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>3d pre-rendered graphics, especially from an isometric view.

>Minigames within larger games, either as an in-universe game or to convey part of the story that couldn't be told with the regular game mechanics.

>Sexy girls / explosions / other cool shit on computer part boxes.

>>16296962

Actual trend that i really miss is when people were doing actual good games instead of all the copy pasta trash that comes out every months

>>16296962

Sexy chicks.

>>16296962

Hey Pan.

>>16297140

What?

Man I just miss seeing hot chicks with big tits in my vidya, I don't know what you mean.

>>16297140

>>16297146

>>16297162

low levels of test right here

>>16296962

I miss having wacky abilities as power-up and game mechanics without some group of faggots pointing out that it's their fetish. Goodbye

>Power Balloon

>Giant Mushroom

>Mini Mushroom

>Tanooki Suit (furries)

>Yoshi (vore, oviposition)

And so on.

>>16296962

Fuckin Cel Damage, I played that shit so much with friends. It used to not work on dolphin, until after some patch it suddenly started to work. Holy shit I was so happy when I could play it again.

>>16297217

Just play a real roguelike like ADOM

>>16297217

Play mobile games instead

Expansions.

Now it's a DLC nightmare and sequels to games are now just dolled up expansions to the first game.

>>16297276

No, I wanna bitch at edmund, because the pixel art shit was fucking retarded.

And to follow that up by refusing to fix game breaking issues (and I mean actually game breaking, not WHOOOOAHOHO DUDE, I'VE GOT A TEAR THE SIZE OF THE SCREEN) UNLESS you paid for the DLC is unnacceptable.

>>16297322

Cities: Skylines

>>16297328

It takes place in a gulag.

>>16297341

> they've technically been flattened into sprites

Isn't that what 3d pre-rendered means?

-Destructable environments

-Competent collision detection

-Zelda games getting ever more realistic graphics instead of shiity cell shading and other faggotty pastel art styles Nintendo has been fucking the series up with of late becsuss they just can’t admit they and their boy Aounuma was wrong to create that shitty Wind Waker piece of shit that no one wanted which is why Skyward Sword and BOTW were saddled with a shitty kiddy compromised art style that isn’t fully realistic or fully shitty cell shaded cartoon either but an in between hybrid bastardization of the two.

This inability character defect to admit when they are wrong also is the reason they re-released that Wind Waker piece of shit in supposed HD form for Wii U where it once again bombed in sales figures.

Oh well I’m quite certain they still haven’t learned their lesson and so will probably re-re-release the turd in 4k for the Switch or it’s successor since they apparently love wasting money on bad ideas which also reminds me that Pikmin 5 probably isn’t far off.

>>16297369

Hey Sean, I thought you died.

It wasn't a trend, more like a thing of it's time but local play only. Way simpler and more charming back then. If you wanted to make a good game you had to make sure it was properly done not rely on stupid patches.

>>16297367

stop projecting

>>16297420

I'm not even sure what you're implying or how it would change what I said.

Nothing about my personal identity changes the fact that pretty things are pretty. It's something most people should be able to appreciate.

You'd better spend your time stating your position on it. Explaining why you disagree, or how you feel about it.

i miss the trend of games being good and different enough to have enjoyable experience, cyberpunk, egyptian, snowy tundras, jungle enviroments, outer space and space stations, underground secret labs,etc. i miss cell shading too with JSR and XIII, some other genres like beat em ups and isometric attack helicopter games were neat

>>16297657

what year was this

>>16296962

Games being physical only

PC getting actual physical releases

>>16296982

This too

>>16297047

The developers moved on to making Style Savvy. No, really. The games are quite fun and とてもかわいい

>>16297412

Nemesis the Warlock

>>16297412

Sports game have music that isn't just coontunes?

>>16297047

I too miss the days when good games were a trend.

>>16296962

>The last thing that used it to any real effect was the Borderlands games,

Breasts of the Wild doesn't count?

>>16298009

That's hardly cel shading

Experimental/Miscellaneous games.

And I don't mean artsy pretentious indie storyshit. I mean all these small, cheap Japanese games from the late 90s and early 2000s designed around fun innovative gameplay gimmicks.

>vib-ribbon, mojib-ribbon and vib-ripple

>panekit

>katamari damacy

>a ton of DS and PS2 games

I fucking loved the colourful aesthetics and cool gimmicks of those.

