Thread 12131921

Why would you do that to yourself?

why is link's ASSCRACK showing??

>>12131921 (OP)
I have bad vision so when I play at 4K it looks like CRT for me.

because it (objectively) looks better.

>>12131921 (OP)
Bro hide that minimap

>>12132624
>minimap
more like huegmap

>>12131921 (OP)
Why indeed?

Imagine playing Baldur's Gate like this in 2025. Literally psychotic.

>>12131921 (OP)
I only really do it with PS2 games, and only at 2x, and only with a good set of CRT filters over it.
It helps with games where you frequently need to read environmental details, like street signs, without losing too much of the soul.
But I agree that the vast majority of time it makes games worse.

>>12131941
lost

>>12132640
99% of pre-2004 games look like shit when rendered above 800x600

rendered at original resolution on original hardware but upscaled

>>12131921 (OP)
I play Super Metroid & Super Mario World stretched to full screen. I just prefer it that way.

>>12132848
Only on planet retard

>>12131921 (OP)
playing games that expand the PoV with resolution, like diablo, is cheating.

>>12131921 (OP)
That's not higher resolution. You just took a low-res screenshot and stretched it out.

>>12131921 (OP)
2x resolution is fine but anything more than that for 3d stuff is overkill and does not produce better results.

>>12132887
>the guy who thinks we aren't on planet retard is a staunch defender of playing /vr/ pc games in hd
OH NONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

>>12131921 (OP)
If you arent playing on a crt you need to upscale the resolution somehow

oh my god is that a retro game being played in 4k??? BAZINGA!!!!

>>12133382
>He doesn't play 320x240 games in 4K.
Too bad, sucka.
If I can I'll upscale and/or up the internal resolution. If I can't, I stretch to fit to my 4K screen in orig ratio.
I played NES - PS2 on orig hardware on CRT, it sucked and doesn't make you special.
But by all means, you do you.

>>12133404
And many games weren't even rendered to 320x240.
Do you see... a difference?

>>12133432
Just to drive the point home, look at the PSX screenshot on my 4K one. Can you even see it?

5th gen no, but 6th gen graphics I prefer at modern resolutions.

Games that got pre-rendered graphics in combination with 3d need either a high-res textures patch or you should just play them at the original resolution. Pretty much everything else will look better at the display's native resolution and game's native aspect ratio. Shadera also tend to work better when the image is upscaled.

If you want authenticity, go play on a crt. Playing on a modern screen at a lower resolution is no more authentic and a much worse experience.

>>12133475
>>12133432
>>12133404
coping zoomie

>>12133404
That looks dreadful.

Some nice downscaled FFIX to cleanse the palette.

I think its time I finally play ff9

>>12135330
I still have the discs I bought as a teenager, while the twin towers were still up. I know what I prefer and it's PC modded, so that's what I play.
240 looks like ass on a modern monitor and I never liked CRTs. I can handle a little pastel jank here and there, it's about the same as dealing with blocky pixel jank, and I get unstretched widescreen.

>>12136098
save your larp for facebook kid

>>12136107
Stay mad that all you can do is try to be an "OG gamer" online by ranting about muh original hardware.

>playing games above the intended fps
You must play at 12 fps... Because YOU JUST MUST ALRIGHT

>>12131921 (OP)
F-zero SNES looks great in higher res. You can see the moving dots in mute city are meant to be cars.

>>12136113
there you go now you show your true colors

>>12132878
>I play Super Metroid & Super Mario World

>>12133404
NOOOO THE DEVS WANTED THE 3D MODELS TO LOOK LIKE SHIT!!

>>12136193
I'm a libra.

>>12137689
liberals are the scum of the earth.

If it's fully 3d, I'm emulating at my screen's resolution plain and simple.

>>12139050
this is an 18+ site

>>12139050
That actually doesn't look too bad. Obviously not authentic, but it reminds me of a PC game from that time being run at that resolution.

>>12135534
yep, those are pixels alright
I can tell by the pixels and having seen quite a few pixels in my day

>>12139278
Silent Hill has some nice texturework that is simply not visible on the original ps1 resolution.
You could also always add fake texture to it with shaders if you feel it's too clean.

>>12139210
2025 - 18 = 2007
People born AFTER the PS3 released are now adults

>>12135523
>>12135526
>>12135529
>>12135534
>>12135535
Downsampled 3D models look great in games with pre-rendered backgrounds because the backgrounds themselves were also downsampled from a higher res when they made them, so it gives the models and backgrounds a really unified look, as if the models are really part of the world of the backgrounds
I should try messing around with this + a decent CRT shader at some point

>ahhh i can see da pixels on the scaled textures save me niggerman!
you could always see them, don't be intentionally dense.

>>12139357
>>12139359
>PSP
Not retro, but it's not like jannies care anyway

>>12139364
>>12139337
it is.
if its sold on dkoldies its retro

>>12131921 (OP)
It really doesn't matter.

>>12140508
It's funny how all of this was created with textures only, even normal maps weren't used.

>>12140510
nigga are you using windows 10?

>>12131921 (OP)
I get the argument for ps1/n64/saturn because by that point textures took crt/low resolution/wooble into account. Just all the quirks of early 3d. But after that no, by ps2 you already had some games that reached 1080i, it was clear developers were pushing the consoles and the HD era was around the corner.

If they are intended for a certain resolution, than why do the PC versions have very high resolution choices? Awnser me that console plebs

>>12140816
>by ps2 you already had some games that reached 1080i
name the games.

>>12140892
Dont knowball of them, bur GT4 is the big one

2-3x upscale is almost always better

>>12141149
pic unrelated

>>12141259
not at all

This: >>12133432 looks infinitely better than >>12133404, >>12133475 and >>12136098
The upscaled shite looks like mobile game slop, it's utterly embarrassing that anyone thinks it looks acceptable

The main reason I don't play retro in HD, other than it just not looking good most of the time, is that it tends to introduce graphical glitches. Lighting breaks or more often diminishes in strength, shadows start clipping through the ground, seams in geometry become visible, depth of field and motion blur effects stop working, 2D elements start splitting apart, etc. Same goes for widescreen. Sure, there's a number of games where none of this happens and it works just fine, but on the whole these side effects are pretty widespread and it's just not worth it when the game looks better at native res anyway and played on a CRT or with a shader.

>>12141558
only good post in this thread

>>12141518
>the game confined to a tiny box of its native res looks best
no shit, it's not actually going to look like that when you're playing

>>12131921 (OP)
Yes

>>12141558
this is what I've landed at after over a decade of emulating as well. There are some games that benefit from upscaling, usually PS2/GC and onward, Wind Waker comes to mind. As much as people harp on about devs having always had great consideration for CRT displays and low output resolutions, there's no reason to believe that was always the case and mythologise them in this way. I'll usually just play at native but if i think it might look better I'll give higher resolutions a whirl.

>>12131941
Audibly laughed.

>>12142759
weebs have shit taste, what a surprise

gen 5/6 native res is fine on a CRT but doing it in an emulator is just willful ignorance. some games like DQVIII look insanely better with a resolution boost

>>12131941
Lmfao

>>12131921 (OP)
OP is losing his mind over this

>>12131921 (OP)
I used to be an upscaler but I can't go back to it. there's just something about playing games the way they were intended/designed. especially when its a console exclusive title

>>12133845
>Playing on a modern screen at a lower resolution is no more authentic and a much worse experience.
This is true.

>>12132704
That's the correct way to play.

>>12145118
native res is one thing, but stretching native res to 1440p and pretending it looks good is insane
this was meant to be viewed on a crt, this looks terrible

>>12140505
Yeah PSP is probably retro by now, but the sticky says
>Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier, and official game titles for those platforms released no later than December 2007
>The Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and Sony PlayStation 2 will now be considered "retro".

if the devs had the option of using a higher resolution they would have done so. pretending jaggy blurred graphics are the platonic ideal of retro games is the same kind of sheer mental illness that drives people to think square blocks in mario are supposed to be rectangles and the samus morph ball was supposed to be an ellipse.

>>12131921 (OP)
blurry ps2 textures on modern screens hurt my eyes, if I can upscale the game to my resolution I do

>>12135523
Looks great. How does it look with FF7 or FF8?

>>12148683
the textures stay the same regardless of rendering resolution, retard

But it looks better.

>>12149295
have you seen this game on a crt to compare?

>>12147038
couldn't attach because filesize limit but yes I do use a crt shader.
the reason it looks pixelated is because area sampling scales the pixels perfectly to my monitor res, which is more accurate to how the GC would output video to a CRT, which makes the shader better.
stuff like the glow on/around NPC's are broken the higher you crank the resolution. might not be too noticeable on its own but it's quite jarring the more broken effects you run into. even without a shader, Native res looks better because of how many native-built effects are missing or display unintentionally

As a primarily PC gamer the concept of pushing a game as hard as you can on given hardware (be it for framerate or fidelity) is a core freedom. I play as I see fit and do not care about the concept of intended resolution as that is mostly nonsensical, even in the dos days. People who lose their mind over "muh intended resolution" are people who don't actually care about the game itself, they only care about fitting into a mental mould of what gaming should be just so they can post about it online.

>yeah i'm a retro gamer, I NEVER play doom above 320x200
>[group they don't like] will never understand how enlightened I am right now
>in this moment I am retro-eurphoric

>>12150601
>concept of intended resolution as that is mostly nonsensical
Many UI's in PC games are scaled to a specific resolution

>>12150604
Within the windows era that is still nonsensical for the most part as UI's would be expected to cover a range of common resolutions for the hardware of the time. Scaling to modern resolutions when we are throwing millions of pixels at a screen is a different beast and can be tackled in various ways such as mods or upscalers making that a somewhat bad point to argue.

>>12131921 (OP)
>Why would you do that to yourself?
to make it easier on my aging eyes

>>12148683
There are emulators that will upscale the textures for you clean it up some but it isnt 100% perfect

>>12131921 (OP)
I dont. I kind of grew out of doing that.

>>12150601
proof pc gamers are the worst type of gamer

>>12150918
Absolutely. Pic related.

PSX games are best played at native res with dithering, which only looks right at native res

PGXP is allowed though

>>12150949
>PGXP is allowed though
Yeah, nah

>>12150317
okay well that's definitely better

>>12136098
what mods are you using, fren?
I'm startin FFIX next week.

>>12132704
>559x419

>12150918
>Console pleb with no counter-argument
Say it aint so!

>>12132878
But... both of those games have widescreen hacks.

>>12132878
It truly is the only way to play.