/vr/ - Retro Games

They're okay games but they're some of the worst looking in their respective franchises and also on their respective consoles.

ITT: people post emulator resized screnshots and try to bait as much as possible

>>4862509
I agree heres your (you)

Is original Kuma the ugliest 3D model ever made?

>>4862517
This one was ugly was fuck even on real hardware back in 1994.

>>4862517
oh shit senpai you right
the negligible difference being on a crt adds to how the game looks makes the games not ugly.

>>4862526
>filters
>crt

>>4862509
SMW looks good but the palette of ALTTP is extremely dull

>>4862526

>>4862503

>>4862509
I agree. I wish I could explain it better.
LA and SMB3 had a much more appealing art style.

>>4862509
>>4862526
>>4862519
>>4862607
>>4862940

I thought I was the only one that masturbated furiously to the Zelda Space World 2000 demo, I'm glad I'm finally finding acceptance in this board

>>4862503
>>4862519
>>4862920
Anime art style is cheating. It's ugly by default.

>>4863008
Nice projecting.
Anyway both games don't even look better than their NES or GB counterparts. They almost have a Fischer Price look to them, especially in comparison to other shit on the SNES.

So bad that it looks glitched.

>>4862509
Why does link have pink hair

>>4863661
miyamoto wanted him to pop out from the brown/green/blue palette

>>4862509
Funny, I love the wat LttP looks. I just never enjoyed playing it much.

Turrican

I remember finding a copy of Super Hydlide and trying to play it on a Nomad. It literally looked like the screen was just a pile of glitch graphics.

>>4863732
all the hydlide games are ugly, a shame because super hydlide is pretty decent

Ff7 is nice and all but boi does it look retarted

>>4863735
Is it? I admit I never really gave it a shot. I got a few games at the same time and it fell to the bottom if the heap then went ignored in the end.

>>4863738
it's kind of like a crappier version of the ultima games, but it's playable
>>4863739
I've always wondered what happened to the programmers of action 52, are there any interviews with them or something like that?

>>4862509
What the hell is wrong with you people? Both those games' aesthetics are practically timeless. They look hand-drawn.

And here I thought /vr/ wasn't a hipster trash heap like /v/ had become.

>>4863743
>why is 4chan acting like 4chan??!!?!?!!!!

Every day.

>>4862509
Bad fucking taste. I love how ALttP almost looks like it was modelled out of clay, there’s just this nice luster to everything.

>>4863850
never once did i ever think this game was modeled out of clay, the fuck were you smoking anon bc i wish i had your perspective on this masterpiece.

>>4863850
>I love how ALttP almost looks like it was modelled out of clay
lolwut, this ain't earthbound

>>4863732
>>4863739
Only correct posts so far.

>>4863947
Not him but I get that from it as well.

>>4863958
I don't see it, it looks closer to cel animation by toei

>>4863743
Well I can relate at least in part when it comes to Super Mario World.
I just feel like, compared to SMB3, it's art design looks way too plain and the color choices are too over-saturated.
Still doesn't make it an outright ugly game but i wouldn't say it's visuals are it's strong point.

How one can say Alttp is ugly I can't understand though.

>>4863965
The trees are one of the big things for me. Dungeons and buildings not so much

>>4863639
Is Matrix a girl?

>>4863008
The Zelda Space World demo looked like absolute shit even back then, I never got the hype over it.

Might as well make it a DOS thread

>>4864902
no man, doesnt get more ugly than psx games (and some saturn games). First console gen 3d is the ugliest shit

>>4864919
You never played 3D dos games, eh?

disgusting.

Just about everything on Atari 2600.

>>4863743
Just don't give them (You)s, retard.

>>4865207
I remember playing this with my brother
Good times

>>4865198
Not agreeing with him, but what you posted looks astoundingly good for a DOS game.

>>4867279
It's not. It's a PS1 game showing they don't all look bad.

>>4863850
People are giving you shit but I see where you're coming from with the clay thing

>>4864902
Tongue of the Fatman is a ugly game, but that's not how it looks like.

>>4862509
They're not even remotely ugly, but ultimately really plain snf unimpressive even for their time, people acting like they're gorgeous and shit are deluding themselves.

>>4862596
>>4862631
Filters are not the same as shaders you absolute knobs.

The Legend of Silkroad for arcades. The game itself is actually pretty good, but all the characters are prerendered and it doesn't work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFCDGhGDAg

>>4865198
Still looks better than most fully 3D PSX and Saturn games.

