Why aren't videogames pretty anymore?

Why aren't videogames pretty anymore?

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  1. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    troony subversion.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Because you wore a skirt and played with dolls.

      >i miss my childhood 🙁

      They all look the same

      Because you didn't support Sega and instead pretended the Nintendo 64 was good, pokemon wasn't a pitiful cash grab with shit gameplay, and flocked to the nogaemscube instead of supporting games, games, and games.

      because if a game isn't high contrast, doesn't have tons of visual clutter, post processing effects and pointless raytracing people think it 'doesn't look good'

      The fat frick talked about it.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        The fat frick is dead and I don't care about the opinions of corpses

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Your mind is as grey as that image

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I'll add that it doesn't necessarily HAVE TO lead to this but does more often than not because coming up with something detailed enough to compete with nature yet different enough not to be considered derivative is an incredibly difficult task. That'd require godly (quite literally) levels of creativity.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        constraints promote complexity and beauty. Nintendo had talked about this when asked about their game systems hardware. it's also the ethos of a European artist collective called the Oulipu. They do stuff like write an entire book without using the letter E and many other crazy constraints

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >first post troony post
      1% of the population really mind broke this board

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        no but do u see how accurate u really are because /they/ will say trannies only represent 0.5% of the population but actually they are an extension of the israelites so its full 1% now and they are taking over with the israeli troony agenda holy gigamoly!!!

      • 3 weeks ago
        managed democracy

        > broke this boards mind
        if you mean be crybullies for every single thing that slightly doesn’t go their way like capes, yes

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It’s israelites

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I like the forever summer aesthetic associated with Y2K.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Is Chris-chan a woman?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        41 percentile

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because you wore a skirt and played with dolls.

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >i miss my childhood 🙁

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They all look the same

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The sky do be like that.

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because you didn't support Sega and instead pretended the Nintendo 64 was good, pokemon wasn't a pitiful cash grab with shit gameplay, and flocked to the nogaemscube instead of supporting games, games, and games.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Nintendo 64 was good
      It had games, unlike sega's consoles

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, whenever people ask what games the saturn had that made it so good they go like: “Nights and, uh…”

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Nintendo 64 had games
        Are you moronic? The N64 had the fewest games out of any 5th gen console, and it's not even close. The Saturn had an entire order of magnitude more games. Literally nobody bought or cared about the N64 outside of Muttmerica

        Yeah, whenever people ask what games the saturn had that made it so good they go like: “Nights and, uh…”

        Whenever people ask what games the N64 had that made it so good they go like: “Zelda and, uh…”

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Try harder.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >too pussy to reply
            Classic feminine passive aggressive Nintentard post

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          True 64 was starved for games and it's fans today are unhinged drama queens upset the weird culty status they've given it has become a punchline.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          quality over quantity

          N64 had lots of good games, while the Saturn didn't have a single memorable one

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >N64 didn't have bright colors and blue skies
      The frick?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It has some of the dullest colors of any console ever.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          N64 derangement syndrome.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Dullest whites I ever saw

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Look in a mirror (just kidding, you're brown).

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >Can't refute the point
                >Posts another game with dull, muddy colors
                kek
                Like, 5 N64 games had good colors

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Surely the 5000th post you've made crying over the N64 will change people's mind (and reality in this case). Just two more posts!

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >Like, 5 N64 games had good colors.
                Yeah all 5 made by Rareware i bet.
                In hindsight its kinda funny how all good looking games on that console were made by 2nd and 3rd party developers.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Man I don't even know what good colours mean in this thread anymore. Playstation games generally looked like shit too and tended more to the edgier tones (outside of JRPGs) than Nintendo games did.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Not true. At least not as much as 7th gen/late 6th gen onward.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                N64 derangement syndrome.

                >muddy
                >foggy
                >stuttery
                >blurry
                Yep it's N64 time.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                kino

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >autistic
                >homosexual
                >whining every day of his life
                Yep, it's N64 seether time.

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Just got time-traveled back to my first sales job where the Pioneer rep kept hammering their TV's "blackest blacks" and that thought is really funny in the context of this board's rhetoric.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous
            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              that must be a late N64 game with Expansion Pak enabled cuz goddamn

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Is ssx you melt

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              1080 is better than the SSX games.

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Man I want to play SSX3 now. That slope is one of the darker ones. Peak 1 has some very bright ones.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Definitely the best snowboarding games right up there with amped.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous
          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Many such cases, and we all know who's afflicted by it.

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    because if a game isn't high contrast, doesn't have tons of visual clutter, post processing effects and pointless raytracing people think it 'doesn't look good'

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    because realism

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      acutal graphics kills the game

      these two. devs kept obsessing over realism killed most games from having a unique style.

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    acutal graphics kills the game

  9. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    some indie devs try to achieve this aesthetics but always end looking soulless idk why
    same case with ps1 and nes aesthetics

  10. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Games with clear blue skies are everywhere in early 00 not just Sega

  11. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Older textures are simpler. Bright color schemes are very noticeable whenever the textures look like this. There are plenty of ugly earth-toned games from that era; this Twittergay is cherrypicking and so are you.
    >Verification not required.

  12. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They want realism and realism means dark as frick shadows contrasting blinding brightness

  13. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  14. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Reject modernity, embrace tradition.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      That peninsula? You can go there.

