Why are early to late 2000s graphical style so comfy?
Why are early to late 2000s graphical style so comfy?
Julian Powell
Thomas Young
Cooper Carter
Its cause that was your childhood/early teen years
Kevin Harris
What game?
Ryan Diaz
Broken Sword: Angel of Death
Jordan Reed
focus is on good texture work, no garbage postprocessing
Brayden Carter
Is that supposed to be George?
Christopher Reyes
no normal mapping / shitty overblown lighting effects / with fog
Benjamin Perry
No shitty post-effects.
Oliver Richardson
Apart from jaggies they seem to have more clarity, and even the darker parts seem to have more colour and life than modern games
Justin Martin
Nigger what? 2005-2009 was 110% bloom and contrast with basically no colors.
Bentley Russell
Alexander Adams
Yes
Please don't play that game.
Tyler Miller
absolute kino years for video games
lack of programmable shaders was a blessing the simplicity cannot be beaten
Ian Brooks
They were ugly and brown/gray
Samuel Allen
Art direction to make up for technical limitations. Nowadays they often just throw everything on the screen and ramp up those post processing stuff, to mask the lack of soul.
Caleb Reyes
The decline started around UT3
Bentley Nguyen
>around UE3
ftfy
Isaiah Perry
>adventure games
Dominic Russell
It looks so muddy
Isaiah Rivera
What, you dont like mud and plastic with shitty effects everywhere?
Brandon Kelly
Sebastian Green
Visual clarity. Your brain isn't being bombarded with unnecessary details at all times. It was still ok for a wall to be flat, or for your health indicator to just be a number.
Justin Martin
>early to late
Jordan Johnson
Only in your memory. In reality most games made in first half of 2000s are very barren.
Eli Wood
>first half of the 2000s
>barren
>final half of the 2000s
>bombarded with unnecessary details
We just can't win.
Adam Watson
for me it's the almost the right mixture of polygon counts and texturing coupled with effects or graphical hacks to get things working
Michael Butler
Yumm