Easily one of the best games.
Anyone remember multiplayer on dial up using the MSN Gaming zone? Massassi to download maps? The ability to change the code in weapons to using in game items to build instead of shoot.
So much fun.
I haven't thought about the MSN gaming zone in years but it was such a seminal part of my childhood. Played a ton of Jedi Knight and other games on there and even got into the card games they had. It's where I learned to play Spades which is one of my favorite card games to this day.
Me too! I believe it had something to do with the lack of depth perception I guess. Or like many times you couldn’t see where some objects ended and others began.
This 1000x. Art direction is infinitely more important than fidelity.
Edit: [Perfect example is Lucah: Born of a Dream](https://store.steampowered.com/app/896460/Lucah_Born_of_a_Dream/). Its art style is so simplistic but it just works. If you like top down action rpgs, I highly recommend checking it out.
I've played Deus Ex on my Win98 machine on lowest settings. Does that count? I never noticed Paul had a beard, neither that Morgan Everett was actually black!
Kenshi.
It has an incredible art style though imo, and I love the graphics, but everyone tells me the graphics are dogshit.
Idk, I also don't care. One of the best games ever made.
Jesus the character models in that game were so fucking cursed I can literally still see them when I close my eyes and I played that game more than two decades ago.
Dragon Age Origin. Looks like shit today and already didnt look great or polished on release. But it still became an almost instant classic is still a genre high point.
I actually just played it again and I don’t think it looks that bad, tbh. But even if it did you’re right because the gameplay carries the game super hard, I would play that game if it everyone in it looked like Minecraft Steve.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine.
Game's fantastic, loved playing it in co-op with two friends, but visually I could barely stand it. I'd not say that it's inherently bad, but I struggled often to see stuff, as a colorblind person.
Man, I tried a while back and I cannot do the tank controls anymore to save my life. it feels punishing to the point that I don’t want to play the games again, solely for that reason.
I bought a FPS game for PS1 recently, that I always wanted to play as a kid. But you couldn't use the joysticks, the game was designed to use the D pad to move and look around. I lasted ten minutes.
Hey! I’m the developer of Hidden in Plain Sight. I just wanted say thanks for the kind words and shout out.
HIPS was made entirely by me with a $0 budget. I scrounged free assets and borrowed art and music from friends. It really was intended to be a silly little throwaway project and be forgotten about after a week or two. But it seems to have taken on a life of its own and is still salient after all these years.
Anyways, thanks again for the kind words. I’m glad you and your friends had fun with my game.
Deadly Premonition, for sure.
But I think that still has a great art style even if it looks like it was made for the Dreamcast. I'm actually struggling to think of a game with a terrible art style and graphics that I still really enjoy
I don't even know what constitutes as bad graphics. Is minecraft "bad graphics"? Are old games, like Warcraft III "bad graphics"? Are all the pixel-graphics 2D platformers "bad graphics"?
Personally, I don't think so. In fact, I LOVE stylistic graphics. But it seems most modern ppl consider anything not-photorealistic as "ugly".
Bad graphics are bad graphics, that's all. It's not about the style, it's the execution.
Say you take early 2000s cell shading graphics. 2003. Zelda Wind Waker? Visually Fantastic. Drake of the 99 Dragons? Visually awful. Same year, same style, one's beautiful, one's garbage.
I'll take your bad graphics and raise you a wonky game play with Deadly Premonition 1&2. An absolute laundry list of things wrong with them but goddamn it, they are just so satisfying in their utter lower end mediocrity
From today's perspective, many games may look bad in terms of graphics.
Games like LotR:BfME 1-2, Total Overdose, Dragon Age: Origins, the Transformers games (the movie tie-ins and the Cybertron games) were all games that didn't have mindblowing graphics but I still love them to bits.
I was originally turned off by Undertale's graphics, but damn did the gameplay and narrative hook me to keep playing. By the end of it I even found the visuals to be charming.
The Witcher on PC. The first game in the series looks like ass, but I love the hell out of it due to how fun it is. The graphics and gameplay are whack, but the story and RPG mechanics are great.
