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I still like how Doom 3 looks lol.



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Kyuu said:

I still like how Doom 3 looks lol.

Don't get me wrong, I can still enjoy Doom 3's graphics for the technical accomplishment they were at the time, I just meant more that the Xbox version's compromises stick out pretty strongly in retrospect.



curl-6 said:
Chrkeller said:

Not directed at you, but I wonder how much nostalgia plays a role with people thinking old games look better than they are.

I say that because I have been playing nothing but current gen for a few months and cranked up bloodborne.  It put into perspective how massive the jump from ps4 to ps5 was.  Blood, still a great game...  grainy, jaggies everywhere, very clearly low resolution, lighting is very meh and of course 30 fps.  

It didn't look half as good as I remembered.  Not sure if that is a me thing or we all experience it.  

Yeah I've certainly had moments where I've revisited a game that blew me away in its time, and gone "wow, this is showing its age."

Doom 3 and Riddick on the OG Xbox blew my mind as a teenager, but looking at them now, the years have not been kind.

Yeah, Bloodborne blew me away last night, so does not look like I thought it.  I still think style ages well, so something like DK Bananza will age amazing.  



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Chrkeller said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah I've certainly had moments where I've revisited a game that blew me away in its time, and gone "wow, this is showing its age."

Doom 3 and Riddick on the OG Xbox blew my mind as a teenager, but looking at them now, the years have not been kind.

Yeah, Bloodborne blew me away last night, so does not look like I thought it.  I still think style ages well, so something like DK Bananza will age amazing.  

Yeah generally speaking, stylized games age better, especially if they're 60fps.

Games like F-Zero GX, Starfox Adventures, Metroid Prime 1-3, and Mario Galaxy 1-2 hold up better in my view than a lot of much more advanced games on more powerful hardware just cos they're simple, clean, and run smoothly.



curl-6 said:
Chrkeller said:

Yeah, Bloodborne blew me away last night, so does not look like I thought it.  I still think style ages well, so something like DK Bananza will age amazing.  

Yeah generally speaking, stylized games age better, especially if they're 60fps.

Games like F-Zero GX, Starfox Adventures, Metroid Prime 1-3, and Mario Galaxy 1-2 hold up better in my view than a lot of much more advanced games on more powerful hardware just cos they're simple, clean, and run smoothly.

Absolutely no doubt.  Hell, pains me to say it, Wind Waker on the GC holds up better than Bloodborne because of the style choice. 

Granted Sony and From could easily fix BB.  Luckily fans already did.  I just need to get my brother on PC.



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Shadow1980 said:

I also think Halo CE holds up well for the most part, again because of its art style. It's definitely showing its age, particularly with human character models, but the environmental art still looks great today, and it does cool things like copious particle effects (with actual physics!) and blood & bullet hole/plasma scoring decals that persisted, things that later games seemed to struggle with a lot even within just the Halo series.

Yeah I'd say Halo 1 has weirdly aged better than Halo 2 just due to having a cleaner, simpler look

Yeah. It's like, Halo 2 has a pretty art style just like the first, and it does try to do a couple of neat things (like the caustics in the underwater hallways in Regret), but it has so many problems that result from trying to push the OXbox hardware. There's draw distance and pop-in issues. There's a lot of little details missing (the ammo packs you find lying around have ultra-fuzzy text, as opposed to the clearly legible text in CE). The particle effects are worse. When it looks nice it looks really nice, but as a whole package, Halo CE just looks better and has aged even better. On the MCC I always play CE on the original graphics, but for Halo 2 I stick to Anniversary graphics.



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Agree with pretty much every game mentioned so far. Would also add Luigis Mansion, Pitfall: The Lost Expedition, Wario World and Mega Man X: Command Mission.



Luigi's Mansion and honestly a lot of GBA games. Sprite art is just so visually appealing to me...makes me wish AAA devs would consider revisiting the artstyle more often. Sonic Mania, for example, continues to stand as one of my favorite platformers of all time.



firebush03 said:

Luigi's Mansion and honestly a lot of GBA games. Sprite art is just so visually appealing to me...makes me wish AAA devs would consider revisiting the artstyle more often. Sonic Mania, for example, continues to stand as one of my favorite platformers of all time.

Lots of sprite art in indie games these days. I agree, it looks great.



I don't know what looks best, but Generation 6 is around my sweet spot for 3D games.  They look "good enough" for me while still having a good variety in gameplay and game type.  (Gen 5 is my ideal for 2D games, which is a shame, because there aren't a lot.)  I played FFX on my PS2, and I thought it looked great on my PVM (and the game has a few very high quality cutscenes).  When I play a Gen 6 game now it looks better than I remember, because I was only using composite cables back in the day, and now I use component cables.