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They always under date graphics lately. PS1/64 is usually the "janky polygon" era unless it was a REALLY low budget PS2/GC game.

Most graphics/best graphics was a thing in the 90s, see the console wars.

And what's wrong with something looking like a PlayStation 2 game? Most games from that generation aged very well due to something called "Great art direction."

You know what else was out around the same time? The Gamecube. And one of the best racing games of all time!!

It really does that's insane!

This is why I can't take "Focus M!" seriously, as that was effectively, the dialouge of such games back during the days of Infamous and Jak 3.

i'm surprised people go after the goats and not "this looks like your average stale triple A game"

Art direction vs resolution

Excellent choices! Jak n Daxter, Ōkami, and collossus

Oh I know, I was being hyperbolic, but this is one of the big reasons I only own Nintendo consoles. I think they’re genuinely the only major company with a long term vision for the industry.

2/ ...it in the face or hacking it to death for 5 seconds before moving on to the next target. I also don't care if it has a million polygons for the same reason. Is it okay for some games? Sure. But I'd much rather see an art style that stands out, in a game that doesn't hog 150 gb of space. 🤷‍♀️

Had a co-worker tell me Armored Core VI "looked like a PS2 game" and I looked at him like he had just said water tasted like petrol

I still regard OG Shadow of the Colossus as one of the greatest technical achievements on the system, and pretty damn good in a more general sense as well.

Wonderfully stylized graphics my beloved

I think the issue is when you have highly detailed models and foliage and the textures look like this so it makes them look like poop smears.

How to know if someone has never played a PS2 without them actually saying they've never played a PS2.

that's a fair point... what if it was instead so bad it looked like wii shovelware

i do be lovin the ps2 era. gave me this gem, Ty, and Sly Cooper

They need to specify the type of game. Cuz like, the ps2 had so many insane artsyles. Like, cmon dude.

I remember "Atari graffix" was a term we threw around in the old days lol

So fun and lively looking👾

Shoutouts to my goat Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne

It's funny because whenever I see someone say a game looks like a ps2 game I'm baffled because they've clearly never seen a ps2 game. "No, that looks like a mid gen ps3 game, wtf are you on about?"

Also its so fucking tragic how so many PS2 games are something you cant play anymore on modern platforms, all people get is remakes of the popular ones that more often than not fucke up the artstyle. People need to go back and play old games so they can see just how much history has been lost.

People really underestimate how good PS2 games could look. Some of those “bad graphics” had so much character and atmosphere that modern games still struggle to replicate it 😂

Okami is gorgeous

Yeah, like the PS1 and the N64 are right there And even then there was FFIX and Conker's Bad Fur Day

Been thinking about playing through Jak and Daxter again a lot recently. This is a sign and I’m taking out my PS2 now.

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING

"I can count the polygons and textures are muddy. I can't believe they charge so much for this"

okami hd means more pixels to see okami in

the hd port of sotc let you actually *see* the graphics tbf also fun fact, the ps3 port of okami uses 4x SSAA, running nearly at 4k internally

Also like, the fidelity of the textures are not what make these games beautiful, it's just good art direction. Upscaled textures or not, the art direction remains the same.

In Okami's case I'm actually a lot less sure, as iirc they had to rebuild any post-PS2 port basically from scratch since they somehow managed to lose, like... everything lol. They did try to stick as close to the original as possible, though.

this is starting to go off yall should support my game that is very specifically meant to look like it came out in 2001 www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

We should change the saying to "looks like a shovelware game" because that's probably what people mean when they say "looks like a PS2 game" lol, almost ALL shovelware games look absolutely awful

I've been playing the new Silent Hill on my steam deck, which is clearly not up to specs for the game's graphic requirements. About 15 minutes in i said "i had better graphics on PS4 and in that 3DS Resident Evil." Based on youtubers i am watching play it, it is just my steam deck's fault.

nah ps2 graphics do look better than people remember

At least two of those screenshots are from HD re-releases, and I'm pretty sure the third one is too.

EXACTLY!

i think the 'bad-looking ps2 games' are either the simple 2000 ones or the really late ps2 titles that were all either ports from wii that had to be hastily downgraded or ports from psp that were basically unchanged (and thus looked worse due to the assets being made for a lower resolution)

PS2 was in this wonderful zone where we had more powerful graphic ability and budgets but it hadn't gone overboard, so we got some real amazing work.

lol I made a post like this comparing these two games and some guy was like "you fool, can't you see how primitive the old one is"

Jak and Daxter is fucking gorgeous. That game slaps.

I love this Mandalore Gaming's quote from the Legion: The Legend of Excalibur video "I know people who have never touched one like to say:"Looks like a PS2 game" as an insult, but this kinda looks like what they're imagining"

this is correct

Shadow still looks better then your average modern release. Look at that! 🤩

people just hate videogames period.

Colorful and vibrant and full of life?

In my opinion, games don't need to look better than ps2. PS3 if they wanna get extra.