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« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2010, 07:21:55 AM » |
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« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2010, 07:42:48 AM » |
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As earlier mentioned, The Metal Slug series have fantastic animation and pixel art. In my opinion they're easily the best-looking games out there. While I agree, that crab bot is a pretty bad example. Look at those fucking ugly arms and especially the pincers. Dear god I agree that the arms aren't nice, but the pincers look decent. It's just the rotated jagginess that bothers me, and the animation on the back finger. Could it be that the artists were trying to emulate depth of field by leaving them blurry like that?
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« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2010, 07:50:44 AM » |
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« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2010, 07:53:16 AM » |
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I totally agree on Trip World. I should really play that sometime.
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« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2010, 08:27:37 AM » |
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As earlier mentioned, The Metal Slug series have fantastic animation and pixel art. In my opinion they're easily the best-looking games out there. While I agree, that crab bot is a pretty bad example. Look at those fucking ugly arms and especially the pincers. Dear god I agree that the arms aren't nice, but the pincers look decent. It's just the rotated jagginess that bothers me, and the animation on the back finger. Could it be that the artists were trying to emulate depth of field by leaving them blurry like that? It's likely that they've just scaled and rotated the sprite a bit so the limb moves fluidly.
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« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2010, 08:35:31 AM » |
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Metal Gear: Ghost Babel Ghost Babel had the best looking fucking portraits ever in the Metal Gear series. Period.
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« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2010, 08:35:39 AM » |
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What about Legend of Iya: Also: I agree about fez, the pixel art is super nice... Also: this may become my new fave thread on tigs...
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« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2010, 11:03:11 AM » |
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What about Legend of Iya:
Isn't that still WIP?
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« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2010, 11:35:57 AM » |
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I love this thread. Will be contributing when I get some time...
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« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2010, 11:45:50 AM » |
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What about Legend of Iya:
Isn't that still WIP? Yaaa but I can nominate pre-emptively can't I? =0 I normally don't involve myself in american politics but I do believe game begins at conception, or at least at pixel-art!
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« Reply #30 on: August 31, 2010, 11:50:20 AM » |
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It's not out yet, but I think that Fez's pixel art is top notch. It's simplistic, yet aesthetic.
Also: I agree about fez, the pixel art is super nice...
I'm sure y'all mean trixel art. A couple of additions from me: Golden Sun 1 & 2Shantae: Risky's RevengeIt's not out yet (are we having a rule for that?) but from what I've seen it looks gorgeous. Legend of PrincessSonic 3Sonic gets bonus points for using lots of palette swapping.
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« Reply #31 on: August 31, 2010, 12:21:44 PM » |
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Yeah , Shantae had some nice artwork too Used to play it A LOT ^^
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« Reply #32 on: August 31, 2010, 01:43:04 PM » |
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« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2010, 01:51:33 PM » |
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I think I might be in the extreme minority in that I don't mind "impure" pixel art. That is, Messhof's rotated pixels and that sprite's bluriness really don't bug me.
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« Reply #34 on: August 31, 2010, 02:26:57 PM » |
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I think I might be in the extreme minority in that I don't mind "impure" pixel art. That is, Messhof's rotated pixels and that sprite's bluriness really don't bug me.
I feel the same way. I love when games take nice pixel art and add a bunch of more modern post processing stuff like lighting/rotation/other crazy blend effects on top of it.
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« Reply #35 on: August 31, 2010, 04:33:50 PM » |
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^ I kind of hate that. Capcom vs. SNK 2 comes to my mind. Some of my favorites: Art of FightingKirby's Dreamland 3Axelay - it was really difficult choosing one single pic for this game. Super Mario Bros. 3Samurai Shodown 3 - it's just an example, I loved how back in the day they had to draw custom chibi-sprites for the Game Boy fighters. It all ended with the GBA. Street Fighter Alpha series. I think I've already mentioned how much I love the Alpha games, both in looks and gameplay. We should have a thread for bad pixel art in games, I can think of a lot of games
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« Reply #36 on: August 31, 2010, 06:59:59 PM » |
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Zombies ate my Neighbors has amazing pixel art. Though that first picture there is actually Ghoul Patrol, which is pretty good too, but Zombies Ate My Neighbors is way better.
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« Reply #37 on: August 31, 2010, 11:31:04 PM » |
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« Reply #38 on: September 01, 2010, 05:27:31 AM » |
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Golden Sun 1 & 2 as much as i love this series, i dont think any part of it was actually pixel art. also Summon Night: Swordcraft Story has a wonderful style. Same with Yggdra Union
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« Reply #39 on: September 01, 2010, 06:06:06 AM » |
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Guilty Gear, people.
There's a point for me where pixel art just stops looking very good. It CAN happen at 640x480, and it always happens above that. Also, I really don't like the art direction their games have to begin with. King of Fighters 12 is one of the games where I absolutely adore the sprites and animation, while they're big. But I think the fact that they're quite large sprites, but then still 2x-ed helps retain the pixel look better. (bounce, bounce, bounce...)
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