/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2429581]

What are the most gorgeous retro videogames, /vr/?

[Anonymous No.2429591]

[Anonymous No.2429597]

Would The Neverhood be cheating?

[Anonymous No.2429614]

There will ever be a game with better art than Metal slug? i dont think so

[Anonymous No.2429619]

>>2429614
Why why WHY can't someone make wallpaper-sized mockups of every SNK stage without losing their charm?

[Anonymous No.2429664]

Whilst its not entirely good looking, the character models and textures look really nice in HD.

[Anonymous No.2429876]

timeless

[Anonymous No.2429881]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0UBycyZb6w

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[Anonymous No.2432156]

>>2429881
Gave me boners when I was young. That panting scene with conveniently blocking cables was too lewd.

[Anonymous No.2432161]

>>2429664

Overall, MM Legends 1/2 and Tron Bonne are kinda ugly games. The environments are just so plain. But the character models/textures are great.

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.2432173]

Insert Possessioner GIF here.

The remake of Ohkotsk no Kiyu for the PC-98 has excellent art.

>>2432161
Maybe the ruins and connecting areas are sparse, but I love the characters, faked shading, and towns/vehicles.

[Anonymous No.2432175]

2D background games are just gorgeous. Ones that stand out:

>Resident Evil 2
>Final Fantasy 7

These basically need to be played on a CRT TV though to make the backgrounds look sharp.

2D games:

>Symphony of the Night
>Rondo of Blood

[Anonymous No.2432176]

>>2429581
Psycho Dream
that Majuu Oh whateverthefuckitscalled game for SNES
nearly every SNK game on the Neo Geo hardware
Street Fight Alpha 2
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
a shitload of games on Dreamcast

[Anonymous No.2432414]

Macross VFX-2

[Anonymous No.2432430]

Shonmue

[Anonymous No.2432741]

>>2429581
Legend of Mana (the rest of the list is unordered, but this is my number one pick for best looking /vr/ game)
Ridge Racer Type 4 (best 3D graphics on the system)
Wipeout 3 (debatable, but I think it looks good enough to be on a list like this)
Yoshi's Island
Ristar (maybe not the absolute best on the system, but it's top three)
Jet Set Radio (the visuals look fantastic even today)
Metal Slug 1-3 (MS3 is the best looking game on the Neo)

[Anonymous No.2433498]

>>2429581
SaGa Frontier 2

[Anonymous No.2433505]

>>2433498

[Anonymous No.2433525]

>>2432741
This guy's got it pretty much

Anything with a "style" to it still looks good. Anything that tried to go for realism/looking "good" doesn't hold up that well. It's why games like Legend of Mana or Jet Set or Yoshi's Island will always look good, and why games that went for realism like FF8 will look pretty bad.

Too many games lacked style, which is a problem that persists even today.

[Anonymous No.2433634]

>>2429581
arcade and pc98 games.

[Anonymous No.2435863]

To this day one of the most gorgeous games I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.2435885]

>>2429581
wat game

[Anonymous No.2435904]

Kinda hipster choice, but fuck it. It's graphics were legendary and I fucking love Zeal Island.

[Anonymous No.2435909]

>>2435904
kinda the opposite of hipster, seeing as how everyone knows about the game. not the you're wrong

[Anonymous No.2435913]

It may be largely prerendered, but it's still damn pretty. A Legend of Grimrock before Grimrock was a thing

[Anonymous No.2435930]

>>2435885
metropolis street racer

[Anonymous No.2435937]

Blade Runner (1997) looks pretty damn amazing. They made a huge effort to copy the look of the film and they really really succeeded.

[Anonymous No.2435943]

>>2435937
also, voxel characters. got to love non-polygonal 3d

[Anonymous No.2435945]

>>2435943
In this particular game they look a lot better than bad polygons at least.

[Anonymous No.2435951]

>>2435945
it's more than that. 3D accelerators can only do one thing, rasterizing polygons. Before 3D accelerators were a thing there was a wide range of 3D engines, be it raycasters, rasterizers, voxels and who knows what else. Ever since then it's all been textured polygons. A little bit of variety is coming back, due to gpgpu and sophisticated shaders, but in the meantime the 3D accelerators killed engine creativity

[Anonymous No.2435960]

>>2435951
another example of a timeless beauty that took advantage of not using a 3D accelerator.
Voxel landscape aside this game had pixel shading effects we wouldn't see again for several years. Stuff like water shaders (reflection, refraction, distortion), depth of field, antialiasing, non-uniform fog, smooth lod

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[Anonymous No.2436029]

>>2429876

there's just something of Cell graphics that hold up wonderfully

[Anonymous No.2436035]

>>2435960
>>2435951
Very interesting.

[Anonymous No.2436796]

Instead of trying to do lackluster photorealism, the devs went with a style that looks very specific, and is consistent across in-game and cutscenes

[Anonymous No.2436803]

>>2436029
It's a more simplistic shading style, which means it holds up better over time compared to more complex graphics that look more and more outdated as technology improves.

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[Anonymous No.2436839]

>>2436831
better than the DX version?