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What makes a game good is the graphics - NSF56K

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  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    This is a great thread, but I only recognise about half of the unlabelled screens. Could you please label them, as they look lovely, and I'm feeling all retro recently and might get some of them.

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Half-Life 2: Episode 2 looks beautiful
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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Giga Gopher wrote: »
    Half-Life 2: Episode 2 looks beautiful
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    If my computer could actually get it to look like that, I'd probably be a little angry that Valve hasn't released the graphically updated version of HL2 and Ep1 for PC.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    The most beautiful image I can remember while playing a game is from Beyond Good and Evil. It was near the start, when you have to go out and take pictures of the animals to get money. I was looking out over the cliff onto the horizon and a whale jumps out of the water in an arc leaving a trail of water going behind it. It was possible the most beautiful image that I've seen in a game, and it literally made me stop playing just to appreciate it.

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  • Regicid3Regicid3 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Why the hell would Valve re-release graphically updated versions of HL2 and Ep1? That's such a waste of gorram time, they look and play fine as it is.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Regicid3 wrote: »
    Why the hell would Valve re-release graphically updated versions of HL2 and Ep1? That's such a waste of gorram time, they look and play fine as it is.

    iirc it's because the 360 versions got an update during the orange box development, they said they would release a graphical pack for the PC, too.

    Other proposed changes by Valve would be retroactively adding achievements to HL2 / Ep 1. Of course, the time when this change is supposed to drop is (adjusted for Valve time) approximately five minutes after the sun dies.

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  • Regicid3Regicid3 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    That is such a waste of time.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    (which might be why they haven't gotten around to making an announcement about ever doing it in the future)

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    harvest wrote: »
    x3

    Fuck you people and your nice computers!

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited May 2008
    titmouse wrote: »
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    Is... is that Loom?

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  • skaceskace Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    It's strange, the screenshots you take specifically because you thought something looked really good, don't always end up looking the best. I thought Lotro had pretty graphics, but a lot of my SS's ended up pretty ugly. Same thing with Stalker.
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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Without AA and not in motion, a lot of stuff looks a lot worse in stills than it does in-game.

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    No Jak love? I personally love its art style, you can't go wrong with Jak and Jak II

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
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    At the time, Skies of Arcadia was visually staggering. Its a shame its so old there are so few decent captures or screenshots to post.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Can most of you actually post what game you're getting these images from? It is tough to know when I don't own every console, and don't pay attention to everything just because.

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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Aren't most of them labelled? I didn't label Product No. 3 (Capcom, GC)... but I think most are. Or are instantly recognizable.

    What are you wanting to be a-knowing?

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    So much good games already got mentioned

    Still:
    American McGee's Alice
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    Dungeons & Dragons Online
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    Knights of the Old Republic
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    Trackmania Nations Forever
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    I guess the correlation is that when a developer pays attention to graphical details he will do the same with gameplay details.

    *edit: okay, so all of those look better in motion. :P Anyway.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Trackmania is so clean. I love it.

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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Ew ew ew ew no. KOTOR is ugly as sin.


    And a bad game.
    Dammit.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Flippy_D wrote: »
    Ew ew ew ew no. KOTOR is ugly as sin.


    And a bad game.
    Dammit.
    I can understand that you can't appreciate the game if you don't like the Bioware formula, but really the graphics were quite nice. Sure, it doesn't compare to some of the stuff in this thread, but I felt it deserved a spot here.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Centipeed wrote: »
    LoveIsUnity wrote: »
    Centipeed wrote: »
    Man, I wanted to find it and then post it so anyone who hadn't seen it would be all like "Wow!", but I can't even remember the name. It was a PSX RPG that had killer watercolour style hand drawn backgrounds. I thought it was published by Square, but I looked through their list of games and couldn't find it, so can anyone name it?

    Saga Frontier?

    Say what you will about the game, but it is very pretty.

    No, it wasn't Saga Frontier. The backgrounds actually looked like watercolour paintings, as far as I can remember. Like they had that paint on paper look.

    OK, turns out it WAS Saga Frontier, but I only looked at Saga Frontier 1 and it was Saga Frontier 2 that I was thinking of. Check this shit out:

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Don't let pheonix games hear about that.

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  • TharghorTharghor Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
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    I didn't see Majora's Mask mentioned. I really liked the change in art direction from OoT to Majora's Mask. Generic fantasy versus alternate reality being attacked by the moon. Awesome.

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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Aldo wrote: »
    Flippy_D wrote: »
    Ew ew ew ew no. KOTOR is ugly as sin.


    And a bad game.
    Dammit.
    I can understand that you can't appreciate the game if you don't like the Bioware formula, but really the graphics were quite nice. Sure, it doesn't compare to some of the stuff in this thread, but I felt it deserved a spot here.
    Salmon'd for snideness!

    But no, it's just not a nice-looking game and never was. It has a horrible art direction >_<

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
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    I suppose you should keep in mind this game is almost 20 years old

    the backgrounds still look fantastic

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  • gneGnegneGne Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    To me, the beauty of this game has yet to be bested. I really fell in love with this environment, such a shame how little of actual persia is left.

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    (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time)

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    there's also this

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »
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    I suppose you should keep in mind this game is almost 20 years old

    the backgrounds still look fantastic

    Not getting any image here, Shoe

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Rolo wrote: »
    Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »
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    I suppose you should keep in mind this game is almost 20 years old

    the backgrounds still look fantastic

    Not getting any image here, Shoe

    I am, fwiw.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    sorry

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    there we go

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
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    Ya gotta believe!

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    Parappa's the name, I rap everyday

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »
    sorry

    Mickey_Mouse-Castle_of_Illusion.jpg

    there we go

    So good.

    World of Illusion was superior, of course, and Mickey Mania.

    You know David Jaffe was one of the top men on Mickey Mania.


    World of Illusion though was the best co-op game ever made for the better part of two decades.

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  • ulanshadulanshad Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I can't believe Psychonauts hasn't been mentioned yet:
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    I'd go and grab some kick-ass high-res screens from the PC version right now, but I don't have the disk with me.

    Even more conspicuous in its absence - Yoshi's Island:
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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Flippy_D wrote: »
    Aren't most of them labelled? I didn't label Product No. 3 (Capcom, GC)... but I think most are. Or are instantly recognizable.

    What are you wanting to be a-knowing?

    This one:

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    Though the website did take me to the right place, there were a few others on the first few pages with no label, and it seems that while they are mainstream, I'm just too much in a cave. :(

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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Fair enough.

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    The clouds... so confusing...

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Yeah, what's wrong with those clouds? O_o

    Oh and what about that limbo game? Is it coming out or not?

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Ugh, Psychonauts has such terrible visual style. All of the characters looked so damned retarded.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Ugh, Psychonauts has such terrible visual style. All of the characters looked so damned retarded.

    Yes thank you. I totally agree with this. I never saw the appeal of psychonauts. The fugly art style just kills the game for me.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
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    Loco Roco is just so... bouncy.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    randombattle wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Ugh, Psychonauts has such terrible visual style. All of the characters looked so damned retarded.

    Yes thank you. I totally agree with this. I never saw the appeal of psychonauts. The fugly art style just kills the game for me.

    I bought it on Xbox Originals and gave it a fair shot, but I couldn't get over it. It distracted me so much.

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