Is this the best-looking retro game? If not, what game do you think looks better?

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Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:18:02 No.2889961 [Reply] [Original]

Is this the best-looking retro game?

If not, what game do you think looks better?

Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:33:14 No.2889993
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http://animatedscreenshots.tumblr.com/tagged/Darius-Gaiden

Mind blowing pseudo 3D effects and multi-segmented sprites that don't animate like total ass (looking at you Castlevania)

And of course the stages themselves are very beautiful and imaginative.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:34:59 No.2889996 Art-wise, Kirby's Dream Land 3 beats Yoshi's Island at its own game.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:36:01 No.2889998 >>2889961 you would have had a better thread if you asked from a specific console, not "retro game".

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:42:18 No.2890007 >>2889996 That game looks too blurry compared to Yoshi's Island.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:44:45 No.2890010 >>2889993 I'm not saying that game is bad. For it's time those graphics were probably mind blowing like you said but do you really think that game is better looking than Yoshi's Island?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:49:28 No.2890015 Is it true Miyamoto wanted the crayon style to spite Donkey Kongs 3D style?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:54:00 No.2890026 >>2890015 Whatever the reason was it was a good decision.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 02:57:24 No.2890035 >>2890015 Yoshi's Island uses a lot of 3D itself such for the intro and ending, and besides yoshi story is entirely made in pre-rendered cgi.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 03:28:11 No.2890067 >>2890007 Yoshi's Island looks too jagged and hard compared to Kirby's Dream Land 3

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 03:35:38 No.2890078 File: 47 KB, 900x900, photo (3).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2890067

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 03:48:28 No.2890087 >>2889993 this is awesome i unpack my Saturn just to play this

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>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 03:53:47 No.2890091 >>2890015 He didn't want to be forced to do DKC like graphics. Probably hates them too.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 04:10:08 No.2890101 File: 16 KB, 512x448, kishin-douji-zenki-battle raiden.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] On the SNES we have: ActRaiser 2 Demon's Crest Kishin Doujin Zenki Musya

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 04:13:01 No.2890103 >>2890015 no

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 04:18:05 No.2890105 >>2890101 any good, it looks good

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 04:20:48 No.2890106 File: 175 KB, 599x458, flink.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably not he first name that comes to mind when you think about good looking Megadrive games but Flink a cute

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 04:36:46 No.2890117 >>2889961 Baldur's gate II or Blade Runner.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 15:39:25 No.2890848 File: 137 KB, 450x381, dwcd2002shots.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2889961 I really love the sprite detail in Rayxanber III for PCE-SCD, it never ceases to impress me.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 15:59:03 No.2890879

>>2889993
>Mind blowing pseudo 3D effects

Not really to be honest - they were just generic line scroll parallax backgrounds. Except for two: the rotating barrel on one of the zones, and the psychedelica whenever Neon Light Illusion appeared.

Also, no emulator gets those effects right.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 16:01:53 No.2890882

>>2889993
>>2890879
With that said, Darius Gaiden is still one of my all time fave shmups. The boss designs and the music helps a great deal.

Now, if you want to see insane pseudo-3d, check out Layer Section. If you play the home console ports, make sure to switch them to TATE mode, cause they have 3x as many special effects that way. That game uses an INSANE amount of linescroll that makes Darius Gaiden look like a chump.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 22:49:04 No.2891673 File: 386 KB, 1024x576, 6790143976_c87e63f86c_b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jet Set Radio is the most graphically impressive game we're allowed to discuss here.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:03:24 No.2891715 File: 193 KB, 1200x800, ff.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:39:46 No.2891794

>>2891673
And Jet Set Radio Future even more so. But as I type this, I know a fully grown adult man is going to read this comment and scream as he goes blind with rage, flinging his freshly filled piss bottle at the wall (for the fourth time this week), screaming REEEEE NOOOOT RETROOOOOO and mashing his hands on the keyboard until he finally passes out into a pile of fruit snack wrappers on his desk.

