/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10643052
meh

>>10643052
>zoomers actually think this look good

you idiots would jizz yourselves to death if you figured out how to use the sharpen tool on photoshop

>>10643052
>Max's jacket looking like a trash bag
T-Thanks, nvidia!

>>10643052
>IT'S PAYNE!
>WAX 'IM!

>>10643052
Looks like shit like someone just over sharpened the image

>>10643052

>>10643062
There may be something to that. When I was a teenager I would abuse the shit out of sharpen because I thought it made things look better.

>>10643052
wtf

>>10643052
It would be useful if it could make the light bounce so that you don't end up with those pitch black shadows that were so common back then.

>>10643204
Those shadows were an artistic choice.

>>10643204
Why have modern developers completely abandoned contrast, pitch black shadows and soulful lighting. And more importantly, why do they fucking LOVE fog in every scene?? I hate it so much, it saps the colour and life from everything.

>>10643269
>why do they fucking LOVE fog in every scene??
helps hide imperfections and lower LOD for distant objects

>>10643269
its ~atmospheric~ and ~vibes~which are the two things retards use to praise something they dont actually know why theyre praising though

>>10643269
>>10643283
>>10643286
Disgusting. Hearing retards like John Linneman praise this kind of look is cringe inducing.

>>10643297
People think I'm insane for genuinely thinking older games looked better.

>PS2

>>10643305
My bad, that's GameCube. Here's PS2.

>>10643305
>>10643314
they were more readable, for sure. Now all games with "pretty" graphics need markers everywhere to let the player now what's interactable and what's not.

>>10643269
I think it's more due to CRT back then having fast motion clarity and LCD's being slow with the blacks being purple/gray with the viewing angles.

>>10643323
I got a Deck OLED last week and its amazing how good those screens are for any kind of /vr/. The black bars on 4:3 content just melt away.

>>10643297
thats a fake image right?

>>10643314
You're gonna piss off that middle aged man with no kids posting this

>>10643332
Not in the slightest

>>10643052
I saw it on moddb, so it's basically that you make not only the floor but all the other surfaces too shiny wet.

>>10643297
yeah they love this shit. i had to triple check my brightness settings after i built a new pc after christmas, but nope, a lot of games just like that haze.

>>10643297
Dear Lord! It's like the player is trapped in a burning house, choking with smoke.

>>10643305
When did OutRun2 get released on the cube?

>>10643062
>zoomers
Your generation gave us DarkPlaces

>>10643052
This reminds me of those shaders I used to play with on epsxe to see how ugly I could make a game look.

>>10643052
>>10643103
I think there's a mistake thinking the part on the right is graying and not just shinier black

>>10643091

>>10643305
name every game in this image

>>10643204
>the lighting has range and contrast
I'M GOING INSAAAAANE AAAAAAAAH

>>10643305
what's 2nd row, 4th column? the guy in the orange room

>>10643269
>why do they fucking LOVE fog in every scene??
Because they need it to hide the fact that their games look like shit. The fog helps make everything blend together so nothing sticks out or looks out of place.

>>10643052
REMEDY
HIRE THIS MAN

>>10643332
I think it's edited or the jpeg compression and artifacting makes it worse, I've played most of those games and they are nowhere as bad.
Grated I've been using a big 4k OLED with HDR, but even when I used a worse IPS, I can't remember any of them looking as bad.

>>10643052
A large part of the population must be suffering from some kind of stunted eye development, not even joking.

lookin'good

>>10643425
Proper RTX Remixes actually tweak the assets to work better with ray tracing, trying to use it as a magic "turn ray tracing on" button just gives you Wax Payne.

>>10643204
But in that scene it makes sense to have pitch black shadows, there are only two weak lights sources and the walls aren't supposed to be reflective. A better example of bad shadow volumes would be a sunny outdoors area where a perfectly sharp black shadow looks completely unnatural.
IIRC Far Cry 1 did a trick where in outdoor areas it uses shadow maps and indoors it uses shadow volumes, which is why it can sometimes look like Doom 3.

>>10643204
It's called umbra and penumbra, you fucking cocksucking idiot.

>>10645262
It was a limitation of the tech back then, if you think that was a stylistic choice you're dumber than what you appear. Shadows should be colored if the light source is also colored.

>>10643305
>>10643314
mr beast thumbnails

>>10643286
>its ~atmospheric~ and ~vibes~
also ~soulful~

Doom 3 is another example of the pitch darkness which no one liked it back then, you couldn't see anything and always had to have the flashlight.

>>10644648
This guy definitely never passed grade school

>>10645440
I'd be interested to see doom 3 with some bounce lighting, having better continuity between fully lit and pitch black would make it feel less contrived

>>10643305
Before the brown and grey era

>>10645440
That's the point, dipshit.