What games do you guys think hold up the best from this era? Given a lot of 2D games still look great imo this is the rarest to find what you'd call a truly great looking game in. But some of mine
Metal Gear Solid - Something about this game squeezing so much out of a little Playstation just warms my heart. I find it more enjoyable to play this than Twin Snakes actually which was quite a bit too over the top for me and generic looking. The cool little effects though like the water in the intro, and the explosions, and details like rats running around. It's just so damn impressive for the time. For most other developers it wasn't that the psx couldn't do these it's just they never had the mind for detail like Kojima and team had. Even with no visible eyes he still made the game so visually interesting and gritty. Definetly some of the best art done on PS1.
FFIX - Oddly enough, I find this to be the best looking FF. I just really enjoyed the fantasy like world. FFVIII of course wowed everybody the most at release but I played it a little after that time and wasn't exactly blown away. FFIX's visuals though really complemented the games atmosphere so much though and did a great job giving us the most "fantasy" since the pre VII era.
Vagrant Story - This game was just stunningly cinematic and artistic. I can't believe I didn't play this at game's release. It's maybe the best looking thing to come out of Square in that whole era.
Conker's Bad Fur Day - This game's graphics won me over on animation and art. It still looks great. Now Xbox is getting it redone but still at the core of what some call this generation's best looking game yet, is this game. The graphics just gave life to the whole world in Conker. There's just so much fun to be had in this game you could see Rare put a lot of love into every detail.
AKI's wrestling games - Still the best to date probably with wrestling animations. Other games just never nailed wrestling in a videogame like this did and it's a shame they were never allowed to continue. I don't think many reviewer's realized how accurate these games looked to the real stuff. Finishing moves were never so satisfying to pull off as in this.
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Update later maybe)
Metal Gear Solid - Something about this game squeezing so much out of a little Playstation just warms my heart. I find it more enjoyable to play this than Twin Snakes actually which was quite a bit too over the top for me and generic looking. The cool little effects though like the water in the intro, and the explosions, and details like rats running around. It's just so damn impressive for the time. For most other developers it wasn't that the psx couldn't do these it's just they never had the mind for detail like Kojima and team had. Even with no visible eyes he still made the game so visually interesting and gritty. Definetly some of the best art done on PS1.
FFIX - Oddly enough, I find this to be the best looking FF. I just really enjoyed the fantasy like world. FFVIII of course wowed everybody the most at release but I played it a little after that time and wasn't exactly blown away. FFIX's visuals though really complemented the games atmosphere so much though and did a great job giving us the most "fantasy" since the pre VII era.
Vagrant Story - This game was just stunningly cinematic and artistic. I can't believe I didn't play this at game's release. It's maybe the best looking thing to come out of Square in that whole era.
Conker's Bad Fur Day - This game's graphics won me over on animation and art. It still looks great. Now Xbox is getting it redone but still at the core of what some call this generation's best looking game yet, is this game. The graphics just gave life to the whole world in Conker. There's just so much fun to be had in this game you could see Rare put a lot of love into every detail.
AKI's wrestling games - Still the best to date probably with wrestling animations. Other games just never nailed wrestling in a videogame like this did and it's a shame they were never allowed to continue. I don't think many reviewer's realized how accurate these games looked to the real stuff. Finishing moves were never so satisfying to pull off as in this.
(not finished due to time constraints
