/vr/ - Retro Games

>posts opinion as fact

>>5037592
Even during its prime NES was never really known for great graphics. Arcade games were always superior. What made the NES such a big hit was the speed, responsiveness and the kind of games you could play on it for a home console.

looks better than the average genesis game too

>>5037619
Coming from the Atari it was a mindblowing graphics for a home console

>>5037592
Nice try Donny, but Kirby's Adventure looks better

>>5037592
Little Samson has better graphics

I think the Mega Man games have the best graphics cuz of the cool palette-cycling stuff and good spritework.

https://youtu.be/x1yhROiKnFg
not a scene demo, these are in-game graphics.

>>5037926
Yeah, that is pretty cool, especially for a licensed title. Shame they didn't use the music from the movie, though.

>>5037926
>in-game
Ehhhhhhh

>>5037926
Shouldn't have invoked demos, because while it obviously isn't a fair comparison demos blow the fuck out of that.

>>5037592
You are adorable.

>>5037592
So, so adorable.

>>5037619
>Even during its prime NES was never really known for great graphics.
This is shitbrained thinking. You're looking at the NES from a 2018 persepctive. When it was released in 1983 it blew everyone's minds, but you wouldn't know that because you were probably born in 1998.

>>5037979
>When it was released in 1983 it blew everyone's minds
by being worse than arcade stands from 8 years prior?

>>5037619
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>>5037984
You both are depressingly brainless.

>>5037989
Not as both depressingly brainless as you're mom.

>>5038000

>>5037619
>Even during its prime NES was never really known for great graphics.
Fag, Megaman 1's graphics caused a fucking revolution back then thanks to Capcom's programming tricks that allowed the console to display sprites with more than just 3 colors.

>>5037964
Top taste, my friend

>>5037631
Yeah exactly, "for a home console." What actually blew peoples minds was how fun it was to play the games like Mario and Megaman. They were fast and dynamic, with side-scrolling and platforms and top-down maps scrolling. They had multiple different types animated sprites on the screen all at the same time. Plus you had major advances in audio as well.

Compare to the NES, Atari was a joke, with static screens and slow-moving sprites and bleep-bloop music. Also, lots of videogames were played on Home Computers like the TRS-80 and Commodore 64, which had much graphics than the Atari.
>>5038032
Maybe for industry nerds. All those of us who were actually alive in the 80s cared about was how awesome the games were. The graphics enabled the great games. Nobody sat there and just admired the graphics, which is worth mentioning only because that's exactly what people fucking did when the next-gen consoles came out. People often made a point to praise Sonic's amazing graphics in a way that no one ever did for any game during the 8-bit generation.

>>5038313
Fuck you, I played Megaman back then and it blew my mind to see the character's cartoonish look as opposed to the muddy look of old NES games.

>>5038392
I was about to say. "It looks like a cartoon" was the best compliment you could give a game back then. The into to MM4 blew me away when I first saw it.

>>5037592
If you count Japanese releases then Metal Slader Glory was WAY better.

>>5037964

Holy shit i was looking for title of this game. Now i know

>>5037592
>>5037619
>>5037631
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>>5038032
Even with all composite crt filter tricks the NES still is extremly ugly. So ranking something is crowning the best of the worst. NES graphics are abysmal and trash. And don't get me started on new games like immitating those shit stool pungent graphics. Yacht club games is a group of stupid lazy assholes and can go fuck themself.

>>5037848
Even today it amazes me how good do the rotations look in this game

>>5037592
>pic of frog man beside a ridiculous untruth

I see what you did there!

>>5038313
>All those of us who were actually alive in the 80s cared about was how awesome the games were.
God, shut up, you pretentious twat. Of course people cared about graphics, they always have. Talking about what games looked like, or gushing over screenshots in magazines and catalogs was very much a part of my Childhood in the 80's™, just as it was for many other kids. This was even true in the fucking arcades. The actual gameplay was what got you hooked, but what attracted you in the first place were the superficialities, like sound, graphics or outlandish cabinet designs. This was never *not* a thing. Never.

>>5039042
>>5038392
hah you faggots are so mad holy shit. 8-bit graphics sucked and always sucked. Ok sure yes I'm not saying no one ever appreciated any artwork on the NES ever, but the system in general was just not that impressive, graphically speaking. Arcade games all had far better graphics and often the home console games were literally pale imitations of those graphics, like Altered Beast on the Master System.

People knew that when they played and rated the graphics accordingly.

>>5039042
Now to emphasize the point, let's move into the 16-bit generation and do another comparison.

>>5038469
That never really stopped being a compliment either. Remember how big a deal cel shading was in during 6th gen?

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trump has some gorilla hands there

>>5037936
>Shame they didn't use the music from the movie, though.
Sunsoft's music is really kickass in its own right.

>>5038630
>And don't get me started on new games like immitating those shit stool pungent graphics.
There can be a certain nostalgia appeal to them, as well as the angle of making a game that's fun to play regardless of the shit graphics. The NES is known for having a good library of platformers and if you're planning to imitate the gameplay of a NES-era game like Ducktales, using the 8-bit aesthetic can be a reasonable choice. It helps signal what the game will be like.

Megaman 9 and 10 are another good example that also used the throwback style specifically because those games were "what if we went back to 1989 and made some Megaman games that people would still like to play today?" They wanted to use the exact same physics and approach to content design, so they used the classic graphics to emphasize what they were doing. It helps that Megaman is one of the most well-designed NES games from a graphical standpoint.

Meanwhile, games like Dustforce or Limbo don't imitate 8-bit gameplay, so don't imitate the art style.

>>5039167
They look pretty s o y to me. Also seems to be a wristlet beta

i dunno, Kirby's Adventure is pretty top tier

>>5038630

shut the fuck up