Nowadays these only exist as some rare western indie or Jap handheld game that gets it right, and even then on a hugely scarce amount and selling like shit. Western hyperbudget AAAs killed the trend and nip mobileshit will forever keep it dead.

Having a finished game at launch. Not having to wait or hope for patches to fix it.

>>16296962

Cel shading was always a shitty money saving alternative to detailed art design and good pixel art. It was always a way for talentless hacks to get into the industry with minimal technical knowledge. The rise of cel shading was a signal as to how the entire was industry was transitioning away from the old ways into something much more shitty.

>>16298025

Fucking faggot.

>>16296962

Cell Shading is the best effect created for videogames. hopefully, Japan will keep the best afloat.

>>16296994

>3d pre-rendered graphics

The second best.

>>16297196

This. Sexy and pretty fictional girls must be everywhere, regardless of context.

>>16296962

Cel shading is alright but with the way the industry is today they would probably do these sort of games a big injustice anyways. One trend I would really love to see go is the constant push for realism graphics in gaming. Doesn't mean it has to be cel shaded but some variety would be nice. The more real these games keep starting to look the more casual for normalfags they seem to continue to become. Getting heaps of praise and sales. It disgusts me really and sadly I couldn't even fully blame it on the look itself. It just unfortunately attracts these normalfags too much so that is why it should go.

As for a trend I miss I sadly cannot even name one I really want to see. Its more about what I don't want to see trending in gaming anymore.

Games fitting on a single DVD

Unlocks that didn't require payment. Also in-game cheats.

>>16298014

It's more subtle than OP's image but it is still noticeably shaded using a basic toon shader. The detailed textures makes it less obvious, but it still is, despite not looking like something obviously cel-shaded like wind waker.

Story/exposition that takes place purely in load screens, new game startup cutscenes or ending cutscenes.

>>16297196

t. Hercules

>>16297316

Sequel never

>>16297162

>Doesn't thematically make sense

Does it have to? Some women have sexy bodies and as creators we should be allowed to make that and as creators our work deserves to not be censored.

>>16296982

>LAN

Fucking this.

>>16297208

>cel damage

is that its name? I also used to play the shit out of on my ps2. Fucking classic game.

>tfw no proper pc port

Movie tie-in games.

>>16299270

what movie games would you have wanted?

>>16297369

>hard on for realistic graphics for zelda

wow i thought you guys went extinct. i havent seen you around since like 2008

do you think the wii u/switch could even run BOTW in a realistic artstyle?

>>16296994

>Minigames within larger games, either as an in-universe game or to convey part of the story that couldn't be told with the regular game mechanics.

Can you give examples? I can't think of any minigame that served a story purpose.

>>16296962

Borderlands isn't cel shaded, it's phong shaded with drawn-like textures.

>>16299198

FighterZ isn't cel shading and saying it is insults the multiple technologies and techniques used for the Arksys anime effect.

>>16302263

If shadows are flat instead of graded it's cel shading.

>>16297420

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

>>16303187

I really appreciate the balance changes to the instakill weapons. Honestly, really good HD port.

>>16297412

>/mu/tier

Implying any game has a descent metal soundtrack

>you will never relive those hours wasted at some internet cafe in crimea discovering counter strike source and forever ruining your teen years playing vidya

It was still part of hoholistan too

>>16296962

Good riddance. Wind Waker is the only game with cel shading that looks okay. Everything else is an eyesore in varying degrees of disgusting, and your example is one of the worst.

Demo disks

Embed related is great.

>>16303277

Wind Waker looks like ass, though.

>and your example is one of the worst

Have you seen Borderlands?

>>16303345

>Wind Waker didn't make everything look like cardboard

It instead looks like a five year old poorly traced a screenshot of a real game.

>>16303247

No, he's saying your trashheap of a board has the worst taste of the entire internet.

>>16303381

And it's still a step up.

>>16297140

>>16297162

>just look at the porn!

Kill yourself faggot.

>>16303406

Lol nope

Actual trolling and pranks instead of these social experiments.

>>16309231

Remember that WoW funeral crashing? Imagine someone trying to pull that off today.

Completing random tasks within the game unlocking things other than achievements, the things that are today instead sold as DLC.

Turn-based RPGs that had a little more-than-basic click inputs.

GTA clones. Even if most of them were duds, they were more ambitious than today's meme open world games that are so because it's easy to make games set in empty wilderness with the same exact crafting system.

