LOW POLY GAMES So tired of the retro "8-16 bit" bullshit

>>386779687
>SoF
SoF and SoF2 were my shit nigga

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Low-poly graphics always seem to be spooky even when they're not trying to be and I fuckin love it. Die By the Sword was such a hidden gem. Pretty sure I played it for the first time cause my friend got it at a flea market or something.

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just picked up this badass bitch from a local store who sells all kinds of older video game shit. I bought a PS2 and every paycheck I get I go here and pick up a few games to get my collection going.

>>386779687

It makes me LAUGH OUT LOUD how the creator of Grimoire thinks his game is supposedly superior to Wizardry.

Cleve and his followers are on some serious jim jones shit.

>>386779687
I guess not a lot of people feel the same way toward the whole "low poly" vibe. The normies eat up that 8-bit shit, that's why it's all over steam and indie games now a days. Not to say there aren't good games with that artstyle but it is getting out of hand.

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Best aesthetic coming through, I sometimes think EverQuest's artstyle is really the main thing that just grabbed me as a child and I'm still playing on that project 1999 server 17 years later

>>386780279
The game does objectively look better though. I mean Wiz6 and 7 look like dogshit compared to the M&M games of the same time.

>>386781052
You say grimoire is objectively better looking than wiz7 but then compare wiz7 to M&M?

I can see M&M being better looking than wiz7, but grimoire was made in 2017, it better look better than wiz7

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>>386779687

I'm with you OP, sadly I don't think there are any newer games with this kind of look or anything, at least not that I know of

>>386781381
Grimoire was originally intended to release alongside M&M6

>>386781584
wizardry 8 is better than all of them

>>386781839
Level scaling and ridiculously long turn times ruin it for me. I'd rather play JA2 for TB combat.

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>>386781527
There are a couple fairly new fake-PS1 lookalike survival horror games: Banned Memories, and Vaccine.

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>>386779687
How 'bout Severance Blade of Darkness

>>386782869

Oh hell yeah, that's my shit.

Low-poly RTS/Character Creation/Character Skins are GOD TIER cozy to me. Up-close ugly ass faces are so perfect. I feel like customizing characters back then with obvious varying pre-made facial skins make characters way more diverse than they are now, and fucking MMOs these days make the races look all the fucking same.

Everquest had fatass ogres, small ass gnomes and cool skinned humanoids, and even lizardmen.. Now you have Regular Humanoid(and 3 variations that look almost identical), big humanoid and small humanoid. Woooooooooow

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still some being made

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>>386779687
MGS2
The textures are actually pretty low res, but they make it work so well. It looks more like 32-bit spritework than what we see in most textures in 3D games

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>>386779687
>I'll tear out your spine

>>386780462
My guess is that it's harder to make. 8-bit stuff is relatively easy to make, at least in comparison with 3D stuff. Also, these were artists who knew what they were doing and trying to do their best within their limitations. Nowadays you have to actively cripple yourself to make this style.
I fucking love it and I hope that the 90's generation is now old enough to bring this style back in some interesting capacity, but the idea remains that they could just make better looking stuff.

>>386787421
Very spot on, I couldn't have said it better myself.

However, you can make low-poly stuff look very pretty with high-res textures, at least imo. I can't put my finger on what makes it just look so distinct and just "better" than just rounded faces with slight differences than other characters cause you made the nose a little longer and the mouth wider

>>386787421
good 8-bit art is way harder to make, based on animation alone

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>>386787958
> you can make low-poly stuff look very pretty with high-res textures
You can, but these sort of low-res low-poly 3D managed a lot of creepiness, which I think higher textures have a bit more difficulty in doing, since it doesn't leave as much to the imagination.
>>386788308
Stuff like Metal Slug, yeah. Most 8-bit game no, though.

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>>386789205
the creepiness is just so easy with this stuff. i get more scared thinking of things like this 15 years ago than actual try-hard super-charged graphically scary stuff these days.

