/vr/ - Retro Games

Phantasy Star IV

noitu love 2

frogatto

>>741021
I forgot that game, thanks.

another one

cosmic prison commando

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loq2-67MVKs

>>741021
>>741024

Don't forget in which board you are. Not retro.

>>741143
dude, don't hate the newer games, is ok.
OP just want cool pixel art games.

>>741021
And Iconoclasts.
And the Wayforward games Konjak has worked on.

>>741160
It's not hating, I actually like those games,specially NL2. It's just the rules of the board, read the sticky.
If you want non-retro pixel art games create a thread in /v/

Metal Slug series has the best looking pixel art, but it's not the best looking game because of the low framerate.

>>741169
fuck yes iconoclasts

and if we're anal about being retro all the time

lionheart (amiga)

>>741187
This one was always kind of soured for me by the animation of the main sprite. I'm not overly sold on his design at all, but once he's moving I find it all the more offputting.

It's a shame too, as the rest of the game is gorgeous. Got to love those copper backgrounds on Amiga stuff - just beautiful. Seeing them on an LCD through emulation just don't quite do them justice either. I was amazed all over again when I fired up my A1200 on its old Philips monitor.

I really like the style of pic related and haven't found anything quite like it.

>>741187
I always wanted to play that game because Valdyr says how great it is in Ambermoon.

By the way, Albions top-down and combat screens have really amazing pixel art.

>>741176
I guess the thread can fit well here since the best pixel art games are generally the older ones, since indies aren't really professional artists.

one word: agony

psygnosis was european version of wolfteam - wonderful looking and sounding games, mediocre gameplay at best. i love agony for it's design and sound but it could be so much better with some tweaks.

but still those images between levels are breathtaking

>>741245
That wasn't the point

>>741245
>>741253

k no indies then.

pic related

>>741182

Metal Slug is gorgeous even with slowdown. I can't recall Metal Slug ever slowing down for me because I've always emulated it.
Did it slow down on hardware? Irem's Gunforce 2 tries to have a lot of sprites on screen and it can get very sluggish.

For those of you guys not in the know, Gunforce is the precursor to Metal Slug before the crew left Irem to form Nazca.

>>741364
gunforce 2 is the shit
seriously everyone should play it

another pretty game, epic pinball

>>741364
Only Metal Slug 2 slows down enough to be considered a problem. X fixed that.

The first two Simon the Sorcerer games. Some screens had absolutely nothing on them and seemed to be there just because they looked pretty.

>>741013
>8-bit
I'd say Little Samson on the NES. Speaking as someone who generally dislikes 8-bit graphics, it is absolutely beautiful. Ninja Gaiden and Shatterhand are also good.

>16-bit
I dunno. Thunder Force IV/Lightening Force impressed me.

>>741176
oh fuck off, If he made this thread in /v/ they'd be telling him to go to /vr/
Quit being a faggot, you aren't the 4chan police.

Raw image dumps do not capture the real pixel art. You need to use the proper filter and aspect ratio to truly capture the artist's intent.

>>741687

Stop

http://archive.foolz.us/vr/search/image/MdEmLpKwaIqyiKLGkJStLg/

>>741687
hello there FF6 guy

>>741713
Haha. Oh wow.

... None of that makes him wrong though. Cram it.

>>741732
>FF6
It's FFIII.

>>741984
Are you genuinely going to argue this?

Dat dramatic opening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3n6J-CHXaU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QuyU_KHu44

Ninja Gaiden II really amazed me with their "cut scenes"

Adventures of Lomax
Hard to believe that only a handful of people worked on it.

>>741013
>SoM best looking
top lel
they couldnt even do 2 different sprites for walking left and right, his fagget haircut makes that painfully obvious. Its a nice game but square took some liberties they shouldnt have that mirrored sprite just looks fucking stupid.

>>742119
Too bad it's so fucking repeptitive

>>742151
How many games mirrored their sprites correctly anyway? Even high production value stuff like SFIII did that.

