an inside joke abouthow long ive been shitting on /vp/. For about 10 full years now Ive said its by far the worst board on the site, coomerboomer boards included. its hard to tell around the time of new pokemon releases, like right now, but its community is irreparably toxic. theres not a single thread of discussion, its literally not possible. they hate everything, even the things they like. not a single reply can go without le toxicity

>>724733337
I think culture might be trying to fix itself from the 2000s era. Back in the 90s and earlier, there wasn't a lot of ways to get news/information about things except from popular outlets, like TV, cable TV when it was available, newspapers, and magazines. If someone didn't fork out a commercial for it, you probably never even heard anything about it.

Then in the 2000-2010s with the advent of the internet, tons and tons of niche subcultures started to pop up because now people interested in specific hobbies or who one time bought a weird game from the Wal Mart clearance bin could spend hours obsessively researching it and games like it or people who liked games like it on their little HTML home-grown webpages and different webforums, each with their own individual identity.

Now in the 2020s era, everything is getting filtered again back into 3 sources of information: Twitter, Youtube, and TikTok. There are some niches still like in 4chan and reddit, but people are now syncing up their ability to consume from the same monolithic culture they used to. Except now it's easier to control and faster to push out new ideas.

>>724739748
they would still buy it

>>724724242 (OP)
there's a lot of things that stuck with me since childhood, but this is the one where i can still smell the room i first played it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY8U9byTrzI

>>724751243
>lumping in the 10s with the 00s
I'll give you 2010-2012 as a labored, dying gasp of pre-globohomo internet and nothing beyond that.

>>724737232
fag

>>724734521
Oh fuck, I wasn't expecting this. I even passed up a Bionicle thread the other day cause I didn't remember much from my childhood. But goddamn that image hits. Played the shit out of that flash game.

>>724734928
You know what? Left's real problem is too much detail and not enough contrast on the characters. If you fix either one of those items, it fixes the whole thing. Just one though, both would be silly.

Timesplitters 2 Story mode maps and PSO is the GOAT

A long time ago at an ice-skating rink I seen this arcade cabinet with a demo screen showing some gnarly looking twin headed dragon and guy with his back to the player flying around the screen. That'd be the only time I ever saw that game, but I made sure to commit what I saw to memory because I promised myself I'd play that game someday, somehow. Years later I'd discover Space Harrier was that game, and it's also one of my favorite games of all time.

>>724724242 (OP)
I didn't even like this game but the main menu and the music that played on it made me feel intensely nostalgic when it was brand new. It was an experience that stuck with me

The music carried this game hard

>>724756767
Also wrong game I meant to post a screenshot from the first kingdom hearts not 3

>>724726236
https://youtu.be/01nJ92b3Yj0?t=128

>>724733483
Oh yeah that one was awesome, as a kid I always wondered if it was possible to fall down and end up back near the start

>>724724242 (OP)
Old vidya graphics just hit different compared to literally anything else past 2006.

>>724724242 (OP)
Crusader: No Remorse, the clean isometric sprites, the destructability, and the use of color cycling for lasers, electronics, etc

>>724758643
Home...

This part in Sanctuary Fortress from Metroid Prime 2

All my heroes, together, for the first time (I forget if I played this or smash first but whatever)