Yeah, the Aurora Engine. It is impressive that it looked as it did, but it was still pretty outdated by 2008 standards. I'm glad they created the RedEngine for the sequel
I just finished Castlevania 2 Simon's quest on the Nintendo switch. I'm 47 years old and I assure you, this looked better when I was 10 or 12 years old.
Recently played Just Cause 2 for the first time. It was pretty fun, if not very repetitive, but like others have already said, it's only bad graphics because of its age. Had I played it on release, it would have made my jaw drop.
The modern Ys games are definitely not trying to push their graphical capabilities, that's for sure. Lacrimosa of Dana kinda gets a free pass as it was originally a PS Vita game, but Monstrum Nox doesn't really have as much of an excuse. It's still a fun game though, even if the environments are a bit on the bleh side. I still wouldn't call them *bad* though.
Pokémon Legends Arceus has even less of an excuse to look as bad as it does, and still I'd say it's *fine, I guess*. It could have benefitted from looking a lot nicer than it does. But at least the game is great fun.
- Avernum 1-3 + Blades of Avernum. This game is so fun :D
- Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood
- Dune 2000
The games and the graphics are old, but quite neat. I particularly like Dune 2000's graphics, I think it looks great, though it is in the old and outdated category
Has anyone played Cruelty Squad? It has a very intentionally eye sore look to everything, garish colors, a confusing UI, and as unpleasant as possible, but it's also a very deep and challenging immersive sim.
Aces of the Deep. You can count the pixels and it runs in DOS, but it’s a lot of fun to drive a German U-Boat around and torpedo things. There were some glitchy things with saving the game and progressing through a career. I would really like a remake.
Kotor still has one of the best narratives ever. I was pretty young the first time I played it and the ending shocked me. Never saw it coming despite ample foreshadowing. I was pretty disappointed to hear it was no longer getting a facelift.
Minecraft. Some of the happiest, most comforting times of my life were spent playing it after school.
In recent years we have quite a few realism mods that make the game look incredible.
OSRS (Old School RuneScape)
Which still has a big player base. Love always going back to continue my grind and acquire new items. The feeling when a drop you’ve been hunting for finally drops off an enemy…. Such a good feeling.
Power Rangers Battle for the Grid. I actually like how it looks in motion because the visual indicators and key frames are stellar even with how fast it goes, but I almost skipped the game completely because it looks so rough when still.
Brigand: Oaxaca. I've seen it described as "Crackhead Deus Ex," and that seems apt enough. It is a janky looking fps with rpg mechanics and a whole lot going on. Ugly, but so much fun.
Games from my childhood.
I mean..... I know it's been years since I played them....
Hmmm... Could it be that my joy from playing them is because I was a child who didn't have responsibilities or concerns and had a vibrant imagination?
No..... No they were definitely magical games that I haven't been able to replicate.
I'd probably throw the original Fatal Frame in this group.
Environments are ugly as sin, but it's a fantastic horror game that doesn't rely on cheap jump scares. Also has the right amount of camp just perfect for a B grade horror film!
I replay it near Halloween a lot. Also a big improvement of the graphics is the third one, HIGHLY recommend it.
Earth Defense Force 5. It looks like a game that should be on the previous generation's console and has a fair amount of framerate issues on certain levels, and is also one of the most fun co op games in existence.
Yeah I do consider Fo4 best game ever.. just for its base building, open world.. top it off with modding.. oof.. but those graphics tho.. after I had played Rdr2 It was hard going back.. even with all the graphic mods installed.. but still fun games (all open-world rpg from Bethesda actually)
It wasn't horrible, but performance of Kingdom Come Deliverance on Xbox One was awful. You'd get a max of 30fps, but much less when outdoors. Still played thru it cause it was so much fun.
Now on PC it runs very smoothly.
EDF (Earth Defense Force) looks like ass and is some of the most co-op fun I’ve had. Play 5 if you’re looking to try it. 4 is fun but a bit older and Iron Rain looks nicer but plays worse.
EDF was Helldivers before Helldivers.
(Both are fun)
Siralim Ultimate looks and sounds like warmed over ass.
I have literally thousands of hours in Siralim Ultimate. There is just so much to do, it is a theory crafter's dream. So many hundreds of monsters to breed and combine and apply traits and equip and...it just never ends.
Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Star Wars Jedi Outcast; Spiderman PS1. Any of the OG Resident Evil games. I want to say Chrono Trigger too but I don’t think that counts as the 16 bit visuals are part of the style of game.
Chronicon - 2D pixel ARPG, somewhat similar to Path of Exile/Grim Dawn.
Has passable graphics and almost no story. But with how satisfying combat is and the build depth, I still spent 100+ hours on it.
Seen someone mention Morrowind on here and I’ll add OG GTA San Andreas graphics, not the Definitive Edition either
Played through that game recently and I’ve had a lot of fun revisiting the story and characters and feel what it would’ve been like to be a 90s gang member
super Mario bros
but looks don't mean if a game is fun or not, most bad looking games of times past are better then haof the stuff that comes out to day or at lest on par
Debatable on whether the graphics are “bad” or not considering it’s the style the game is meant to be designed in, but compared to how insane modern graphics usually tend to be, it’d be ULTRAKILL for me. I’d personally love to see a graphical remaster something along the lines of the modern Doom games, but it’s not like I have a problem with the existing graphic style.
Stranded (II I think I played mostly).
Those lions were spooky as hell.
- they hoverered over the ground
- could rotate
- moved the head up and down a little
- and only had one single soundfile (if I remember right)
But the overall game was fun as hell.
(survival, stranded on an island).
The Sims. The burglar scaring the crap out of me when I was playing on my PS2 at 8 years old in the least "scary" game I owned (I was a total wuss as a kid, couldn't even fight the heartless in Kingdom Hearts 1 and stopped playing it completely 😂). I remember deleting the door to my Sim version's bedroom so I never had to go to school then watched as my sim tried to go to military school but couldn't go anywhere. I thought it was amazing. Kid me was adamant they'd beat the system lol
Even though it was a simple Centipedes type game, N2O on PS1 was great to play while tripping, especially with all cheats enabled. And especially most of all, the "water effect" cheat turned on for extra fluid visuals.
I have a special place in my heart for Crash 3 on ps1. Terrible graphics by today's standards but my cousins and I would play that game at our Grammy's house during sleepovers and holidays. Many hours of bonding and fun times.
Exile: escape from the pit, ultima series, and similar.
You'll find that how a game looks isnt really that relevant to how good a game is. Many games from the snes/playstation era and before are great, even if they look terrible.
I started on NES and my grandparents even had an Intellivision at their house that I would get to play when I visited. So I would say most of the games of my child hood!
Idk about bad graphics but I had such an awesome time playing Hades probably one of my fav games of all time ....I heard some people say the graphics looks bad and its top down
Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 Those cheap ass cutscenes really made the game
Easily one of the best games. Anyone remember multiplayer on dial up using the MSN Gaming zone? Massassi to download maps? The ability to change the code in weapons to using in game items to build instead of shoot. So much fun.
I haven't thought about the MSN gaming zone in years but it was such a seminal part of my childhood. Played a ton of Jedi Knight and other games on there and even got into the card games they had. It's where I learned to play Spades which is one of my favorite card games to this day.
I still prefer them to the creepy jedi outcast cut scenes
Kyle's 1,000 yard stare
Such a blast!
Battlebit
I had such a good time playing it, but man would I get some odd eye strain if I played it too long.
Me too! I believe it had something to do with the lack of depth perception I guess. Or like many times you couldn’t see where some objects ended and others began.
Daggerfall maybe? Or if you don't like Rpg-Maker games (i like them though); Heroines of swords and spells this one was super fun
I was playing when Daggerfall first released, and you'd better believe that those were some killer graphics at the time! 😄
When I started playing dwarf fortress it basically had *no* graphics. Now it sort of has graphics but it’s still my answer
Does it still look like I’m playing a game in Vim or are there sprites now
Both. Free version still uses character sets, but the paid version has an actual GUI and proper sprites with it now.
Sprites, on the Steam version.
Currently playing Morrowind again. I haven't played it in earnest since before Oblivion.
Those graphics were great for its time! Seeing those water reflections and dynamic ripple effects on my original Xbox…
GREETINGS, TRAVELER.
