What's the best looking NES game?
Super Mario 3 maybe?
Kirby's Adventure without a doubt.
kirby, little samson, also mario is missing used a downgraded SMW sprite since it came out so late
>>320565394
Battletoads. Not even kidding, it's artstyle was god-tier.
>>320566884
This
Or
>>320567096
This imo
Gimmick by far
Batman: Return of the Joker
>>320567940
u avin a laff m8
>>320568425
Why? Just going by looks, it could almost pass as an early Genesis game.
>>320567568
my nigga
>>320567568
You'd have to really show this game in motion to appreciate it. It's so smooth and well animated.
>>320565394
Anything other than a Mega Man title is a lie.
>>320568425
He does have a point.
>>320568787
Mighty Final Fight and Gargoyle's Quest II easily outclass the Mega Man games as far as Capcom graphical standards go.
>>320568690
wish that was released in the west.
finna emulate it soon though.
>>320565394
I liked Metal Storm. But Irem knew how to pull all the stops when it came to making beautiful and visually active games.
>>320568932
>Gargoyle's Quest II
I'll give you that Mighty Final Fight was easy on the eyes but didn't have half the design ingenuity of the Mega Man games. An unfortunate drawback of Mega Man's intricate characters and backgrounds, however, was flickering and slowdown in certain parts of the game.
Most games look better in motion desu
>>320567096
Battletoads and Double Dragon was amazing, I thought. Lots of tricks to get effects to show up on the NES, it was mindboggling that so many techniques went into the game.
>>320568769
yeah, i mean those animations are just flat-out gorgeous
>>320566884
>released 93
I almost feel like that's cheating. But damn if that doesn't show how much technology improved over the NES's lifespane
Konami's old licensed games had awesome spritework and animations.
The Tiny Toons and Animaniacs games on the SNES/Genesis looked really good too.
>>320566649
>>320566884
>>320566961
>>320567096
>>320569164
>Not posting screenshots of the games your talking about
What's it like being retarded?
>>320568425
He's not wrong.
>>320570736
Again, anything that's not a Mega Man title is a liar's choice.
>>320570594
>>320570594
I spent way too much time with the Tiny Toons Animation game. My god I loved that thing.
>>320565394
When will someone make a clone of Adventure of Link?
Good fucking game
>>320570939
MM3 has slowdown out the ass and really doesn't look remarkable at all. It's shit.
>>320570736
https://youtu.be/bukusPiWTmU?t=7m
It looks almost 3D.
>>320571075
>>320571110
Slowdown on only a couple parts of a couple of stages, and it looks great compared to almost every other game in this thread.
>>320571075
The first adventure time did this.
>>320571204
I love this game. Faxanadu is alright too.
>>320571165
Hot damn.
>>320570932
This game is a fucking tech demo, the original was better.
>>320571165
The thumbnail? That's just a palette swapping technique.
little samson, moon crystal, gimmick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35D4aHLI8U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Hkpc0h_gw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYcf2yUgblc
>>320571360
>NES game
>>320571940
Nah, not the thumbnail, where the video starts when I posted it. Although in the thumbnail, the bars below the player in motion do have a 3D looking effect. Obviously, it's just a 3 or 4 frame animation that gives the illusion of rotating pipes by having them get smaller as they get closer to their edge, but it's still neat.
>>320568787
I like Mega Man but aside only 4 - 6 looked good and they were still outclassed by other games
>>320571165
watching this made me wonder why a game with so much technology was never mainstream enough to get more than just 1 sequel.
like literally, this game has more going on than anything made back then.
when doing the hover bike area, the game gets as close to 3D as Nes was gonna get.
tons of different animations while fighting. each enemy got attacked differently, like those chicks who get their hair pulled and slammed twice, being able to jump onto the security cameras, RAPPELING DOWN AREAS, throwing Pipe bombs back into a room to blow a guy up, this game had everything.
>>320571820
Yes, and? This thread is about what NES games are the best looking, not the best -playing-.
>>320572030
>moon crystal
My nigga
>>320565394
I remember getting one of those giant hearts but something hit me and killed me as my life was being fulled.
>>320572552
Mega Man 3 was the pinnacle of Mega Man's visual fidelity. The later titles just had different set-pieces with the same design philosophies.
I've personally not played an NES game that looked better than Mega Man.
>>320572405
Parallax scrolling. It was mostly used for skylines and other background effects
>>320572602
It also hadversions on the SNES and Genesis.
>>320571820
What's your point?
I enjoyed the first one better too but Return was just as fun.
None of the other versions looked as good as the NES version too. Both the Genesis and the SNES versions looked like ass.
>>320572850
>I've personally not played an NES game that looked better than Mega Man.
Probably because you've only played Mega Man which invalidates your opinion.
>>320572926
yeah, i owned the one on Snes, i always made it to the level where you descend down a tree, made it past that once but i dont even remember the lvl beyond that, still loved the game to death though.
