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I Miss the Old Days (Sprites)
PiranhaPlant
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Does anyone else miss the good ol sprites games like Chrono Trigger and the various Final Fantasy SNES games? While I love the new games and I am impressed with the graphics, sometimes I feel the graphics are used to sacrifice the story and emotion I got from the oldies. I still think for its time, Chrono Trigger is one of the best games ever made.
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What does this have to do with sprites?
In regards to the topic, I think it depends on the game whether sprites are beneficial; in RPG's it fits because you don't necessarily want to focus on the graphics, the story is the main part of the game. However, in something like God of War, you want fancy graphics for cool looking effects in the beat 'em up.
It is sad that nowadays most big titles feel the compulsion to go 3D for everything when 2D looks better sometimes when done right.
With polygonal characters, all you have to do is repose them, and they're much more changeable if you decide that you want to tweak them. And their 'image', so to speak, only occupies memory once, instead of having to load all their possible frames into RAM.
Maybe once consoles get powerful enough, you can do sidescroller games that look like sprites but are made of polys.
Are you kidding?
Anyway I agree with the OP, love old style graphics and older consoles. I don't know what it is, it's not necessarily just nostalgia because I love newer games using them too such as Cave Story or Fez.
Things like Odin Sphere, Muramasa, A Boy and His Blob, Lucidity...this is all good stuff though. I still prefer 3D graphics, though.
EDIT: Also I forgot Blazblue, which looks amazing even if the art style is utterly retarded.
What about Castlevania SOTN which merged sprites with 3d elements?
I actually really hate the look of the 3D objects in the 2D Castlevania games. Wish they would just keep it strictly 2D or go 3D, because while some games can pull off the look, they certainly can't.
..Fyrewulff said everything I was going to say so yeah, check out what he said. I have nothing else to add.
But lord knows N-1 and Gust are all about sprite reuse.
Liking the mention of Fez, due to its use of dimensions as a gameplay element.
I consider this beautiful. Yes, you can see the pixels. That's the best part! Replace the rocks, blocks and grass with photorealistic textures and you lose something tangible.
If you like pixel art check out http://www.pixeljoint.com/. All kinds of great stuff.
You certainly do.
Blocky pixels.
There's nothing good-looking about that screenshot.
Sprites are cool. I don't find blocky pixellated junk, however, "charming."
In other words, this:
but not this
DUN DUN DUN DUN hu hu huh huh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoFYEtj2tDw
Both look fine to me, I don't see a problem.
Particularly I love the Within a Deep Forest/Knytt games, Nifflas does so much with minimalistic patterns and shapes:
I'm working on my own NES game in that style and it's both fun and a challenge to meet the old color and space requirements.
Obviously it has a long way to go yet!
Normally I'm not a fan at all of minimalistic designs but the Knytt games are fucking fantastic. I wish I wasn't at work so I could see your screenshots (imageshack is blocked here).
edit: don't worry about it, I can wait till I get off work to look at em.
oh yeah its badass:
But, there are cases where sprites work well. Especially in smaller games. And early 3D titles on the PSX did look like ass a lot of the time.
Yeah, I really do love SotN's art and don't know what people mean when they say it's ugly to mix 2d and 3d in Castlevania.
NIS really needs to up the resolution on their art or something, even Disgaea 3 still looks pretty bland (for the in-game stuff, the portraits look great)
That is the best juxtaposition.
http://jayisgames.com/cgdc6/?gameID=9
Rather cool casual game. Starts off heavily pixilated.
...unless a 3D Metal Slug game came out without me knowing somehow, I'm pretty sure all Metal Slug games use sprites and 2D backgrounds.
1 through 7 do, anyway.
Excuse me, I need to go see if a MS game was released in 3D without me knowing it.
there was a 3D metal slug
it was so awful