Comfy Soul Thread

If you want a non-meme answer, soul refers to anything that evokes genuine emotion, rather than a mindless attempt at making money, for the "artist"/a false feeling of instant gratification for the consumer.

Nintendo 64/GameCube games have SOUL. Mobile games are SOULLESS.

these are all emulated at higher resolution and therefore soulless.

God damn this one got me

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>those lights in the attic
Pure soul

And it will make zoomers cry forever

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OOT3D >OOT

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Such simple images yet they convey so much fucking heart

there's something so incredible about cozy little homes in the background, especially 2d images in 3d games. love it

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This image gives off any eerie vibe to me

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Soul means nostalgic feelings and non-bright colors

I love the eeriness of the n64 the most. Something to do with the fog hiding the draw-distance and your brain filling in the blanks.

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Production art vs fine art.
See:
Composed of intangibles leading to a sense of the work being greater than the sum of its parts. Working around limitations often leading to new, unexpected forms of creativity. Emotionally evocative. Hard to reproduce. Fine art.
Technically competent, easily reproduced. Production art.

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It should also be noted that bad things can have soul.
For example, the movie Titanic suuuuuuuucks, but it has soul, (at least more than Avatar).

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recently started playing this game again and its still as good as ever

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Another soul thread? You dry spell fuckers want soul?

Okay, here's your soul:
Ahem *ting ting ting ting ting*
A-AHEM *ting ting ting ting ting ting ting ting ting*

I THINK TABATA SUCKS
>turns the best FF game since FFX into a GTA bro trip sim
>has literally NO sense of tone, soul, taste or music
>FFXV ships as a LITERALLY unfinished game
>All DLC cancelled and tabata is BTFO by square
>Luminous CONFIRMED still working on a PS5 exclusive
>Nomura CONFIRMED reviving Versus XIII in Verum Rex
Lmao completely fucking anally devastated, not long before XV-kun, Barry, Bazzteck and all the other TabaTOIDS are finally put in their place. We won the long game Versus lads or shall I say Versus CHADS.

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Chao Garden - Sonic Adventure

Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure

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Agreed

Old YouTube.
Home.

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I like watching the Hallow's end Hobb videos

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unironically this; sucks that its only on 3ds though

What game?

Resident Evil 0. It's shit, don't bother.

^

A switch port would be nice, but you can emulate it on PC

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This thread just makes me think of better times.

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The future sure didn't turn out the way we thought it would, huh?

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Game?

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I guess it's true what they say. "You can never really go home."

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"Your true face... What kind of... face is it? I wonder... The face under the mask... Is that... your true face?"

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>evokes genuine emotion
In who? The devs? The audience at large, or anyone who plays the game?
What is production art?

Best city in any ES game

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SOUL

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Nope too new so it can't be soulful

One of my favorite homes, too.

:(

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Shenmue probably.

Mass produced art. A product whose design ethos was to be packaged and sold more than being an artist's vision. There is overlap and every person has their own lines. This isn't a science.

Watch a Feng Zhu video where he talks about the mindset of someone in his line of work vs someone like Devin Townsend talking about how he conceptualizes his albums. Feng Zhu is in an industry that demands hundreds of admittedly gorgeous pieces of art produced to create video games and movies and to do so he turns the process, and the people involved, into machines to churn it all out as quickly as possible. Devin, on the flip, expresses. His work is entirely a vision he does his best to bring to life so others can share in it.

This is literally a thousands of year old topic of debate. There is no right or wrong form of art. And again, there's overlap between the Fengs and Devins of the world.

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EH

REH

What prevents an N64 Game from being soulless, and what prevents a mobile game from having soul?

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Always wondered what the story behind this house was, or could be..

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Reminds me of Scotland where at one time the house would have been built on a small peninsula or near a lake and the waters rose over the years.

Spyro gems are pure crystalline soul

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I don't agree. I think you don't really know what soul is if you think that, althought I think it is harder to find soulful games nowdays because of huge budgets and excess of polishing or something similar

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Passion and integrity in the developers.
N64 games come from a time when game development was still a niche and isolated field.
The vast vast vast majority of mobile game exist solely to make money.

