/vr/ - Retro Games

Check out the portfolio of the art team? You have the ability to research these things on your own.

>>8940494
oh well this guy solved the internet, mods plz delete thread and board

>>8940348
90s was peak White guilt over indio savages, so there was a lot of stuff using that meme as their template. Happy that fad ended.

>>8940572
Retard.

>>8940529
this but unironically. way too many people use 4chan as a google replacement.

>>8940348
SOUL: The Game.

>>8941034
Zoomer braindead monkey: the post

>>8941038
...Skullmonkeys?

>>8940348
that pic has some arabic/north african vibe to it, for example

>>8940615
He's technically not totally wrong. Native American stuff had a fashion fad in the 90's. Complete with wooden flutes, head-dresses, dream-catchers all kinds of shit.

>>8940348
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE

>>8941006
Maybe it's not so much about the answer to the question, but also finding people who also appreciate whatever it is you're asking about and will share in a dialogue about it?
Fart huffer.

>>8940348
there was heaps of this stuff in the 90s like look at Shiny Entertainments portfolio.
Thats why i think of it as the peak of gaming. It really was art.

The original 2 Fallout games especially the second one were similar.
They are kinda like Abe's audience bit with humans.
(inb4 seething retard)

>>8943359
>audience
wtfing hell... Abe but with humans...

>>8941038
I'm in my mid-40s, dumbass.

I don't know but I think Another World and Heart of Darkness are similar. Neverhood and Skullmonkeys too

>>8944567
SkullMonkeys is a traditional platformer.

>>8940348
Oddysee is my favorite game of all time, I'll try and help as best I can
I'm not sure the aesthetic is so easily inspired by a single thing, but the team had some very talented and classically trained artists, those being Steven Olds, Farzad Varahramyan and Raymond Swanland
some of the dev team supposedly worked on the original Alien film but I haven't verified that myself
if I had to imagine their inspirations though, I'd say probably Dune, Roger Dean (this art from him looks very similar to some Oddysee concept art), and Lorne Lanning was a giant Star Wars fan and he's spoken about it being his main inspiration for a world constantly. there seems to be some Dark Crystal in there too
if you want games with a similar alien setting, try:
>Planescape: Torment
>Morrowind
>Another World

>>8944839
the concept art of Oddysee for comparison
this site has all the known concept art of the games, it's a really good resource, the concept art section of Oddysee has some great stuff when you skip the first few pages, also use the download button at the top-right for the highest quality pic

https://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/togg/

>>8944854

>>8943352
Are you dumb? So you think anything before and after isn't art? What are your favorite games from this then? Man you piss me off so bad

>>8944556
That only makes the fact that you speak hivemind like a child that much more sad

>>8944881
not him but soul is a real word that has meaning, I don't get why you're so offended.

>>8944861
not all the pics in this image are retro but some of them have worlds similar to Oddworld's
also one final point: Lorne is really into Sedona, Arizona
he said they used it for reference in the game's, specifically in Scrabania

https://youtu.be/zgNKwLb3drg

>>8944889
fuck i wish I could play the PD trilogy

>>8944839
>>8944854
quality posts anon

>>8944885
Just like epic used to be a real word with real meaning. Mindless, incapable of forming individual thought. A sad life, needing to fit in so badly

>>8940348
A lot of the design reminds me of the type of the kind of approach to shape and design they used to teach at places like Art Center and maybe Cal Arts in the 90s. For instance Richard Vander Wende (Aladdin, Riven the Sequel to Myst) you can tell he went to Art Center without even reading his website's bio. Paul Felix (Emperor's New Groove and a bunch of other Disney movies from this era) has a very similar approach to design, although I don't know his biographical details so I can't confirm where he was taught. Given that the school had incredibly high standards at this point and was (and still is to some degree, although they don't teach this stuff the same way anymore, exactly) the gold standard for design schools. Anyway since it's located in California, as was Oddworld Inhabitants along with a big chunk of the games industry, it's likely some of the staff went there, or were influenced by other artists in the industry who went there. If you want a window into the late 80s through 90s Art Center design philosophy you can look up Scott Robertson on youtube..

>>8944927
what are you even trying to say

>>8944969
So basically if I didn't go to a fancy art school I'm fucked? Is that what you're saying?

