The Conduit on the Wii
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2. They still look as good as the day they were released, while RCT3 looks terrible now.
Super Mario World. It still looks great.
Everything SNES still looks great! It just doesn’t degrade!
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island too! So stylized it could release today and still be considered beautiful
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
The music from that is still stuck in my head after all this time.
Great game!
I will never not be able to hear baby Mario’s wailing whenever someone mentions this game…
Hi Fi Rush
Valheim, though its more recent, nothing else is quite like it.
Wow ashlands is great. Surprised this isn’t higher
It’s not higher because it doesn’t “hold up” since it’s not even fully released yet. It’s still in Early Access since 2021.
How is this getting downvoted? Did you piss off some trogs in a different thread?
Possibly?
I made a dumb joke about guns not being common in the UK (to handle a break out of a flock of now multiplying chickens) … some days ago.
More recently I confronted a very aggressive person insisting that everyone who does not believe in magic does so because they tautalogically (sp?) just define it as impossible… but then they themselves refuse to actually define what they mean by magic, provided ahistorical descriptions of magic and religious persecution, and meandered from different contextual definitions of magic (wonder and whimsy worldview vs real effectual practices vs only effectual in practitioners minds).
But the downvotes on this started days after the first thing and I think 4 to 6 hours after the second thing?
I dunno. My money would be on the magical person, as I have found that tumblr-brained people have a tendency toward delysional magic thinking, and manipulation by both twisting words by flipping and flopping between their different definitions, as well as having multiple alt accounts and/or a small number of highly devoted followers.
But I don’t know.
I suppose I apologize to the Nordic gods for however I brought misfortune upon their realm.
Yeah I looked at your comments and saw that thread, where the person was claiming that computers functioned by spirits being summoned from rocks and other nonsense.
The sheer ridiculousness of it forced me to hop in and take a look, and I sure did get a good laugh out of that. Had to leave my two cents and go. I’d be more inclined to believe it’s that weirdo too.
I mean, for fucks sake, the state is magic? Money is magic? The placebo effect is magic?
This dumbfuck probably thinks the wind is magic.
Edit: also you were close! Tautologically, one ‘o’ off.
Edit 2: if they respond to you again, hit em with the God of the gaps fallacy.
I think I am done with that person.
They are a self admitted antirealist solipsist.
Reality is not a valid concept for them.
Not jokingly, as an insult, but literally.
To this person I suppose that we are all some kind of demonic entities of inner self doubt manifesting to challenge them in their grand, all encompassing existence.
Wind Waker is probably the go-to answer for this. I think Xcom 2 is a good example too, even though it’s fairly recent.
Wind Waker is definitely my answer whenever this question pops up. It’s one of the few fully-3D games from that era that still holds up moderately well today. A lot of Gamecube games definitely look like Gamecube games when emulated with out-of-the-box settings, but Wind Waker looks like an indie game that could’ve come out last year when emulated.
The Zelda art teams really are masters at their craft.
The art direction at Nintendo in general is really top tier. I was looking looking at their WiiU games not too long ago. I noticed they don’t usually have a lot of complex shapes in their models, they use a surprising amount of flat area, but they jazz them up with extremely well done texturing and shaders.
Honestly, a lot of first party GameCube games have aged incredibly well. Mario Party, Wind Waker, Warioware, Smash, Sunshine, Luigi’s Mansion etc. all still look fantastic today, resolution aside.
Okami
Yesss. The way the lines all sort of sway always gives it such a unique look. I was worried the remaster would take some of this away, but it looked just as good.
I wish we could have gotten a proper sequel. RIP Clover Studios.
While less popular, Viewtiful Joe also still holds up for similar reasons.
There’s like a newer Capcom game in the works that feels very Okami
That looks amazing, and yeah, very Okami like. Hopefully no Issun though!
Wow. This wasn’t on my radar at all! Definitely going to be checking this out.
Journey
total annihilation
Tried that again for a trip down memory lane recently, couldnt get saves to work which really screwed with my ability to have fun.
Because the AI is so shit Id focus on building a small but defensibly untouchable base and let the 3 pc teams on hard and cooperating expand massively before going on the offensive, making taking them down a real grind.
Child of Light (2014)
Minecraft
Mirror’s Edge
Crysis still looking great.
Fallout New Vegas?
New Vegas might be my favorite game of all time, but I would by no means say it has good graphics. It has a great vibe to the world and impressive locations, but those character models, man…
Also the pop-in is insane. Seeing Helios One load in is crazy.
Also the pop-in is insane. Seeing Helios One load in is crazy.
Running LodGen with a Lucky 38 remaster mod has been so fucking nice the last 2 weeks.
Can see that shining beacon of beauty from basically anywhere, does wonders to the games vibe
New Vegas is a graphical dilemma for me. It’s obviously graphically dated, but it’s art and graphics style are such a perfect match for the game and atmosphere that I don’t think i’d want to see them updated.
The datedness adds to the experience honestly. I can’t play with any mods that are too detailed, nor can I use any mods that add super high res textures. It’s like the graphical uncanny valley for me.
I have it the same with Morrowind. High res terrain and shaders for water or grass? That is ok, but do NOT touch a single polygon of NPCs!
My son was playing Sunset Overdrive the other day, and I had forgotten how cinematic it was. Very fun, very punk rock.