>real vision and effort put into making something new
>shitty glorified toy advertisement
>genuine attempt at making a fun and dramatic adventure game with a cast of interesting characters featuring impressive and expressive visuals
>sterile, bland game-movie tie-in design to make the most amount of money possible
>drab and ugly game that is saved by the amount of meticulous work that went into making the world feel alive
>real effort and vision put into making something new
>expressive visuals and fun gameplay slightly marred by the fact that it is designed almost exclusively to make money
>real vision and effort put into making something new
>two sides of the same soulless coin: both were made to look pretty and flashy but lack any substance and care, as if it was phoned-in by both Nomura and Tabata
>real vision and effort put into making something new
>expressive and handcrafted level design that is still played and enjoyed to this day
>kids game designed with a bit of soul and a bit of desire to make money
>cash-in rush-job on a popular predecessor; made for money-making
>shitty movie-game tie-in designed to empty mommy’s purse at the behest of her children
>beautiful and expressive game that is marred by the fact that it is riding on the success of a predecessor game to make money
>dimea-dozen beat-em-up designed to empty wallets at arcades

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>Mass produced art. A product whose design ethos was to be packaged and sold more than being an artist's vision.
All games, with very few exceptions, are designed for mass production. How do you make the determination that a game has more of an artist’s vision than money-making in-mind?

old good

>new good old bad
cringe

old good new bad

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I'm not saying it isn't a cash-in rush-job on a popular predecessor; made for money-making, but how does that makes it less soulful? It has to do with atmosphere and shit. Developers that love their projects end up making great and soulful games sometimes, even if their CEO or some shit only wants to profit. That doesn't happend too much because games that are made to profit only (most games nowdays) don't really allow devs to mess around with ideas that end up leaving traces of their own identity and stuff

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i want to make a game like animal crossing or harvest moon and put a ton of creepy/eerie secrets in it, I guess the Good Life swery is making right now might be fun

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OLD GOOD
NEW BAD

t,zoomer faggots

youtube.com/watch?v=9cHIi3h8aAo

Why are there no more of these servers?

>Tf2 is dead lmao

Yeah sure but still, why is it always fucking nu mario kart or x10

what happened?

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>welcome to maario kart

I can hear it ust by looking at the damn picture.

Both suck
Now, amano and akihiko yoshida, that was soul

Fuuuuuck toooo muuuuch sooouuuullll

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youtube.com/watch?v=6cGprZe4TjE

Already pre-ordered 2

Sad thing is, I was actually enjoying the video closer to the end.

This is the game with the most soul:

youtu.be/i2330k-Z1jo

youtu.be/ZrKgobfH47k?t=313

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>That song
I miss him, bros

I guess I'd say it's putting in the minute details, stuff that doesn't affect the overall function of the game but adds a human element that lets you know the devs actually gave a shit and weren't just trudging along for a paycheck. This is Yea Forums though, so really it just means OLD GOOD NEW BAD.

I can still hear the birds in the background

what game?

the streets of rage games weren't even made for the arcade originally, numpnuts.

souless

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I can only get the Switch version, a shame about the shitty frame rate.

Based and redpilled.

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youtu.be/kXsvQQYXmUo

Old games have soul because the low fidelity and polygons leaves so much to your imagination, lets you kind of fill in the pieces on your own, and the style in general is just nostalgic. You just don't really get that feeling anymore with games these days, which is why retro-style games with modern mechanics are so popular.

Final Fantasy XI... Home

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Is this Kenshi?

Okay, but the rest of the statement is valid.

Wabi sabi

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I don't think so tim

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That thing....

youtube.com/watch?v=6YCUjoBqpSc

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Fuck no. Its a competent remake but lacks, uuhhh dare I say it, soul.

Based and loathpilled

I think the fact that it wasn't designed around arcades makes it a lot different from most beat em ups, which actually were made to just be impossibly hard unless you credit fed.

Looks cool. Anyone know what game is it?

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Yes, outing myself as a zoomfag. Is it Deus ex by any chance?

Dark soul

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>1996
fuck me where did the time go

I'm retarded.

>MFW I used to watch old youtube poops and Super Mario Bros Z when I was a dumb ol' kid/teenager

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vice city is comfy as fuck, but don't go back to it on PS2, just emulate, I tried to play it recently and the framerate + motion blur made it feel like ass to play.

post new games with soul

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>Oh look a shortcut down the mountain!
Nope.

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Chorrol is better.

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Why not just play the PC version then?

