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I miss the horrible chunky CG of yesteryear. Post your favorites.
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This is now the best reason to get a 4k TV.
Three different videos in the space of two pages. I'm not ashamed to say I watched them all.
This holds up so well...it's bonkers that it's more than 20 years old.
Now THESE.
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Yeah I was really surprised that some stuff on Dreams really has this old school CG look to it. I can still vividly remember how I was wondering if games would really look like this in real time sometime in the future... welp I guess the future is here and I could not have imagined that games would look even better than this. :)
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I knew this brand of old CG felt familiar, and low and behold it's from Bullfrog, the dev behind Theme Park and it's weirdly unsettling CG cutscenes for the park sequences. The game over "suicide" cutscene at 9:10 creeped the fuck out of me as a kid.
That was my only quibble with FFVII's FMVs even on release: they were so damned inconsistent. I'm convinced they were going to use the chibi models to integrate with the rest of the game better then somewhere during production swapped to also using higher res versions of the battle models and never went back and changed them. Or the reverse happened and they started with the better models and had to do quick finishes with the chibis.
Precious memories.
My contribution is pretty much the SFEX+A endings, starting with Zangief because it's silly:
saying to look the rest up on YouTube
then finishing with Evil Ryu because it's a different kind of silly:
20 years before Detective Pikachu. This guy was ahead of his time.
This one of the many charms of Dreams while there is plenty of high end art alot of the more ametuer stuff comes off as Nostalgic 90s cgi and the alot of games feel like something from a 90s ps1 demo disc.
Dream surfing is a mix of pure awe with a touch of old school 90s Nostalgia.
In the same way as cgi in the 90s the Dreamerverse has become the wild west of game development.
Dream surfing is a mix of pure awe with a touch of old school 90s Nostalgia.
In the same way as cgi in the 90s the Dreamerverse has become the wild west of game development.
I saw this on some vinesauce stream the other week and I lost my shit
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This post (and the others) just pushed me over the edge on Dreams.
The Sega Saturn sure was home to some pretty awkward CG. Seeing the True Motion and Duck Corporation logos always prepares me for a good time.
I remember in 1996 my elder brother talking about how the 'Ultra 64' would have real-time graphics like this.
This one alone with him screaming NOOOOOOOO! Always gets me lol
Keiji Kinebuchi was a god. It wasn't just 3D renditions, but how abstract and stylized they were. The current stuff is so bland in comparison. He felt super creative. Shame he left after Aquapolis. :( I wonder what he's been up to. I always wondered if he joined 5ban Graphics as Heliolisk here looks suspiciously his style:
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What in the mother of fuck?
This is F-Zero right?
The high-speed sci-fi racing game?
Wow, I really had it painted wrong all these years. That's quite the personality in there, awesome.
Thanks for posting this. I was in the same boat, this blew my freaking mind back in the day. I remember going through the lands of lore trailer frame by frame and literally saying to myself, "it can't get better than this."
(In some ways, it never did.)
Bizzare warping and face scrunching. Hauntingly dark lighting. Unintended clunky comedy. Yeah this is nostalgia talking for sure, without a doubt it all looked terrible. But it has a weird, early-tech charm to it. Devs and studios grappling with their understanding of higher fidelity rendering and early CG is fascinating to look back on. Kind of like looking at old electronics. It was bleeding edge tech while also looking horrendous.
Yes, this is a Tekken 1/2/3 CG ending appreciation thread.
There are so many more out there, feel free to post whatever twisted CG concoctions early 3D studios pressed onto our game discs that you still reflect fondly on.
Read the title and came here Tekken 1 Kazuya. Glad I wasn't disappointed.
looking back, I couldn't believe how incredible Tekken 2's movies were(especially compared to T1). I watched them over and over again.
The CG scenes from FFX hold up too well to qualify for this thread.
On topic, The Longest Journey:
I keep wondering why no indie dev has so far tried to emulate the original DKC early-pre-rendered-3D kind of look instead of the typical 8 or 16-bit handdrawn pixel art style that we see everywhere. The tech to pull it off was prohibitively expensive and slow back in those days, but the complete opposite today.
That's the same way I felt about Diablo 2 back in the day. It's hard to believe that I saw this and thought we'd reached the pinnacle of graphics...
Saturn jank? Have you heard about the dangers of Muscle Loosening Disease or MLD?
So true.
Parasite Eve is a treasure and deserves the FF7R treatment. Don't @ me.
This shit terrified me for YEARS
Can we admit horror games of the late 90s were EXTRA creepy for their jank?
(Juggernaut and Echo Night respectively, both PSX)
Shadow Hearts 1 Yuri looks like bad cosplay.
He gets a cool kpop-level makeover in the sequel
This shit terrified me for YEARS
Can we admit horror games of the late 90s were EXTRA creepy for their jank?
(Juggernaut and Echo Night respectively, both PSX)
Shadow Hearts 1 Yuri looks like bad cosplay.
He gets a cool kpop-level makeover in the sequel
PE is the only "horror" themed game I've ever bothered to play because I'm so easily scared. But it's so good. I love it.
Man, I haven't seen Tekken 3 endings for years. As a kid/teenager I finished the story mode for every char on a weekly basis.
I always liked how Blizzard tried to push for good cinematography even when the tech wasn't up to it. Lighting choices make it, they got a lot out of silhouettes and shadows in that intro.
And yet, D2 cinematics always struck me as being a little behind of what I would have expected of Blizzard in 2000. The jump from D2 to Lord of Destruction was so massive, you think those games came four years apart.
I still think D2 cinematics look pretty good, but they always struck me as like claymation. Like the movements are kinda jerky because it's missing frames or something.
Actually, I think it's just the humans. They always look so derpy lol. Mephisto and co look pretty good.
It truly does. Rewatching it, its just the movement, animations in general are kinda stiff but music is great.
Oh yes, I remember seeing this as a kid and asking myself: 'Will games ever look as good as this?!'