Old games that look worse than you remembered
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Anything 3D really. Things like Transport Tycoon and Theme Hospital don't look so bad as everything was drawn pretty well in the first place. I think Diablo 2 still looks great.
I love playing old games at low resolutions and then I look at my phone and it seems mega high res
With smart phones as good as they are these days I'm surprised more old games havent been ported accross. Playing Duke 3D on my iphone is great fun!
This, they look absolutely shocking now
I'd like to play OoT again but can't be bothered to buy a 3DS.Lots of SNES and Megadrive games still look fantastic, ie: SF2Turbo, Streets of Rage 2, Super MarioKart, Zelda 3, Sonic 2...
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Jedi Knight was fine on CRT, but looks utter pants on a modern LCD !
True. Btw, have you tried modding it? There are some good ones out there.
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Didn't that come out in 2004?
Die By The Sword which was pretty pixelated and gloomy. Then found a mod called Xtended by Hazard that improved it to what I was expecting.
Yes.
Mostly really early 3D games that were going for photorealism make my eyes bleed.
Older stuff that's drawn or pixel art looking is more of a style than dated to my eyes anyway.
8- and 16-bit games still look really good to me for the most part.
DX looks pretty bad. It's not so much the engine, just the design on it was kinda poor. The new one got a lot of stick on the forums for not looking like the old one and being anime inspired. I was asking people if they'd realised th old one was, just in a really ugly half assed way a lot. You could actually get stuff looking a lot better on UT99. Was playing mods on there as recently as 2010.
It wasn't a pretty game when it came out though.
Neither was Half-Life really. Half-Life was loved more for it's gameplay than it was for being a technical tour-de-force.
Older stuff that's drawn or pixel art looking is more of a style than dated to my eyes anyway.
8- and 16-bit games still look really good to me for the most part.
DX looks pretty bad. It's not so much the engine, just the design on it was kinda poor. The new one got a lot of stick on the forums for not looking like the old one and being anime inspired. I was asking people if they'd realised th old one was, just in a really ugly half assed way a lot. You could actually get stuff looking a lot better on UT99. Was playing mods on there as recently as 2010.
It wasn't a pretty game when it came out though.
Neither was Half-Life really. Half-Life was loved more for it's gameplay than it was for being a technical tour-de-force.
No going to have to try that out, such a good game!
Karateka still looks amazing especially when you think it was out nearly 30 years ago!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHNT7mR-8d0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHNT7mR-8d0
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Far Cry looks pretty bad, looks almost Cartoony compared to Crysis. That said, some of the indoor areas still look decent. Fantastic game though, and still totally playable.