Shovel Knight is artificial soul

hard to run isn't it? and controller support is default on emulator

>hard to run isn't it?
the fuck

as in it doesn't function perfectly on windows 10

why wouldnt it

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It just means that something is a reflection of a sincere artistic vision, rather than a cynical cash grab. It can also apply to other forms of media like movies.

Faglee is awful but it has soul

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Fuuuck

I loved every moment playing this.

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One of the most soulful remakes ever made

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I love how the water looks.

I miss Falcom games from this era
Cold Steel and Modern YS just aren't the same
Too bad the money on localizing newer titles is better

this is beautiful, especially the way the water runs and curves around the terrain. is this radiata stories?

I agree that the OG n64 port is better visually when it comes to tone. But the character models of a lot of the characters are more accurate to the actual art in the 3DS remake and tend to just be more appealing. I do miss the darker atmosphere of the N64 though. Also, the game controls way better in the 3DS version.

yes

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the "actual art" was based on the N64 3D models, not the other way around.

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I've never played it, been meaning to, but I've looked at the game on gamefaqs and is the game as time straining as the walkthrough sounds?

Even if that is the case then the 3DS version still looks better when it comes to character models.

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It's not time straining at all but there are progress gates that will lock you out of recruiting characters(not a big deal), I forget when but it's somewhere at the start around the crocogator quest that you can just collect em all if you want to, well most of the humans.

But the game has 2 routes and a special dungeon on your second playthrough so you'll probably play it twice if you like it.

Radiata Stories Emulation guide here

1. Install this
mediafire.com/file/gc4e7x7spdrffmh/Radiata Stories Shaders 2.0.rar
2. Right as the game is loading hold triangle and X to enable 16:9 progressive scan. This is very important even if you're playing it on a console.
3. Enabling MTVU in speed hacks gives a big speed up.
4. Image reference that may or may not be outdated.
i.imgur.com/GuzOLAu.jpg

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for me they look cheap so I prefer the original

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Loved this game as a kid. Wish we'd get a port that works on modern systems.

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OoT Link was the best Link design

Fair enough.
Close second but best boy coming through.

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Thanks for the information.I feel a little more at ease with you saying that about the timing issue that plagued me for so long. I own the game physically so that's how I will play it when I get some extra time. Thanks again.

Anything that had developers actually put heart into it. It is a product of passion and hard work and not influenced by trannies or normalfags

I kind of miss large, visible HUD elements. Dark Souls 1's health and stamina meters are vastly superior to 3's. I have the same issue with The Witcher 3. I don't like having to squint to see my goddamned health, and having it so out-of-the-way that I have to look over at it rather than monitoring it in the corner of my eye.

Look at OP. Look at those large, outlined hearts. Now let's replace them with a pencil-dick little line. Great fucking idea.

Why are modern devs so afraid of things being visible?

Can game artwork be considered soul? This is how I feel whenever I look at Legendia concept/character designs/in game/etc; art.

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it's pretty chill and actually very fun to read guides if you want to collect em all

was just about to ask how no one posted any okami yet. u saved it user. thanks

Jesus, everything on the left has a lot more character.

sounds wonderful. kind of regretting putting it off for so long.

>that bodysuit girl

thank you for posting this user

Projects of passion and talent with interesting ideas as opposed to products of pure financial gain restricted by the confines of mass appeal.

Chloe is usually best girl for people who have played the game.

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Makes me want a Ring Pop.

At least it was till google fucked things up.

Higher fidelity means you'll more easily notice parts that aren't so, like far away objects. Modern 3D games can't get away with the consistency present in old 3D games. I can go back to Tomb Raider and within minutes I've forgotten that the game looks like a bunch of cubes covered in TV static, because the art/lighting/architecture is so consistent and cleverly designed.

God I miss prerendered backgrounds

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Post a more soulful boss fight

Oh wait

You can't

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Post the boss fight not the boss theme u dumdum

Oops

youtu.be/Rx-ZXzgFioI?t=150

c'mon, first nsmb was good, and the only good one at that

nope

new super mario BAHthers is peak soulless, it literally represents everything wrong with soulless remakes

Soul isn't an issue of age. Soul is about... if I had to put it into words, SOUL would mean "the major decisions that created this scene/game/character/location/sound/song were made by a human, not a ruthless corporate moneymaking scheme, and the little imperfections communicate their emotion well".

