I love horrendous 90's Graphics. Do you?
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Hit the nail on the head there.BlindMessiah94 said:
@ OP I wouldn't say those graphics are bad at all.Compare them to 3D games from the same time and it's the 3D ones that look dated and ugly now.2D graphics can be every bit as good as 3D as long as the art style is right.Take a look at something like Muramasa on Wii.One of the best looking games released last year imo
New 2D games running at 1080p on the PC are some of the best looking games in my opinion. Thinking of games like Osmos, Machinarium and Gratuitous Space Battles. I would like to see some well funded 1080p 2D hand drawn (or whatever, not just 3d renders) adventure games and isometric RPGs. Although infinity engine games like PS:T now have widescreen patches I would like to see what artists could do with todays tools and tech.
I like the graphics because I know they're bad. 90's 64-bit graphics, 2D, false 3D are what I grew up with. It's games now that have poor graphics/textures that annoy me. If the game's good its OK, but often the game is bad.
Not really. Baldur's Gate is all right, but the rest ... yeesh.
On the other hand, this is absolutely gorgeous. I love this. All the colours! So very, very pretty.Julianking93 said:
I'm replaying a whole lot of PS1 games at the moment and the single most common thing I find while playing them?
'Sure, good by 90s standards, but the graphics are shockingly awful.'
There's nothing for me to love there. I like my games looking sleek and well presented. That doesn't mean I don't want story as well, just that so many games of the 90s with great stories were let down by graphical limitations. It's a nice nostalgia filter, letting me see chunky blocks and piexels for arms, but strip it away and it reduces my experience.
Yes, I loved them at the time, yes, they provoke childish reminders in me, but no, I don't love them, I see them as the stepping stone they were to achieving our current stage of graphics. Like looking at a stick painting by cavemen to see how we eventually progressed to the Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel. (this is a gross exagerration, 16 bit would be the stick figures and we haven't yet reached perfect levels yet, but you get the point.)
'Sure, good by 90s standards, but the graphics are shockingly awful.'
There's nothing for me to love there. I like my games looking sleek and well presented. That doesn't mean I don't want story as well, just that so many games of the 90s with great stories were let down by graphical limitations. It's a nice nostalgia filter, letting me see chunky blocks and piexels for arms, but strip it away and it reduces my experience.
Yes, I loved them at the time, yes, they provoke childish reminders in me, but no, I don't love them, I see them as the stepping stone they were to achieving our current stage of graphics. Like looking at a stick painting by cavemen to see how we eventually progressed to the Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel. (this is a gross exagerration, 16 bit would be the stick figures and we haven't yet reached perfect levels yet, but you get the point.)
I'd like to think the graphics are like that because of my augmented vision.
You better get the joke.
You better get the joke.
Yes. The collection of 1, 2 and Tactics is incredibly cheap. The ystart slow but grow on you, so don't put the game away after the first 30 minutes. Get them.Lemon Of Life said:
Oh shi...I actually wanted to add that but forgot about it. My bad. As I said: Feel free to post your own pictures ;D.Axolotl said:
How does this have anythiing to do with the topic at hand? I asked if you liked a particular type of graphic for its aesthetics. That's like asking what type of meat you like only for someone to reply that animals shouldn't be killed for food.NightShadeNes said:
I quite like the style of the games shown in the OP. What I can appreciate in context but don't really like is early attempts at serious 3D like the character models in FF7. Those just look so terrible now.
I have a strange affinity for 90's graphics in games and movies. The fact that everyone was being so ambitious with pre-rendered 3d and trying to do outlandish things with it always looked cool to me, and I was very sad when people decided to try and make CGI photo-realistic. It's just fun to look at things that are obviously not real but still look cool.
My favorite is still the old starcraft graphics when a bunch of ships cluster at one point and it just turns into a clusterfuck of nonsense.
My favorite is still the old starcraft graphics when a bunch of ships cluster at one point and it just turns into a clusterfuck of nonsense.
That Diablo screenshot does bring back some fond memories. I am especially reminded of the Tristam theme [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dS26gRnJOM&feature=PlayList&p=0A45623BF1F92677&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=75], one of the most haunting pieces of music in gaming history. Oh man I think I still have the disc! I'm going to play Diablo now. 
Meh, even though I grew up in the '90s, I didn't see much of these types of graphics. I think it's because I got into games in the second half of the '90s, when things went full on 3D, with Super Mario 64 and Spyro the Dragon and the like. These type of graphics aren't really for me, but I assume that if I was just a tad bit older, nostalgia would force me to love them.