Thread 11963927

Retro games that still hold up visually

>>11963927 (OP)
That looks kind of bad by today's standards. You'd have to be pretty out of touch to think it holds up.

>>11963927 (OP)
did it really look that good on graphics hardware of November 13, 2007?

>>11963948
Yes, but 4:3

it looked really nice on a crt as well

>>11963948
>Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001

I think you mean December 2001

>>11963927 (OP)
WTF?

>>11963927 (OP)
gay thread, as per usual with (You) opie

kirbys adventure tho
fucking gorgeous game

>>11963936
Looks good to me. Graphics these days are too blurry and overdetailed.

>>11963948
8800GTX could handle it

>>11963948
Yes. What you can't see though, is the fps counter showing it's struggling to maintain 10 fps. But it looked that good on screenshots.

>>11963948
people still used crt monitors at that point in time, so it looked even better

>>11963995
> Graphics these days are too overdetailed.
Literal retard.

>>11964293
He's right you fag. You can barely differentiate enemies from backgrounds in modern games due to the ugly excessive amount of detail.

>>11965848
Boomer needs glasses

I remember playing this in '08 at 720p with settings down to almost the bare minimum on a new GPU for the time and the fans all locked to 100%. It was cool.
It's not retro.

>>11963927 (OP)
It's so cool how you can actually knock down trees and buildings. I wish more games had this level of interactivity.

>>11964218
Zoomer retards don't know about the plastic screen overlays that you had to slide on top of the crt screen
You can't see it on screenshots, but game looked 10 times better.

>>11965854
t. retard who plays halo on anniversary graphics

>>11964218
>people still used crt monitors at that point in time
I didn't, and our LCD monitors at the time sucked.

>>11966056
lel

>>11963927 (OP)

Literally all of them if you play them as intended. Go back.

We consider something retro, whether it's games or electronics, as long as it's 20 years old and the game still looks cool

>>11963927 (OP)
ITS NOT RETRO AND I SWEAR TIME HASNT MOVED ONWARD, I'M NOT MIDDLE AGED NOW AND PEOPLE BORN AFTER THIS GAME CAME OUT ARE TOTALLY NOT GOING TO BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE BY THE END OF THE YEAR!!!

>>11963936
Just shit on your screen for that realistic bloom and free anti-aliasing!

>>11964218
>people still used crt monitors at that point in time
I was a Mitsubishi DiamondPoint LCD 18in from 2001up until 2006 when I got a widescreen samsung LCD..

>>11964218
>people still used crt monitors at that point in time
I was using a Mitsubishi DiamondPoint LCD 18in from 2001 up until 2006 when I got a widescreen Samsung LCD.

>>11963936
Today the standard is Fortnite and Overwatch. Crusts is better looking than some of the most played games. Cod is also looking weaker as they keep losing technology and use brighter, duller palettes with different shaders

>>11966616
Crysis was only fun in the editor and spawning in stuff to mess with the physics and ragdolls, the gunplay wasn't great.

>>11963936
Not too long ago, I saw anons using a screencap of a character model of a game from the mid-2000's made of like 100 polygons at most as "proof" graphics haven't evolved in the slightest in two decades

>>11966723
shit take. the suit powers combined with enemy AI that leads to a great gameplay loop. the alien section of the game is hated precisely because the change of pace is so drastic and severe.

>>11963927 (OP)
REmake, obviously

>>11966852
Lara Croft, the original model of her, had 200 polygons. That was in 1996.
The mid-00s remake of that game had her on 7000.
So I'm not sure who's more out of touch here.

Graphics peaked in the late 6th and early 7th gen. There was no reason to ever progress beyond this point. Games were detailed enough to create convincing worlds with high poly count, good animations, nice lighting effects, etc., but were removed just enough from reality to maintain a "gameyness" and readability that has been lost over the last 15 some odd years. I know OP is shitposting, but you look at that and think "yep, that's a video game". It does, in some strange way, share an essence with games far older than it. When you look at big AAA games today, it looks like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within cranked up to 11 with the most fugly, uncanny characters and overdetailed, visually-mangled environments you've ever seen in your life. Things have gotten worse than you could possibly believe.

>>11968006
>Graphics peaked in the late 6th and early 7th gen
I agree

>>11968006
True. Games like Doom 3, Riddick, FEAR, Condemned, Gears, Bioshock looked perfect. It was all downhill from there

>>11963936
>That looks kind of bad by today's standards. You'd have to be pretty out of touch to think it holds up.

Oh fuck off you little faggit

>>11968006
>When you look at big AAA games today, it looks like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within cranked up to 11 with the most fugly, uncanny characters and overdetailed, visually-mangled environments you've ever seen in your life
Absurdly accurate.

>>11965854
It is a pretty basic design lesson that too much detail creates useless noise visually.

is Crysis even good? all i remember is that it was the benchmark for a computer with good graphics capability, like the whole "can it run Doom" thing but the opposite. but nobody ever talked about the game itself or the story or anything

>>11969449
it's fine

>>11969449
No one talked about the gameplay at the time because no one could run it. It became the poster child for sour grapes, where people would say the game was just graphics with no gameplay, then you asked what was wrong with the gameplay and they wouldn't be able to say anything specific other than "it becomes bad when the aliens appear". Only a few people talked about the actual game. I started seeing more gameplay discourse years after, when people like nanosuitninja started posting gameplay videos showing the game can be fun, accompanied by people suddenly saying that it was always one of the most underrated games, or the best game ever. To me it was a fun sandbox with samey enemies until the aliens appear and my machine couldn't handle the snow, so I dropped the game and forgot about it.

>>11969449
Play it and find out for yourself

>>11968118
god she is hot. i didn't used to get it but aooga