While this has gotten much rarer in newer productions, it's not impossible to see it.

You have to remember, NSMB was the first 2D Mario in a WHILE and there was a lot of hype around the first one. Then they proceeded to re-release it 5 times.

it was shit then and it's shit now

new super mario bros u and luigi u are peak soul for new 2d mario games.

You can't handle this much soul.

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Symphony of the night is peak 2D visuals. It's like a relic from a forgotten age with
technique that no one has the skills to reproduce anymore. Truly beautiful and filled to the brim with soul.

> nintendo's first time making an actual fucking 2D mario game in over a decade
> soulless

Olrox's quarters zone is so comfy
youtube.com/watch?v=Oquad3rnZSI

No other Castlevania has matched SOTN's style.

vf3 has so much soul it makes me cry

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>woah look at all the pretty colors, such soul

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TALKIN' BOUT THAT SOOOUUUL YEAH

OOOH YEAAHEYEAAAH THAT SOOOOUL YEAH

JUST GIMMIE IT ONE MO TIME, TH AT SOOOOUUUL YEAAH

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anyone want to do caimans with me im at the docks

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came here to post the same thing, very nice

youtube.com/watch?v=5ViwOTq4kL0

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>soul
Zelda until twilight princess

>soulless
Zelda after WW

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when you know you know.

have some elder scrouls

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Yoshi staring into the soulful mysterious city

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Spooky.

it honestly bothers me that you made this today yet you aren't using reshade to make it look better than an n64 game

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Why would I alter the game?

guys heres my epic bait ill tell people in a soul thread to use enb haha thatll get people to reply and call me retarded omg please reply to me

Based

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I WANNA GO BACK!

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Why can't you all just drop the bullshit and admit you're simply being nostalgiafags?

There's literally no other way to put it
OLD GOOD, NEW BAD

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moar elder scrouls

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because it would be better

S O L E

The penguins are my favorite Paper Mario NPCs. They look so comfy.

>OLD GOOD, NEW BAD
aint that the truth

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In your opinion, not everybody likes the look of reshades.

It's definitely still worth playing tbqh

wow buddy sorry to break it 2 u but that's too many shitshaders

>OLD GOOD, NEW BAD
This is literally a meme argument people came up with because they just don't get it

Reshade is 100% customizable, you retard. It's possible to objectively improve the look of games using it.

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Shut up you little zoomer.

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God those prerendered backgrounds have so much soul

If you can't see why NSMB is soulless to the core you can't be helped. Then again the average Yea Forums poster was old enough to grow up on it so the nostalgia makes sense.

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guys i reshaded a modern game please pay attention to me

The NSMB series as a whole has devolved into being soulless, I'm only trying to defend the original NSMB you fucking shitter.

By improve you mean change the look of the game and that's my whole point as to why I don't use them, I want them too look as close as possible to the original.
Ridiculous that you are getting pissy about this.

Nuance, careful and delicate design. Comfy vibe.

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NSMBU/L is still the best one regardless.

People only remember the DS game for the mini games.

Nope, even the original was criticized for sameyness, lack of originality or innovation, and for being too easy. Go to bed kid.

This brings me back

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Playing through trails first chapter now.
I agree that it is very comfy and soulful.

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It's not changing the look, it's improving the look. Why are you trying to act like you can't understand English?

have sum moar

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he's not wrong, and you're playing at 720p in 2019

bro

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How can you say in the same sentence that it's improving the look and claim that that's not changing it?
Do you have autism? Does the fact someone doesn't want to do what you like to do confuse and anger you?

>autist who doesn't understand what an improvement is getting mad at the idea his game isn't perfect

>tfw no friends to play MK 64 with

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Ice Cavern is also top soul

>that music that plays

comfy

jesus christ man I'm almost squinting how old are you by the way?

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patrician

That water "reflection" is a mirrored image

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This pictures hitting me with some hardcore esoteric lsd shit. Reversed searched it expecting to get like Jerusalem or something but it's supermario?

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>plays the same 4 note piano progression for the 90 billionth time

What game?

The fuck
The guy on the left is from a "how to draw anime" book I had when I was a kid

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Blade Runner >>> BR2049

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Did you rub vaseline on your monitor before you took that screenshot?

