Be prepared, it's SaGa. Therefore, its gameplay mechanics will drive you up a wall.
I dunno, the only SaGa game I played was Unlimited SaGa and I enjoyed it a lot.
In the minority, you are. I tried to like that game, but could not understand it for the life of me. Beautiful games, all around. The SaGa games never skimp on great presentation and art, but the gameplay...
Be prepared, it's SaGa. Therefore, its gameplay mechanics will drive you up a wall.
I dunno, the only SaGa game I played was Unlimited SaGa and I enjoyed it a lot.
In the minority, you are. I tried to like that game, but could not understand it for the life of me. Beautiful games, all around. The SaGa games never skimp on great presentation and art, but the gameplay...
You turned into yoda there for a second.
This shot doesn't do the game justice, but it is a damn shame that mythos is never coming out.
Not trying to sound like a dick here, but.. why is that good?
edit: ahh okay, freebie MMO.
Well, they're graphics. That's what makes it good, right? The thread title doesn't say anything about the graphics being good, just that graphics make games good.
So basically any game qualifies as long as it's not a text adventure. Unless it's one of those text adventures that has pictures!
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Yep. I'm not going to claim it's the most amazing graphics evar. They took a lot of inspiration from World of Warcraft, not just in the appearance but in a number of other ways.
But, at the same time, when I'm tinkering around with RoM I'm not really looking at it and going "ugh". It looks pretty good and I can run it at maximum settings on my card (7900GS 256MB).
(also, that's a SS from my PC, not an edited SS from the official site)
Whoah nice, CMR 2.0 was the last "realistic" CMR out there, it was still arcade but a lot better than it's sequels.
I remember you can actually flip your car by going over 180km/h and doing a hard 90º turn.
More racing games need to do this. Just because it is really cool. Like burnout, they should do this.
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Oh hey, this thread is back.
Since we're mentioning older games that look good...
I always thought that EA did a magnificent job with the Lord of the Rings license when it came to the Battle for Middle Earth series. I doubt we'll be seeing a third installment since the LOTR party is over, but the existing two were some of my favorite RTS's of all time. I have lost track of my copy of BFME2, but I recently found my disc for the original, and I took some screens in hopes that I might spread the love. Battle for Middle Earth came out in 2004, and it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
Spoiler'd for kinda big:
Even the title screen looks cool:
Ents are no match for Gondor's archers with fire arrow upgrades.
Each army has their own unique super powers. Fill out the power tree with Gondor, and you get to summon the army of the dead.
Gondor also has the ability to summon the eagles.
Each army also has their own heroes that can be summoned from the citadel. Gondor gets Pippin, Faramir, Boromir, and Gandalf. Mordor gets Gollum, two nazgul and the Witch-king. I believe Rohan gets Merry, Eowyn, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Eomer, and Theoden. Isengard gets Lurtz and Saruman. I strongly suggest playing as Gondor since they get Gandalf. And basically once you get Gandalf, you win.
Mordor has some pretty awesome units. Mumakil stuffed with Harad archers = win.
Fill out the power tree with Mordor, and you get to summon the Balrog. Would be second-best unit in the game if it didn't have such a short time limit.
In general, I feel like the BFME games didn't get enough attention. They really are a fucking blast. They're still pretty to look at, and for Ring-nuts, you can't go wrong. I seriously need to find my copy of BFME2
Since we're mentioning older games that look good...
I always thought that EA did a magnificent job with the Lord of the Rings license when it came to the Battle for Middle Earth series. I doubt we'll be seeing a third installment since the LOTR party is over, but the existing two were some of my favorite RTS's of all time. I have lost track of my copy of BFME2, but I recently found my disc for the original, and I took some screens in hopes that I might spread the love. Battle for Middle Earth came out in 2004, and it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
Spoiler'd for kinda big:
Even the title screen looks cool:
Ents are no match for Gondor's archers with fire arrow upgrades.