Definitely Little Samson
Remember when games weren't downgraded, and customers weren't given inferior products if there were bigger bucks elsewhere?
>>320571165
Battletoads was always creative with perspective.
Remember the last level with the spinning tower?
>>320573953
No?
>>320572926
That's what makes it surprising. With a Genesis and SNES version, you'd think the devs would half-ass the NES version because they couldn't carry over things they did on later systems to an older one. Instead, they deliver a quality game on the NES and still improve on it for a later console as well.
>>320574235
found the underage and/or contrarian
>>320573953
No you don't mind shit
This thread is picking the best examples.
All of the best games combined don't even come close to all the shit games released on the NES.
>>320570984
this is incredible
takes me back.
>>320573460
Except you're wrong. Castlevania, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Final Fight, Battletoads, Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, and Kid Icarus are all other games I've played on the system. None of them look as good as Mega Man imo.
>>320574362
Hurt your feelings much?
The rare time some underdog development team does something wonderful is outshone by the hundreds of times that some cash-in was spat out just to fulfill some contract to make x number of games for a platform in exchange for rights to develop AAA titles for said console.
But you go on and keep cherry picking history to fit your narrative while conveniently forgetting the deluge of shit that has always been flooding every console since the beginning.
some of the graphics posted here are gross. here is the correct answer
>>320575324
that's a horrible screenshot. looks like decaying cardboard paper kirby
>all these replies
>nobody has mentioned the biggest famicom game at a whopping 8mb, Metal Slader Glory
the game looks butt-fucking amazing for it's time.
>>320575657
It's taken directly from an NES you dumb faggot
>>320575746
well then the game looks awful you fuckface. i don't know what to tell you.
>>320575689
OP asked what the best NES -GAME- was.
Visual Novels are not games.
>>320575746
What the fuck did they connect that thing to?
>>320575883
>>320575965
Oh man the 64/PSX babies have arrived
TMNT Tournament Fighters
>>320576064
Says the guy that thinks overscan happened on CRTs from the 1980s and 1990s.
how can you argue anything else?
>>320575689
This the game?
From what I gathered it looks like a pseudo 3D point and click type thing?
>>320576064
if you honestly grew up with the NES you need to leave this board grandpa
>>320566884
This. It looked better than 3/4 the SNES library.
Zelda 2 is the hardest game I ever beat. Is that good or bad?
>>320577340
Its average. But it also doesn't pertain to this thread.
>>320578250
Just want to know if I'm a fucking casual or not.
>>320572850
Shame it played so much worse than MM2
Little samson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRdGhHEoj3o
>>320580790
nah, it looks 'good' as in the graphics are full and colorful but the design choices are often confusing and out of place
It's called Bio Force Ape, and you would have every reason to believe it's a SNES game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmSgbhAxZ_k
>>320581167
Except that it looks and sounds just like a regular NES game only you can run really fast.
>>320565394
>>>/vr/
You're topic is too vague, do you mean graphical power, style, a mixture of both, personal preference? Define your terms fuckwad that doesn't know about /vr/.
Anyway:
Summer Carnival '92 Recca, Battletoads, Kirby, Crisis Force, Metal Storm, Super Mario Bros 3, Street Fighter 2010, Castlevania III.
>>320582196
I should have made the OP less objective-sounding. I just mean personal preference.
and /vr/ is too slow
>>320582196
Also, I should have mentioned that >>320567568
is spot on from many standpoints, it has graphical horsepower, style, and very smooth and satisfying gameplay to boot. Also it had enhancements to its sound, with a special chip present in many later NES games.
>>320570984
The best part of watching this intro is that the sound effects and music starts playing in your head.
Little Samson - great, characterful sprites with exremely fluid animation and beautifully detailed backgrounds with more colour than is logically possible. Also, I really love that jump animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFidUaK-WT8
Recca - amazing in motion, amazing animation and effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY79-3AdGY
Mega Man 5/6 - parallaxing backgrounds? in my NES platformer? plenty of cool tech and visual showoffery, screen-filling bosses etc.
Battletoads - RARE being wizards. the 3D scrolling tower level especially is just fucking wizardry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvV0DE1itWA
The Japanese Version of Castlevania 3 - THAT FUCKING SOUNDTRACK OH MY GOD IT'S BEAUTIFUL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoLUYjM89mQ
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
Posting a single motionless screenshot doesn't do it justice and this isn't its best looking stage but this game really knew how to use its limited palette. The first act of the final stage in particular looks fantastic.
>>320584031
thanks, gonna check out recca
>>320585276
> "Some creatures will let you ride them if you feed them candy!"
Nemo has a weird idea, riding around inside a frogs skin
>>320565394
Late NES Mega Man had pretty decent graphics
>>320571046
Somewhere in my family's home movies are some short stories I made with that thing, recorded with a camera aimed at the TV.
That game and Mario Paint later on were truly great things for my young mind