>>8944969
I can't articulate exactly articulate the design philosophy, but every aspect of design is very consciously molded, full value range, interesting lighting, very concise value grouping, hierarchy of shape, silhouette etc. Everything has been "pushed". If the concept art is (expertly) done in powdered graphite, guoache or marker the artist probably went to Art Center because they were very big on these media.

>>8944927
You sound like the only miserable one here dude

>>8944987
Not at all, you can learn alot of the technical stuff by pirating books and tutorials on cgpeers (the old gnomon DVD series from the 00s is basically Art Center 101 stuff) and from the /ic/ artbook thread. But of course the important thing is to look at a lot of art and design and pick apart how it works and try to incorporate it into your own design work.

>>8944987
This guy gave you some details and a starting point and you respond with the most immature and annoying reply ever crafted. Please kill yourself.

>>8944868
you are severely retarded and so low iq you don't deserve a reply.

>>8944889
Good list

Concept artists need to retvrn to doing everything in ink and markers.

>>8946465
You also need to retvrn.

>>8940494
Cringe

>>8946720
What's cringe about that

>>8946723
Yeah just don't talk about videogames on a videogames board, search on your own and don't post anything at all besides waifus and the inevitable unoriginal "X is overrated"

If that post was yours, I hate your kind. Fuck off

>>8946836
OP can talk about it he just needs to be resourceful first.

>>8946836
It's specially grating because this thread ended up being more interesting than the usual console wars or aus-kun threads, but I guess he just wants mindless consooming of shit content.

>>8946878
Your words not mine.

>>8940348
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438tYCMzB4A

>>8940572
Ironically your picrel is Italian

>>8945012
Ive never drawn anything in my entire life and I'm way too old to learn or do anything. My entire lifetime was wasted to be honest. I've been a NEET for over a decade. Nothing to show for it.

>>8944987
lol no, many artists don't even have CVs, only the portfolio. In the industry nobody cares where you studied if your stuff is good.
The big difference a good school makes is 1) your stuff is more likely to be good, and 2) connections and friends.

I can see a lot of Roger Dean but also Richard Corben and other artists associated with Heavy Metal.

>>8949563
You sound like a bitch.

>>8943338
Go easy on fpwp, he's clearly autistic and doesn't understand social cues

>>8949563
Horse shit, its never too late! You just need to wake up and apply yourself and you can bring whatever it is you imagine to reality! Don't let age, or incompetence, or malaise get the better of you - always strive to become what you want to be, and never let anything hold you back!

>>8949826
Corben's "A Dumb Story" probably had some partial influence for both Oddworld and the movie Avatar.

>>8944854
Damn that's a sick site, anon.
>tfw I have no hands and I must itch

Also, even though the game had Mudokons with four fingers and they later switched to three because of the controversy in Japan, it looks like their initial concept art had three fingers to start with anyway.

>>8950084
Says the person using an imageboard as a replacement for actual socialization

>>8940348
They are some of the best most underrated games there are. The creator sucks though. He has ruined his own franchise. I am not sure why he thinks he was creating something way better but he's way off the mark with his remakes. It is a shame because he gets to keep his franchise but at what cost? He himself didn't even understand what made the first two games so good.

>>8944889
Why is there no Metroid or Halo?

>>8949563
That sounds like an entirely different problem than not being able to afford to go to a fancy school.

Certainly European sci-fi comics like Metal Hurlant, especially Moebius.

>>8941006
>a google replacement
YES PLEASE.
GIVE ME THIS THING YOU SPEAK OF IMMEDIATELY.

YOU SINGULARITY WORSHIPPING TURBO QUEEF EMERALD.

>>8950606
>Also, even though the game had Mudokons with four fingers and they later switched to three because of the controversy in Japan
-What?

>>8951413
https://www.thegamer.com/crash-bandicoot-fingers-japan/

>>8951429
Oh for christ sake this like Hero Turtles.
Is this shit really still around

>>8950594
horrific torture t.b.h. desu

>>8951409
Holy fuck go talk like this on Facebook.

>>8951798
Shut up shitbird

>>8950547
The movie Avatar was entirely ripped off the game Unreal.

>>8940348
It was the 90s, things were just like that

>>8952676
just better

>>8951875
Man you are epic

>>8950632
Yeah my country basically put me on house arrest for not getting vaccinated so I don't have many options anymore

>>8953521
Canada?