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The only one showing autistic anger is yourself.
Your first post talked about how it bothers you that I didn't do something you would do, the second is just you saying it's just better, the third is you not understanding or refusing to understand my words and calling me a retard, the fourth is you not understanding that "improving" the game is a change just one that you think is for the better, then finally a complete strawman of me supposedly claiming the game is perfect when I never came close to saying such a thing and supposedly being angry about this thing I never claimed in the first place.
I can accept that you like to use reshade and not once did I tell you that you shouldn't or that it's inferior, so why can't you simply accept that I prefer to play games closer to their original look?

Dragoon has some beautiful pre-rendered backgrounds.

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>Legend of Dragoon
>Sony's cashgrab to compete with Final Fantasy and didn't even release it until the end of it's lifecycle

EEEEEEEEAHHH
AHHH
AHHH
AHHH
AHHH

you fool....

my nigga

>his Arthur didn't look like this

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This pic always made me sad as hell.

A MISERABLE PILE OF SECRETS!

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>The rolling animation

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>The rolling animation
they have no excuse for this. OoT 3D is always my go to for a playthrough, but that fucking roll is so nasty.

Glad I'm not alone. 2006-2008 Youtube was the best.

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>complains about another user not using reshade
>proceeds to post a tasteless reshade with bloom out the ass

The Roman Empire of vidya

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You'd have a point if the game weren't so good.

I was waiting for someone to post this.

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Based

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youtube.com/watch?v=tHJbQ5NH2c4

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>watching projared's playthrough of this
>he ruins his career the next day

ok.

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You got me.

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Epitome of soul
youtu.be/lio9eO0G20w

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that's way older than reshade

God I can hear the music.

I actually wanted to cry a little with tears of joy when I found out the MCC was coming to PC. I love Halo 1 and 2 but I don't own Xboxs since they came out so Ive missed most of the serious.

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Hot Take:
Sonic Mania is the most soulful game to come out in a long time because it successfully captured and conveyed the spirit of the originals so well, and did its best to try and preserve it. The Spyro and Crash remakes are great, but do not have the soul of the originals - they have their own newfound identities (which will mature into soul for younger gamers), though heavily rooted in their older incarnations.
Pic unrelated, but fully infused with soul

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my absolute nigga, this game was packed full of soul

>look mom, I replied to everyone
kys

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Cuck

>tfw JRPG's will never be great again

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feels bad

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SOtC is definitely one of the most "soulful" games I can think of. Everything in it is there purely to further the mood and atmosphere. Absolutely nothing in the game is included for convenience's sake. I really wish there were more devs that subscribed to this philosophy. I'm sick of teleporting around fantasy worlds while idly bumping into "content" at every five paces. It seems like nearly all vidya are completely superficial nowadays, and people here genuinely ask for this ADHD-pandering junk food design. It blows my mind.

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>there will never be another good Paper Mario game
I CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS BROS
I CAN'T TAKE THIS FEEL ANYMORE

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can't beat this soul.

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Man you really thought you were going to get a lot of responses didn't you lmao

user please, this game was my childhood and now you're making me wanna go replay it, but my backlog is big enough.

too lazy to find screens, but first things that came to mind are

> walking on that pathway in castlevania 1 where you can see Drac's tower in the background and it looks like it's giving you the bird

> the walk u pto Drac's room in Castlevania 1

and

> that first town you waltz into at night near the beginning of FF7

go play it user and get the true ending like i could never do

thread theme

youtube.com/watch?v=QEV1YKYTp3I

Time for my final move: SOUL BREAKER!

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>gg

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>those graphics on the fucking GBA
>that sound quality on the fucking GBA

Golden Sun was a technological masterpiece

Too bad the game was a grindy shitfest where you'd lose hours if you accidentally broke a weapon.

youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU

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Galactus!

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Man, there was some similar thread we had recently where someone posted a different track that had very similar energy to this, it only I could remember what it was

I can't believe the original is a decade old now...
youtu.be/rJR8V8XZ1o8

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I feel an urge to reinstall just thinking about this place.
The wind is guiding me a bit I think.
youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=01hlTBxM6cA

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PSP complete edition is better don't you think so ?

youtube.com/watch?v=GqeaFVsz30w&list=PL06360565CFC0FAC0&index=3

oof this takes me back to when I used to get up hours before elementary school to play super metroid

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We should do a OOT randomizer multiplayer session again. For as much as I shitpost here and call you all faggots, I've always enjoyed actually playing vidya with Yea Forums.

