/vr/ - Retro Games

[Best looking Genesis games? No.635541]

So what are the best looking Genesis games?

My vote goes to Lightening Force, with Sonic 3&K coming in a close second.

[Anonymous No.635549]

Dynamite Headdy is also one of the most beautifully colorful games I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.636779]

I'd have to say Ristar.

[Anonymous No.636783]

Ranger X


Underrated masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.636794]

>>635549
Man, the Genesis had a lot of good-looking platformers. Ristar and Sparkster were awesome too.

[Anonymous No.636819]

>>635541

Ranger X

>>636783

>Ranger X

>Underrated

Is this your first day here?

[Anonymous No.636825]

>>636819
>Is this your first day here?

I was talking about being underrated in general gaming culture, not what you or your friends talk about on the internet. Go try to be edgy somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.636841]

>>636825

It's pretty highly acclaimed, dude. It's on top Genesis lists all the time.

[Anonymous No.636851]

>>636825

Find me someone saying bad things about Ranger X.

[Anonymous No.636852]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufVi3aL6ol0

Panorama Cotton, best looking Space-Harrier clone featuring a crack-addict witch.

[Anonymous No.636875]

>>636851
First you'll have to find someone who even knows wtf it is.

[Anonymous No.636880]

[Anonymous No.636881]

Sonic 3D Blast

does anyone here remember it?

[Anonymous No.636896]

>>636880

[Anonymous No.636901]

>>636881
I had it, the animation at the start was awful mind.. The wiggle cart cheat was neat tho! Game looked ok tho.

[Anonymous No.636905]

>>636851
I have general dislike for side scrolling shooters without 8-directional fire, loved the idea with separate bike though.

[Anonymous No.636916]

>>636875
I was about to say, I barely new anyone else around that had played it.
Definitely loved it though, gorgeous game.

[Anonymous No.636943]

>>635549
>beating the robot before the intro ends
YOU GOT A SECRET BONUS POINT.

[Anonymous No.639731]

>>636852
What the fuck, I had no idea there was a gratuitous crotchshot in this game.

Fucking amazing game by the way.

[Anonymous No.639741]

inb4 In The Hunt

[Anonymous No.639796]

contra hard corps

[Anonymous No.639846]

Thunder Force IV/Lightening Force

Amazing use of parallax scrolling and vibrant colors.

[Anonymous No.639849]

All the Sonics, but Sonic 1 in particular.

[Anonymous No.639852]

Castlevania Bloodlines
>dem effects

[Anonymous No.639880]

>>639849
Sonic 1 is the flattest looking of them all wtf

Beyond Oasis almost looked like a SNES game

[Anonymous No.639887]

>>636819
>>636841
>>636851
>It's pretty highly acclaimed, dude.
SINCE WHEN?!?
This board is literally the only place other than myself that I have ever even seen the damn thing mentioned. Ever.

[Anonymous No.639890]

>>639880
That's the aesthetic though. It's all angular and stuff.

[Anonymous No.639901]

>>639880
>Beyond Oasis almost looked like a SNES game

Is that a good thing?

[Anonymous No.639904]

>>639849
Honestly without rings and Sonic visible, that looks pretty lame. Not BAD just, like early Genesis, Kid Chameleon level of boring.

[Anonymous No.639907]

>>639901
Considering SNES was capable of vastly superior graphics? Yes

[Anonymous No.639909]

Vectorman.

[Anonymous No.640817]

M.U.S.H.A.

Dat fucking cutscenes.

[Anonymous No.640837]

>>636852

[Anonymous No.640846]

Fucking Obligatory
Shame the game plays really awkwardly though, but technically is very impressive

[Anonymous No.640851]

>>639880
>Beyond Oasis almost looked like a SNES game

But it doesn't have slowdown

[Anonymous No.640854]

>>635541
Vectorman 1 & 2

[Anonymous No.640876]

>>640846
Woah....that's a bad ass title sequence

[Anonymous No.640886]

>>639907
HAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAH

[Anonymous No.640897]

Phantasy Star IV deserves a mention.
There's this boss encounter: it's intro really spooky and creative, while the character himself is really grotesque:
http://youtu.be/z7E3uvvxKko?t=17s
And then, of course, there's the final dungeon with the tricked out special effects all over the place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIw4ytshPU8

[Anonymous No.640905]

>>640886
This is what sega drones actually believe.
Snes had higher resolution, more colors, and mode 7. And with the FX chip?
There is no sega game that can compare to the graphical fedility of Yoshi's Island.

[Anonymous No.640920]

>>640905
>Snes had higher resolution

[Anonymous No.640923]

>>640886
Dude. It's an absolute fact. I'm die hard Sega fan but, Christ, the reality is the SNES was capable of ten times more colors and able to display twice the amount at once. Rotate and scale sprites, too. We're talking graphics here, not gameplay.
SNES games chug and sputter like crazy, though. It didn't have the RAM to back up it's own potential.

[Anonymous No.640929]

>>640920
Genesis: 256x224, 320x224, 320x448
Snes: 256x224, 256x448, 512x224, 512x448

[Anonymous No.640934]

>>640929

do any games actually use 448p

[Anonymous No.640937]

>>640929
SNES was CAPABLE of a higher resolution, much like how the PS2 was technically capable of 1080i and not even the Wii supported that resolution.

In practical terms virtually no games used SNES high resolution modes, while a LOT of games used the Genesis high resolution modes.

