Best Retro Game Art

[Anonymous No.5084585]

What's your favorite stuff, /vr/? Pixel, early 3D, vector, whatever. Thread inspired by Metal Slader Glory. I just played through thanks to the translation patch and am blown away by what they achieved artistically.

[Anonymous No.5084636]

elf games' background art

[Anonymous No.5084649]

>>5084585
The art for any 16 bit japanese computer game worth its salt. What a goddamn goldmine, I often wonder why not many western companies tried to cash in on cheap licensing and localizations.

[Anonymous No.5084652]

I love the sprite work in mid 90s FPS games.

[Anonymous No.5084657]

Lots of good ones in BoF2

[Anonymous No.5084664]

>>5084649
Pearl-clutching puritans saw to it that selling adult games was nearly impossible in the US, and no one would take games with icky porn in them seriously anyway. Hell, eroge localization companies struggle with both of those problems to this very day.

[Anonymous No.5084798]

>>5084652
The enemies in Blood themselves are digitized physical puppets.

[Anonymous No.5084830]

>>5084657
Looks awesome. I'll have to play those at some point. I never had a SEGA as a kid so I missed most of that library.

Here's some comfy Metal Slader

[Anonymous No.5086753]

>>5084585
I wish there was more stuff like this.

[Anonymous No.5086754]

>>5084830
reminds me of that gif of the end of the powerrangers game, where the guy is acting like a chimp

[Anonymous No.5086789]

>>5086754

[Anonymous No.5086858]

>>5084798
Doesn't that go for Id games too? I swear they had clay models.

100% certain about the shotgun and specific elements, not so much the enemies.

[Anonymous No.5086925]

I've learned to like everything if it looks good. Pixel art, blocky models, Dreamcast-tier models.
Dragon Ball Hyper Dimension is a beautiful game as are Tobal 1, Threads of Fates, Chrono Cross, Virtua Fighter 1, 2 and 3, Garou, Street Fighter 3, Dr Slump, Golden Axe...

It's easier to say what I don't like: games with no defined style. Tekken 1 being one of the worst offenders. Or indie crap.
Or how the styles have been reduced to stupid bastardizations.

Now pixel art is remembered just as NES games, SNES RPGs or Capcom arcade games, but we had plenty of different styles in retro games. Yet indies can only produce this weird pixelated games with modern effects and fucked up clashing resolutions.
Blocky models became just untextured models or Square FF games. But indies can only shit memepoly games, with untextured models and modern shading.

[Anonymous No.5086928]

>>5084798
This looks so good

[Anonymous No.5086934]

>>5084585
I love pixel SD/super simple sprites like Mighty Final Fight and River City Ransom, and low poly 3D like FF7 and Legend of Legaia.

[Anonymous No.5086938]

>>5086934

[Anonymous No.5086943]

I like how the managed to make a pudgy Italian man cute

[Anonymous No.5087023]

>>5084585
i thought le thoyboth were retro-loving hipsters though

[Anonymous No.5087037]

Super generic but the sprite work in a lot of the Metal Slug games have always been my favorite.

[Anonymous No.5087057]

>>5086858
>Doesn't that go for Id games too? I swear they had clay models.

Clay models that were photographed, and further tweaked.

>100% certain about the shotgun and specific elements, not so much the enemies.

Shotgun was literally a toy they photographed.

[Anonymous No.5087143]

>>5086943

[Anonymous No.5087172]

Pixelart schmart. This is not real art.

[Anonymous No.5087264]

Talking of which, what do you think of some of the pixel art produced during the psx era? Not as detailed but wider.

[Anonymous No.5087267]

>>5087264

[Anonymous No.5087271]

>>5087264
>>5087267
Looks like a late era genesis game. I can see why it got phased out in favor of 3D.

[Anonymous No.5087323]

>>5087037
how is that generic?

[Anonymous No.5088080]

>>5087264

[Anonymous No.5088130]

>>5087264
That game makes me so sad. It's gorgeous and cute but wow is it boring to play.

Little else can touch SaGa Frontier 2 for me.

[Anonymous No.5089656]

>>5086858
Id had a a few clay models but didint use them since when taking pictures of them the lamps melted the clay.

[Anonymous No.5089667]

>>5086858
>>5089656
They used clay models for some monsters, for others they photographed various toys (like Pinky being based on a dinosaur toy) then drew over them.
Some sprites were entirely new, or adapted from other graphical sources, most famous being Cacodemon traced from Astral Juggernauts head.

[Anonymous No.5090816]

>>5084649
>>5084664
Where can I find a a list of pc-98 games that have
a) good gameplay
b) good visuals
c) good music
d) a complete lack of nudity and sexual themes
???

[Anonymous No.5090908]

>>5090816
>d) a complete lack of nudity and sexual themes
Prude.

[Anonymous No.5090929]

>>5090908
>Prude.
Buddy, you have no idea what kind of shit I browse or post around here. Do not confuse pickiness with prudeness. I simply don't find the trope-laden universe of pixelated tiddies interesting, and they tend to take away developer attention towards what might have otherwise lent the game some quality. The range of porn games available is colossal, and I just want some assistance in filtering out what doesn't interest me.

[Anonymous No.5090954]

>>5090929
Well, I might've given you a list of some quality titles if you weren't so narrow-minded about it. But whatever, you can fuck off then.

[Anonymous No.5090956]

>>5087323
I think he means generic opinion, not generic artwork

[Anonymous No.5090969]

>>5086789
This is extra foreboding if you keep in mind what happened to Trini IRL.

[Anonymous No.5091008]

>>5090954
>setting 1: single-word namecalling
>setting 2: two-sentence namecalling flourished with a "fuck off"
Would I be entirely off target here if were to guess that you have no other settings for your social interactions?

[Anonymous No.5091010]

>>5090929
>they tend to take away developer attention towards what might have otherwise lent the game some quality.
You have to realize that this is NOT the case when it comes to PC-98 games. Almost all of the best-selling, biggest-budget titles at the time had porn in them, even if it wasn't the primary focus. So if you want high quality, you're going to have to get over your squeamishness. Or just stick to Falcom games, I guess.

[Anonymous No.5091016]

>>5084585
>Using ME:A as an example of the best of modern graphics

[Anonymous No.5091058]

What the fuck was Zeromus suppose to look like? A giant ribcage?

[Anonymous No.5091083]

>>5091008
Why do you insist on using a penny arcade character every time you post, you smarmy faggot? Almost as bad as using a tripcode.

[Anonymous No.5091085]

>>5091008
>Avatarfagging

[Anonymous No.5091763]

>>5091010
Falcom games it is, then.
>>5091083
>every time you post
out of two posts, at the time of your response. You might as well have argued that a line has volume.
>>5091085
By that reasoning, you're halfway avatarfagging, too! Also, avatarfagging demands that you keep up the behaviour for enough posts to establish a pattern, and I can offer you this morsel of precognition: I will run out of images with this character within my next post, if I make one.

Also, if you people are so easily annoyed, I think you deserve to suffer. Tremble before your own frustration, and despair at your own inability to not respond!