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Any modern indiegames that go for the PS1 look? Tons of indie games pay homage to the 8-bit era, but I don't recall much nostalgia for warped textures.
by wodenokoto 5y ago
Any modern indiegames that go for the PS1 look? Tons of indie games pay homage to the 8-bit era, but I don't recall much nostalgia for warped textures.
- burlesona 5y agoI think 8-bit/16-bit retro games were kind of at the apex of 2D sprite game design, and many of them were quite lovely, hence the nostalgia. The PS1 3D games look worse when you look back at them, because they were not really the next logical increment of 2D gaming, but the first step into 3D. So more like the Pong, Asteroids, etc of the 3D era. They were exciting at the time as a glimpse of where things were going, but objectively they looked pretty bad.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI agree. Retro 2D games are amazing. The SNK games are works of art. Modern 2D games don't quite feel the same. I don't even understand why.
- adamrezich 5y agothere's been a bit of a surge of low-poly fake-PS1-wobbly-vertices horror games lately
- cosmobot 5y agoValheim is an indie game with a PS1-style aesthetic built using Unity. https://www.valheimgame.com/home/#anchor4 https://www.valheimgame.com/home/#anchor4
- mywittyname 5y agoKinda. I know that's what the developers claim, but the game looks so much better than a PS1 game. The only PS1 aesthetic the game can honestly claim to have is low-res textures. It doesn't have the weird texture warping, shallow draw distances, rigid animations, or really anything else that we associate with the PS1.
- Narishma 5y agoI don't see it. Those screenshots look beyond what even a PS2 can do.
- Grazester 5y agoAmongst retro gamers there is universal agreement that 5th generation console games(specifically 3d games) aged the worse.
- daxelrod 5y agoBallisticNG has tried really hard to get the look and feel of the PSX Wiepout games, including an optional PSX shader that adds vertex wobble. https://neognosis.games/ballisticng/ https://neognosis.games/ballisticng/
- mikewhy 5y agoThe Haunted PS1 Demo Disks are a great place to start: https://hauntedps1.itch.io/ https://hauntedps1.itch.io/
- corysama 5y agoDevil Daggers is one of the few games I have time for. Mostly because I rarely survive more than 3 minutes and a world record run is on the order of 10 minutes. But, Steam says I have over 20 hours in the game. Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jaTKi-1rz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jaTKi-1rz4
- some-guy 5y agoIt doesn’t have the warped textures but DUSK is probably the closest thing to a PS1 style indie game I’ve seen.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoDUSK is evocative of 90s PC FPS games, not PS1 games. There is a rather decently sized community of indies who use the PS1 style, mostly on itch.io.
- e_proxus 5y agoThe Chameleon is another recent stealth-game that has PS1 inspired aesthetics: https://www.merlinogames.com/the-chameleon https://www.merlinogames.com/the-chameleon