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What Video games graphically hold up on their aesthetic?
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Hi Fi Rush
Super Hexagon
The Conduit on the Wii
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2
Twisted Metal (2012)
COD: BO2 / MW3
Valkyria Chronicles 1 - 4
Jak and Daxter
Borderlands
Left 4 dead, in my opinion. It's fascinating as it's attempting to look realistic yet doesn't look very dated. I think it's because of how good the animations are, and most of the game is dark and gloomy.
Also SCP containment breach. Not graphically impressive but its atmosphere and immersion simply isn't the same without them. I feel no other SCP games captures the atmosphere of Containment Breach.
I love suikoden and suikoden 2. I don't think they'd feel anywhere near the same if the graphics were changed.
Killer7, a very easy choice. That game's visual style will never fail to hold up for me.
XIII
The original releases of the Yakuza games did some amazing things with in-game animation that have to be replicated on modern hardware.
Sly Cooper
West of Loathing. Timeless.
F-Zero GX comes to mind
VVVVVV
Batman Arkham series
Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime
Rayman
Jumping Flash! for the PS1. Nothing else like it and I recently found out you can play it in a browser here: https://www.retrogames.cc/psx-games/jumping-flash.html
While heavily reworked through the years, I am continually amazed what they manage to do with World of Warcraft. Doesn't look much like it used to, but as it's all on the same engine, it's really impressive.
Muramasa Rebirth/Demon Blade. Visually and musically spot on.
Also Gravity Rush - awesome soundtrack supporting a clear aesthetic vision.
Sacred
Zombies are my neighbors
For me, MGS1. The tone of the game is really helped by its limited detail. It has the dark and serious mood throughout the game that just permeates this looming threat that is Metal Gear and the mysterious Foxhound unit. I think Twin Snakes doesn't look nearly as memorable or unique as MGS1 and I think a modern remake would lose a lot of the tone and atmosphere that the original had.
Oh and the artwork for MGS1 is just so incredibly good.
Battlefront II 2017 still looks gorgeous and like it could have been released yesterday.
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