>>742315
7th saga mirrored at least some of them correctly

>>742315
super metroid is the only one I can think of off the top of my head

Stage 2 of Axelay is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a game. The sense of scale, that mind-boggling level of detail...

Just fuck, I love this game.

>>742043
SNK fighting games have ridiculously good backgrounds.

>>742559

I was about to write the same. To bad they grow worse over the time, especially KoF2002/2003 are really bland. Capcom did the same, though. As much as I like SFIII, the backgrounds were a massive step down from the Alpha series, imo.

>>742559

couldn't agree more

>>741013
why no 32bit?
there was some pretty good pixel art in some playstation games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hUi_B0CdY

>>742596
Most 2D games on Playstation use pre-rendered CGI for backgrounds, like the Megaman X series, or are arcade ports.

>>742616
>Most 2D games on Playstation use pre-rendered CGI for backgrounds
most, but not all

>>742596
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax3n38JYESE

Little Samson

>>741013
What game is that, OP?

>>742659
Illusion of Gaia

>>742662

It's EarthBound, stupid.

>>742647
>Little Samson
I have actually never heard of this game before
looking at some gameplay it reminds me a lot of Little Nemo... which should also be mentioned here

>>742670
Can't you just call it Mother 3?

Geez, you weeaboo always using japanese names...

i also really like graphics on some of c64 games of the post-mortem era

In the Hunt

this one from unreleased title from system 3 - deadlock

>>742670
>>742676
look my dad works for Super Nintendo, I think I know what I'm talking about

>>742682
>>742691
>>742693
>>742695
Looking at the thumbnails they don't look like 6 colors at all! Awesome.

>>742682
>>742691
>>742693
>>742695
Looking at the thumbnails they don't look like just 6 colors at all! Awesome.

>>742705
well my dad is friends with the guy that made mutant teenage turtle ninjas, so there

Atlania PC98

>>742746
Atlantia Pc98

policenauts

popful mail

>>742746
>>742751
>>742761
wasn't stuff like this all drawn and scanned and not actual pixel art?

>>742554
never heard of that game before but that screenshot looks so cool.

imma play dat shit now.

>>742751
isn't this unplayable? I cannot do level 1

>>742781
That's how lots of sprite art starts out (pic related). They pretty much end up going through everything pixel by pixel anyway, so I don't see why it really matters if it starts out as a scanned drawing or not.

>>742781
They're hi-res sprites. Well, all pixel art had to be drawn on paper first, I have no idea what you're on about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xTz_iiLJI8

>>742797
Go for it, it's one of my favourite SNES games.

>>741013
>I'm not asking bout using low res photos
>File: 1369916885594.jpg-(106 KB, 600x440, secret-of-mana.jpg)
>600x440

/Thread

>>741364
>>741392
Metal Slug runs at 30fps except for a few palette cycling effects.

>>742942
The pixels are visible and it's in the correct aspect ratio. It's a lot better than most SNES screenshots posted here.

>>743101
You mean the Neo Geo version? It's really unnoticeable.

>>741013
Shaq fu has some slick animation. Pretty much the only thing it has going for it.

>>743112
You either played it on an LCD (which makes all motion look like shit, so you might as well reduce the framerate, it's not going to look much worse), or you're one of those idiots who talks about "film look" like it's somehow a good thing, or you're just mentally slow.

>>743119
>or you're one of those idiots who talks about "film look" like it's somehow a good thing

what? how is that even related?

>>742942
He's talking about how the sprites in MK were low res photos of real people, dumbass.

>>743164
24fps is close to 30fps. If you defend one maybe you defend the other.

>>743107

So it's true. Young people really think that's how games back then looked like. What has emulation done.

SEAPUNK AS FUCK

>>743525
Games really did look like that back then. Here's a DOS game that was displayed line doubled to 400p so it had clear pixels, using the exact same art techniques (eg. dithered fake transparency) as a console game.