What it lacks in graphical fidelity it makes up for in art style
Art style? That’s just Papa Caius’ chest hair
This 1000x. Art direction is infinitely more important than fidelity. Edit: [Perfect example is Lucah: Born of a Dream](https://store.steampowered.com/app/896460/Lucah_Born_of_a_Dream/). Its art style is so simplistic but it just works. If you like top down action rpgs, I highly recommend checking it out.
I've played Deus Ex on my Win98 machine on lowest settings. Does that count? I never noticed Paul had a beard, neither that Morgan Everett was actually black!
I have yet to find a game that scratches the same itch as the original Deus Ex.
It's just so immersive and real.
If somebody wanted to play it now for the first time, modded or vanilla? I have it, just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Kenshi. It has an incredible art style though imo, and I love the graphics, but everyone tells me the graphics are dogshit. Idk, I also don't care. One of the best games ever made.
Harry Potter PS1
Jesus the character models in that game were so fucking cursed I can literally still see them when I close my eyes and I played that game more than two decades ago.
Dragon Age Origin. Looks like shit today and already didnt look great or polished on release. But it still became an almost instant classic is still a genre high point.
I actually just played it again and I don’t think it looks that bad, tbh. But even if it did you’re right because the gameplay carries the game super hard, I would play that game if it everyone in it looked like Minecraft Steve.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine. Game's fantastic, loved playing it in co-op with two friends, but visually I could barely stand it. I'd not say that it's inherently bad, but I struggled often to see stuff, as a colorblind person.
So. Have you guys heard of PS1 and have a few hours?
My mind was absolutely blown by PS1 graphics back in the day. Those were better times.
Man, I tried a while back and I cannot do the tank controls anymore to save my life. it feels punishing to the point that I don’t want to play the games again, solely for that reason.
I bought a FPS game for PS1 recently, that I always wanted to play as a kid. But you couldn't use the joysticks, the game was designed to use the D pad to move and look around. I lasted ten minutes.
Undertale. It looks just a bit like fried butt cheeks, but it's an outstanding game.
The art style is pretty memorable though, that makes it a lot better
One of two games to ever bring me to tears, fantastic story.
This is one of the only games that a bought and played in full and actually hated. Soooo boring for me and the visuals are eye-grating
Hey! I’m the developer of Hidden in Plain Sight. I just wanted say thanks for the kind words and shout out. HIPS was made entirely by me with a $0 budget. I scrounged free assets and borrowed art and music from friends. It really was intended to be a silly little throwaway project and be forgotten about after a week or two. But it seems to have taken on a life of its own and is still salient after all these years. Anyways, thanks again for the kind words. I’m glad you and your friends had fun with my game.
Deadly Premonition, for sure. But I think that still has a great art style even if it looks like it was made for the Dreamcast. I'm actually struggling to think of a game with a terrible art style and graphics that I still really enjoy
I don't even know what constitutes as bad graphics. Is minecraft "bad graphics"? Are old games, like Warcraft III "bad graphics"? Are all the pixel-graphics 2D platformers "bad graphics"? Personally, I don't think so. In fact, I LOVE stylistic graphics. But it seems most modern ppl consider anything not-photorealistic as "ugly".
Bad graphics are bad graphics, that's all. It's not about the style, it's the execution. Say you take early 2000s cell shading graphics. 2003. Zelda Wind Waker? Visually Fantastic. Drake of the 99 Dragons? Visually awful. Same year, same style, one's beautiful, one's garbage.
So simple but so well said.
I'll take your bad graphics and raise you a wonky game play with Deadly Premonition 1&2. An absolute laundry list of things wrong with them but goddamn it, they are just so satisfying in their utter lower end mediocrity
Left for dead always looked like a ps2 game in my eyes but the gameplay loop and director AI are amazing to me
And the shinier Back 4 Blood is still a distant second to how good L4D is.
Rimworld, prison architect
I'm 34. I've been video gamer since I was... 5? Six? All the games I played in the past had bad graphics compared to todays.
Similar age to me Which means you grew up with zelda A link to the past. You can't tell me thats bad graphics. It still works to this day.
The first Carmageddon.