[spoilers] 6th gen is retro [/spoilers]

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:40:47 No.2891795 >>2891794 I fucked up the spoiler tag. It's been a long day. My apologies.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:43:30 No.2891798 >>2891794 I am eating a green apple. Not retro.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:50:26 No.2891820 >>2891798 what kind?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:51:42 No.2891825 why were the 64 and up shit at 2D? how could it peak with snes?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:53:30 No.2891827 File: 111 KB, 1024x768, Super-Mario-All-Stars2 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm partial to the repaints on All-Stars, especially in SMB1, LL and SMB2. Otherwise TG16 Hudson games are fuckin' beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 2, 2016 23:53:53 No.2891829 >>2891794 >ignores board rules >doesn't know how to spoiler >entire post is whining about people who do follow the board's rules Congrats man, you're sure fighting the good fight.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 00:08:16 No.2891873 File: 55 KB, 640x480, mdk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2889961 M D motherfucking K

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 01:00:12 No.2891969
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I remember Dragon's Lair blowing my mind as a kid, until I figured out how it worked.

I guess "I Robot", had to be the next most shocking game as far as graphics.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 01:08:54 No.2891992 >>2891827 all stars looks so fucking ugly

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 01:09:21 No.2891993
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It's really a shame that the game revolves solely around one or two puzzles requiring days of careful exploration and trial-and-error which anyone with internet access can just look up the solution to, because these graphics still look great even today, and the general atmosphere is still just as effective.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 01:14:54 No.2892004 >>2891873 It's not that I disagree with you on any level but that screenshot is a little iffy.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 06:57:53 No.2892632

>>2889961

It's this game:

https://youtu.be/etLUjXpgJp0

Because graphics are supposed to include functionality and it should work with the music to create a full experience. This game runs like clockwork from beginning to end and controls are perfect.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 07:08:28 No.2892641

>>2891992

Not him, but SMB2 looks really nice.
They blew it with SMB3, but not because it's actually ugly, just because they changed a lot of the art direction that was so charming on the original and made it sort of generic on the remake, still not bad.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 07:40:04 No.2892694

>>2892641
>>2891827
But still far away from being the best on the system. It's decent enough, gets the job done, pleasing on the eyes, but not very impressive.

Hamelin no Violin (very nice spritse and enviroments)
King of Demons (little sprites, but very good backgrounds)
Mr. Nutz
Super Turrican 2 (even has FMVs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAhb4Bcp6Y )
Rendering Ranger

Undercover Cops
Batman Returns
Sentai Bara Yarou

There are many really good looking games on the SNES/SFC.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 07:51:12 No.2892708 File: 25 KB, 316x200, Ciel1PC.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2889961

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 08:32:28 No.2892782 >>2890106 Best signal I've ever seen coming out from a Mega Drive tbqh, gotta go check this out

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 08:58:28 No.2892815 >>2891715 Here's your (you)

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:09:51 No.2892831 File: 1.41 MB, 270x235, explain this bullshit.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2891715 Loving Every Laugh

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:13:44 No.2892835 >>2892004 What's iffy about this screenshot? It's a bit of a legendary level amongs the people who played MDK, because of all the super shiny reflections everywhere, that seemed so far ahead of everybody else.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:15:28 No.2892836

>>2891969
>I remember Dragon's Lair blowing my mind as a kid, until I figured out how it worked.
That's half the job of good graphics, doing the seemingly impossible by being smart about it. Still happens today, just on a different level.
See >>2891993 It's largely the same prerendered mechanism, yet people consider it post-wiorthy. In a way it even is.
But it's an issue that makes threads like this insanely difficult. The technologically most advanced games are not necessarily the most "good looking" and vice versa

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:16:49 No.2892837 >>2891715 Where's the [BUY VICTORY] option?