Barfadena... even at the time the game came out. Large, blank environments AND loads of meaningly backtracking? HUR DUR GOTY

>>4867535
Yeah it's one if the best looking PSX games, but not that far beyond some others.

>>4867537
>hating large enviroments

>>4867537
I've only played the original halo, and i'd been playing PC and console games since 94, but playing halo 1 for the first time blew my socks off. Something about the pacing, the pretty environments, the fast paced action sequences (with recharging shield) and the pumping music, it was just a really well done game. I can understand why it became a big franchise.

>>4867501
reminds me a bit of touki denshou: angel eyes
the issue though is that not everything is prerendered, so even if some of the art looks good the artstyles clash too much

>>4863743
>I DON'T LIKE OPINION SO /v/!

Funny fact: it was acclaimed by it graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnUB1egd4U

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>>4862596
With an actual CRT, shaders are still needed if the signal is clean. Much of what's attributed to cancer ray tubes is actually composite video distortion.

>>4865198
That's not a DOS game. It's that Ghost in The Shell game for the PS1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiaB8eVXaE

>>4863742
>action 52 programmers

I too would like to know this. Somebody should look them up and try contacting them or anybody that had anything to do with that game and ask them what the fuck.

>>4868180
Reminds me of Killer instinct, that kind of style has alwasy been grating and too plastic-like for my eyes

>>4868658
its likely that they were beginners and didn't know what they were doing

>>4862503
I would, but since this is /vr/ and not /v/, I can't post anything new.

>>4862524
ugliest texturing job, yeah. the model isn't bad.

>>4864919
I don't know why, but I always thought this game looked fucking comfy

>>4868323
Then why are the textures transformed correctly in the gif but not in your video (as is the case for all PSX games)?

>>4864902
CGA colours are extremely comfy to me, guess I have shit taste

>>4862503
Shitty _and_ ugly af.

>>4868323
I know. That's why I posted it. It wasn't meant to confuse you lol

>>4870624
Not him but I feel like asking, you posted GITS as an example of an ugly game?
It looks ugly in screenshots, but in motion is better. It's kind of bland graphically though, but the gameplay is great, and the soundtrack even better. One of my fav PS1 games

>>4870626
No, no the opposite. A guy was saying that it doesn't get any worse than PSX games and put a pic of a super shitty one. So I posted that in response showing that some PSX games looked great fir their day (I think GitS is one of the better looking 3d games on the system).

Didn't mean for it to cause confusion.

>>4868658
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTZ1C20G-E

>>4862509
Decades later and they still look good.

>>4868848
It's the colors

>>4868185

Came here to post this.

>>4868185
>640x480

>>4868185
Soulful.

Look at this revolting perspective and vomit

>>4873651
Hold my ale.

>>4870591
It was a prototype. Of course it would look like shit

>>4864902
Those are kinda low-hanging fruits.

Ugly game?
Easy peasy lemon squeezy

>>4873732
>Implying it won’t still look like shit if the game was actually finished.

>>4862503
DBZ Ultimate Battle 22 is cut from the same cloth. Shit was hideous.

>>4863743
>>They look hand-drawn.
Screen attached looks hand-drawn. Doesn't mean a thing.
That said, I think Link to the past looked beautiful.

>>4875676
Ahum, Screen attached.

>>4872651
if this is garbage for you, I guess you can't
understand
understand
the concept of art

>>4864902
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1o92TVm2uk

bump

>>4862509
I'd love a SMB3 remake with graphics done by hand in the vein of Cuphead. Shiggy's not too old to draw anymore, is he?

>>4876440
Whoa, I've never seen anybody mention this game outside of the brutalmoose review

>>4878645
I only saw it because of Retsupurae actually. It looks like if 80% of a game was made of fecal matter.

>>4876440

Looks like that Amiga game Ashens made as a teenager.

>>4863895
It was modeled after models that were made out of clay. Or resin, it was in an old magazine scan.

parts of sonic 3 look horrible. hated how they ditched the aesthetic of the original games and tried so hard to look like a snes title.

>>4862509
This. I thought they were knockoffs. I had an ne s and then a sega gen so i never got to try i t.

>>4862607
Based af.

>>4870902
Go to 11 minute mark.

>>4879867
>if ff8 was on a saturn

How the fuck did you fuck this shit up so badly? Emulator by the looks of it.

>>4879867
why do emulatorfags torture themselves. just stop being poor.

>>4880476
thank you Mario Gonzalez

Robotron 2084 may be influential but it's an audio/visual nightmare with its eye searing rainbow colours and earsplitting sound effects.

