Best looking pixel art games?

[Arthandas]

What's the best looking pixel art game you've played?

Let me start with something I've been playing recently:
Guilty Gear XX AC Plus R

Spoiler

 

[fantadomat]

Pong!

 

[Big Wrangle]

This has probably been talked about already but Serpent in the Staglands has some good looking pixel art.

 

[Viata]

Metal Slug series.

This is what I think when people talk about pixel art.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Damned Registrations]

Or maybe this:

 

[Arthandas]

Metal Slug series.

Yep, I forgot how beautiful those games are.

This has probably been talked about already but Serpent in the Staglands has some good looking pixel art.

In what reality is that pixel art any good?

 

[Big Wrangle]

Who knows? Olwboy's was dope, though.

 

[eric__s]

Henk Nieborg is my favorite pixel artist. He's famous for his very lush and detailed environments and complex animations.

Flink

Lionheart

Ambermoon

The Adventures of Lomax

 

[Mustawd]

Don't we have a thread for this already? Or is it buried in the Codex Library subforum?

Pretty sure we had a 2D art thread...

Anyways, 2D > 3D art for rpgs.

 

[Viata]

Anyways, 2D > 3D art for rpgs.

While I do agree with you, I find that some 3D jrpgs are fucking beautiful, like DQXI:

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Don't we have a thread for this already? Or is it buried in the Codex Library subforum?

Pretty sure we had a 2D art thread...

Anyways, 2D > 3D art for rpgs.

We have a 2D Art Appreciation Thread, which just received a new post a day ago. Although this thread wasn't strictly limited to pixel art, and in fact began with images of Vanillaware's Muramasa and Dragon's Crown, which are beautiful 2D games but very different in style.

 

[Arthandas]

One of my favorite beat'em'ups: Rastan Saga Episode III

 

[kintake]

Metal Slug series.

Love metal slug's art, but.. What's the function of the, uhm, pump device? Like is it built to make sure the enemy knows they're proper fucked?

 

[Mustawd]

Yes. Before, Ze Germans get here.

 

[CryptRat]

I like the art in Sam & Max Hit the road :

 

[theSavant]

Play any modern game in 540p and you'll have your best looking "Pixel Art" games.

 

[mbv123]

 

[Dux]

It might not be the most crisp entry but no-one can deny the sheer detail of Simon the Sorcerer, and I'm not referring to the abject retardation that is the 25th Anniversary edition or whatever the fuck it's called. The reason I picked Simon is because it's such a visual treat, especially combined with the wonderful music. The hidden faces in the rock, the forest scenes, the distant backgrounds etc. It's really nice.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Hiouden II, looks fucking fantastic and has interface w/ resizable/movable windows... in DOS.

X-Girl brings cyberpunk aethetics to a new level. Why cyberpunk gaymes aren't even trying anything similar is beyond me.

Last blow, ElmKnight.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/2d-art-appreciation-thread.90271/

 

[Arthandas]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/2d-art-appreciation-thread.90271/

2d art and pixel art are not necessarily the same thing.

 

[Big Wrangle]

The thread mentioned is more general in that it allows vector art to be there as well, but I understand where they're coming from since said thread mostly has pixel art posted from what I've seen.

 

[Turisas]

It's a "medieval cemetery management sim", who knows how it'll turn out but the art at least is decent, unlike most pixelshit games getting released these days.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

It's a "medieval cemetery management sim", who knows how it'll turn out but the art at least is decent, unlike most pixelshit games getting released these days.

Hell, even that Punch Club game of theirs had good pixel art.