  15. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Every single one of those games looks like shit

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      turn your monitor on LMAO

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Haha you BTFO'd that chud sister

  16. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >mid-left
    Game?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Outrun

  17. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because none of those games used the Ultimate PBR Realistic Skies Bundle for $20 on the Unreal marketplace

  18. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's genuinely a miracle with how PSO1 perfected Sega's low-poly dreamcast style when you consider that literally no one at Sonic Team actually wanted to make it but were forced to because the CEO at the time was making the prediction that online games were the future of the industry and wanted to position Sega to be at the ground floor when it happens.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's genuinely a miracle with how PSO1 perfected Sega's low-poly dreamcast style when you consider that literally no one at Sonic Team actually wanted to make it but were forced to because the CEO at the time was making the prediction that online games were the future of the industry and wanted to position Sega to be at the ground floor when it happens.

      Man I always wanted to get into PSO for the aesthetics but the gameplay is just too mindless solo

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous
  19. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Old games had fake shadows so everything is manually adjusted because engine rendered shadows were taxing on old hardware (circle shadows on floor on your character etc.). This result to devs adjusting to what was pleasing to the eyes instead of fully relying on rendered shadows. Basically devs weren't lazy fricks

  20. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    vidya died when snowboard and ski games were erased from the collective consciousness

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      This is some KONY2012 conspiracy shit and I'm on board

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous
    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You really might be onto something here

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I remember playing a demo of a snowboarding game on the Xbox 360 many years ago and loving it. But I see there were 5 or 6 different snowboarding games on the console, so I don't know which game it actually was.
      Besides that, Snowboard Kids 1 and 2 are my jam. New snowboard games would be great.

  21. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because we don't live in the endless summer era anymore when people who weren't dirt poor had something to smile and laugh about, now the world is just gay and serious business all the time.

  22. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Pajeet Kino sirs, still runs on my athalon xp sirs

  23. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Bright colors don't look manly and serious enough (even though most armies throughout most of history used bright colors for their attire and camouflage uniforms are a relatively modern invention).

  24. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They used to be made almost purely by creative office workers
    Now they're made by Sharquesha and the pansexual mtf named Lilith

  25. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because graphical improvement has made everyone obsess over realism, so nothing can be stylized anymore. Just use the realistic lighting sim baked into your engine, don't make your own stylized version.

  26. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Looks like shit

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        you gay

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          No you

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      you gay

      Segaaaa

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      i don't like the turn based combat in like a dragon

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Not enough mutts to be Hawaii

  27. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >13 million likes
    HOLY FRICKING SHIT

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      mil means a thousand in spanish

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I know, autismo. That's the joke.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      More people liked that tweet than actually bought the dreamcast lol

  28. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    .

  29. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  30. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    SEGA have the rights to these colors (google SEGA blue) and other companies aren't allowed to use it.

  31. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Sorry for posting anime shit, but how come nobody ever talks about how these naruto ultimate ninja storm games have some of the best graphics I've ever seen? I just pirated one out of the blue and I can't believe how good this looked, even if the polygon count isn't technically impressive, I could watch this shit all day

  32. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    man, sonic adventure looks so cool
    it would be great if the game was actually good

  33. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i kinda miss the vibe of arcade games, how japanese games would portray cities like san francisco in really bright and pleasant ways

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Everything must be dark and dull nowadays. (Shoutout to that one homosexual who had a thermonuclear meltdown years ago when I called Path of Exile a browny mess.)

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I don't understand the arguments for the N64 looking dull. There are some games that could look more colorful, yes, but same for all consoles. I think it is a game by game basis situation, not the console itself.

      Same, and to add to that- I'd like more arcade-like games in general.
      I'm guessing as newer game engines got better with ray tracing, developers would rely on the engine's lighting instead of artificially adding shading into the textures. Spyro games really went out of their way to change the lighting so it adds color to the environment and their efforts paid off big time. Early Spyro games look very aesthetically pleasing and colorful.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        64 games usually have a small selection of colors, repeated low res textures smeared over huge polygons. You'd know this if you played the console but I don't blame you for avoiding it. It hasn't aged well.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          It hasn't aged badly, you'd know this if you played the console recently.

  34. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I was watching a monster hunter retrospective recently and I was utterly blown away by how beautiful the enviroments where in even the first monster hunter, hyper realism sucks fricking dick compared to shit like this, man https://youtu.be/9ylGpFchGOw?list=PL-Bdq_IHKWcqy3v4b4OfPG95LUNo1ERDs&t=346
    It's like looking at a painting

  35. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Everything must be miserable and dreary to remind you of the shitty clown world we live in

  36. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    There's nothing stopping games with realistic graphics from having saturated bright colors
    Go outside when the sun is shining and you'll see the desaturated and dull look so many games have is what's unrealistic

  37. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Dynamic colored lighting will murder any vibrant color palette.

  38. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    California ruins everything

  39. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Everything has to be dark, brown, or gray.

  40. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Those are all Sega (Japanese) games. The creators grew up in both horror of nuclear radiation and renewed hope for a better future. Even in the 90’s Japan had a strong economy that seemed to only have mild retractions. They still got married and had girl friends. Scars of the past created shit like Violence Jack, hope for the future brought Astroboy.

    The west also had hope. Doom (despite Carmack’s porn analogy) was a beautiful display of the human spirit rising above both outer evil and righting the wrongs of our own. Clothes and cars were colorful. Hawaiian shirts, tie-die, neon everywhere, even on our disposable cups. It was a bright with possibility. People didn’t know our leaders had sold us out. We are now a world, not just a society, without hope. And so our creations reflect that.

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