What do you guys think of this old PSX era graphics?

[deama]

Does anyone actually miss these?
I kinda like it, but it's missing a few important features. For example there's no scanlines in it, they need to insert them inbetween the pixels (not overlay them).
And maybe possibly the wobble (would need to see that in action).

 

[Lemming42]

Always thought that style looked hideous, used to LAUGH at my console kiddy friends and smugly point to smooth-looking PC titles. The only real advantage of PS1 visuals was the awful draw distance making some games feel more desolate and creepy than they otherwise would.

 

[MasterofThunder]

As I feel that objective beauty exists and is a fact, so too must games adhere to such standards. My question is, what level of graphical fidelity and visual aesthetic meets that standard?. What game can you call beautiful, and appealing in both it's design and artistry?. No PS1 games meet that standard, so PS1 games can't really look "good".

 

[Chuck Norris]

Always thought that style looked hideous, used to LAUGH at my console kiddy friends and smugly point to smooth-looking PC titles. The only real advantage of PS1 visuals was the awful draw distance making some games feel more desolate and creepy than they otherwise would.

Yeah, the only context this style works in is horror.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I like the PS1 graphics style. I wish more games would follow this kind of style.

 

[lvl 2 Blue Slime]

I don't really have nostalgia for low-res 3D models; what really triggers my nostalgia are 2D sprites in 3D environments, like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, etc.

 

[Falksi]

Wank.

 

[rumSaint]

Wack

 

[lightbane]

Hipsters.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Ewww...

 

[JarlFrank]

Low res 3D can effectively build an atmosphere but I'm not particular on needing PS1 specific graphical glitches, which modern PS1 style games often try to emulate.

I just want something that looks like Quake or Thief 1.

 

[Gandalf]

Artistically speaking it is it's own thing, it has it's place in history and there will be people which will copy this style and even transform it to their liking.

Am I fan of this PSX 3D style? It fwwlasdirt and has this kind of specific grit to it. It has it's charm, but I prefere looking at it from a distance, top view or isometric.

 

[normie]

shit

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

They are the worst.

 

[Machocruz]

I like the PS1 graphics style. I wish more games would follow this kind of style.

Looks like you're going to get your wish, I'm seeing quite a few popping up in the indie scene lately, a new trend everyone will be trying to gold rush.

 

[ind33d]

PS1 always looked hideous. Why they didn't just go with Daggerfall-style fake 3D or just 2D top down boggles the mind. Same with Mode 7 on SNES looking worse than just leaving the damn game flat

 

[MasterofThunder]

PS1 always looked hideous. Why they didn't just go with Daggerfall-style fake 3D or just 2D top down boggles the mind. Same with Mode 7 on SNES looking worse than just leaving the damn game flat

It was more or less a period of education for an industry that had been used to 2D game design, a way for them to get experienced and comfortable with making 3D games. Without it, they may have been worse off overall.

 

[normie]

I like the PS1 graphics style. I wish more games would follow this kind of style.

Looks like you're going to get your wish, I'm seeing quite a few popping up in the indie scene lately, a new trend everyone will be trying to gold rush.

you're really late, the style is passé again and on its way out if anything

 

[Machocruz]

you're really late, the style is passé again and on its way out if anything

Just in the last couple years we had Alisa, Bloodborne demake, Nightmare of Decay, Sirena Expedition, Lunistice and lots of other forgettable trash. Signalis arguably. Nightmare Cart and Crow County just came out. Compound Fracture and a bunch of other crap I only glanced at upcoming. Who knows how many more if you really dig into the Steam catalog, current and future. I think I'm on time.

 

[normie]

you're really late, the style is passé again and on its way out if anything

Just in the last couple years we had Alisa, Bloodborne demake, Nightmare of Decay, Sirena Expedition, Lunistice and lots of other forgettable trash. Signalis arguably. Nightmare Cart and Crow County just came out. Compound Fracture and a bunch of other crap I only glanced at upcoming. Who knows how many more if you really dig into the Steam catalog, current and future. I think I'm on time.

thanks for reaffirming my point

 

[goregasm]

Not a fan. I can do 8 bit, and 16 bit. I think for the most part those held up well, most of the og xbox and ps1 era graphics aged quite poorly.

There are exceptions of course. Games like Vandal hearts, fft, Tactics Ogre, vagrant story, suikoden, still look decent, but they didnt use that awful polygon 3d stuff, or used it more sparingly.

 

[Athena]

What game can you call beautiful, and appealing in both it's design and artistry?. No PS1 games meet that standard

Vagrant Story with its limitations is more beautiful than 99.9% of modern games released today, and don't even get me started with 2D and mix of 2D/3D PS1 games.

As for OP: it's not without its charm, and much better than other indie PS1-likes, but it's not a style you're gonna appreciate without having grown with it. This is the worst place to ask given its PC focus.

 

[Old Hans]

Does anyone actually miss these?
I kinda like it, but it's missing a few important features. For example there's no scanlines in it, they need to insert them inbetween the pixels (not overlay them).
And maybe possibly the wobble (would need to see that in action).

no ps1 3d is a god awful pixel crawling eyesore. ps2 is much better

 

[Stormcrowfleet]

Low res 3D can effectively build an atmosphere but I'm not particular on needing PS1 specific graphical glitches, which modern PS1 style games often try to emulate.

I just want something that looks like Quake or Thief 1.

Agreed. Quake 1 and Thief 1 have great graphics, because they are at the edge-line between "crude enough to be abstract so you can focus on the functionality" and "3D / detailed enough that you understand what you are looking at aka it's not just big triangles with colors". I think Unreal 1 is the sweet spot, but I prefer Quake out of nostalgia.

 

[Butter]

If you think zoomers being nostalgic for PSX graphics is laughable, wait 20 years and the kids will be nostalgic for this: