/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9429859
God of War II, another beast that absolutely sucked all the milk the console had to offer

>>9429859
MGS3 was another excellent graphical showcase

>>9429860
>>9429863
late ps2 games have an advantage. for early ps2 games, I'd say Jak 1 and FFX were the best looking

>>9429865
Jak and FFX look ridiculous too.

Obviously, MGS2 is also out of this world in the early era. The rain in the beginning was ridiculous

Since Final Fantasy has been mentioned, Final Fantasy XII is another pearl

>>9429863
But MGS3 runs like dogshit though, the game chokes near the end pretty bad.

Rogue Galaxy is top notch as are Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4

>>9429880
Silent Hill games are incredible.

Silent Hill 2 is another absolute banger from the early era. I can't imagine what it must've felt to turn on the console in 2001 and see this

Shadow of the Colossus deserves a spot on the list too. The lighting, blur effects were truly incredible at the time

Resident Evil 4 too can't be missed.

Picrel is from the HD mod, I know, but we all know it looked incredible for PS2

>>9429927
It sure did...

Battlefront 2. Mygeeto was awesome. The game had a bit of a glow to it, but it was like living in Star Wars.

Starfighter had awesome textures and canyons.

NFS Underground has amazing levels for the time.

Tomb Raider Legend had amazing lighting effects even on PS2.

All EA games looked great.

>>9429936
YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE BROWN

GT4 photo mode.

https://youtu.be/7AGPsWDYAjM

>>9430531
How did you achieve picture quality this good? Mine look like this.

>>9430531
>>9430549
GT4 was another pearl

FFXII
MGS3
SOC
GOW2
SH3
BLACK

These are the best looking ones.
Crazy how good they look when upscaled.

indigo prophecy looks really good

It made the PS2 slow down

>>9430643
Gran turismo 4 rendered in 1080p on PCSX2 looks incredible, check it out on youtube

>>9430643
I had forgotten BLACK.

And yes, PCSX2 with upscale is simply a wonder.

I don't see these given enough credit, and apart from 1 I can't really see why. I think it's a literacy problem, people don't know the library well enough

Transformers (Armada) - huge levels with a really well done LOD set up, details transition smoothly, foliage feels 3D and not "speedtree" dense, packed environments with great lighting (god rays) tons of particle effects, physics (enemies get thrown into each other, real satisfying), excellent texture work full of details like specular maps, excellent animations and runs at 30FPS. If you see someone shitposting about the new pokemon on /v/ mentioning this game it's me lol

Valkyrie Profile 2 - 60fps, 1080i(540p) super detailed environments, although gameplay in them is 2D the cutscenes which are realtime and cut all over the scene show the environments are fully rendered. Characters also look great and field action is super fluid.

Cold Fear - Identical to the Xbox version (maybe better in some ways? I haven't compared.) with dynamic lighting and shadows, nicely detailed environments with shit tons of particles (look at the waves outside the ship - so cool) and makes good use of the PS2's ability to spew particle effects.

Ghosthunter - I kinda struggle to include this because many parts can look real ugly but then some scenes and details look incredible. Doesn't seem to be a popular game but it is really really fun, the distortion, model details, it's all really great stuff with a ton of care put into it and the character animations are excellent.

Death by Degrees - weird ass game but kinda fun, feels like a resident evil style adventure - nothing super stand out but the environments look really nice, detailed and clean. I wonder if it does some kind of antialiasing or downscaling because the details are really nice. Also good boob physics and lots of fully rendered and textured nipples. Nice. I wouldn't say its one of the best but there's a real appeal to the way it looks.

>>9430549
Did you export the file or take a frame grab from an emulator?

>>9429921
>Shadow of the Colossus deserves a spot on the list too.
No it does not. It looks horrendous outside of collossi and barely ran at 20 FPS during combat

>>9429936
>>9429927
RE4 looks like shit on ctr screen though

>>9430934
Can't help the letterboxing (totally boneheaded move on mikamis part) but in 480p it's a good looker

Graphics didn't need to be better than PS2

>>9430934
I played it on my CRT TV at the time. I wasn't impressed back then, but nowadays I disagree with my younger self. It was damn good for 2005

>>9430916
The models and textures are good, but the FX are where it's at. You don't get that kind of thing commonly on a PS2

>>9430951
Yeah. I remember hating PS1 bc I thought the graphics were shit. The PS2 was when I actually started thinking games looked good again and I was pretty satisfied overall

Gradius V and R-Type Final are very impressive. But for me, it's MGS2 and GT3. GT3 was the most photo realistic game when it came out. It was blurry/jaggy low poly, 15 FPS 3D games before it, and then BAM hi-res, 60fps with no slowdown, photo realistic graphics. Truly amazing.