I want a good Space Sci-Fi game that isn't Mass Effect,Maybe Parkan 3 or fucking Advent Rising 2

X4 is useless(unless they fix their shit),Scam Citizen will never come out

And all the other games are SimCity in space

Kind of related,Good Star Wars games,1313 looked promising

I miss the old arcade experience, going to the local arcade and getting brutally beaten over and over by that one dude who married the KoF machine.

>>16297328

I've played many games where they try to go for grim thematics but the devs refuse to do it without ARWAYS PRETTY RITTRE GIRR.

See: anything set in any sort of real world historical tragedy, non-B movie horror games, etc.

Which is not so say there should be fewer anime titties, I think they should be more anime titties, but in games where they don't ruin the atmosphere.

On second thought I'm absolutely bored of games that pretend to be serious when in reality their stories have absolutely no value and they only sell on mass appeal, see Fates, FE, FF, KH.

>>16302256

I'm going to be an ass and say Specter boxing from Ape Escape. It served a motivational purpose for keeping the apes physically fit so they won't get lazy and keep their minds occupied as the rewriting of history was in the process of winding down

>>16317702

FFS.

I wish that games still had LAN features. It was phased out from consoles after the 6th gen because of online, and steam has really killed it for a lot of titles post-Orange Box. Big example is Parajew's /gsg/ games, where the LAN feature doesn't exist. You need a steam account to play it. This means that EU3 will continue to be able to played online well into my 80s while HOI4 wont. Not that it matters, recent paradox is shit, but it's signifying of the modern trend that even strategy games don't have LAN.

>>16296962

Fappable women in western games.

Intro cutscenes that really fucking sold you the game. I can't remember the last time when I bothered looking at one of them in recent years, it's either a soulless "look these are the features in the game have this shitty american rendition of a terrible japanese song" or fucking nothing after twenty logos and the Unreal/Unity screen, sometimes without even a proper title screen. I get the goosebumps whenever I watch some older intros, like fuck yes I'm down for some Crash Team Racing or even goddamn Fifa 2000 had a great one FFS.

>>16321148

All trailers now are just Hollywoodshit. Either a slow piano rendition of some gen X song or random orchestrated crescendos with not even a hint of a melody.

>>16321148

>intro for brawl is just a clip show of the cutscenes from the singleplayer campaign

Out of all the things I didn't like about Brawl that was the thing that pissed me off the most.

battle royale

>>16297349

>food shop

>in a gulag

>>16321148

Those were awesome. I think one reason (other than devs not caring anymore about cool shit) is that putting FMVs in games no longer impressed people after early 6th gen.

Speaking of SSBM, I loved that it had a unique graphical style that took advantage well of being able to use graphics that actually look like what they're supposed to represent for the first time, with its hyperrealistic renditions of characters that were modelled from scratch. Brawl also went for this hyperrealistic look but it no longer used unique models, instead every character was either recycled from Melee or existing games of its respective character, it just looked off.

>>16321478

One thing I really love is finding behind the scenes media that shows the original models and animations that were used to create the sprites up close. It's a shame most of those actually used in the 90s are probably gone now - storage was fucking expensive back in the day, one of the devs of Fallout 2 (which was made only a year after the first one) mentioned that by the time they started working on it they no longer had the original assets used to make the graphics in FO1 and only had the sprites.

>>16321539

Not only that but a lot of the hardware the rendering was done on was leased out from Silicon Graphics.

>>16298017

I'm not sure if it was innovative at the time but Kula world was really fucking fun and different and i'd like to see more stuff like that

>>16297331

>>16297335

I'm all for Nazbol shit but sometimes we need fun

>>16321566

having that Castlevania nostalgia huh?

I miss never having an SNES (my parents were stingy about money, we weren't well off, well off enough but still working class) so I got around to playing the old Romance Of The Three Kingdoms games and there's no China-shit. the newer version, obviously graphically better but its nothing but Chinese and no English translation. fucking Tianamen Square XD.

>>16303247

tbqh metal-esque but Descent and Carmageddon have good ones. for starters

but as far as actual bands I dunno. Rob Zombie was better in White Zombie and even then it was when the band was making noise rock/punk music.

>>16321155

OR, they have that fade-to-black effect with bass or trombone drop that makes it sound like the main characters are farting while their american VAs say something completely uninspired.