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>>386781527
How about this

>>386789670

Yeah I think it comes down to personality and looking unnatural. Like all the Quake monsters and stuff, they were all abominations and didnt look just like scary humanoids.

The gross, ugly textures just adds to the creepiness and those pre-made faces have personality that sticks in your head.

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>>386789670
A good comparison is the original System Shock and the newer remake. The enemies just don't look as threatening because they're well animated and you can see every detail. It loses the unnerving movement, certain details that were mostly blobs that made you add the detail in your head.

>>386789854
Not at all what I'm talking about... needs more gritty textures. Smooth = Bad imo. Just looks like cartoon characters or Pixar.

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>>386790079
It's a shame that stuff like Max Payne's face is no longer a thing or those just normal npc's with devs faces. It also gave the game a better feeling of genuine passion and love when you could tell the devs were having fun while making the games.
System Shock 2 enemies still creep me out. The audio helps but those static pained faces really added.

>>386789670
You don't think it has anything to do with you being 15 years younger 15 years ago?

>>386790415
Different anon.
Honestly, no. I only played System Shock 2 a couple of years ago, despite remembering seeing it come out when I was younger.
That game has creeped me out more than any other game. Possibly aside from the 4 silent hills.

>>386790415
Well, I'm sure time has a factor in it, but I still prefer the look to this day. I didn't play Hexen or Soul Reaver until a couple years ago and those games stand out so much more than all the "fleshed out, aaa graphics engines" games

>>386790407
Fuck yes. That's a perfect example. I can't put my finger on WHY it just resonates with me so perfectly and much more on a personal level than just "genericly modeled, graphically impressive" face that just still kinda looks like the next character like 90%.

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>>386791063
It helps that Max Payne is a good game but yeah, it's hard to say the why exactly. It looks silly, it's funny when mixed with the hard boiled stuff, but god damn, it gave it so much more personality.

You mean something like that Dusk game?

>>386791967
Haha, never heard of it. Just watched the trailer on YouTube, looks solid. Loved the Redneck Rampage reference...I remember going to CompUSA and playing that game along with Motocross Madness

>>386791967
Really hoping that turns out good. Saw a bit of the devs playing the first couple of levels and it looks fun.

>>386791967
yeah, except not fugly and with actual good sound design

>>386782869
Soulsfag here, would I like this game?

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>>386792546
Maybe they went a bit too far in the low res aspect but I like it. It is a tough balance to achieve when you could very easily make it look a thousand times better but still fight to get that particular look.
I hope those spinning shotgun reloads are as satisfying to use as they are from the video.

>>386782869
I remember seeing an Ad in a gaming magazine, I think it was for this game. It was a big sword with all kinds of different damage done to the blade like acid, stone, etc etc. I wanted to play it so bad but never was able to.

>>386780747

dat ogre shaman in a fungi tunic, unstoppable with a manastone.

so fun solo'ing with a twink when you've got both at low levels

>>386789670
> coming across one of these guys in befallen for the first time
> grouping in the estate of Unrest

my basketball american

>>386789205

Mod?

test

>>386794370

Nevermind. Google is my friend. I found it.

>http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/78928?

>>386791063
> "genericly modeled, graphically impressive"

it's because someone had to hand make the old graphics, transposing what the artist imagined into the limit poly count. because all the detail couldn't be put into a texture file the artist would make the heads slight odd shapes, exaggerate proportions to signify something they couldn't put into the texture.

and if the artist DIDNT make this effort to cram a low poly texture with IDEAs it would look horse shit.

whereas now, you use your 3d scan tools to get a "actors" likeness, use auto texture tool, use a mocap tool instead of animating character quirks.
there's no need to think about the product youre making anymore.
darksouls make an effort to add character to its world like old games used to, and the players go batshit for it. but it's still going to be a rarity that devs are going to make that effort when its so easy to just use the automation tools they have.