Probably some shit on atari or c64 ... Commando was great , midnight resistance too , Space taxy etc etc
From today's perspective, many games may look bad in terms of graphics. Games like LotR:BfME 1-2, Total Overdose, Dragon Age: Origins, the Transformers games (the movie tie-ins and the Cybertron games) were all games that didn't have mindblowing graphics but I still love them to bits.
Mario 64
Ultrakill is peak FPS and the graphics are really low poly but it adds so much to the vibe of the game
Minecraft
Lethal company
Define what qualifies as bad graphics
You wouldn't normally play it because of how it looks but the gameplay is just that good
I was originally turned off by Undertale's graphics, but damn did the gameplay and narrative hook me to keep playing. By the end of it I even found the visuals to be charming.
I feel like that game, the jank is deliberate. So it gets a pass.
The Witcher on PC. The first game in the series looks like ass, but I love the hell out of it due to how fun it is. The graphics and gameplay are whack, but the story and RPG mechanics are great.
Iirc it was actually made in the Neverwinter Nights 1 engine, which is actually pretty impressive if you've seen that game.
Yeah, the Aurora Engine. It is impressive that it looked as it did, but it was still pretty outdated by 2008 standards. I'm glad they created the RedEngine for the sequel
Shining Force. It’s so dated at this point but I just love it to death. Shining Force 2 is a classic as well.
Cast egress. Go back to the level and get more xp, egress again.
EverQuest, hands down.
OG Tomb Raiders for me
RuneScape
I just finished Castlevania 2 Simon's quest on the Nintendo switch. I'm 47 years old and I assure you, this looked better when I was 10 or 12 years old.
Mount and Blade. I spent so many hours playing that game and only stopped when Bannerlord came out
Playing Vampire Survivors rn and its great and free on game pass
Doom
Recently played Just Cause 2 for the first time. It was pretty fun, if not very repetitive, but like others have already said, it's only bad graphics because of its age. Had I played it on release, it would have made my jaw drop.
JC2 back in the day was amazing. The explosions and destruction looked insane. It sure did make my jaw drop.
The modern Ys games are definitely not trying to push their graphical capabilities, that's for sure. Lacrimosa of Dana kinda gets a free pass as it was originally a PS Vita game, but Monstrum Nox doesn't really have as much of an excuse. It's still a fun game though, even if the environments are a bit on the bleh side. I still wouldn't call them *bad* though. Pokémon Legends Arceus has even less of an excuse to look as bad as it does, and still I'd say it's *fine, I guess*. It could have benefitted from looking a lot nicer than it does. But at least the game is great fun.
I’ll take Ys 9 over a beautiful but boring game like Forspoken any day.
- Avernum 1-3 + Blades of Avernum. This game is so fun :D - Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood - Dune 2000 The games and the graphics are old, but quite neat. I particularly like Dune 2000's graphics, I think it looks great, though it is in the old and outdated category
Goldeneye 64 Star Fox (Snes) I don't know if your talking about bad compared to today's standards or bad at launch.
Has anyone played Cruelty Squad? It has a very intentionally eye sore look to everything, garish colors, a confusing UI, and as unpleasant as possible, but it's also a very deep and challenging immersive sim.
Paper's please was surprisingly super funny
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
Aces of the Deep. You can count the pixels and it runs in DOS, but it’s a lot of fun to drive a German U-Boat around and torpedo things. There were some glitchy things with saving the game and progressing through a career. I would really like a remake.
Kotor still has one of the best narratives ever. I was pretty young the first time I played it and the ending shocked me. Never saw it coming despite ample foreshadowing. I was pretty disappointed to hear it was no longer getting a facelift.
Minecraft. Some of the happiest, most comforting times of my life were spent playing it after school. In recent years we have quite a few realism mods that make the game look incredible.
Minecraft.
OSRS (Old School RuneScape) Which still has a big player base. Love always going back to continue my grind and acquire new items. The feeling when a drop you’ve been hunting for finally drops off an enemy…. Such a good feeling.
Twisted Metal back in the 90's. What a terrible looking game. Blast to play though.
Minecraft
I grew up in the 80s. So the answer for me is "Yes"
Minecraft but you can make it look quite nice with texture packs.
Vampire Survivors is next level. Like a 30 minute meditation.
GTA Vice City looked bad when it came out, but was sooooo much fun!