>>9430974
R type final on ps2 is really interesting because it looks better than rtype final 2 on switch.

>>9429873
FFXII made my jaw drop. It truly felt like an "offline MMO". Way ahead of its time and probably the last great game in the mainline FF series.

BLACK always takes my spot for best looking ps2 game, on a CRT or Flat screen it was very pleasing on the eyes. I think it looks even better than the Xbox version

>>9429863
Meanwhile this shitty MGS clone has the same level of graphics but run at stable 60fps on real hardware

>>9431036
How did they make BLACK run on the PS2?

>>9431038
>has the same level of graphics
bro, i can see from your screen that the art style is less realistic and more high fidelity anime

>>9429863
>30fps
mgs2 was better

>>9431084
>60fps of flat walls with blurry textures

>>9431038
>MGS Clone
>You get to stare at a tomboy
So it's better?

>>9431082
>Metal Gear is not anime

Should we tell him?

>>9429859
Even almost twenty years later SH3 looks phenomenal and has some of the most convincing motion capture I've seen in a video game.

>Gamecube barely does more than a static electric particle effect
>Xbox chokes and struggles on basic smoke sprite particle effects
>PS2 whipping out 8th gen gpu shaders at 60fps, not breaking a sweat

>>9431310
ZOE2 is the best looking game of the PS2, and probably the decade. VP2 comes close.

>>9431224
The writing in Metal Gear is anime as fuck, but it was clear from the context I was talking about looks, and you damn well know that Metal Gear games look more realistic than whatever just got posted.

Valkyrie Profile 2 just has a shit ton of detail, it's pure pleasure to the eyes. The cutscenes are realtime but animated at 30fps likely to keep up with the super detailed cutscene models but also effects like depth of field which look excellent too.

Of course while playing the game doesn't hold back on the detail, environments have so much to look at and show off. This is where the game runs at 60fps and my god it's stunning.

The water is of course, nice.

>>9431493
>>9431487
>>9431484
Thats real pretty

>>9429916
It felt pretty okay. I remember not being too obsessed with the graphics.

>>9430660
Is that RAD?

>>9430692
I had the transformers demo, looked amazing

>>9429859
the getaway, something like a gta world but with somthing like mgs 2 kind of interiors of the buildings you can go into. But it has a lot more attention to detail than gta if you stop and look for it. IGN game it a dumb review because they misunderstood the healing mechanics. You are encouraged to shoot and take cover but they just did the usually stand and tank damage that a lot of people do these days. Real low iq stuff and why a lot of new games are so bad.

World Rally Championchip is good in a way, coming from Dreamcast seeing view distances that far was impressive.

>>9431293
They really focused on her eyes, which are more detailed then a lot of her model, and it really works well here.
I just replayed this a month ago and Heather is a just a good character. In a game with a lot of problems, it is carried by how well done she is.

nothing on PS2 approaches RE4 on GCN. PS2's own port is a joke in comparison.

>ctil+f
>No Xenosaga 3

>>9431541
>let's keep re-doing and re-booting and re-imagining xenogears or something
I admit I bought the first Xenosaga and played it for a WHILE but it's so fucking slow and awful and eventually I was like "wat in the fuck does this have to do with Xenogears, I thought this was some Xenogears related shit" and then I lost interest and simply re-played Xenogears but on the PS2 with the graphics smoothing and CD-ROM speedups turned on. It worked well with the smoothing.

>>9430670
Makes you realize it kind of peaked there

It's nice to have good graphics, but I don't see many games that put that level of detail in - unless enough people play it often

>>9431541
>>9431960
I made it about 2 hours into Episode 2 before admitting I neither knew or cared what the fuck was going on anymore. I think I remember enjoying the ending to Episode 1, but when Episode 2 started it felt like it was back to a snails pace and the only thing that reminded me that it was part of the same story was that it was the same characters. Maybe it all comes together if you play them back to back, but I just couldn't.

>>9431984
Ep 2 only becomes fun when you learn how to break the game and easily win battles.