Each army has their own unique super powers. Fill out the power tree with Gondor, and you get to summon the army of the dead.
Gondor also has the ability to summon the eagles.
Each army also has their own heroes that can be summoned from the citadel. Gondor gets Pippin, Faramir, Boromir, and Gandalf. Mordor gets Gollum, two nazgul and the Witch-king. I believe Rohan gets Merry, Eowyn, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Eomer, and Theoden. Isengard gets Lurtz and Saruman. I strongly suggest playing as Gondor since they get Gandalf. And basically once you get Gandalf, you win.
Mordor has some pretty awesome units. Mumakil stuffed with Harad archers = win.
Fill out the power tree with Mordor, and you get to summon the Balrog. Would be second-best unit in the game if it didn't have such a short time limit.
In general, I feel like the BFME games didn't get enough attention. They really are a fucking blast. They're still pretty to look at, and for Ring-nuts, you can't go wrong. I seriously need to find my copy of BFME2
I always felt the BFME games didn't get enogh attention also. I remember getting the original for christmas ages ago, and loving the hell out of it. Bought the sequel on the xbox, but then i remembered how much i hate RTS on a console. Ended up trading it in.
Think i'll pick up 2 for the pc sometime. Now that its dirt cheap and all.
Since we're mentioning older games that look good...
I always thought that EA did a magnificent job with the Lord of the Rings license when it came to the Battle for Middle Earth series. I doubt we'll be seeing a third installment since the LOTR party is over, but the existing two were some of my favorite RTS's of all time. I have lost track of my copy of BFME2, but I recently found my disc for the original, and I took some screens in hopes that I might spread the love. Battle for Middle Earth came out in 2004, and it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
Spoiler'd for kinda big:
Even the title screen looks cool:
Ents are no match for Gondor's archers with fire arrow upgrades.
Each army has their own unique super powers. Fill out the power tree with Gondor, and you get to summon the army of the dead.
Gondor also has the ability to summon the eagles.
Each army also has their own heroes that can be summoned from the citadel. Gondor gets Pippin, Faramir, Boromir, and Gandalf. Mordor gets Gollum, two nazgul and the Witch-king. I believe Rohan gets Merry, Eowyn, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Eomer, and Theoden. Isengard gets Lurtz and Saruman. I strongly suggest playing as Gondor since they get Gandalf. And basically once you get Gandalf, you win.
Mordor has some pretty awesome units. Mumakil stuffed with Harad archers = win.
Fill out the power tree with Mordor, and you get to summon the Balrog. Would be second-best unit in the game if it didn't have such a short time limit.
In general, I feel like the BFME games didn't get enough attention. They really are a fucking blast. They're still pretty to look at, and for Ring-nuts, you can't go wrong. I seriously need to find my copy of BFME2
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Those screens look atrocious. This isn't the post-your-favorite-game thread.
Since we're mentioning older games that look good...
I always thought that EA did a magnificent job with the Lord of the Rings license when it came to the Battle for Middle Earth series. I doubt we'll be seeing a third installment since the LOTR party is over, but the existing two were some of my favorite RTS's of all time. I have lost track of my copy of BFME2, but I recently found my disc for the original, and I took some screens in hopes that I might spread the love. Battle for Middle Earth came out in 2004, and it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
Spoiler'd for kinda big:
Even the title screen looks cool:
Ents are no match for Gondor's archers with fire arrow upgrades.
Each army has their own unique super powers. Fill out the power tree with Gondor, and you get to summon the army of the dead.
Gondor also has the ability to summon the eagles.
Each army also has their own heroes that can be summoned from the citadel. Gondor gets Pippin, Faramir, Boromir, and Gandalf. Mordor gets Gollum, two nazgul and the Witch-king. I believe Rohan gets Merry, Eowyn, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Eomer, and Theoden. Isengard gets Lurtz and Saruman. I strongly suggest playing as Gondor since they get Gandalf. And basically once you get Gandalf, you win.