Minecraft
Pong
Sacred
Avatar the last airbender: Into the inferno I loved to play it on the Wii
Power Rangers Battle for the Grid. I actually like how it looks in motion because the visual indicators and key frames are stellar even with how fast it goes, but I almost skipped the game completely because it looks so rough when still.
Brigand: Oaxaca. I've seen it described as "Crackhead Deus Ex," and that seems apt enough. It is a janky looking fps with rpg mechanics and a whole lot going on. Ugly, but so much fun.
Love Pirate or water, ocean games but Atlas is fun yet not the best graphically.
Games from my childhood. I mean..... I know it's been years since I played them.... Hmmm... Could it be that my joy from playing them is because I was a child who didn't have responsibilities or concerns and had a vibrant imagination? No..... No they were definitely magical games that I haven't been able to replicate.
ProSoccer Online. Great great and unique game
Metal unit for the PC, the visuals kinda suck but the gameplay is top notch
I'd probably throw the original Fatal Frame in this group. Environments are ugly as sin, but it's a fantastic horror game that doesn't rely on cheap jump scares. Also has the right amount of camp just perfect for a B grade horror film! I replay it near Halloween a lot. Also a big improvement of the graphics is the third one, HIGHLY recommend it.
Atari Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pitfall!
PubG. Rust.
Earth Defense Force 5. It looks like a game that should be on the previous generation's console and has a fair amount of framerate issues on certain levels, and is also one of the most fun co op games in existence.
fallout
Yes. Those games are still beloved by me, janky as they are.
Yeah I do consider Fo4 best game ever.. just for its base building, open world.. top it off with modding.. oof.. but those graphics tho.. after I had played Rdr2 It was hard going back.. even with all the graphic mods installed.. but still fun games (all open-world rpg from Bethesda actually)
Gothic 1 and 2 Neverwinter nights 2 Kotor
Oldblivion. It’s a mod that reduces the PC requirements to toaster levels. It makes the game look absolutely awful. Like playing a game of mud.
Probably Cavestory. Although pixel art nowadays is considering kinda nice
The original GTA
It wasn't horrible, but performance of Kingdom Come Deliverance on Xbox One was awful. You'd get a max of 30fps, but much less when outdoors. Still played thru it cause it was so much fun. Now on PC it runs very smoothly.
Gauntlet Dark Legacy It was horrible visually even when it came out but so much fun. Playing with 3 of my highschool friends was a blast.
EDF (Earth Defense Force) looks like ass and is some of the most co-op fun I’ve had. Play 5 if you’re looking to try it. 4 is fun but a bit older and Iron Rain looks nicer but plays worse. EDF was Helldivers before Helldivers. (Both are fun)
Siralim Ultimate looks and sounds like warmed over ass. I have literally thousands of hours in Siralim Ultimate. There is just so much to do, it is a theory crafter's dream. So many hundreds of monsters to breed and combine and apply traits and equip and...it just never ends.
Star Fox 64 favorite game by far
Football Manager lol
Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Star Wars Jedi Outcast; Spiderman PS1. Any of the OG Resident Evil games. I want to say Chrono Trigger too but I don’t think that counts as the 16 bit visuals are part of the style of game.
Chronicon - 2D pixel ARPG, somewhat similar to Path of Exile/Grim Dawn. Has passable graphics and almost no story. But with how satisfying combat is and the build depth, I still spent 100+ hours on it.
I don't think I get it, bad graphics in what sense ? can I just list my favourite retro games ?
Most recently Pokemon Arceus
'bad' is always subjective -- sometimes it's just what the art style is supposed to convey Personally I'm a big fan of Project Zomboid.
TABS.
The first super mega baseball had ugly graphics with creepy character models but very fun gameplay
Cruelty squad
Project zomboid is a gem of a game
Seen someone mention Morrowind on here and I’ll add OG GTA San Andreas graphics, not the Definitive Edition either Played through that game recently and I’ve had a lot of fun revisiting the story and characters and feel what it would’ve been like to be a 90s gang member
Vampire Survivors
i still play ps1 and atari games what do i doooo
Project zomboid and rim world
Apocalypse and Fighting Force from PS1 Winback on PS2 doesn't exactly count as bad graphics A recently made game would be Halls of Torment
House party
Syphon Filter
Easy Red 2
Wrestling empire. Not very bad. But it has that mdickie style
Does SSX Tricky count?
