Isometric 2D Art Appreciation Thread

[Gerrard]

Hey bro, what game is that from, and is it any good?

Darkmere: The Nightmare's Begun for the Amiga.
It's a pretty good adventure game, though I guess a bit simplistic when looking back on it. Aside from the great graphics there's also quite a lot of text in it, since you can examine your surroundings and items you pick up and they have fairly detailed descriptions.

 

[Tzaero]

Not exactly isometric in the first place though.
Wolfenstein 3D

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

Not exactly isometric in the first place though.
Wolfenstein 3D

20 years old, and still with better level design than today's corridor shooters.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Is there a place to see all the levels ?

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

Is there a place to see all the levels ?

Check the picture URL, hurr durr

 

[Carrion]

20 years old, and still with better level design than today's corridor shooters.

Sure, but I don't really miss levels like this or this, or the worst mazes in Spear of Destiny. Never again.

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

20 years old, and still with better level design than today's corridor shooters.

Sure, but I don't really miss levels like this or this, or the worst mazes in Spear of Destiny. Never again.

I don't understand what you mean, those levels look awesome!

 

[Carrion]

I don't understand what you mean, those levels look awesome!

When you see the entire picture, sure. When you're actually playing the game, not so much. In general I dislike mazes in games unless there's some specific reason for their existence. Basically you have endless corridors that all look exactly the same except for a different wall texture. Empty corridors are not that great gameplay environments either, and there's very little variety and nothing really interesting to be found on the levels. Games like Doom and Duke 3D feel pretty fresh even today because of their great pacing and the amount of variety, but the last time I wanted to play Wolfenstein was in the mid 90's or so.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

I agree with Carrion on these. I replayed Wolf3d two decades news, and the later levels were really boring. With the limited texture variety that games provides the bigger maps we see a big gap between it and Doom. The latter one, even vanilla has a great design.

 

[Dexter]

Too bad that some of the images are already starting to deprecate :/

Before I forget, this is also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_prerendered_backgrounds

Anyway, commence dumping:

Commandos:

Some random concept:

Another concept:

PS:T again:

Robin Hood:

Nobody posted these yet, so I guess here goes (Wasteland 2 concepts by the STASIS guy):

Also saved these from previous page, since they dead now (Vampire Hunter 2 - unreleased game):

 

[Surf Solar]

Ah, I can see Schloss Colditz on one of these screens, it's only 10 kilometres away from here.

Which game is this screen from? http://www.abload.de/img/isoghetto_big7xfm2.jpg

Is that commandos too?

 

[DeepOcean]

A real Fallout 3 with those graphics ...

 

[Kem0sabe]

Too bad that some of the images are already starting to deprecate :/

Before I forget, this is also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_prerendered_backgrounds

*snip*

Also saved these from previous page, since they dead now (Vampire Hunter 2 - unreleased game):

These kinds of threads have a short life timespan, image hosting being what it is.

Christopher Bischoff is a damn good artist, his work on stasis is amazing (i imagine he's doing his own artwork, no?).

 

[Dexter]

Since I'm fighting the righteous fight over here against the hordes of 3D-obsessed barbarians: https://torment.uservoice.com/forums/192241-stretch-goals/suggestions/3742526-2d-backrounds-like-p-e I might aswell post this in here too.

Concept Sketch (Pencil):

Concept Sketch (Final):

Wireframe Model:

Final Render IWD:

Final Render IWD2:

Screens from the final render:

Also in the art department:
Initial (rough) Painting:

First Workup:

Final Painting:

 

[Surf Solar]

Thanks for doing these Dexter

Love to see my favorite RPG location ever (Kuldahar) in full glory

 

[Palikka]

".. because all games would look better in 2D Isometric."

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Oh God.

 

[Zdzisiu]

FFS that guy has some incredible skills, its simply amazing how he manages to create those gorgeous screenshots seemingly without any effort.

 

[CrazyLoon]

So I guess the guy must have a 50 million budget, right? After all, prerendered graphics cost much much more than real time 3D you know.

EDIT: And his work is gorgeous.

 

[General Maxson]

Somebody should force him to make classical 2d isometric crpgs for the rest of his life.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Somebody should force him to make classical 2d isometric crpgs for the rest of his life.

This. But instead of forcing him by say... threatening to kill his cat/wife/children, just get him addicted to crack cocaine and promise him more beautiful bliss for every background he designs. I heard Inxile has some quality dealers on their quick dial.

 

[TripJack]

wow

best 3000th post ever right here

 

[Fart Master]

I always thought Commandos and that Wild West game with the same gameplay looked amazing. That reminds me that I have never played Commandos 2.

 

[MrBuzzKill]

This topic is still relevant! Here's my contribution. I browsed through the entire thread, but still, pardon any repetitions.

Spoiler

The first game is Nox. The second is an obscure and as of yet, unreleased Russian game called Fatherdale.

 

[Jaceface]

My own contribution! recently painted this in photoshop for fun.