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What is the most beautiful 3d game from the 90s?

>> No.9031387

unreal tournament 99

>> No.9031404
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>> No.9031821
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>>9031404
I always think of the Dreamcast with Soul Calibur and Shenmue if you mention 90s impressive graphics. It's strange that I wasn't impressed as much with PC stuff. Maybe Unreal?

>> No.9031852

>>9031382
Unfair question since most games released on Dreamcast would be considered "90s"

>> No.9031862
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>>9031821
It's the colors man. Those late 90s PC games have the polygons to match Dreamcast titles but what you just posted is so dull and drab.

>> No.9031893

>>9031404
Yeah no question
I remember when it came to the arcade for the 1st time and the 1st time I saw it on Dreamcast.
Everyone was so impressed.

>> No.9031914
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>>9031821
Remember when X360/PS3 came out and every AAA game there became gray and brown and realistic? PC's were doing this style since 1996.
Japan was still all about blue skies in 1999 but american devs were full grunge and gothic and chose realism and grit over style every time.

>> No.9031932

>>9031862
Lots of PC game artists seem to be amateurs who really liked copying frazetta style or their favorite album cover.

>> No.9031938
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>>9031382
Chose any random Sega title. There's your answer.

>> No.9031976

>>9031938

>> No.9032131

>>9031862
A screenshot like that doesn't really do justice to what unreal looked like with a dedicated GPU at the time. Reflective surfaces, textures that were outright more detailed than anything else, and the best lighting effects at the time. It might not win on art style but for sheer graphical fidelity? There wasn't much else that could top it.

>> No.9033640
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>>9031382

>> No.9033725
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>>9031382
Duke Nukem Forever, if it ever got released at time that is.

>> No.9033783

>>9033640
>what is the most beautiful 3D game
>posts prerendered 2D image

>> No.9033791

>>9032131
Every 7th gen drab gray game had better reflections, better surfaces, better textures and better light than Unreal. That's graphical fidelity for you.

>> No.9033792
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9033792

Drakan is so comfy

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>>9031382
I remember loving the look of DOA2 for real time rendering.

>> No.9033876

>>9031404
crazy that doa2 pushes 2.5x more polygons and it's all on breast physics

>> No.9033891

>>9033876
back when devs prioritised what the players actually want

>> No.9033942

>>9031932
Frazetta is pretty colorful

>> No.9033978
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9033978

I love the look of Jumping Flash

>> No.9033979

Daytona USA 2 Battle on the Edge

>> No.9034004

>>9033978
Not a great example, but it's a game that visually holds up in its own style.

>> No.9034078

>>9033847
Either post some in-game screenshots or fucking kill yourself you huge faggot.

>> No.9036075
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>>9031382

>> No.9036081
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Wave Race 64, Zelda OOT and Star Fox 64.

>> No.9036090

>>9031862
i remember seeing some colour autist on this board late last year who insisted that anything short of Spyro is drab "brown and bloom" and legitimately thought Silent Hill needed to look like your picture

>> No.9036096

>>9031382
Anything exceptionally stylised to the low polygon format, like Mega Man Legends, Dr. Slump, Breath of Fire 4, or that Fist of the North Star game. Games that aimed for realism with gritty textures were immediately outshined by the next generation that achieved the goals better, but the games that treated low polygon as an art style in itself have aged well.

>> No.9036115
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>>9031852
There's also PC.
>>9031862
>>9031914
True, but it's not just that. I can't think of an equivalent PC title of the time with the kind of eye-popping impressive stuff we can see in Soul Calibur, DOA2, or even Shenmue. Not that there weren't impressive beautiful looking games like Homeworld.

>> No.9036127

I remember that Fear Factor's graphics were impressive, mostly because it was the first game to do the pseudo cell shaded look. I think it was 1999

>> No.9036129

>>9036075
Those are some top tier skellys, 10/10 would use Turn Undead

>> No.9036132

>>9036115
>Homeworld
that screenshot's gotta be the remaster

>> No.9036135

>>9031404
>>9031821
>>9031862
>>9036115
Fucking mad how we went from Super Mario Bros. 3 to this in the span of a decade. All at home too, arcades made progress even faster.

>> No.9036136

>>9036135
We lost all the SOUL tho

>> No.9036161
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>>9036132
You're right, my bad. Still looked great.

>> No.9036284

>>9036115
LOL

>> No.9036305

>>9031382
Quake

>> No.9036369

>>9036075
This picture always makes me laugh.