[Anonymous No.640935]

>>640929
Thing is, the majority of Genesis games used the higher resolutions while the SNES games that did can be counted on one hand.
I'm not sure why that is though.

[Anonymous No.640946]

>>640937
>>640935
Alright, I concede on the resolution point.
I knew that number was higher, but never realized it was only used for like text menus and stuff.

[Anonymous No.640951]

>>640929
That's cute you know how to google.
Here's what actually happened, SNES was TECHNICALLY capable of higher resolutions but you can count with your fingers how many actually used it. And to be honest, I'm not trying to start a graphics war here, I don't care, I still think SNES has better graphics capability, but don't spread that shit around that it has higher resolution.

[Anonymous No.640952]

>>640946
Ignore the "tricked!" in the email tag, that was from a post in another board.

[Anonymous No.640957]

>>640951
>That's cute you know how to google.
A-anon sama

[Anonymous No.641114]

>>640957
No tears Anon-kun

[Anonymous No.642087]

>>639904
That's the style. It's not supposed to be pseudo-realistic like so many games of the later era tried.

The art deco look was unique, whereas S3K went a little overboard with detail and naturalism imo.

[Anonymous No.643262]

>>640935
If you look at a game that actually used the 512-wide mode, it's obvious why it is -- the graphical capabilities are extremely restricted in this mode. I think you can only use 16 colors or something.

That said, it sounds like this would still be a useful feature for computer-style RPGs that feature a text window during gameplay. Just switch graphics modes in the middle of the screen (like a lot of Mode 7 games did) and put a text window at the bottom. I wonder if anyone ever did that -- it would've been cool to see more CRPG-style games on consoles, that's for sure.

[Anonymous No.643408]

Aside from the resolution thing, a lot of SNES fankids also believe that the SNES had better sprite capabilities. After all, it could put 128 on screen compared to the Genesis's 80, and sprite sizes went all the way up to 64x64 instead of 32x32. The thing is though, it's not even remotely possible to actually put 128 64x64 sprites on the screen. Hardware spec summaries always seem to leave out the most important sprite restriction, which is the number of sprite pixels that can be drawn per scanline. This is 320 pixels on the Genesis (or one screen width's worth) and 272 pixels on the SNES (or 1.06 screen widths). They're really more or less equal, with a slight advantage to the SNES in terms of screen widths or to the Genesis in terms of the absolute number of pixels. Also, the 64x64 sprites on the SNES are damn near unusable given this restriction.

By way of comparison, the NES and SMS could only do 64 sprite pixels per scanline, or a quarter of the screen width. The TG-16/PCE could do 256, or one screen's worth, while the Neo-Geo could do like 5 screen width's worth (though to be fair it had no background layers and had to use sprites for that).

[Anonymous No.643621]

>>643262
>That said, it sounds like this would still be a useful feature for computer-style RPGs that feature a text window during gameplay. Just switch graphics modes in the middle of the screen (like a lot of Mode 7 games did) and put a text window at the bottom. I wonder if anyone ever did that -- it would've been cool to see more CRPG-style games on consoles, that's for sure.

Lots of RPGs and other text-heavy games (strategy, dating sims, etc.) on the SNES did exactly that. Most of the games in those genres were only released in Japan, though.

[Anonymous No.643653]

>>636896
Nothing wrong with filters faggot

[Anonymous No.643658]

>>643653

[Anonymous No.643691]

>>643262
>>643621
Here's an example of a SNES game where the entire game runs in high resolution, because they wanted to have high-resolution text but with Dragon Quest-style layered text windows instead of an entirely separate subscreen.

As you can see, it looks uglier than shit (though part of that is due to being a Nintendo Hokuto no Ken game--whatever developer was shitting them out couldn't into art to stop their own heads from exploding)

[Anonymous No.643762]

>ctrl + f shinobi
>nothing

Disappointments.

[Anonymous No.643770]

>>643762
This game is too beautiful.

[Anonymous No.643781]

>>643770
It also has this fucking kick-ass soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.643786]

>>643781

[script writer kibe No.643809]

Probably Vectorman and Monster World 4

And if we're including the add-ons, definately Knuckles Chaotix

While the commercials for DKC back in the day may have boasted that the Genesis couldn't come close to that type of realism, Vectorman was probably the closest the system ever came to looking that good

[Anonymous No.643857]

>>643809
I think Toy Story looks more like DKC than Vectorman does. It's also the superior version of the game due to the SNES one's awful load times and general clunkiness. Too bad it's not an especially good game either way though.

[script writer kibe No.644172]

>>643857
>Too bad it's not an especially good game either way though.
George Wood thinks otherwise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4i6QoWONLQ

[Anonymous No.644210]

>>635549

The Guardian's second form

[Anonymous No.644234]

>>636852
is a chicken eating her out?

[Anonymous No.644287]

>>644172
And if we disagree, we're stupid?

[script writer kibe No.644416]

>>644287
It was more or less a "tounge in cheek" joke

George Wood is a pompous ass

[Anonymous No.644947]

>>643691
>>643621

Jesus Crap, so, that's the restriction of games actually using the higher resolution of the SNES?.

Damn, No wonder 98% of the games never bother to use it.

[Anonymous No.645184]

>>644947
The first game only uses it for the text window; the main gameplay area of the screen has normal resolution and thus is capable of typical SNES graphical quality. The graphics in that screenshot are a little underwhelming though, so I can understand if you're confused. Here's a better-looking one.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/MoryoSenkiMadara2BattleScreen.jpg

[Anonymous No.646867]

>>643691
That doesn't look bad at all.