>>16321225

The song put me to sleep, whoever thought it was a good idea to add lyrics to it was an idiot. The only Nu-tendo song worth listening to is Jump Superstar because it complements the atmosphere of when it's played.

>>16321431

>Those were awesome. I think one reason (other than devs not caring anymore about cool shit) is that putting FMVs in games no longer impressed people after early 6th gen.

True that. Back then it was also a way to showcase tech advancements (in the Melee intro for instance you can tell they wanted to show off the texture work, particle effects and the polygon count on some characters).

>Speaking of SSBM, I loved that it had a unique graphical style that took advantage well of being able to use graphics that actually look like what they're supposed to represent for the first time, with its hyperrealistic renditions of characters that were modelled from scratch.

This is the one thing I keep trying to tell people who claim Smash3ds and SmashUlt are better looking graphically, when they really aren't, as most games past 2014-5ish have this Fortnite like mobileshit look to them that has an impressive amount of polygons and particle effects, but with lighting that is just so uniform you can constantly feel like you're playing a game rather than getting immersed in the game itself.

Brawl had this sort of blurred effect on everything that made it look like an older game even on release. By contrast, even though the textures were hyperrealistic, most characters were developed to 1) have some sort of plastic-y look to them, to sell the animations where their body parts would grow and stretch depending on the attacks without it looking unnatural, and 2) they all were developed with the same art style in mind. Brawl tried something similar, albeit worse looking, all the other future titles though shun this practice because otherwise adding DLC characters would take the devs much longer than just ripping off a MMD model and adding some lighting map to it.

>>16321478

>>16321539

>>16296994

>>16297341

I always wondered, how exactly do they do that? And by that I don't mean the process itself, but all the optimization that makes such art styles stick with the times, i.e. how do they make sure that it always looks good from a distance etc.

Because I've been playing some old as balls GBA games and let me tell you, even the bootleg looking ones had some rather spectacularly fluid animations on their pre-rendered graphics, I always wondered if the GBA itself had some sort of neat tool to transform 3d animations into 2d sprites.

>>16298017

I think the one I miss the most is Otogi. A brawler that is based around physics.Instead of styling on enemies, you instead bash them through walls or other enemies, and they can do the same to you. I can see why it never picked up compared to DMC style combo combat, or even GoW's combat, but the series was pretty unique and there is nothing that fills that void, from what I know.

They even included a character with a grab in the sequel so you could aim where the enemy was going better.

>>16321566

The thing with Castlevania characters is that the design might be effeminate, but the character was not. We have more of the opposite now where the design is more masculine, but the character is a little bitch.

>>16323246

Why? The game looks absolutely terrible, waste of hard drive space.

>>16322493

>We have more of the opposite now where the design is more masculine, but the character is a little bitch.

Blizzard is really, really bad about this.

>>16323408

Those games and Harvester in particular always amazed me with how they were equal parts extremely campy and extremely unsettling.

>>16323490

Actually I recall reading Harvester was deliberately done half fmv half pre rendered to make it even more disturbing to look at. Harvester truly is an unique kind of horror game, in that everything about it, from its inception to the inclusion of a future sex offender as its MC really makes it stand out among the FMV genre.

>>16323485

Locking the camera in certain areas can really sell your game world by also cutting some dev time on making it all look shiny and sparkly, but games today are pretty much too big for their own good.

>>16324069

Sex offender is putting it lightly. The game is about the MC, a teenager, being brainwashed into a serial killer by a group of serial killers. And the finale is a rapid fire assault on conventional morals from the perspective of a misanthropic faction of killers. I wouldn't expect to see that come out today even if it had an AO rating.

>>16324132

It could if they added an extra layer of irony, niggers, and fuck blumph.

>>16324173

Maybe, but it would have to be made by a particularly insane dangerhair, like Five Guys herself – she's been shown to fantasize about wanton violence. And even then no progressives would play it because it's just that disturbing. We are talking about a group of people who need trigger warnings, and a game that features cannabalism and incestuous voyeurism as main plot points.

>>16324480

Trigger warnings and such are just indirect thoughtcrime taxes. They don't actually need that stuff.

>>16324124

No I mean the actor Kurt Kisler who portrayed Steve is a kiddie diddler IRL

>>16302263

Becoming a shadow of your former self isn't a technology.

>>16297367

How old is that edit?

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