>> No.9036379
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>> No.9036724
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Outcast

>> No.9036817

>>9036129
Aqua, I know this is a blue board but get the fuck out of 4chan.

>> No.9036838
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>>9031938
Lol wut?

>> No.9037091
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>>9036724
Indeed, definitely a runner up. I don't think there is a game such open and interactive environment before.

>> No.9037848

>>9036838
>posts 80s game
Retard.

>> No.9037868
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2002 I know but still close enough.

>> No.9037879

>>9036838
Any 90's Sega 3D (coin-op) game. Nothing looked better in my opinion.

>> No.9038484
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>>9037848
>Post 1994 game

>> No.9038510
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Vagrant Story might not be the most technically ambitious game of the 90s but it's extremely good looking. I don't even like the game but it looks absolutely stunning.The cutscenes alone look two generations ahead of their time.

>> No.9038519
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>>9036135
well gee when ya put it like that yeah

>> No.9038534

>>9038510
>2000
>90s

>> No.9038564

>>9038534
It basically is the 90s. If these Dreamcast games that got released at the tail end of 99 count then something released that early into the next decade surely does. It's not like it was developed in 2000.

>> No.9038572

bubsy 3d

>> No.9038886
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>>9033783
So what? That particular style (pre-rendered art w/ higher poly count models) is very iconic.

>> No.9038906

In terms of pure aesthetics, I like both N64 Goemon games the best as far as 3D from the 90s goes.
But when it comes to the "best" as in most advanced and impressive, it's probably virtua fighter 3 for me. VF1 already blew my mind back in 1994, but VF3 was just incredible.
But, OP says "beautiful" and my mind instantly goes to the low poly edo japan colorfulness of the Goemon games.

>> No.9038921

>>9038572
Hey dunkey

>> No.9038924

>>9036136
You sound like a bitch.

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>>9031382
has to be here

>> No.9039296

>>9038886
There aren't even poly models in the image you posted, retard, it's just a 2d wallpaper.

>> No.9039341
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>>9031404
This or DOA2. Both ran at 60 fps on the Dreamcast. Honorable mentions to Shenmue I & II.

>> No.9039353

>>9039296
I like the atmosphere of fixed camera pre-rendered games where models scale in and out and the backgrounds are neatly animated and layered to be interactive on a 3D plane.

>> No.9039683
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Pandemonium

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>>9037848
>>9036136

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>>9038484
>Posts 2019 games

>> No.9040030
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>>9038906
>Best looking 90s game
>I pick n64
Confirmed zoomer nintendrone.

>> No.9040037

>>9040030
not him and unrelated but crazy taxi is honestly one of the shittiest games ive ever played. no idea how that got sequels.

>> No.9040052

Xunny

>> No.9040059
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>> No.9040064

>>9040059
>released in 2000
Toeing the line.

>> No.9040078

>>9040059
still suffers from parkinsons like every PS1 game and the graphics are deceptively good because the environments you explore are really small and there isn't a whole lot to render.

>> No.9040181

>>9040037
This is a thread about graphics but I doubt you sunk hours into Crazy Taxi 1 or 2 as both were great score attack games.

>> No.9040183

>>9040181
it's a ridiculously boring game. there's no hook at all. it's literally the same exact thing every second you play. drive, wacky things happen, pick somebody up, drop off. it's so fucking mundane man.

>> No.9040272

>>9036081
What's the name of the game on the gif? Judging by barrel fucking roll, I assume it is Star Fox?

>> No.9040284

>>9040183
>ridiculously boring game
This isn't an educational game linearity time machine. For you to say that makes me think you didn't achieve the highest rank or even bother with the crazy box mini games.

>> No.9040308

Probably Daytona

It came out in 93( so not at the end of the 90s)
It is still based
60 FPS

>> No.9040359

>>9040078
>the graphics are deceptively good because the environments you explore are really small and there isn't a whole lot to render.
I dont know if youre trying to knock the game, but other than thr ps1 wobble, it rendering good graphics because they were frugal with polygons doesnt sound like a negitive.

>> No.9040369

>>9031821
>>9036115
Unreal, but a good GPU, not your screenshot or Homeworld would be my picks too.

>>9031914
That wasn't really a rule, there were a lot of, mostly AAA games where this applied to though.

I have a old shitbox and Homeworld looks amazing at 1200p and AA turned up on a CRT.