Those 3d games that stays pretty over the years

tobal 2 also still look great, nice models, great framerate and good moves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzqbiIZDqQ

 

Like I said, I expected somebody to say that! However, I think a single screenshot (from an emulator, no less) does the game justice. Some of the environments look really good, and I think it was pretty much the first 3D game to use "proper" faces.

 

I am a bit on the fence about 007 Golden eye, back in 97 I didnt have a N64 and never played the game, I did however play Star Wars Jedi Knight : Dark Forces 2 the same year and by the looks of things it looks GFX wise better,and the gameplay mechanic seems a bit more complex aswell, but I am not sure.


I might revisit 007 Golden Eye, but my cartridge doesnt have any sound for some reason (Will try it out on Everdrive though)

PS Wasnt Tekken 3 allso released in 97'?

Edit: another one that still looks impressive today is: Myst 3 (2001), but it used 2d with 3d overlay so I am not sure if that still counts...

 

Most N64 games look like crap nowadays, I'd say Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time have aged the best.

Dead or Alive still looks good, like practically all the Saturn hi-res games.

 

I'll have to think about this one but from the Dreamcast era, Soul Calibur still looks amazing.
Mario 64 <3
Facial animations in Conker BFD are so much better on the N64

 

Some PS1 games i think aged well.

Crash Bandicoot / Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back / Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped!
Crash Team Racing
Tekken 3
Soul Edge
Star Gladiator
Ridge Racer Type 4
Wipeout / Wipeout XL / Wip3out
Tobal No.1 / Tobal 2
Dead or Alive
...

 

LOVE Ridge Racer type 4

and it's porn music

 

That's because Mario and Zelda used very few textures and mainly just shading or simple textures. N64's primary problem in the graphics department was the tiny texture cache and the microcode being used in all the early games atleast. If you look at some of the later N64 games the graphics look a good deal better. Not all of them though.

 

I am in agreement with Johnny and the Crash Bandicoot series. The Spyro series still look good too.

 

I know many would disagree because of the framerate and jaggies, but I still think Panzer Dragoon is a beautiful game, primarily because of its art.

 

Don't know if already posted, but I discovered an amazing game yesterday:

Frontier: elite 2

an old space simulator in a gigantic galaxy where you can do what please you ( fly, works, upgrade ship, blabla, etc ). All this huge game was runned back in the days with a simple floppy disk !!

anyway, it's available as an abandonware for free.

 

do arcade games count? Killer instinct 1; I think still just about holds up and that was 1994!
again in 94 or was it earlier? was time crisis! ONLY arcade though, one game I wished was on N64 it would have been nearly arcade perfect am sure.. same with the tekken games.. dont get me wrong ther were a few games thatI am glad have been made on ps1 like the final fantasy and the metal gear but these arcade boards would have benifited N64 cartridge system better than ps1 there were pro's and cons.. some games best on CD some games best on cartridge.
The irony is where all going to solid state soon with games so its like we are back to cartridge.. and the space you can get on an SD card now for intance.. would have blown my mind 15 years ago!

sorry went off topic haha..

Also I think Mario64 and Zelda OOT still looks nice!
er... what about Abes oddysee on the Ps1 what an amazing game that was!
ahh what about donkey kong country on the Snes epic graphics!

 

Silent Hill. the original on the ps1


y'know, n64user made me realize, would pre-rendered 3d graphics count? y'know, games like donkey kong country and killer instinct (the original arcade version looks pretty great even today)

 

Yeah, it's a great game but ridiculously buggy. The pseudo-sequel Frontier: First Encounters is better, but even more buggy.
I remember crashing so many times in the original Elite while trying to dock...

 

Doom especially some of the ports that had higher res textures have held up IMO.

 

RE:Make
RE:0
MGS2
Tekken Tag Tournement (Character models are still pretty impressive imo)

 

DKC rendered everything as sprites AFAIK. Star Fox is 3D without question.

 

yeah but they were rendered in 3d before being turned into sprites, same with killer instinct.

 

That looks like one of the bathrooms from my old high school.

 

Wipeout 3, and even more so with those extra tracks in the Special Edition where the ships and tracks look cel-shaded - that still looks fantastic.

A lot of Dreamcast games, too. Ikaruga, Soul Calibur, Jet Set Radio, Under Defeat... pretty much more than half of the Dreamcast library. On VGA they still look fucking amazing.

I had forgotten to add that many space games tend to look delicious, even today. Einhänder and Star Fox 64 and Omega Boost, for example.

And we were talking about the 2600 also, right? I can vouch for what was being said: The 2600, once you're playing with other people, truly becomes an experience of a system. In the right environment, you'll always have a memorable afternoon playing the 2600.
Some friends of mine and I had hours of fun playing that jet mode in "Combat" on the big TV, while playing the Star Trek battle music (and other similar tracks) on a PC. Doesn't get much nerdier than that.