Mordor has some pretty awesome units. Mumakil stuffed with Harad archers = win.
Fill out the power tree with Mordor, and you get to summon the Balrog. Would be second-best unit in the game if it didn't have such a short time limit.
In general, I feel like the BFME games didn't get enough attention. They really are a fucking blast. They're still pretty to look at, and for Ring-nuts, you can't go wrong. I seriously need to find my copy of BFME2
...
Those screens look atrocious. This isn't the post-your-favorite-game thread.
This also isn't a "let's act like an elitist cock" thread. If you want to shit on someone's opinions, go find another forum.
This also isn't a "let's act like an elitist cock" thread. If you want to shit on someone's opinions, go find another forum.
Your opinion on the graphics was
it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
he disagrees. If you consider this shitting on your opinions you might want to put some more effort in wording them, instead of talking about the gameplay alone. I don't think those screenshots do the game justice, from what I played of it it looked a lot better in motion.
Just hit google image for the sequel, out of interest.
Looks pretty damn good.
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edited December 2008
I'm new to this thread...
Is the second image in the OP really from FreeSpace 2? Didn't that release in 1999? No way it had normal mapping and dynamic shadows. Or am I missing something?
Is the second image in the OP really from FreeSpace 2? Didn't that release in 1999? No way it had normal mapping and dynamic shadows. Or am I missing something?
FSOpen with new art assets.
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This also isn't a "let's act like an elitist cock" thread. If you want to shit on someone's opinions, go find another forum.
Your opinion on the graphics was
it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
he disagrees. If you consider this shitting on your opinions you might want to put some more effort in wording them, instead of talking about the gameplay alone. I don't think those screenshots do the game justice, from what I played of it it looked a lot better in motion.
I get you, but I thought
it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
was pretty clear-cut. It *did* look amazing in 2004, and in my opinion it still looks decent. And since there are a bunch of guys posting even older games that look like crap by today's standards, I thought it would be alright to post BFME.
Is the second image in the OP really from FreeSpace 2? Didn't that release in 1999? No way it had normal mapping and dynamic shadows. Or am I missing something?
Looks pretty good in the alpha for BFME1, although I think they reduced the troop counts in the final.
Reduced drastically. The command point limits are almost annoyingly low. But there are still some moments where the game can be a little bit visually impressive. The 3D modeling is really spectacular on some of the structures, especially the walls for Gondor and Rohan.
I totally agree with Prince of Persia. Just picked it up over the weekend at Gamestop for $40 (yay surprise sales!) and have only gotten about 15 minutes to check it out. However, I really can't get over how beautiful this game is. At this point, I almost don't care if the game turns out horrible otherwise. If nothing else, it really sets the bar for all future cel-shaded games to come.
I think it really rides that fine line of almost too much detail for cel-shading, but, so far from what I've seen, doesn't cross it.
Not sure what the general concensus on this game is, but it really should be supported, as I would love to see them take the PoP games in this direction, artistically speaking.
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In the minority, you are. I tried to like that game, but could not understand it for the life of me. Beautiful games, all around. The SaGa games never skimp on great presentation and art, but the gameplay...
You turned into yoda there for a second.
This shot doesn't do the game justice, but it is a damn shame that mythos is never coming out.
WoW, it's Runes of Magic!
...yeah, not the most original of art styles, and perhaps not the most flashy looking game...but it's not bad for a freebie MMO.
edit: ahh okay, freebie MMO.
Well, they're graphics. That's what makes it good, right? The thread title doesn't say anything about the graphics being good, just that graphics make games good.
So basically any game qualifies as long as it's not a text adventure. Unless it's one of those text adventures that has pictures!
But, at the same time, when I'm tinkering around with RoM I'm not really looking at it and going "ugh". It looks pretty good and I can run it at maximum settings on my card (7900GS 256MB).
(also, that's a SS from my PC, not an edited SS from the official site)
A real classic; I still play it pretty often.
