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What is it about shitty 90's graphics that can make a game
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What is it about shitty 90's graphics that can make a game feel so comfy?
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Nostalgia you fucking retard.
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i wish we had more indie games that look like this
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simplicty

>>337907213
underaged cancer
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>>337908486
How am I underaged, child? I also enjoy these graphics because I grew up with them. It's pure fucking nostalgia.
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Yearning for things you haven't even experienced in their time, like modern PC-98 fans who masturbate to color blending techniques.
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>>337908641
I grew up with them too but i think it looks like shit now.
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>>337908641
I have nostalgia for a a lot of things but graphical style isn't one of them.

I think those graphics are simple and easy to look at and understand, that's why I like them. Trying to write off the positives of anything old as nostalgia is typically something underaged cancer that didn't get to experience it does.
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>>337908641
I didn't even play games until I got my first computer in '08 so I don't think it's nostalgia. I think it's just the joy of the early semi-complex 3d games that has the shine to it.
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>>337909168
>>337909174
Literally fucking underaged, looking like shit doesn't have charm. You didn't experience shit getting better, you 14 year olds started playing when you could actually recognize things.
I wish people like you just fucking killed themselves already from my board.
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>>337907185
Those stuff blend really well for horror games.
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>>337909334
>underaged
I'm 23 buddy but ok
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>>337909334
>Literally fucking underaged
I'm 22.

>looking like shit doesn't have charm
It's simplicity that gives it the charm.
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Simplicity does it, however
Late 90s/early 2000s > Early 90s
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>>337909526
>>337909568
both of you fags did not grow with the ps1 then.
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Say what you want about the graphics, Dark Forces had such amazing and complex level design. I miss old FPS for that alone.
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>game will never be as creepy as this anymore
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>>337909168
this. 32-bit, and to some extent 64-bit generation environments have the satisfying purity of brutalist architecture or bauhaus posters. It always depends on talented level designers of course, but modern games have so much visual noise that it can exacerbate sloppy layouts.

I do have some problem dealing with the shitty frame rates tho. I find playing, for example, old PC games or sometimes emulators easier on the eyes than trying to play a PS1 game on my old fat PS2.
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>>337910238

Just barely though, and shit goes downhill really fast once the PS2/Gamecube/XBOX came out.

But yeah, agreed.
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>>337910238
Is this vanilla Gothic 2? I mean, I can see "NotR" in the filename, but still: no mods?
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>>337910352
I played the Crash and Spyro games all the fucking time. I played the shit out of SSB, Goldeneye, and Bomberman Second Attack as well.

don't tell me what I did and didn't do faggot
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>>337910352
>being this mad on a chinese image board
>le respect ur elders!!!
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>>337910676
Just normalmaps and slightly better textures, still lowpoly as fuck
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>>337909334
your an idiot sir I hope you die today
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>>337907185
There was no depression when you were a kid
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>>337910735
nuh huh he said you didn't do it, it must be true cause he would know
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>>337907185
There was a dankness from the cold war era that pervaded a lot of stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_R6hzBxzAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLbcXEPHExA
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>>337910843
I've suffered suicidal ideation since I was 6. Nice try.
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>>337910843
>There was no depression when you were a kid
fuck
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>>337910914
That goes for most people then?
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>>337910676
It's heavily modded
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>>337910914
Attention seeker alert
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>>337911120
Shaders, draw distance and textures but no high poly replacements
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>>337907213
>>337908641
I never grew with an NES, yet I love NES a lot.
It's unrelated, anon.
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>>337911430
you like it because you like the attention from nostalgiafags. same as kids commenting under nirvana music videos.
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>>337911206
That's L'hiver screenshot you took from imdb page, it changes geometry and takes hq meshes from other games like witcher, the farm houses in your sceen are all redone with high detail, plus tons of extra grass from that dx11 wrapper, dynamic shadows and probably something else i forgot to mention. As i said it's heavily modded.
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>>337911735
What if I don't go around making Instagram posts and actually play the games?
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>>337911898
post ex reasoning. You still started doing it for attention.
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Clearly defined graphics show and tell you everything.

Lesser defined graphics allow you to infer more by giving you 60% and letting you imagine the rest.
There's a reason Resident Evil was considered scary back in the day, and its a laughing stock now.
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>>337907185
I tried the graphics mod for that game and it completely fucking ruined the charm
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The obvious skyboxes are a big factor for me, makes the levels feel closed off.
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>>337911992
If you say so.
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>>337907185
There's something special about needing to use your imagination to make sense of muddy textures and tiny obscure sprite art.
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