TheGreatOne
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I saw screenshots of a game called Battle Beast in the fighting game thread and it immediately caught my attention. It kind of reminds me of Three Dirty Dwarves (Saturn/PC)
I'm a huge fan of games with hand-drawn/2D visuals. Although I love the pixel art style of early 90s adventure games such as Day of the Tentacle, I'm looking for games with graphics that represent the next gen from Amiga/16 bit consoles. I'd say that King's Quest V/VI level graphics already qualify, but it's at the King's Quest VII level when games really nailed that cartoon look with out any pixelization. Some examples of this would be:
1. Most SNK/Capcom fighters from the (4MB RAM) Saturn/Dreamcast era (1995-2001) era such as Last Blade 2, Dark Stalkers 3 and Guilty Gear X. Warzard is an arcade exclusive that's a good example of the visual style I'm fond of, same goes for Konami arcade beat em ups.
2. Speaking of SNK: The Metal Slug series
2. From the adventure games of that era Toonstruck and espescially Curse of Monkey Island had God tier visuals (who ever is responsibile for the transformation to 3D in Monkey Island 4 and Sam and Max 2&onwards deserves to be shot for the crimes against art he/she commited). Broken Sword is up there too. Discworld games don't quite reach that level imo. There's also some more obscure games that have nice visuals like Buster and the Beanstalk and Nanatsu Kaze No Shima Monogatari
4. Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Lomax, Rayman, Super Tempo and Mega Man 8 are some platformers from that era that have that look.
5. The CDi Zelda games might be shit but I like them visually. Same goes for the 32X game Kolibri.
It's not just "cartoony" graphics that I'm after, a more realistic, comic book style approach is fine too, something like the first two Broken Sword games. The Last Express looks too realistic/boring though. I adore the first two Oddworld games from a visual standpoint too as they represent a more dark and life like look, but since the game uses prerendered backdrops it's not a good example of what I'm looking for.
I feel that all in all not that many games like this were made during the late 90s as traditional 2D got lost in the shuffle with FMV, 3D and prerendering (and I assume it was more expensive to boot), just when the technology to make awesome looking 2D games was there. So I wanna know if there are any obscure/forgotten PC games of that era I've missed, like Toonstruck and Three Dirty Dwarves.
I'm a huge fan of games with hand-drawn/2D visuals. Although I love the pixel art style of early 90s adventure games such as Day of the Tentacle, I'm looking for games with graphics that represent the next gen from Amiga/16 bit consoles. I'd say that King's Quest V/VI level graphics already qualify, but it's at the King's Quest VII level when games really nailed that cartoon look with out any pixelization. Some examples of this would be:
1. Most SNK/Capcom fighters from the (4MB RAM) Saturn/Dreamcast era (1995-2001) era such as Last Blade 2, Dark Stalkers 3 and Guilty Gear X. Warzard is an arcade exclusive that's a good example of the visual style I'm fond of, same goes for Konami arcade beat em ups.
2. Speaking of SNK: The Metal Slug series
2. From the adventure games of that era Toonstruck and espescially Curse of Monkey Island had God tier visuals (who ever is responsibile for the transformation to 3D in Monkey Island 4 and Sam and Max 2&onwards deserves to be shot for the crimes against art he/she commited). Broken Sword is up there too. Discworld games don't quite reach that level imo. There's also some more obscure games that have nice visuals like Buster and the Beanstalk and Nanatsu Kaze No Shima Monogatari
4. Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Lomax, Rayman, Super Tempo and Mega Man 8 are some platformers from that era that have that look.
5. The CDi Zelda games might be shit but I like them visually. Same goes for the 32X game Kolibri.
It's not just "cartoony" graphics that I'm after, a more realistic, comic book style approach is fine too, something like the first two Broken Sword games. The Last Express looks too realistic/boring though. I adore the first two Oddworld games from a visual standpoint too as they represent a more dark and life like look, but since the game uses prerendered backdrops it's not a good example of what I'm looking for.
I feel that all in all not that many games like this were made during the late 90s as traditional 2D got lost in the shuffle with FMV, 3D and prerendering (and I assume it was more expensive to boot), just when the technology to make awesome looking 2D games was there. So I wanna know if there are any obscure/forgotten PC games of that era I've missed, like Toonstruck and Three Dirty Dwarves.
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