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Do any video games have a 'bowling alley' animation style?

Tregard

Tregard

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Oct 27, 2017
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You know those little cartoons that appear on the score screens in bowling alleys? I want a game that goes for that style, to the same degree Cuphead styles itself on old Disney cartoons.

This stuff:

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There's a specific level of jankiness and griminess to a bowling alley animation that has never been explored in video games, as far as I know.
 
panama chief

panama chief

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Oct 27, 2017
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it requires a bit a weirdness to blow up a turkey cause you got a third strike. i cant think of any game off the top of my head thats quirky to that level and had animation to match.
 
Cyanity

Cyanity

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Oct 25, 2017
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I feel like some early 3D point and click adventure games 100% nailed this sort of feel. The best possible example out there is probably Armed and Delirious. Check out this amazing Ross's Game Dungeon for an extremely entertaining trip.

 
KDR_11k

KDR_11k

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Nov 10, 2017
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Tregard said:
Are there any games then which have real time gameplay that looks like PS1 cutscenes, then?
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This one looks the part IMO. It's a point & click. The game claims to use NURBS for its character models which a lot of those old CGI cutscenes probably used too. Non-Uniformly Rendered Bezier Splines are an outdated method for CG modeling, nowadays people just use tesselated polygons.
 
808s & Villainy

808s & Villainy

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KDR_11k said:
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This one looks the part IMO. It's a point & click. The game claims to use NURBS for its character models which a lot of those old CGI cutscenes probably used too. Non-Uniformly Rendered Bezier Splines are an outdated method for CG modeling, nowadays people just use tesselated polygons.
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NURBS!
That takes me back
 
Bradford

Bradford

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Aug 12, 2018
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Not quite the same but Hylics and its sequel are similar.



Same with Dujanah

 
fontguy

fontguy

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Oct 8, 2018
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It absolutely has been explored. On PC. In the 90s.



EDIT: The original Alone in the Dark games are maybe the most this specific thing.
 
buttzilla

buttzilla

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makes me think of graphics you got from mid-90s SGI machines for mass consumption.

My submission? The box art for Wave Race 64. Those shiny plasticy textures, so good.
 
Stopdoor

Stopdoor

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Oct 25, 2017
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I made this thread about Hamsterball on PS3 once, it's just a tad more polished I think but it still has a really weirdly clean, surreal style that's close to what you're going for

www.resetera.com

I think I found the best video game to play while on drugs*

*actually I've never done drugs and have no idea what drug of choice would enhance this game, but please feel free to offer your sage advice I downloaded this Hamsterball game on my PS3 ages ago because it had some 7-player mode and it was mildly amusing to play this weird party mode for 10...
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Aurongel

Aurongel

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Heart of Darkness (PS1)
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Nails the lo-fi aesthetic right down to the ridiculously low frame rate.
 

mclem

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Oct 25, 2017
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If you haven't seen it before, I think the intro to Clockwork Knight is pretty close to what you're wanting.


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The Angry Internet

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Oct 28, 2017
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Bouncers was the first one that came to mind. I read about it in Sega Visions and became kind of obsessed by the concept (one-on-one basketball where you have to put yourself through the hoop by bouncing off of your opponent to gain height), but I never had a Sega CD. I suppose I could play it now, but I think it's best to just keep the idealized Bouncers I have in my head and not disillusion myself with the real thing.

Besides that, I present:

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Also Iggy's Reckin' Balls, which was actually a decent game
 
CHC

CHC

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Oct 27, 2017
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smuppet said:
The games by Cosmo D have that 90s prerendered look but in real time 3D
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Yep was just gonna suggest those

Literally exactly what OP is looking for.

Other games that have given me 90s CGI vibes include Talos Principle and Pathologic 2, but they're pretty different from what's in the OP.
 
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