>ITT: post games from 2000-2005 that have aged very well
Pic related.
>>336033380
Plays like shit compared to sticker star...........
Still fun even though the environments are pretty lame. The A.I. still feels smart.
>>336032960
Max Payne 1/2
Thief 2
Deus Ex
>>336033754
>he's too fast!
VtMB
Why do so many games from the early 2000s have better lighting, shadows and overall atmosphere compared to modern games?
>>336033793
>Deus Ex
>aged well
It plays like ass. Hell, it played like ass on release.
>>336033875
>he took out the whole squad!
Slo-mo plus that shotgun is easily my favorite part of the game.
>>336034018
because the framrates were lower back then.
San Andreas
>>336034018
it's a shame the hard shadow style never took off
technology has progressed to the point where you can now easily have that kind of lighting in settings other than tight, enclosed indoor environments like riddick or doom 3 or penumbra, but the style has largely been abandoned.
>>336034018
Because they were made by people who actually learned something useful like coding, not game design collage graduates.
I have a friend who's studing game design, future mobile trash dev in the making.
>>336034406
Hard shadows was not a "style", it was a technical limitation because soft shadows were computationally expensive.
You going to complain that you don't see blob shadows anymore too?
>>336034264
>because the framrates were lower back then.
I've played my games on a 85 Hz screen in the late 90's.
There were mostly no FPS caps on PC just like there are none now (except for trash ports of course).
It's funny it got actually lower on average because shitty flatscreen panels coudn't keep up and the 60 FPS meme was born.
>>336034786
call it whatever you want, i just find it aesthetically pleasing and wish it was used more
>game aged in reverse
>>336033754
brb, reinstalling
test
>>336034948
>It's funny it got actually lower on average because shitty flatscreen panels coudn't keep up and the 60 FPS meme was born.
What's funny is all the people that complained that the 60Hz monitor is unbearable but the 60Hz TV or the 60Hz light globe never seemed to bother them. I put these people in the same category as those that think they can "feel" wifi.
>>336035090
Still the greatest space sim of all time. Thank God for SCP even though it's basically been dead for years. I want my Derelict 2.
>>336034018
the technology got so good, devs could aim for realism
then gamers/devs got bored of realism and moved into the "hyper real", which is why everything is stylized and vibrantly colorful right now
the trends change every few years, but i agree with you. todays games are too stylized to the point where it hurts immersion..it could also be that with the amount of casuals entering the market, they wanted visual styles to be "non threatening" .. look at the new DOOD art style..
>>336034406
>>336034972
agreed. its so sharp and atmospheric, looks great.
>>336034018
I miss atmospheric indoor environments.
>>336035980
Low poly high res normal mapping is underrated
>>336036394
Fuck yes.
>>336036201
man that was a cool game
>>336035980
Goddamn, this makes the detail in modern games look flat and lifeless. Those textures pop out so well. The layers and depth gives me a fuckin' eye-boner.
I just don't get what the hell happened. What a huge step backwards.
>>336036394
>Low poly high res normal mapping is underrated
I can't even... You do understand that the whole point of normal mapping is to give the illusion of the presence of polygons that don't exist, right?
There's nostalgia and then there's idiocy.
>>336033952
Aww yisss.
The testament to this game is that most of /v/ still play this game regularly.
>>336033952
When I installed this game first time I didn't believe it was Source engine.Facial animations were so great.
>>336033754
fear was never good. doom 3 was better.
:^)
>>336036693
The only real problem is the lack of ambient light, but SSAO could fix that easily
>>336033793
doubt it for Max Payne 1
but holy shit MP2 is still looked good
>>336032960
q;^)
Outcast is from 1999, and I've never actually played it, but the graphics look so nice to me for some reason, especially the water.
Maybe it's the voxels.
so aging well just means good graphics? okay.
>>336035609
Shut up faggot riddick had tons of color. Everyone just got tired of the call of duty grey brown color palette with a piss filter over it. Is rather have color than not.
>>336038313
Voxels are great at terrain. Well, at least some types of terrain.
Just look at this shit...
https://youtu.be/u1u3EoN-6V0?t=59
This was in 1992.
>>336037475
Butthurt doom 3 fans are the worst
>>336037251
>most of /v/ still play this game regularly
Most of /v/ seems to be playing dark souls and shitposting about wow servers.
