/vr/ - Retro Games

6th gen.

>>5620376
Not retro.

>>5620398
how

>>5620398
lmao retard

>>5620376
FFX

>>5620408
Because the time at which 3D peaked is beyond where this board's definition of "retro" ends.

What year was Daytona USA?

1996

And that's why I don't understand when people say that pixel crap indie games are "retro style" just because of the pixel art.
If pixel art is retro, then realistic graphics are retro too. If Owlboy is retro, then Tekken 7 is retro.
And if everything is retro, nothing is retro.

>>5620376
It hasn't yet.

>>5620376
Late 6th gen, early 7th gen is the perfect match of the technology being there too make semi-realistic graphics while still having a lot of artistry in the modeling and texturing. Too many games these days have the same heavily post-processed look and heavily rely on PBR and other rendering techniques.

>>5620654
That's why it's best to define retro as the game's age, not by a particular visual style or time period.

>>5620398
dreamcast is retro
therefore ps1 is retro
either remove dreamcast as retro or fuck off
fucking babbies

>>5620890
Games don't age.

>>5620965
Age is a spook.

2017, and if you disagree you're retarded.

3d games peaked in the 90s
if you think otherwise back to v with u goblin

>>5621009
>Automata
Yikes

>>5620563
You’re the only one who actually understood my comment. Fucking retards.

>>5620996
I never had a cpc or speccy as a kid, but i enjoy a handful of games from each console. Its surprising what you can find if you are actually interested in retro games and are interested, intrigued and stimulated by older games that make the best of what they had and still delivered something that in my eyes is completely playable today. You have a problem with older games, thats your problem. Theres plenty if worthwhile 80 computer games. If you cant see that, youre a moron. Im not defending bad games, im just pointing out the obvious to an oblivious dipshit.

>>5621009

Looks like a photo some instagram hoe took.

>>5620376
Crysis

>>5621009
This image alone disproves your attempt at memeing.

>>5620965

Age

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noun
1. the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed

>>5621372
Crysis is close. It has some major issues with texture clarity and things like texture LOD (for destruction or physics).

Game looks like dookie with most textures.

>>5620376
Sometime in the distance future

I'd say Thunderblade on the 3DS is the most impressive 3D game I've ever played.

Its really a pity its stuck on a tiny, washed out screen like the 3DS. This goes for all Sega 3D classics. Great ports, poor platform.

>>5621697
>washed out screen
Make sure you're turning off the power saving in the menu and have an IPS screen.

>>5620376
certainly not the PSX, if that's what you're implying

in 1999

>>5621697
fucking this, and it is amazing with the 3D on full blast. RIP stereoscopic 3D fad

>>5620376
PS2 era

It was the last gen before graphical fidelity reached a point where the visuals begame the most valued quality in the mainstream gaming industry.

Early xbox 360 and ps3 era still had soul to it but it was only a matter of time when photo-realism took over.

>>5620376
Literally just now, some minutes ago. It was awesome, too bad you missed it.

>>5621009
real talk though Nier: Automata is probably the best videogame yet made

We still haven't even hot peak 2D yet and peak 3D will be much harder than that. Bit even still, progress has been great and there are some fine looking games already.

>>5622095
a good choice

>>5622095
PS2 era was full of those weird, lanky models whose limbs folded like paper to feign articulation, and I think most PS2 games aged worse than most PS1 games. Then again you have some games like Monster House which looked like 7th gen titles running on a glorified DVD player.

1997

Cel-shading is the peak of polygonal graphics. It has the same level of charm as 2D sprite games.

I'd have to go with 6th generation. Restriction breeds creativity, while still having enough resources to actually show lots of things on screen.

>>5620376
In terms of game design? With the PS2, Dreamcast, Gamecube and Xbox. Honkrable mentions to PSP and DS.
In terms of graphics? Possibly never.

>>5623197
>movie game
Exempting the shovelware titles.

pic related

>>5623025
Not even better than its predecessor.

I feel like Dead Rising was the last game to really take advantage of increasing graphical capabilities in an innovative way that improved gameplay.

>>5623260
come closer so i can shit in your mouth

We haven't yet had a 3D video game yet. They're still all 2D projections.

>>5623271
VR's been a thing for a while now.

>>5621009
Honestly? Probably pretty recently.

RE2 was the first game that really sold me on motion captured performances being something which added to a game, plus the raw detail and just how well it ran on my mediocre system.
These performances flesh out basically every see them once side character from the original game and added actual subtleties to characters rather than being a glorified movie
i.e. Heavy rain and anything Quantic Dream has done in the last 10 years.

@ >>5623187

>>5623269
upvote! xD

>>5620376
Bubsy 3D

>>5620376
6th gen (which includes the Dreamcast)

7th gen was full of realistic shit with gray-brown palettes and chromatic aberration. current gen is pretty much the same shit, but with higher resolutions

>>5623418
>>5623210
cartoony graphics are gay

realism is where it's at

>>5623418
I didn't like Wind Waker at first, but the visuals grew on me. It felt like one giant piece of artwork and the game itself is really good. I liked how it both did and did not quite follow the usual Zelda formula.

>>5620376
It never did.

>>5620376
MGSV, at least in terms of sneaking and what you can actually do.

>>5620376
Luigi's mansion and Rogue Leader on Gamecube were peak "WOW!" for me when graphics were still advancing. Those were the first two games i played in that gen and i couldn't believe what i was looking at, but the effect faded quickly. From that point onward graphics became more of a "how much closer can we get it to looking real" competition and i started caring less and less about the visuals. Then i really started missing SNES and N64 and thus my transformation into a retro gamer was complete.

>>5623418
Gen 7 was, but not really gen 8. The biggest game of gen 8 is cartoony as hell.

>>5623418
Early PS3 games, especially Yakuza Kenzan/3, had this dreamlike quality to them that has never been revisited. These games look like those renders they used for FMVs, it has this weird yet alluring quality to it.

>>5620376
Not in retro that's for sure

>>5620776
This.

>>5623542
>had this dreamlike quality to them that has never been revisited
You mean tons of bloom?

>>5623318
There's still tons of room for improvement though.

>>5623418
I love the way Wind Waker looks, but there's masses of room for improvement there too. We need to get past the phase of trying for photorealism and bsck to stylised games and then things will really take off.

6th gen. There used to be so many different paths to giving a game "good graphics", because the tools developers had couldn't model reality accurately, leaving them to choose what subjectively looked the best. But now for each aspect of a game's graphics, there's one method that's objectively better at modelling reality than the others. The best way to handle materials is PBR, the best way to handle reflections is raytracing, your best bet for contact shadows is a SSAO variant, and a subsurface scattering shader for translucency.

The pinnacle of 3D graphics are star trek holodecks, with holograms with which we could have actual, satisfying sex. We're still along way off from that.

FF7? Jarpig shit. MGS? Moviegame shit. Half Life? Corridor shit.

Why was fifth gen so garbage?

>>5620383
>6th gen.
Interlaced garbage.

>>5623210

You have a point. Though it's nice to find charm retro 3D models in a more serious tone.