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What's this game?

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This is weirdly bitter

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I literally know exactly which location that is in-game at a glance. Should I feel ashamed of myself?

It's the fort outside of Alswel, where the mad wizard lives.

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Dammit, I know where this is, too. Right outside Bravil, a short bit west down the road.

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youtube.com/watch?v=VibqcceT87c

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nerd

Driver for ps1

i thought the same exact thing and couldn't tell if that was it or not. i'm glad you recognize it too

Why does that video confuse so many people?

The absolute peak of super mario brothers losing its heart. The whole game was so fucking boring and lackluster. Even my kid self knew it was trash and tried to love it so hard.

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>that one screen in mario 3 with the really shallow water

man i really really wish the new star ocean games could be nearly as good as 2 and 3 were.

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2 is the only one i ever played. loved it to death but never beat it - tried it as a kid, but somehow lost the game. went back to it as an adult on an emulator and got to the beginning of the second disc, but shortly after my computer crashed and i lost the save file.
pic related was also on my backlog for two decades, but i beat eventually finished it - fully worth the wait

i fucked up.

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Visual appearance in a game that shows its gameplay has had creative input, looks unique, and evokes a similar feeling to looking at pleasant artwork.

It's essentially the opposite of being generic and feeling like a sterile product to be bought and consumed rather than a game to experience.

It's just making a cliche statement about generational perspectives.

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What is this?

?
It is though.

I can hear the music.

why do people like wind waker? it's so boring and easy botw was way better than this.

because it's more fun, and it's also harder

why are zelda games so soulful, bros?

botw is literally wind waker 2.0, down to the overly large world mostly devoid of anything except treasure/korok seedds and bokoblin camps. and i guess shrines.

how is it harder? I've not died once playing wind waker unlike botw where i died multiple times.

It's one of the skyboxes from a SM64 level. I think High Dry World but idk

The platform where you meet the crystal king is my favorite spot, honestly anywhere in the ice chapter is pretty kino.

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it has combat you can't skip

Let me spell it for you
S if for shitty low res textures

O is for out of this world fun

U is for unique world building

L is for lame and outdated control scheme

holy shit, can you control your autism please?

soul roll

Remember when the related videos were videos that were actually related and not just a secondary recommendation tab?

Nostalgia

Out of context some of these are just screenshots of good games pre 2005. Soul !=Nostalgia, but they can be related.

truly was

Nigga, the whole seventh chapter was the fucking shit and is the whole reason why every once in a while I still go back and play the game. Just to feel the adventure building to the apex moment when you finally get to the crystal palace and that serene, yet melancholy tune gently caresses your ears.
Why did the game have to be so good, bros?
Thousand year door was good too, but I feel like it was just less adventurous and kept all of the locations you happened to visit pretty safe.
Bros... I miss Paper Mario actually being a half decent series. I miss the adventure making me feel so curious and exited for what was always coming next.
Anyway, here's my favorite OG Paper Mario track:
youtube.com/watch?v=QgaxG4Y-XGM

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mad because hes right

A CRT adds 30% more soul

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How can m*dern games even begin to compete with half of this soul
youtu.be/b_4lIXJ4KwQ

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Is it possible for an indie game to be soulful?

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I spent to many hours there, its insane

Yea, but not that ugly ass one

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Not everyone involved in a game's production is necessarily doing it just for mass production or the sake of a job. Some devs, especially in the earlier days with more tight knit teams, had genuine passion for what they were creating. Nowadays games are so large and industrialized that every element in a game is part of a sterile production pipeline for the sake of having content.

Factually false, nintendo was the leading brand of video games and if you think it was still niche you're woefully ignorant. Do some fucking research before you spout shit you stupid zoomer.

I hate lighting in modern games looks so generic since every game looks the same.

Based

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i appreciate you for being right user

I can't believe it's been so long when I first played it all those years ago. And, I'd never thought the future of games would be this shitty ;_;

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harvest moon gamecube wonderful life

and why is it ugly user

Something you don't have.

Keen is shit.

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Kill yourself my guy

>that whole fucking soundtrack
Why was it so good?