IIRC it was all religious wackos, conspiracies, and mechas.

>>9431514
I don't think SH3 has that many problems. It definitely feels compromised in a few areas but overall I think it plays the best of the series and has the best balance.

While I think SH3 has aged especially good SH2 looks great too. The only asoect that I really think looks a bit aged are character faces but that's just whatever. Weirdly I find SH4 to look the worst. I find environments to really range in quality. Henry's room fkr instance has a lot of low quality textures and assets for being your main hub.

>>9432048
SH3 just has the worst plotting and pacing out of the original trilogy to me. I do wonder if the team fell apart a bit during creation and the game was eventually released in a semi-finished state.
If that makes sense. It's still a wonderful game though. I wish it had more actual Silent Hill though, those moments of wandering the town in 1 and 2 really set the stage for the rest of the game. I would agree that the fighting in it is the best of the series, while the first two stop having almost any difficulty once you get the steel pipe.

Dragon Quest VIII (NA version) is the most beautiful game to ever appear on the PS2. It still looks amazing and everything about it really makes it feel like a classical fantasy adventure. Running through the hills of the overworld, seeing a grand, beautiful vista as the orchestrated overworld theme hits its crescendo is the single most stunning thing ever in a video game.

Hungry Ghosts

>>9430715
>a frame grab from an emulator
I used the Photo Mode on an actual PS2.

>>9429873
I hate this game so much, but I cannot deny that it is a technical marvel.

>>9432054
Konami were pressuring them into making it more like SH1 because 2 sold like shit in japland

>>9429873
>>9431541
These were the 2 I came to post. Doesn't matter what your feelings are about either of the games, you can't argue about how wonderful they look.

>>9432054
SH3 and SH4 were forced to be developed by Konami, who then shut down Team Silent after SH4 released all together. Team Silent was fucked over hard by them.

>>9432250
Why do you hate it, anon?

>>9430951
Agreed. I wish indie devs would stop obsessing over nes graphics and start a trend of 3d games inspired by the PS2 graphics. No need to go expensive with ray tracying autism, just some good basic 3d. How many games could be made with that idea.

>>9431484
>>9431487
Beautiful graphics. I never played this game

>>9431293
Holy shit that screenshot looks fantastic

Silent Hill 2/3/4 really were graphical marvels

>>9431506
Really? Damn, I played it in like 2007, and I was shocked and couldn't believe that game was released in 2001

>>9432048
I didn't finish SH3 because I didn't like it. Maybe my expectations were too high bc of SH2 (what a masterpiece), but I simply didn't like the game.

The graphics, however, are absurd

Rogue Galaxy is another superb looking game.

>>9429859
>be obscure game
>literally called obscure
>nobody's heard of it
pottery

>>9433974
Kek

>>9433041
A lot of people talking about Rogue Galaxy ITT. I had no idea it looked that good

Why does every PS2 game look smeared? People bitch about the N64 but PS2 is WAY worse. AND it did interlaced for 90% of the games AND every fucjing game used that blur effect constantly

MOTION BLUR THE THREAD

This game had gorgeus backgrounds

Onimusha 3

>>9429916
I remember being only 7 or 8 and thinking James was fucking ugly in-game but yeah the lighting was pretty impressive. Was too spooked to focus on the graphics too much though

>>9431487
>>9431493
god this looks amazing
is the game good though?
Should I play the first Valkyrie Profile before?

>>9437617
It's a great game. But yeah play VP1 first.

>>9434070
It doesn't you're just playing them wrong. PS2 is the sharpest of the generation and the only console with no 480i filter

>>9436338
this one is amazing for its 3D backgrounds. The first one is a nice looking CG background like resident evil, and it does look very good even if obviously rendered. 3 however surpasses the rendered BG's with real time ones and they look nuts.

>>9434089
The mode 7 of 6th gen. Gimmick effect shoved into everything

>>9437617
>>9437632
Valkyrie Profile is also a very good and extremely pretty game too. It's not like you're taking a step back or anything, so there's zero reason not to play it too.

>>9437617
I played a few hours of 2 but it didn't really grab me and I couldn't get into the battle system. Very beautiful looking game though. I might give it another shot at the weekend.

>>9437771
how do I get the best picture quality?
crt with rgb cables or old hd ready lcd with component cables?
eurofag speaking here