Shadowcat on 25/9/2009 at 22:53
It's only 4-5 years old, but I'll mention Trackmania Sunrise as well. It was the first TM with the modern graphics engine, and those graphics have sustained the series through all the subsequent versions, and it still looks gorgeous. Nadeo did a really brilliant coding job on that one.
Andarthiel on 26/9/2009 at 01:02
I would have to say the original FEAR, very good looking for a game of 2005. Also Thief 3 is a very good looking game.
foldy on 26/9/2009 at 01:31
The Punchout games have aged quite well, Curse of Monkey Island, Broken Sword, and though I've not really been able to play them extensively, I think the latter Tex Murphy games look really good.
june gloom on 26/9/2009 at 02:31
In the right hands, Thief 2 still looks incredible.
Shadowcat on 26/9/2009 at 05:55
The "Pro Pinball" series still looks amazing, thanks to the incredible detail to which CD modelled and rendered their tables, and the 1600x1200 mode they provided for future PCs to enjoy.
The tracks in "Powerslide" are fantastic (although those angular car wheels looked awful even at the time it was released).
And "Trespasser" really needs a mention. Admittedly you need the community patches to make the engine render things in a more agreeable fashion to the way it did things when the game was released, but it's still the same models and art. And while it's got nothing on Far Cry's amazing terrain rendering, some of the scenes in the game are still quite breathtaking.
Sulphur on 26/9/2009 at 06:10
Ultima IX hasn't aged as much as I feared in terms of graphics. The world design, while not even half as large as the Britannia of old, is still wonderful to behold.
Fuck me, looking at those old screenshots from years ago, I just might have to replay it one of these days.
Manwe on 26/9/2009 at 07:20
Quote Posted by dethtoll
That sounds suspiciously like Silent Hill 4.
I believe he's talking about (
http://www.gamespot.com/dreamcast/adventure/aloneinthedarkthenn/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review) alone in the dark the new nightmare which was released on dreamcast, PS1 and 2. It was indeed a very good looking game at the time, one of the first on consoles to have real time shadows (especially impressive since the shadows were cast on 2D backgrounds). I'd have to replay it today but I doubt it has aged very well. 2D elements rarely age well in games imo since they scale very badly with resolution. If you were to play it on an old CRT TV maybe. I know my ps2 games have aged terribly since I bought a high definition TV. They just look absolutely awful. Maybe some people don't mind low resolutions and can still enjoy the art, but personally I find it too distracting, I can't stand anything that's a little pixelated.
june gloom on 26/9/2009 at 08:15
Except to my knowledge there were no apartment buildings or underground tunnels populated by skinless dogs in that game. Try again.
gunsmoke on 26/9/2009 at 10:02
The intro show Carnby in his apartment for quite a while, and the first enemies in the game are like zombie-Dobermans, so he isn't too far off.
DarkForge on 27/9/2009 at 09:40
Have to agree with those that said Unreal 1 and 2, particularly 1. Coincidentally I recently started playing back through that again (in an "out of the box" condition - no patches or graphical updates) and it's been blowing me away all over again. :thumb:
