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4472981 No.4472981 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best DOS game that isn't an eyesore?

>> No.4473000

bump for date dos shit

>> No.4473009

>>4472981
What do you mean by isn't an eyesore? I.V.A.N. is the best game. Whether it's ugly is up to you.

>> No.4473019
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>>4473009
I mean like unnatural pinks and greens. Pic related is what I mean

>> No.4473020

give us an example of what games you consider unacceptable for being an "eyesore" cause the majority of dos games are going to have that less cartoonish but still low res pixely look, this is like saying give me some early 3D without sharp polygons..

>> No.4473028

>>4473020
>>4473019

>> No.4473104

>>4472981
DOOM is a dos game

>> No.4473114

>>4473104
True in 1993 maybe.
Doom is a multiplat now, running from fridges to Amigas to cars and calculators.

>> No.4473274

>>4473019
Graphics like that are a result of choosing CGA mode. If you don't like it, don't choose it. Alternatively, use a real machine and the type of monitor that mode was designed for to get a much better result.

>> No.4473289
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>>4472981

>> No.4473326

curious bump

>> No.4473343
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4473343

>>4472981
Kings quest 7, goblins3, monkey island, day of the tentacle, sam & max, command & conquer, alone in the dark, simcity 2000, system shock, Beneath a Steel Sky, Full Throttle, The Dig...

>> No.4473364

>>4473343
Thx

>> No.4473391
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4473391

>>4473343
syndicate

>> No.4473754

>>4473274
>>4473019
If it's from the CGA era, you probably should just play the game on the C64 or Amiga instead. PC gaming didn't mature until the 90s.

>> No.4473756

>>4473343
Darkseed is also a pretty nice looking game

>> No.4473810

Crusader?

>> No.4473892

>>4472981
Rayman Forever

>> No.4473952

Beneath a Steel Sky

>> No.4474003

>>4472981
The best-looking DOS game that doesn't have a source port is probably either Daggerfall or Blood.

>> No.4474131

>>4474003
Blood GDX

>> No.4474157

>>4473019
It's called magenta and cyan you stupid fuck. Get out and don't come back until you're 18.

>> No.4474172
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4474172

>> No.4474183

>>4474157
I'm not stupid i just dont have the best eyesight

>> No.4474191
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4474191

a lot of racing games look quite good

>> No.4474193

>>4474157
boys don't know the names of colors

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>> No.4474202

One Must Fall 2097 obviously

>> No.4474203
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>> No.4474214
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>>4473019
looks like the colors of trans pride to me :X

>> No.4474232

>>4474214
>

>> No.4474235

>>4474232
?

>> No.4474273

>>4474191
>>4474198
>>4474203

What games are these?

>> No.4474290
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>> No.4474325

>>4474191
That looks awesome! What game is this?

>> No.4474330

>>4474193
Got a chuckle outta me.

>> No.4474348

>>4473009
>>4473019
lol cga

descent 2
mdk
fallout 1

any of the late-generation dos FPS games (quake, duke3d/blood/shadowwarrior)

death rally
megarace
slipstream 3000/

>> No.4474350

>>4472981

Descent.

Have a barf bag nearby if you get motion sickness.

>> No.4474441
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>>4474325

Ignition

>> No.4474443
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4474443

Settlers 2 looked pretty sweet.

>> No.4474510

>>4474441
This game was insane

I crashed all the time because it looked badass

>> No.4474590

>>4474273
Ignition
Road & Track presents: The Need For Speed
Screamer 2

>> No.4474606
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4474606

>>4473019
Ultima II - Left: with RGB monitor, Right: with composite monitor

>>4473274
is there a way to emulate these composite artifacts in dosbox or someone other mean?

perhaps a laptop with VGA output with an adapter for vga-to-composite

>> No.4474632

>>4474606
>is there a way to emulate these composite artifacts in dosbox or someone other mean?
>perhaps a laptop with VGA output with an adapter for vga-to-composite
No you can't emulate them in DOSBox and a VGA -> composite adapter won't work either because they generate a standard broadcast NTSC signal and not the weird fuckery outputted by a CGA card.

>> No.4474636
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4474636

>>4472981
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

>> No.4474652
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4474652

>>4472981
Little Big Adventure

>> No.4474660
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>>4472981

>> No.4474816
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>>4474632
IIRC DOSBox actually has a composite CGA filter.

>> No.4474847
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4474847

>>4474606
So VGA games aren't supposed to look like this? Wew, that explains a lot. Is there anything I can feasibly do to fix this shit?

>> No.4474849

>>4474847
And I mean software solutions, I'm not buying a new monitor or any other hardware for this.

>> No.4474863

>>4474847
I think that's EGA, though? you might need to setup the game to run in VGA.

>> No.4474868

>>4474863
true, it's EGA, but are the colors still off for some reason or is it supposed to look like this?

>> No.4474870

>>4474849
the vga version is a fan-made remake and it's free

just google it

>> No.4474876

>>4474870
I know about that, just asking in general.

>> No.4474885

>>4474849
Yes you are you jew, spend some money for something. piratefags make me sick

>> No.4474894

>>4474885
what does piracy have to do with my post, you mouthbreathing cretin?

>> No.4474924
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4474924

>>4474868
nah, that's pretty much how EGA usually look

>> No.4474929

>>4474924
well, your pic at least make sense, people don't have pink faces

magenta, whatever the fuck

>> No.4474932

>>4474929
fuck magenta people. burnt umber wuz kings

>> No.4474947

>>4474885
fucking muslims who think having and spending money is a virtue when they never do enough to actually earn it and it's always old money from pillage and rape a thousand years ago and human trafficking a thousand years after

>> No.4474951

>>4474885
>>4474932
>>4474947
you guys got lost, here, I'll show you the way
>>>/pol/

>> No.4474968
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4474968

>>4474929
can't be helped when you only have 16 colors to choose from, and the others closest to skin color are bright yellow and dark brown, and those are often already used as backdrop colors. also, my previous example used dithering so it doesn't look that bad.

>> No.4474979

>>4474968
cool, thanks for the art lesson anon

>> No.4474980

>>4474929
>>4474968
Games are better when they have to make choices like that. The limitations make the experience better, more memorable

>> No.4475148

>>4474924

on an old CRT would that dithering have blended together?

>> No.4475228

>>4475148
define 'old CRT'

>> No.4475652

>>4475148
>on an old CRT would that dithering have blended together?
No.

>> No.4475751

>>4474816
It does but Ultima uses a different graphics mode that's not supported.

>> No.4476015

>>4474924
These Toei strategy games were ported from the PC-8801 which is why they run in the otherwise rarely used EGA Mode E.

>> No.4476075
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4476075

>>4472981
Princess Maker. It looks better than the remake IMO

>> No.4476082

>>4474885
A lot of these games are legal to download now

>> No.4476108
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4476108

alien rampage has impressive parallax scrolling

>> No.4476191

The CGA/EGA palette looks terrible, but it is very 80s--all those Day-Glo colors.

>> No.4476196

>>4474870
>the vga version is a fan-made remake and it's free
Why? Sierra did an official VGA update of QFG in the early 90s. You can download it anywhere and play it on DOSBox.

>> No.4476205

>>4472981
Monkey Island 1 and 2

>> No.4476401

>>4473019

on the correct monitor at the time CGA wasn't hideous, looked normal. 8 bit guy shows that CGA looks like on a proper CGA monitor in one of his YouTube vids.

the cyan magenta shit is the bad compatibility mode CGA result.

>> No.4476404

>>4474003
Wrong again tripfag.

>> No.4477635
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4477635

>>4476401
It would still have those colors on a real CGA card/monitor.

>> No.4477743

>>4473289
The SNES version is better.

>>4474924
This is the best version of UW1.

>> No.4478015

>>4476401
If you actually bothered to watch the video, he said that a lot of CGA games (especially later ones) don't look any better through composite, it's only the ones that take advantage of the shittiness of composite signal that end up having the illusion of more color. For example, King's Quest 1 has a CGA composite mode that gives the illusion of 16 colors when played on a TV via composite, but a game like this anon posted ( >>4477635 ) will still have the horrible bubble gum cotton candy vomit look regardless, and would only look worse.

>> No.4478018

One technical difference that a lot of people don't know about is that VGA has 70Hz refresh but CGA/EGA is 60Hz, so the higher refresh of VGA will often throw off the framerate of games. Sierra adventures on CGA have seamless 60 fps animation but on a VGA card they're choppy.

>> No.4478041

>>4476404
Sorry.