>>4863850
It does have a feel about it. The color pallette really plays into it. Its a nice drab, not bland. Only idiots call drabs bland, i guess they need to be hyper stimulated to think something is "aesthetic"... Such boxed minds! Anyways, it seems these "trolls" are either influencing imbeciles to think on low levels or they genuinely believe that art is subjective. Which would explain why most post modern art is fucking terrible.

>>4880572
a lot of arcade games were seizure/epilepsy inducing, look at tempest

>>4880587
> genuinely believe that art is subjective.

It is though.

>>4863743
This place has fallen really hard from how it was in the start. It's depressing.

>>4880629
You are part of the problem.

>>4879867
The playstation was not meant to be emulated that way, hence why it looks like shit. It's pretty simple, either use an emulator that works like mednafen or get the steam version.

Why do people fuck the simplest shit up?

>>4880705
ALL emulators are broken and don't emulate games properly you retard. Mednafen is even worse than fucking epsxe. Also the steam version looks like shit. Fucking retard

>>4880695
You thinking there is a problem doesn't make it real. Art is very subjective.

>>4881223
No, there is objectivity in all things that require skill. Stop trying to regress society by destroying standards. Just because a bunch of idiots think shitting period blood into a bag of cheetos is art, doesnt make it so. Thats like me typing random gibberish into notepad and saving it as an .exe and saying, i made a program. Stop it, just fucking stop!

>>4881241
Art is about so much more than execution. Also I make my living making and selling art so I consider your statement both clueless and almost insulting (if I cared)

>>4880587
>Art is not 100% subjective
I'm sad that people as clueless as this are allowed to have their subjective opinions, I really am.

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>>4862509
Fun fact, these games both used a simple graphics compression method where instead of having 4 bits per pixel, they only used 3. The downside is it meant each 8x8 pixel tile could only have 8 colors instead of the usual 16, which is why these games look a lot simpler than most other SNES games.

>>4868848
so you feel the xmas spirit wafting through your basement?

>>4881729
Why did they use such a compression method though? What would happen if we were to have it uncompressed?

>>4868658
There was one that came out and talked about how he was essentially fresh out of Highschool or College or something, and pretty much had to do the whole compilation within a short as fuck timeframe on an Amiga, and inside a recording studio none the less

>>4875682
Were the moraff games any good. It always seemed like the point of their games were OMG super-high res graphics modes!

>>4862524
I used to play Tekken from day 1, it was never a particularly pretty game.

>>4873651
That looks familiar. Is that an Ultima game?

>>4883535
It's Ultima 8

>>4883570
Thought so, pic related is UO.

>>4863639
The middle bottom BG looks so damn good though, I'm beginning to think it's probably stolen from somewhere.

Xenophage comes to mind

>>4873805
Executioners is pretty funny but yeah, it's ugly as hell.

>>4862596
I want to lick ruth 90's asshole.

>>4862524
Tekken was crude as fuck sometimes

>>4880540
Even in the real console it looks retarded. The dude who made the hardware for the textures in the ps1 should kill himself.

Can't stand this aesthetic. 3 blows 2 out of the fucking water visually.

>>4868185
This game is legitimately beautiful, you're not b8'ing are you?

>>4881241
have you ever read a confederacy of dunces

>>4875732
Ah fuck, that wont be going away for a while...

>>4878639
Why would you want Shiggy to draw it? Yoichi Kotabe drew the 2D art for most of the games, Shiggy just drew the cover of SMB1 with the blue ox bowser, the 3 year old peach, and the derpy toads and enemies.

Look at this shit

>>4885480
I like it, reminds me of the Peanuts

>>4885480
Very comfy.

>>4881527
Found the jew.

>>4868216
That doesn't change the fact that those screenshots look nothing like a CRT.

>>4885638
Also doesn't change the fact that being displayed on a CRT makes very little noticable difference as to what the game looks like graphically. I'll never undestand all the jerking off you people do about CRTs.

>>4885726
>noticeable
Speak for yourself, they are noticeable.
To be honest the worst offender isn't the filters, it's the stretching. Then again, playing a game in its original 240p resolution on a big ass HD TV doesn't do the trick either.

>>4885638
t. didn't have a Trinitron I actually prefer slot mask tubes. They make for smoother diagonal lines

>>4863728
Pff. Turrican looked fine for 1989/90. The first zone isn't the best looking but is nicer in caves/tech areas. Even though it stole Turrican graphics, Duke Nukem 1 looked fine for that era of DOS games too,