I remember you can actually flip your car by going over 180km/h and doing a hard 90º turn.
Some of these are a bit spoilery.
More racing games need to do this. Just because it is really cool. Like burnout, they should do this.
Since we're mentioning older games that look good...
I always thought that EA did a magnificent job with the Lord of the Rings license when it came to the Battle for Middle Earth series. I doubt we'll be seeing a third installment since the LOTR party is over, but the existing two were some of my favorite RTS's of all time. I have lost track of my copy of BFME2, but I recently found my disc for the original, and I took some screens in hopes that I might spread the love. Battle for Middle Earth came out in 2004, and it looked fucking amazing for its time. I still think it looks fairly decent.
Spoiler'd for kinda big:
Ents are no match for Gondor's archers with fire arrow upgrades.
Each army has their own unique super powers. Fill out the power tree with Gondor, and you get to summon the army of the dead.
Gondor also has the ability to summon the eagles.
Each army also has their own heroes that can be summoned from the citadel. Gondor gets Pippin, Faramir, Boromir, and Gandalf. Mordor gets Gollum, two nazgul and the Witch-king. I believe Rohan gets Merry, Eowyn, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Eomer, and Theoden. Isengard gets Lurtz and Saruman. I strongly suggest playing as Gondor since they get Gandalf. And basically once you get Gandalf, you win.
Mordor has some pretty awesome units. Mumakil stuffed with Harad archers = win.
Fill out the power tree with Mordor, and you get to summon the Balrog. Would be second-best unit in the game if it didn't have such a short time limit.
In general, I feel like the BFME games didn't get enough attention. They really are a fucking blast. They're still pretty to look at, and for Ring-nuts, you can't go wrong. I seriously need to find my copy of BFME2
i always forget
aside from the pop in, and some weird texture choices, mass effect was just jaw-meet-floor so much of the time
don't even start about the faces
I always felt the BFME games didn't get enogh attention also. I remember getting the original for christmas ages ago, and loving the hell out of it. Bought the sequel on the xbox, but then i remembered how much i hate RTS on a console. Ended up trading it in.
Think i'll pick up 2 for the pc sometime. Now that its dirt cheap and all.
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Those screens look atrocious. This isn't the post-your-favorite-game thread.
This also isn't a "let's act like an elitist cock" thread. If you want to shit on someone's opinions, go find another forum.
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Looks pretty damn good.
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Is the second image in the OP really from FreeSpace 2? Didn't that release in 1999? No way it had normal mapping and dynamic shadows. Or am I missing something?
FSOpen with new art assets.
I get you, but I thought
was pretty clear-cut. It *did* look amazing in 2004, and in my opinion it still looks decent. And since there are a bunch of guys posting even older games that look like crap by today's standards, I thought it would be alright to post BFME.
Moving on.
That's not a very good shot, either.
Linked for HOLY SHIT MEG IMAGE.
This next one is well within size limits.
For some reason the troll in the boat cracks me up.
Looks pretty good in the alpha for BFME1, although I think they reduced the troop counts in the final.
Ah, here we go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRdwKJ4pzSo
Reduced drastically. The command point limits are almost annoyingly low. But there are still some moments where the game can be a little bit visually impressive. The 3D modeling is really spectacular on some of the structures, especially the walls for Gondor and Rohan.
Stills don't really do it justice though, so check this out
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dMUeWsc88&feature=related
I totally agree with Prince of Persia. Just picked it up over the weekend at Gamestop for $40 (yay surprise sales!) and have only gotten about 15 minutes to check it out. However, I really can't get over how beautiful this game is. At this point, I almost don't care if the game turns out horrible otherwise. If nothing else, it really sets the bar for all future cel-shaded games to come.
I think it really rides that fine line of almost too much detail for cel-shading, but, so far from what I've seen, doesn't cross it.
Not sure what the general concensus on this game is, but it really should be supported, as I would love to see them take the PoP games in this direction, artistically speaking.