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Games that visually can withold the test of time without being cell shaded/cartoonish.
- Thread starter Tahnit
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Racing games at high resolution look pretty good to me.
I was blown away playing Hot Pursuit 2010 and Dirt 3 at 4K.
I was blown away playing Hot Pursuit 2010 and Dirt 3 at 4K.
He looks like a ghost. The dead fish eyes doesn't help either.
I disagree. Crysis still looks good.
This "meh art direction" critic was always bollocks, imo. Designing a whole island with open levels, making it look realistic and fun to play is no easy task.
To this day, Crysis / Warhead still has one of the best jungle settings ever in a shooter.
If you can remember any game that has better jungle environments in a FPS, I would seriously wanna know
Absolutely agree! I can't count the number of seventh-gen games that looked worse with faces than HL2, and there are still current gen games that don't do as well.
SH2 and 3 for fucking sure. SH3's models and levels look great.
MGS2
Reminder that this game came out in 2001
Why are your screenshots showing the game running with no bilinear or similar texture filtering ? Thats definitely not how the game looks on native hardware (PS2), on the PC and on the remasters...
I would understand in any other topic but on THIS one in particular where you want to show how the art and graphics stand the test of time, you need to show the actual rendered output man.
Answering the topic:
- Halo 1 (OG Xbox with a CRT and/or Xbox One X 4K HDR on an Oled). Halo 2 looks terrible in comparison.
- MGS 2
- Fallout 1, 2
- Diablo 2 (with a CRT shader on top)
- Half Life 1
- Battlezone
- Soul Calibur II
- Mario Kart 8 (or is it cartoonish?)
Because MGS2 has great texture work. Most of the textures in the game were hand painted with a consistent color palette and contrast which goes a long way in making sure it stands the test of time. The first Dishonored is in a similar camp. Why are you so buttmad lol.
This makes no sense and has no bearing on this thread, plenty of emulated games from the sixth-gen still look like shit when upscaled to 4K.
Damn, I thought that was a Heavy Rain character. Incredible.
I understand your intention of showing the texture work, but the end result is just a low res pixelated mess, and that's NOT how the game looked in 2002, and if you play it right now in any system, all oficial version will keep filtering those textures (as intended).
I thought the thread was about actual graphics, not modified ones (removing the texture filtering is modifying the output, just like adding extra texture detail to another game via mods).
This is such is baseless thinking. Every other gen is not THIS gen.
RDR 2 looks basically flawless. Games will look better. But RDR 2 will never look bad.
Yeah it's fucking wild this was an xbox launch game. itagaki was on some shit
This immediately came to mind.MGS2
Reminder that this game came out in 2001
MGS3's more detailed, gritty jungle environments didn't age as well as 2 did surprisingly
Definitely would call Portal 2 cartoony. It and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are both great examples of Valve's incredible talent for making the creaking Source engine look good, even if you wouldn't call it photorealistic. CSGO is even more amazing considering they are multiplayer maps with great balance, clear readability, and the new updated maps are still made within the original system requirements from 2012(!). These maps fundamentally use the exact same technologies that Half Life 2 used, often with very low res textures by modern industry standards, so the quality of the art assets have to do all the work.
Portal 2:
CSGO:
Yes this game looks like it came out in 2001MGS2
Reminder that this game came out in 2001
Funny, I replayed D2 when it went f2p (after dropping it for like one year or so) and it looked incredibly outdated on all ends, especially textures
I guess good pixel art games can easily withstand time. Its not so much a good art direction that's almost always at fault when looking at older games, its the textures / character models
Giant screenshots in quote boxes to make scrolling easier.
Damn. I missed these. You are correct!
Although some of the texture work on the varia suit and some walls always looked a bit low res in Prime 1.
God you reminded me of how much I hated that game's aesthetic; just a smeared, murky, miserable look over everything that made me want to wash my hands after I played. I suppose it fits thematically, but it was really unpleasant considering that, mechanically, the game is all about observation and exploration and mastering stealth systems that require utilizing the environment. It sucks that I spend so much time in world that looks like it was soaked, left to dry, and then soaked again.
Still a good game, but man fuck that look.
Anyway, my answer is probably MGS2, that game still looks great.
I appreciate that folks have differing opinions on this one. Wouldn't be an interesting discussion about artistic merit without some dissent.
I remember thinking Destiny 2 looked surprisingly average on PC. Looking off into the distance from one of the platforms on the water planet made the game feel like it came out at the start of the gen. That said, the game ran pretty well and was a quality port all round.
Silent Hill 3 /The thread.
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Wait what beaten already?
Silent Hill 3 still looks better than many last gen games and some current gen games.
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Silent Hill 3. Art direction and facial animations are ace
Wait what beaten already?
Silent Hill 3 still looks better than many last gen games and some current gen games.
You just gave an example of a game which hasn't stood the test of time because we're still in the same generation it came out in.
People also say the exact same thing every generation about the best looking games.
Tbh, you don't really see any of the suits most of the time so in that sense I understand why they were never a priority.
I do agree some of the environment texture work is a bit too low res tho.
Hopefully the rumored Trilogy coming to Switch does address these minor issues.
Yeah I actually played HL2 for the first time last year. The art style is still stunning and the game is great at establishing mood. And it's a game aiming at visual realism from 2004!
I think Resident Evil 5 (at least the cutscenes, which are all realtime) may still be the best looking game ever released, and it's over 10 years old now. The character models, lighting, color grading, animation and camera work are, in my opinion, far ahead of almost everything else out there. It's just so perfectly executed, visually, that the lower polygon counts and less advanced lighting don't really matter.