Stuff that had genuine passion poured into it hence the "soul." Newer titles usually lack this because the video game industry has become an actual industry, and now games are mainly made just to earn money and or push an agenda. The "soul" was taken out of modern titles and the goal to entertain and create something you hope others enjoy while also enjoying it yourself is gone in favor of earning as much money as possible via pandering and shipping unfinished products to later release add-ons in the form of DLC to earn even more money. OP's picture is both soulful and comfy.

The unique phenomenon of a distance,
however close it may be: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where
it happens to be. A feeling of something being hidden beyond mere code.
Soulful works have a strange dis-cohesion: cartoonish graphics alongside the ancient and the urban, defined as such by their lack of explanation, the illusion of mystery. There's often isolated objects, places, people, but isolated as to make them seem real and merely forgotten. The environment, deep in shadow, seems all the more expansive in the player's limitation to it.

youtube.com/watch?v=QEZXHTHVi7o

Anyone remember this series? the creator just posted a new episode after so long. and theres going to be more from the looks of it.

it Looks great, upgraded art and animation while still retaining the soul and style.

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OOT kakariko has the best sound design of 1998

youtube.com/watch?v=ceprmTm5E2E

Soulles as fuck

no lol. NSMB had tons of creative levels, designs, and enemies. you're just a nostalgiafag.

Super Soul

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Based. Unironically soulful.

soul...
youtube.com/watch?v=QDCeEQznK9I

Something zoomers have never experienced.

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Pretty weird, it definitely feels like something the creator did just for the animation and art with everything else being phoned in. That being said it's pretty cool to see something this ancient and forgotten being revived

soulless

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i thought it was lacking the more, mature? humor the series sported back in the day. perhaps to conform to youtubes new guidelines/adpocalypse shit. but yeah really fucking cool to see an old flash series like that being revived.

beautiful, what's this game?

Tenchu

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tfw no modern tenchu

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>Newer titles usually lack this
All titles usually lack this. Newness has nothing to do with it.

The 'core' games in modern times lack it whereas in the past they didn't.

Newness does have to do with this not because of it being new but indirectly because the ability of small group of friends and passionate people making their dream game has become a massive project with many disconnected people only doing their little bit, all of it pending approval of higher ups very concerned with getting good returns into their investment of a very large studio, making sure nothing is too experimental or different because it's inherently risky, so they copy the other successful games out there, they all end up cannibalizing each other resulting in mass appeal approved, very familiar products.

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I want to go back so fucking bad. Ps3 is in storage along with my copy and my laptop is a 2011 toaster that couldn't run it so I'm stuck waiting. Thank you for reading my blog

Yeah this one got me

Yeah a passionate dude being in charge of a huge team can't ever happen. It's only the retards who can't build a big team that are passionate.

Get fucked faggot.

You don't even know what a 'core' game is nowadays.

You seem like you know what you're talking about.

Big teams can only be funded by major publishers and do you think they care about passion projects? No, they are investing their money and expecting a return, they couldn't care less about passion.
As for the guy leading the team, do you really think he's going to personally approve of everybody working on the project he's heading up to a hundred plus people? No, he's too busy for that, other departments will handle the hiring process, which is separate of him.
Then he has to deal with the investors/publisher and try to convince them of things he wants in the game but ultimately they are in charge, they are funding the project.
Don't be so naive about how things work, the bigger a company gets the more detached and segmented it gets, the less input any one person has, the less input the creators get and the more they are beholden to the investors, who are necessary in order to fund such large teams.

A vital component which makes humans human and something which females lack.

cringe post but a soul image

You can't get more SOULFUL than this + Mario 64 + Donkey Kong Country/Old Rare renders.
YOU CAN'T.

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in Olrox Quarter, you can also see a primitive form of godrays applied to that small moon.

Magician of Oz on DS

This legendary thread will enlighten you.
boards.fireden.net/v/thread/449545845/#449545845

Dodongo looks better in the remake, rest looks way worse
Also for some reason the Kokiri Emerald is switched? The right one is definitely the n64 version

based, came here to post Baten Kaitos. Game is dripping with soul

finding all the discoveries and that comfy soundtrack is peak SOUL

baten kaitos is riddled with soul

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>jay’s eyes
What the fuck

First game had better atmosphere and more soul but the battle system is so much better in Origins

Wouldn't know, because FUCKING BAMCO didn't release it in europe