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:27:47 No.2892842 >>2891794 Future doesn't look anywhere near as good as the original. The color has been drained out of it and the art style isn't half as good. also not retro ;)

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:31:02 No.2892843 >>2891673 the visuals aside, is the game actually noteworthy in terms of gameplay, concept, balance and stuff? I'm somewhat under the impression people largely remember the game for visuals and style, not so much for its game aspects.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:33:37 No.2892846 >>2892843 I played JSR recently for the first time. It's pretty fun on its own regardless of art style and OST. I actually couldn't put it down for hours.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:34:05 No.2892847 >>2892843 have you played tony hawk? it's like that

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:37:43 No.2892850 >>2892846 >I actually couldn't put it down for hours. What's its appeal? As far as I understand it's primarily a score attack game, isn't it? >>2892847 I have not. Well, I have briefly tried the rom on the GBA, but it didn't interest me much

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:41:45 No.2892853

>>2892850

You're tasked to perform different tricks within a map, for example collecting certain amount of spray cans and then do graffittis in certain spots, while running from the police if they spot you. The first levels are easy tutorials (but still fun while you get the hang of the controls and how to perform different tricks and jumps), then it gets more challenging. You start unlocking new maps and new characters, etc.

By the way I never played the Tony Hawk games except for a little bit of the GBA game, like you, and didn't feel interested, and I still loved JSR. I say try it to see what's all about, I found it pretty fun and unique.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:45:13 No.2892859 >>2892843 Yes, it's a extremely satisfying to master and navigate the environments. It's not really like Tony Hawk. It's actually pretty unique, nothing really strikes me as similar. Not even the sequel.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:49:05 No.2892862 >>2892850 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnsgUH3bz7o

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:51:04 No.2892864
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>>2892853

>I never played the Tony Hawk games except for a little bit of the GBA game, like you, and didn't feel interested

Well, you should try, the titles until 6th gen are pretty good

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:51:30 No.2892865 >>2892862 never mind this video is fucked watch this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1u4noOXz2w

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:54:33 No.2892869

>>2892862
speed runs are in my experience a very bad way to introduce someone to a game. The player knows exactly what they're doing to be the fastest possible (which is not necessarily the best looking), and moving at a speed and pulling off tricks and glitches, that a newcomer can not follow. The game ends up a visual mess and offputting. That's not JSR-specific, it's an aspect of speedruns.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 09:56:07 No.2892873 >>2892869 You're probably right, watching a long play is better. And besides that video is glitchy and poorly encoded.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 12:23:37 No.2893158

Depends on what you define as retro.
>Games you were likely to have played at home as a child
Yoshi's island is deff up there pretty high.
>2D "Retro" looking games
Most later Neo Geo stuff. Metal slug and KoF (insert your favorite year) in particular.
>Games that fall within the 'retro' timeline
Late N64 rare titles to arcade 'lets throw all of our money at hardware' 3d stuff. Daytona USA and Rush 2049 come to mind.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 14:42:48 No.2893423
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As far as 2D pixel graphics go, I think Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari for the Saturn is the best.

A real overlooked gem, I hear, but not easy if you don't speak moon language.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 15:31:15 No.2893507

>>2891969
>>2892836
You know, for its time Dragon's Lair (even if it was hand-drawn animated) and Myst (even if it was prerendered) were still wildly impressive technological feats. People take all of this stuff for granted today but even just -playing- video at an acceptable framerate in a digital form on mass-market electronics is kind-of a feat in itself, especially with the sorts of constraints they were under, laserdiscs / MPEG / etc. weren't just something that appeared overnight.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 15:36:16 No.2893518

>>2893507
Myst was under the hood a Hypercard game, effectively an interactive slideshow with smaller videos in it. It was subject to computation limits for the video, but it worked with this by having almost all its videos in tiny frames. At that time other games already did FMV, even if they occasionally cheated with scanlines.
Dragon's Lair was not subject to FMV issues or CPU power at all, because the video sequences were played back from the Laserdisk

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 15:39:14 No.2893526

>>2893518
>Laserdisk
Laserdisc

>>2893507
>MPEG / etc. weren't just something that appeared overnight.
As far as games are concerned, it did exactly that. Games with FMV or video sequences used third party codecs. If a new, more efficient, more affordable codec popped up, it got used.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 15:49:46 No.2893545
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I thought it was generally agreed that Metal Slug 3 is the best-looking retro game.

