/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5486595
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

>>5486595
Any other games with this New Age aesthetic?

>>5486603
Magician Lord

>>5486595
Space Harrier

>>5486595

Dragon's Lair

>>5486595
Tetris

>>5486595
On balance, arcade Outrun.

>>5486720
Hardly a game though; more a tech demo you had to pay for.

>>5486620
You have to be joking. The assets themselves are fucking ugly. It's all just effects making the game presentable.

>>5486595
>Was this the best looking and sounding game of the 80s?
No. Next question.

>>5486595
No but it might have the worst game play

>>5486595
Far from it, especially when it comes to arcade stuff

>>5486595
I'll raise you Xenon 2.

>>5487027
It looks damn good though which is the thread topic. Also shadow of the beast is a pretty shitty game too.

>>5487027

Gameplay wasn't at issue here, but if we're also going for that as a requisite then most any Capcom, Konami, or Sega arcade game from '88 or '89 crushes Shadow of the Beast. TMNT arcade, Final Fight, U.N. Squadron, Ghouls n' Ghosts, Golden Axe and more are better in graphics, sound, and gameplay.

>>5487452
Let’s list every Laserdisc game then close the thread.

Ghouls'n Ghosts.

>>5486595
No, that has technically impressive art work at a hardware level, with no artistic direction. If you make art to wow, without cohesion, and direction, it will age poorly.

>>5486595
No. The average intro had better graphics, sound, and game play.

>>5486595
Any sega game that came out on X and Y board arcade systems look and sound better.

>>5488332
Maybe the several times more powerful hardware had something to do with it

Outrun

>>5488340
OP asked if that gloryfied tech demo was the best looking and sounding shit of the 80s. The answer is no.
Go whine about arcade hardware being more powerful elsewhere.

>>5487038
The assets don't exist in a vacuum, they literally exist for the sake of being scaled.

>>5488340
Well, yes. We're looking for best looking, and looking at games on powerful arcade hardware is certainly a better place to find the best looking game of the era than on some commodity home machine.

>>5486720
>>5487452
>>5487287
While it's trendy to call some video games 'movies', Dragon's Lair was literally a movie. An interactive one, but ultimately the same as judging graphics by cutscenes.

>>5487038
You have no idea what you are talking about

>>5487629
>no artistic direction
Static images of sotb can look decent but the game looks very awkward in motion.

>>5489117
It's still technically a game though, whether you think it's interesting or not.

>>5486595
Fucking hardcore game. Had to mess with RAM addresses for some progress

>>5486595
Super Monaco GP
https://youtu.be/V55Ne_tqxQo

>>5492078
Galaxy Force II had far more impressive scaling

>>5491191
I never said anything regarding whether I find it interesting or not. Just that it shouldn't be judged for its graphics, since they are just cutscenes.

>>5487615
Hostile designed quarter muncher, no better than today's freemium games.

>>5486595
What is Dragon's Lair?

>>5492849
I think that's riddiculous.

>>5493014
>waah that game is hard
just git gud, it aint even that hard compared to it's predecessor

>>5487063
This
Pic related is from it's wiki page

You know, for the longest time I thought Shadow of the Beast was just some kind of demoscene meme. Kinda like some sort of Doom deal, where the fun part is getting it to run on something you wouldn't expect. "I got SOTB to run on my Amstrad! Oh yeah? Well I got it to run on my ZX Spectrum!" Didn't even know it had actual gameplay until a couple years ago, I thought it was just about some animated sprite running on a nice parallax background.

>>5486595
It certainly made an impact. I didn't have an Amiga but knew about this game. I think it set the standard for a while. Most of the ports lacked the graphical quality or smoothness of the original so it ammo for "Amiga is better than" discussions.

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1a3qYcmaE

>>5495450
It set the standard for being utter shit on multiple fronts.

>>5486595
amiga was whole decade ahead of its time its really sad they fucked up and shitty PCs with winshit took over

>>5493014