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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Wed 28 Jan 2015 - 0:14 | |
| I enjoyed that Alien article despite not having played the game and preferring Aliens as a film. I always appreciate absolute nuclear level geekery. |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
Posts : 4642 Points : 4668 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 42 Location : Milton Keynes
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 11:20 | |
| That's still on,
It is a little sad. |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11976 Points : 12068 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Thu 23 Apr 2015 - 5:23 | |
| Some Bloodborne goodness for your eyeballs. - Spoiler:
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Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Thu 23 Apr 2015 - 7:03 | |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11976 Points : 12068 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Thu 23 Apr 2015 - 13:56 | |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Thu 23 Apr 2015 - 14:06 | |
| I love the red moon in Bloodborne - makes for some stunning vistas. |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11976 Points : 12068 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Thu 23 Apr 2015 - 14:16 | |
| Yep, I love how as you progress the night changes and as you backtrack to old areas you get a totally different feel to them because of this. |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
Posts : 4642 Points : 4668 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 42 Location : Milton Keynes
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Sun 26 Apr 2015 - 10:15 | |
| I like how happy everyone seems that they're going to be in that picture. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Sun 26 Apr 2015 - 11:06 | |
| The red moon is gorgeous. The others look technically adept, but not really my thing. |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11976 Points : 12068 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Sun 26 Apr 2015 - 17:31 | |
| - Jimbob wrote:
- I like how happy everyone seems that they're going to be in that picture.
They're a shy bunch in the city of Yharnam but that might be because of the monster problem they have. - Balladeer wrote:
- The red moon is gorgeous. The others look technically adept, but not really my thing.
The red moon was the first "WOW!" moment as far as the visuals go for me, I also died because I stopped to screenshot that not knowing enemies spawned close by. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Sun 26 Apr 2015 - 17:53 | |
| Yeah, I've only been exposed to Bloodborne through ENB's playthrough on YouTube, but I've paused the video once or twice to take in the scenery. Gorgeously designed game.
I need to take some screenshots of GTA V on PC - I've been blown away by that once or twice too. |
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fronkhead Disciple of Scullion
Posts : 1616 Points : 1694 Join date : 2013-01-18
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Sat 16 May 2015 - 18:20 | |
| Kalimba (PC/Xbox One) looks really gorgeous. I didn't think that until I played it, though. Everything's made up of "trixels" (triangular pixels), which not only makes the game feel authentically digital, and these triangular building blocks are used really inventively. They shine and shimmer and they reflect light nicely. They also build up environments and objects like mosaics, so it lends the game a unique, organic feel that's a world apart from the 10037 pixel-art games out there.
http://pressplay.dk/games/kalimba/ |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Fri 24 Jul 2015 - 9:25 | |
| Look at that sexy French bird |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Fri 24 Jul 2015 - 9:43 | |
| This looks like a prime opportunity for a While I'm in the thread, though, I'll post some Yoshi's Woolly World pictures. Maybe not the game with the most "wow" moments, but the wool effect is gorgeous. A subtle one.
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Fri 24 Jul 2015 - 11:18 | |
| I'm not sure I like the middle picture (the yarn textures seem to just splurge into one another) but the other two are lovely! |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Fri 24 Jul 2015 - 12:24 | |
| In retrospect, that texture-sloshing is a bit ugly. Deleted! |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Mon 17 Oct 2016 - 12:47 | |
| So. I'm currently playing The Witcher III. There are lots of reasons this is a banger of a game. The writing is second-to-none. The gameplay is wonderfully put together. It builds a fabulous world through phenomenal attention to detail. Plus, it looks amazing. There are games with more impressive fidelity, but they achieve that by being far more linear. The Witcher's world is huge and open and full of potential, which makes it far more impressive that it can look so good. I'm putting together lots of screenshots, like everyone else who ever played this game. I think the trick to Witcher's success is that it goes for a realistic aesthetic overall but splashes colour and lighting around with a very artistic eye. It's like a version of the real world where the nights and days and weather are always at the most beautiful possible extreme. Sunsets are multicoloured, storms are rolling and menacing, the moon is huge and luminescent . . . Expect further posts. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Mon 17 Oct 2016 - 19:57 | |
| Witcher sun > Bloodborne moon. Actually it looked a bit like a Witcher scene on my way home: rainbow in front, golden illuminated cloud behind. Glorious. - Drunkalilly wrote:
- It's like a version of the real world where the nights and days and weather are always at the most beautiful possible extreme.
If any game with pretentions of 'realism' that's not a grey-brown shooter isn't doing this, they've got their art direction wrong. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Tue 18 Oct 2016 - 21:26 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
- Witcher sun > Bloodborne moon.
Moons? Witcher's got moons! - Spoiler:
And sunrise can be just as pretty as sunset: - I'm looking at the sky not her bum!:
Also, getting away from the broad strokes of landscapes and skies, the characters look incredible as well. It loses a little something in a picture, without the animation, and it doesn't necessarily apply to every insignificant NPC but . . . - Geralt:
- Cirilla:
- The Baron:
I'm barely even started with Witcher III yet and I'm already mesmerised! By the time I'm done, I expect I'll be ready with an even more ridiculous post. |
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4210 Points : 4212 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 35 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Sun 23 Oct 2016 - 13:18 | |
| A lovely looking and well timed Space explosion from one of my trophy screenshots. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Tue 7 Feb 2017 - 19:15 | |
| I know not everyone is super into pixel stuff, but check out Kingdom. Those water effects alone are making me want to play this game. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Tue 7 Feb 2017 - 19:51 | |
| I will care more when it comes to Switch. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Tue 7 Feb 2017 - 20:21 | |
| Ooh, is it coming to Switch? According to wikipedia, yes. I will wait for that version, very keen indeed! |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society) Tue 7 Feb 2017 - 20:32 | |
| Check my list not Wiki |
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