I mean come on, it's fucking Metal Slug. Nearly 20 years on, and it's still the pinnacle of pixel graphics. Nothing else even comes close.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 15:53:08 No.2893551 >>2893545 >I thought it was generally agreed that Metal Slug 3 is the best-looking retro game. It's 30fps, so it can't be.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 3, 2016 15:56:08 No.2893556 File: 73 KB, 618x618, 1408741926833.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2893551 Why even bother? This isn't /v/, no one's going to fall for it.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 08:55:14 No.2894978 >>2892708 >>2893158 >>2893545 >>2893423 Adventures of Lomax is a very, very pretty game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hUi_B0CdY

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 09:08:15 No.2894994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzK2jnmY_JY Stardust had some tight graphics.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 10:47:40 No.2895072 File: 83 KB, 191x214, stu.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2891829 Asspained asspainer detected. Congraturation, you're a massive faggot.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 10:52:26 No.2895078 >>2890106 Doesn't the Megadrive only have 4 16-colors palettes? That's really impressive.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 11:12:04 No.2895101 File: 108 KB, 600x600, 1447781571194.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >All these different fucked up resolutions Why?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 15:17:17 No.2895441 >>2889993 Looks like a cool ass game, will check it out.

Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 18:54:16 No.2895786

>>2892847
>>2892850
>>2892853
Jet Set Radio emphasized spraypaint tagging with extreme sports feats being totally secondary and little more than a means to an end. I don't remember performing tricks in JSR so much as just getting air and hitting rails and just having tricks happen because they're skates and that's all you're doing in those. They made the right decision doing it that way in any case. I just feel it bears little more than a vague resemblance to Tony Hawk which is more varied in tasks and tricks to perform and typically has you doing all these things in a skatepark designed to accommodate that shit vs JSR being pure street.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 4, 2016 20:28:32 No.2895917 >>2889961 According to this board, the best looking game is apprently SNATCHER. Daily thread about that game's graphics here...

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 5, 2016 06:36:04 No.2896723 File: 86 KB, 1280x720, Wonder Project J2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2893423 Also, the Wonder Project J games. Very well drawn backgrounds and detailed sprite animation.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 5, 2016 07:50:54 No.2896767 File: 194 KB, 391x307, wonderPj2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2896723

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 5, 2016 12:57:10 No.2897169 >>2892831 >muh loud minority Lol ur a fagget As it scrolls by you see "positive (96)" and "negative (36)" Fuck off m8 youre showing literal textbook report bias

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 5, 2016 16:29:06 No.2897575 >>2891715 You didn't even pick a retro FF mobile game.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 5, 2016 17:10:29 No.2897650 >>2897169 But if most of those posititve reviews are meme reviews ("i rode a dragon 11/10 goty")...

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 5, 2016 18:58:35 No.2897821 File: 32 KB, 300x242, 070111_castlevania_sotn_01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2889961

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 5, 2016 19:05:55 No.2897839 File: 50 KB, 400x285, kings-quest-v-witch-house.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this game, fuck the haters

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 6, 2016 16:32:53 No.2899887 File: 539 KB, 700x630, Fish Files sample.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2897839 A tone of pnc adventures would qualify.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 6, 2016 17:00:14 No.2899949 File: 49 KB, 640x480, unreal1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 6, 2016 20:57:06 No.2900409 >>2889961 >>2890010 The pastels and thick lines let it get away with low detail.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 6, 2016 21:17:15 No.2900442 File: 470 KB, 640x480, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2889961 It was so cozy looking.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 6, 2016 21:23:55 No.2900449 File: 75 KB, 664x498, riven.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Riven

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 6, 2016 21:25:19 No.2900452 File: 46 KB, 640x480, gfs_5280_2_90.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2900449

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 6, 2016 21:34:05 No.2900460 >>2891673 >implying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmBZwRk4MtI

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 7, 2016 00:28:34 No.2900718 >>2890106 Not a bad game either, got it from a yard sale a while back

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 7, 2016 05:33:59 No.2900958 >>2897650 It's not like that's Steams fault for calculating a percentage, that's the users who are submitting false positive reviews. I hate those people and so should you.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 7, 2016 08:50:37 No.2901090 >>2900958 You can tag reviews as "funny" and if they are tagged enough they go into the ebin maymays category and don't count towards the overall rating now

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