ITT: games with timeless artstyles

>Fact is, Oblivion had huge amounts of praise for the graphics.
To this day I don't know why. Even back that I thought the game looked like dogshit compared to other titles. Everything is overly shiny and poorly lit, it got a significant downgrade compared to earlier showcases, and all of the character design and animations were complete ass for what was supposed to be a "next gen" title.

Forgot the name but it was an Alice in Wonderland game, except a turn based RPG.

SH3 has somehow withstood the test of time, despite going for realism.

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Least it was

The character models for SH2 through SH4 all look fantastic imo.

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Facial animations are well done and emotive enough. LA Noire is like this too.

i've never seen that zone in my life and i beat the game 100 times

Wizard of Oz : Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

Game?

Looks like some Second Life shit

I thought Brutal Legend's character design was a lot of fun. Standards for photo-realism are constantly updating but cartoonier styles hold strong.

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It's amazing that they managed to fuck up the HD version. Just increase the render resolution and remake the HUD elements so they can scale up, that's all they should have done.

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Basically any game in the vertex-lighting era of graphics rendering, that have decent texture resolution. No shitty blurry lightmaps, no pixelated realtime shadow, no bloom. Just pure.

The wonky perspective choice aside, I always thought Divine Divinity looks extremely good. The animations are smooth and everything has high levels of detail.

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how underage

For as much criticism I give to the KH series. It still holds up for a ps2 game. Especially the particle effects.

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who here is hyped for Psychonauts 2

zeldafags are the worst. that game is objectively gross.

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Because of the "advanced grafix=better visuals" meme that people still fall for today

You're not wrong, but you have to keep in mind that Oblivion came out around the same time as Bioshock, Half Life 2, and Crysis. Even disregarding them, a lot of last-gen titles like FF12, SH3/4, RE4, and Shadow of the Colossus all had far better visual fidelity, despite being on a system with a small fraction of the power.

I hate to over-hype expectations after a decade of waiting, but I can't help but be hopeful for it. Everything I've seen of it so far looks good.

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is that Dark age of camelott?

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aha it is, my first MMO, this game was fucking good.
nostalgia.

that looks like dogshit

It looked amazing for me at the time since the only other games I was familiar with were from the PS2. I didn't even know what shaders were at the time.

LA Noire made a big deal of using extensive mocap for all its characters.

I don't think I've ever found another game that captured the feel of the Myst games

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Easy.

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just here to collect my (you)

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damn, is that a goat tower?

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A timeless series made entirely in Flash

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Soulless.

This is what a REAL pokemon game looks like

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>tfw you never got in

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Holy shit this looks really nice

Majesty
TWEWY
VTMB

I think Cuphead will still look good in 20 years

Low poly playstation games should have been the cutoff in terms of graphics. Make devs focus on story and gameplay instead of worrying if their game is "cinematic" and cutting-edge enough.
*crack* *sip* etc.

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EZ

(Paper Shitters need not apply)

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>VTMB
There are some janky animations but the character models and facial expressions still look pretty great all things considered.

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is that a fucking goat tower

DMC1 and 3
VTMB
MGS1-3
STALKER
Most PS2 era SMT and Persona games
Bully
Thief 1-2
Max Payne
Timesplitters 1-3
Ghost Trick
Silent Hill 1-3

I think that's kind of cheating since it probably doesn't look nearly as good on the DS, but the webm does look fantastic.

I'll nominate Super Mario Galaxy. Timeless visuals and world design, revolutionary music for the Mario series. Instant classic.

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La noire looks plenty bad actualy. Nasty shit. The Sh3 modell of claire looks better than linkara here

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RuneScape 2

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Ep.4

Your mom will never look bad no matter how much they age

Always felt that mgs4 was years ahead of the curve, the animation and art direction is timeless in spite of the fact that it is realism based (which is in most cases not timeless at all).

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:)

faithful remaster and pc port WHEN? the shooting is so fucking godawful with a controller in that game. the best we have so far is they've finally started making more progress on the emulation

Not him but I'm 24 and that game looks entirely unfamiliar to me. Google also gives nothing except an user (probably same one) posting the image to snub Kingdom of Amalur's artstyle. Can you help some dudes out of is being a cunt really that important?

Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst

>Wind Waker
>Gross
You whot mate?

Cheers mate.