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What pixellated 2D game do you find to be the most aesthetically pleasing?

>> No.862736

>>862731

Damn near every one of those PC98 games that get posted in pixel threads. Something about that look, man. It gets to me and makes me feel warm for reasons I do not understand.

A more popular example in the west? SNK games, but I care more about the fighters than anything else.

>> No.862746
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862746

And I don't just mean in the sense of detailed to the point of looking like a painting, but also the artistic choices and stylistic flow. Oracle of Seasons for GBC doesn't look that great, but I love the contrast of the seasons while I'm playing it.

>> No.862768
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862768

Most GBA games. I don't know what it is about that handheld, but most of its games had that weird charm. It's not even nostalgia, I never had a GBA as a teen.

>> No.862805
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862805

I like the different atmosphere that this game was given with the different weather effects and seasons. I prefer the look of the SNES one to the GBA one because it's a bit darker and gives a more authentic feeling of being a farmer.

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>> No.862835
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>> No.862862
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>> No.862863

>>862768

Golden sun is a poor example, though. A lot of the graphics were done via pre-rendered 3d models. It's not real pixel art.

>> No.862871
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862871

I can't think of a retro game that succeeded at conveying a unique style as well as this game.

>> No.862880

>>862835
seconding this

the animation in SF3 was unmatched

>> No.862915
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>> No.863281

>>862880
I just looked up some animation sheets and goddamn. wasn't animation done frame by frame then?

>> No.863282
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863282

>>862731

Super Metroid

>> No.863303

Maybe I was just a sucker for anything Bionicle, but I loved playing this game, it just felt relaxing.

>> No.863305
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>>863303
Shit, forgot pic

>> No.863310

Shinobi

>> No.863548
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863548

If your answer is not LoM, then you are wrong.

>> No.863608
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863608

This somehow never gets mentioned every time I see a thread like this. Very good sprites for the time and the stages look fantastic.

>>862835
Those first two had really a really interesting feeling to them and Third Strike has the best color palletes of any fighting game out there.

>> No.863647

>>863548
My nigga. I think LoM is the most beautiful PS1 game.

>> No.863654

>>863608

The sprites were so good they reused them for a handful of games over 6 years.

>> No.863665

>>863548
This. LoM was probably one of the most strikingly well-drawn and beautiful games that I've ever seen, a plus being that it was one of my first real JRPGs. I should really get a hold of one of those LE artbooks from Japan.
Any Metal Slug comes in second, just because of how smoothly everything is animated.

>> No.863675

>pixels
>aesthetically pleasing

Take off the nostalgia glasses

>> No.863712

>>863675
You are mistaking 2d video game graphics with the modern day blocky shit made by hipster tweens.

>> No.863732
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863732

I love Capcom's sprite work. Their fighting games are great in that regard, but Breath of Fire IV takes the prize.

>> No.863741

Anything made by Capcom for arcades between 1988 and 1999.

>> No.863762

Fuck, took me 20 minutes to re-find this topic. scroll through it OP.
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=14598.0
I haven't necessarily picked a winner yet.

>> No.863767
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863767

Not retro, but it's hard to argue with Guilty Gear.

>> No.863787
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863787

Pic related

>> No.864112

>>863767
Speaking of GG, what do you think about Xrd's animation technique? hard to believe those are 3d models on a 2d game.

>> No.864127
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>>864112
Looks interesting, I hope Slayer is in it. Also Snk/Neo Geo was king of sprite based games in the 90's. There are so many to choose from. A lot of em, not fighting games.

>> No.864135

>>864127
what is this and why does it look like it was run though a filter.

>> No.864143

>>864135
WAKU WAKU 7, probably filtered.

>> No.864175
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864175

I like any 16-bit era game that has a muted color palette. 32-bit era games look really good too, but I find they're a little -too- colorful if you know what I mean.

>> No.864418

Don't have pic right now, but Star Ocean 2 is hands down one of the most artistic 2 dimensional games.

>> No.864449
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864449

>>862768
>Tfw you haven't played Golden Sun in awhile and forgot where you were

>> No.864531

any 2D Castlevania since IV

>> No.864610
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864610

Plok! The backgrounds are seriously so awesome to look at. Not to mention the maps are great as well. Whatever I love this game and everything about it.

>> No.864683

>>863548
I came into the thread to post LoM if no one else already had. It's so gorgeous.

>> No.864936
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864936

no KOF, /vr/?
SNK's pixel art was elder god tier back in the day

>> No.865043

>>862768
That's like saying Donkey Kong Country had good pixel art.

>> No.865050

>>863732
Oh my god that game is beautiful. Love the pastel colors.

