/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2211170]

Retro Games with great Art Design

pic related ff 6 was beautiful

[Anonymous No.2211178]

FF6 looked nothing like that.

[Anonymous No.2211182]

>>2211178
Yeah unfortunately Amano's art is gorgeous but doesn't really translate well to in-game art, or maybe they didn't really try to.

[Anonymous No.2211184]

[Anonymous No.2211191]

Say what you want about how good it was, but Chrono Cross had good art design in the backgrounds.

[Anonymous No.2211202]

Chrono Cross was incredible.

The art in japanese games is generally pretty good even today. In Square games even the smallest details and most insignificant characters look interesting and well made, and Chrono Cross is the best looking of them all.
I'm not a fan of all the design choices, but they all have decent artists behind them.

[Anonymous No.2211248]

>>2211170
>ff 6 was beautiful
It's probably one of square's weakest efforts on the snes in terms of graphics. There are lots wonky sprites and backgrounds.
CT and Secret of Evermore looked better and I think that even the more stylized art of FF4-5 and SoM was more pleasant to look at.

[Anonymous No.2211262]

Epilepsy 2084

[Anonymous No.2211267]

>>2211184

[Anonymous No.2211561]

>>2211170
Takayoshi Sato for Silent Hill 1 & 2. According to one interview with him, he stood against the hierarchical leaders or supervisors, from what I understood, to work on SH 1's CG alone, and he had no caucasian references and hence had to improvise. I think he succeeded in giving each character an identity even beyond the wonky voice acting behind most of them.

I saw some art for Shinkiro and heard of how reputed he was for the George Clooney look but I only played KoF 2000 and the ingame portraits were really good but I'm not sure if it were by him.
http://livid.basgrospoing.fr/files/2013/05/NewheroHiro.jpg
http://criticsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/King_of_Fighters_2000_by_Shinkiro.jpg

[Anonymous No.2211567]

>>2211248
>square's weakest efforts on the snes in terms of graphics

[Anonymous No.2211573]

>>2211178

Yes because all the design art fo other SNES games looked like screenshots

[Anonymous No.2211576]

Panzer Dragoon series

[Anonymous No.2211597]

Such lovely palette choices for the backgrounds, such awful ones for the class changes

[Anonymous No.2211738]

>>2211567
I still say the opening march on Narshe in the snow is one of the prettiest bits of sprite work I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.2212453]

Perhaps a little bit generic, but there was always something about Fletz in LoD. Especially at night.

[Anonymous No.2212481]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ326BME2fE
I felt like MKR for Saturn had a really cohesive artistic vision behind it. It doesn't quite come across at Tokyo Tower but once you get to the fantasy world of the game it is consistently pretty and the music and art and occasional special FX work together really well. Every time you get to a new area it feels like a really fleshed out new word to explore. I like the game better than the manga and anime it's sorta based on.

[Anonymous No.2213175]

>>2211178
>>2211182
I think VI looks the most like Amano's art of all the Final Fantasys. That said, I don't actually like his work all that much.

I love the design in the Lunar games, as well Beyond and Legend of Oasis. Also Wind Waker really won me over once I saw it in motion.

The top one for me though is Ecco the Dolphin. I think that game is stunning.

[Anonymous No.2213365]

>>2211182
>Yeah unfortunately Amano's art is gorgeous

Im not a fan. He makes everything too feminine. Im not asking for everything to be Frank fucking Frazzetta mind you, but I have to draw some line at lipstick and eyeshadow

[Anonymous No.2213384]

>>2213365
>but I have to draw some line at lipstick and eyeshadow

What's the matter? Making you ask uncomfortable questions?

[Anonymous No.2213401]

I can't get over how cool this shit is

[Anonymous No.2213419]

>>2213401
Fuck I hate billy kane so fucking much.

[Anonymous No.2213438]

>>2213401
Kyo's hair was ugly as shit back then

[Anonymous No.2213465]

>>2211248
dude ff4 looks like a sad excuse for vomit on a screen at best (and plays about as good)

[Anonymous No.2213598]

>>2213419
I love Billy.

[Anonymous No.2213605]

>>2213419
>>2213598
PUSH IT
SHOUT IT

[Anonymous No.2213614]

>>2213598
cause you like to play easy characters. Also he killed tung fu rue so fuck em

[Anonymous No.2213639]

>>2213614

said mr needs to git Gud

[Anonymous No.2213641]

>>2213365

I think that's just a trait of his artstyle, not actual lipstick/eyeshadow. He knows how to draw manly men just fine though.

[Anonymous No.2214447]

Have to go with Legend of Mana for PS1. The art design for the game looked like watercolor anime. And the game reflected that art brilliantly in the game.

[Anonymous No.2214496]

Treasure of the Rudras is really nice, being one of the really really late SNES games that never made it out of Japan. It looks even better in motion.

[Anonymous No.2214498]

>no one posts brass banshee
The enemies of Metal Max Returns were in a weird style and I like it.

[Anonymous No.2214501]

Disciples Sacred Lands has hands down some of the most beautiful, darkest and most unique character art in video games. Boggles my mind how they decided to go with shitty ass renders for unit portraits in the second game, though the original artist still did the concept art.

[Anonymous No.2214595]

>>2213438
Looks like Jill Valentine's hair reversed. Doesn't match Benimaru's.

[Anonymous No.2214601]

>>2214447
A gorgeous game. Too bad it's so baffling and weird... still pretty good, just bizarre