How are your nipple buttons today?
Looks like one of those stills from Ren and Stimpy, or Sponge Bob.
Hell yeah, the “gross-ups” lmao
Most retro games
True. However back when these games were state of the art, you somehow were able to imagine the graphics to be better than what was actually on screen. At least that’s how it felt to me (played my first games in the early 90s).
Well, I grew up with my first games being in the early 90s, and I’d argue the majority of that era still stand up visually today. Look at Sonic 3, Secret of Mana, Outrun, Turtles in Time, etc. They all still look fantastic. Even many NES and Master System titles still hold up today like Super Mario Bros 3 and Kirby’s Adventure.
It was earlier, the Atari 2600 era to be exact, that needed an imagination…
Good examples. In general the earlier 3D games aged particularly poorly. Not only graphically but also when it comes to controls. I think around 2000 things get better, though.
Yeah, it’s why I run everything up to the N64 on real hardware or my MiSTer FPGA/analogue pocket, then everything N64 and above I prefer emulation for the sheer benefit of upscaling, 60fps mods and texture packs in addition to visual accuracy if needed (Mupen64 with the ParaLLeL video core in native resolution with a good shader is as good in my eyes as my old UltraHDMI modded Nintendo 64 was).
Of course, although in the 90s there were also some that stood out in terms of graphics and soundtrack 10 years ahead of the rest, like MDK, a real gem. Now you can play it for free, right in your browser
https://playclassic.games/games/action-dos-games-online/play-mdk-online/play ( it loads DOS Box)
or download it from GOG or Steam for Windows (€9.99)
I bought MDK two years after release for 10€ because the screenshots on the box looked pretty but I was super disappointed once I saw it in motion on my PC… Back in these days game graphics got better so quick, that a (originally super pretty) two year old game looked bad on my PC.
“Screenshots taken from various formats”
As a ZX Spectrum owner that phrase is still traumatising.
How did it know to put an M on the hat?
I see AI still can’t render hands well. Apparently pixelated feet give it problems too, judging from Mario’s nightmare fuel feet.
There’s AI that can sometimes do hands okay. It still often fucks up, so a human has to curate the work. And ideally selectively prompt the AI to regenerate parts of the image until the whole thing is perfect. I think Midjourney has the best performance so far. You can take a look for yourself in one of the many AI art communities. They’re sadly not as active here as they were on Reddit, but there’s imageai and stablediffusion communities (I forget the instance)
Yeah I have stable diffusion (installed on my PC, works great with my rtx 3080 12gb) and it is scarily good. You have to inpaint and regen a fair bit if you want ideal results but it takes no time at all.
I can see how designers and artists are concerned.
Ah another corrupted by the blight of Nurgule
Another young actor’s life destroyed by drugs and alcohol (I knew something was fishy about these shrooms.)
Edit: I wish that GIF would play without clicking it (Jerboa). 🤔
Edit 2: Plays fine in Sync at least…
I’m fine since I’m using Liftoff :D
He does kinda look like Mario at the end
Mario if he was a camel.
Is that Finger???
Why is the crotch greyed out?
Turns out all that jumping about in the sewers was not the best for Mario’s health
I’d say this pretty accurately shows the current state of video game remakes.
pov you’re luigi and ate the wrong mushroom
Luigi: “Mario, I think the mushrooms are kicking in.”
New Mario X The Last of Us crossover.
Jesus Christ kill it!
Lord in heaven…
now do Luigi