>> No.865062

>>864610
The backgrounds are indeed great, too bad the spritework is not that good.
Still a good game with a great soundtrack regardless.

>> No.865302
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865302

>>863741
They were the Disney of the industry back then.

>> No.865314

>>865302
They still are the Disney of the industry. Just look at Disney now.

>> No.865312

>>865302
What are they now currently?

>> No.865320

>>865312

The EA of Japan.

>> No.865319
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865319

Bumpan with some Ristar

>>865314
>>>/v/

>> No.865323

>>865320
>>>/v/

>> No.865330

>>865323

So randum.

>> No.865341
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>>865330
Nope, industry hatebonering belongs on /v/. Please keep this thread positive. NOW LOOK AT THIS GODDAMN SCREENSHOT FROM RISTAR

>> No.865364
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>>865341
>implying /vr/ isn't a whole board dedicated to lamenting the current state of the industry.

>> No.865371

>>865364
Not really no. BE HAPPY WHITE BOY.

>> No.865373

>>865364

Pretty sure this board is dedicated to discussing video games (and pinball!) made before 1999.

>> No.865379

>>865364
this mentality is what is ruining the board actually
it's supposed to be a board for discussing games made before 1999 by the people that enjoy them.

>> No.865437
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865437

Little Samson for the NES or I, Robot for the arcade.

>> No.865462
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>>865371
>>865373
>>865379

What need is there for a board to discuss these games made before 1999 if the ones that came after aren't considered inferior?

>> No.865471

>>865462
Just go back to /v/ already and whine there.

>> No.865483

>>863548
+1

>> No.865497
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>>865471

I'd rather stay here and discuss old games. I'm just being more honest about why I want to discuss them.

You've been telling people to go back to /v/ for a while now. Who made you the doorman? I'm actually contributing to the thread, in case you didn't notice.

>> No.865601
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>>865497

A few more.

>> No.865619

>>865462

moot did so to lighten up the traffic on /v/. It said so in the damn /v/ sticky the week the board was made.

No one fucking cares about how you feel about the industry today and no one gives a flying fuck why you're here. If you want to bitch and moan about this generation of games, go to /v/, not only because it's on topic there, but because they love having retarded hateboners.

>> No.865620
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>>865601

Getting a lot of duplicate files warnings due to the other pixel art thread. Oh well.

>> No.865660
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>>865619

Way to completely misinterpret my post. Who said I want to bitch about modern games? Maybe calm down. Also:

>to lighten up the traffic on /v/

What a load of shit. /b/ is by far the most busy board and /v/ was a distant second even before the creation of /vr/, so why would traffic be a problem on /v/?

>> No.865671

>>862736
>It gets to me and makes me feel warm for reasons I do not understand.

It's the dithering

>> No.865683

>>865660
>so why would traffic be a problem on /v/?

You'd know if you actually read moot's post, dumbass. More traffic on /v/ = a faster, harder to moderate board that's easier to lean into /b/ territory.

It's about making a better environment to discuss video games on 4chan, numbnuts.

>> No.865717
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865717

>>862768
my nigga

>> No.865725

>>863732
I had no idea there was a pc port of this

>> No.865745
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>> No.865767

>>865462
Do you understand how communities in general work, I mean like, do you understand why?

There was a nominal amount of discussion on /v/ regarding Retro Games. And it would often be hard to keep a thread on the main page. It's called "consolidation."

By giving people of like-minded interest their own board, it makes it easier for topic-starters to find their target audience easier.

Or you're just a fucking troll who doesn't care and just wants to shitpost.

>> No.865775

>>862805
You will never be able to justify buying a CIB or even a cart only copy of SNES Harvest Moon.

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>> No.867562
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bump

>> No.868597
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868597

You posted it OP. The IREM/Nazca animators are the more talented spriters the industry has ever known.

>> No.868708

>>868597
If you're playing this game PLEASE get the japanese or the alpha renewal version, not the world version.
Ok, thanks.

>> No.868716

>>868597
>Nazca
I keep meaning to watch that...

>> No.868729
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>>868708
Of course, the world version actually seems like it was an unfinished version of the game that got published by mistake somehow.

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868734

>>868716
?

>> No.868743

>>868734
Rather obscure anime. The only reason anyone on the planet would know about it is that a few clips appear in the intro to Malcom in the Middle.

>> No.868752
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868752

Genuinely surprised no one posted this yet.

>> No.868756

Any good way to set a .gif as wallpaper? I've always wanted KoF scene gifs looping on my desktop, FFMotW ones would be great too.

>> No.868771

>>868756
Windows XP can do it

>> No.868849

>>868743
Or, you know, if they were fans of the guy behind it...