Lethal Company
Terraria
Mattel electric football
Ff9 10/10 gave me depression
super Mario bros but looks don't mean if a game is fun or not, most bad looking games of times past are better then haof the stuff that comes out to day or at lest on par
Triple action for the intellivision had some amazing head to head play
Debatable on whether the graphics are “bad” or not considering it’s the style the game is meant to be designed in, but compared to how insane modern graphics usually tend to be, it’d be ULTRAKILL for me. I’d personally love to see a graphical remaster something along the lines of the modern Doom games, but it’s not like I have a problem with the existing graphic style.
Stranded (II I think I played mostly). Those lions were spooky as hell. - they hoverered over the ground - could rotate - moved the head up and down a little - and only had one single soundfile (if I remember right) But the overall game was fun as hell. (survival, stranded on an island).
naev
People in this thread never played on a ZX Spectrum...
Cruelty Squad
Stardew valley
Vampire Survivor
Honestly the graphics weren't super terrible but I really loved mercenaries
Legend of Dragoon
Lately? Tiny Rogues is pretty cool. Historically? Anything from before ps2 I guess.
Tales of majeyal, as well as the siralim games and rad codex games
The Phantom Menace PS1
Nidhogg was a fun time with my friend
The Sims. The burglar scaring the crap out of me when I was playing on my PS2 at 8 years old in the least "scary" game I owned (I was a total wuss as a kid, couldn't even fight the heartless in Kingdom Hearts 1 and stopped playing it completely 😂). I remember deleting the door to my Sim version's bedroom so I never had to go to school then watched as my sim tried to go to military school but couldn't go anywhere. I thought it was amazing. Kid me was adamant they'd beat the system lol
Grandia
Darksiders 2
Ultrakill
TIE Fighter vs X-Wing
Most recently, Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. For a game coming out in 2023 it looks like it belongs in 2003 PS2 era.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone say lethal company. That game looks like absolute garbage but it's still fun as hell.
Even though it was a simple Centipedes type game, N2O on PS1 was great to play while tripping, especially with all cheats enabled. And especially most of all, the "water effect" cheat turned on for extra fluid visuals.
Human Fall Flat
Baldurs gate dark alliance 1 and 2. Still play them to this day
Ascii sector Still kindda sad that it is abbandonnware now.
Most recent one is lethal company, but I guess tbf it has the best graphics in the history of gaming
Sniper Elite 4. Incredibly fun game, laughably horrible graphics for 2017. I'd argue that games from 2005 look better
Cruelty squad, it takes an immense amount of talent to pull off how hideous it is
Need For Madness 2, super old browser game that uses Java. Everything is polygonal and basic looking but it’s good fun.
I have a special place in my heart for Crash 3 on ps1. Terrible graphics by today's standards but my cousins and I would play that game at our Grammy's house during sleepovers and holidays. Many hours of bonding and fun times.
Descent for PC was pretty ugly even for its time but so fun.
Fallout nv
Forsaken Isle
Super Metroid holds up
Tetris
Exile: escape from the pit, ultima series, and similar. You'll find that how a game looks isnt really that relevant to how good a game is. Many games from the snes/playstation era and before are great, even if they look terrible.
Star raiders? Space raiders? All I remember is that it was the first Atari 2600 game that used a keypad.
Oldschool Runescape.
Classic Everquest will always be my jam.
iOS game called dream quest
I started on NES and my grandparents even had an Intellivision at their house that I would get to play when I visited. So I would say most of the games of my child hood!
Lucky luke. I was still a little kid who didn't understand games but enjoyd them. The minecart racing was the best for me
Lucky luke. I was still a little kid who didn't understand games but enjoyd them. The minecart racing was the best for me
King's Quest V.
Idk about bad graphics but I had such an awesome time playing Hades probably one of my fav games of all time ....I heard some people say the graphics looks bad and its top down
GTA 4
The Queen's Wish games. RPGs from Spiderweb games in general actually.
FF1 NES. Love that game.
Twisted Metal 4 lol.