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Metaballs

Damn, I remember reading about this game in Next Generation or something but I've totally blanked on what it is.

 

[intbal]

Damn, I remember reading about this game in Next Generation or something but I've totally blanked on what it is.

Urban Decay from Andrew Spencer Studios.

 

[El Muerto]

I miss this.

And this,

 

[MayauMiao]

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Metaballs

Reminds me of Little Big Adventure

 

[iorek21]

I want a comeback to that realistic open jungle that Crysis 1 and Far Cry 2 gave us back in 2007/08.

 

[DryvBy]

After most modern games going for the vomit diarrhea shit soup of random rainbow colors with no rhyme or reason, I could enjoy browns and greys again. Even when it was dull, it wasn't an open assault to the senses like the multicolored heat stroke games are going for now with color palletes.

You mother fuckers need to stop wishing with a monkey's paw.

I actually loved the brown dusty looking stuff of the late 90s and early 00s. Something felt grungy about it all.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

3D Voxel based shooters such as the early Delta Force series. Actually voxel everything. The most popular game in the history of gaming uses voxels to store its data. I'd like a modern voxel based racer as well.

 

[DryvBy]

I didn't care for the game play loop very much but have you tried The Case of the Golden Idol?

No I haven't but the name has popped for me. If it's this era, sold.

 

[bender]

No I haven't but the name has popped for me. If it's this era, sold.

It's modern.

 

[DryvBy]

Sierra adventures looked so unique to me too. Kings Quest is just gorgeous but a forgotten gem is Pepper's Adventures in Time which got me into US History as a kid. Just look at these pixels and the font!

 

[dottme]

Reminds me of Little Big Adventure

I think there's a remake of little big adventure coming

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

 

[Robb]

I’d love to see another MadWorld on more modern hardware.

 

[KiteGr]

PC 98 was peak pixel art.

 

[Hypereides]

The stop-motion and claymation aesthetic. Its already been seen in Hylics, but it would be nice to see more devs adopt it. A new Clayfighter that could competently stand toe-to-toe with some of the fighting game giants of the scene would be fantastic. A sequel to the original Skullmonkeys would be nice too.





Already mentioned ITT, but the stylised detailed low poly look a la Megaman Legends. Its already making a resurgence in the indie scene from what I've seen. Hope more creators embrace it.



Not sure if it qualifies, but seeing a return of 2.5D gameplay with 3D scripted camera angles akin to Pandemonium would be neat. Most modern 2.5D games seem to be in the side view metroidvania and run 'n' gun genre.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Dark and gritty. To much happy colours up in my face in alot of shooters now days, even COD and CS have got brighter over the yrs. Looking forward to STALKER 2 for that darker tone.

I think the companies nowadays embrace the more vibrant color palette so they can make more character/weapon skin variants to sell...

But yes, it would be refreshing to see a big game with this style now. I'm done with purple.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Metaballs

For a moment I thought this was Ecstatica

 

[Eimran]

Dragon Quest VIII cel shaded style

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This low poly PSX inspired art style is one of my favorites right now, and I hope we'll see many more indie games using it.

 

[PianistaMacabro]

Hopefully one of these indie devs doing 90s PS1 retro style games will one day try and recreate what Megaman Legends series looked like:

To me it was the best looking PS1 franchise of all time, and for me that's saying a lot because I felt that the system had a library full of ugly 3d games.

I used this reference yesterday with the team artist! Don't think it is going to work for the project but I needed to try it

 

[EverydayBeast]

There was criticism of the 360/Wii/Ps3 era, their rules was basically dark, brown and black games. I think today they would focus on better lighting and choosing the right colors.

 

[Arsic]

Mid 90's to early 00's Anime
Stuff like Xenogears, Breath of Fire IV, Valkyrie Profile, Legend of Dragoon, etc

But to be more specific, I still think Breath of Fire IV is one of the best looking games ever.
The artstyle has that late 90s look Im talking about, and blends excellent spritework with 3D environments in a matching style that does a great job blending both styles together (I'd argue a better job than pre rendered backgrounds with basic 3D models like many other Ps1 Rpg's)

One of the best games ever made. Capcom really goofed to not come back to this. No the phone game doesn’t count.

I also think we need more games that look like Disco Elysium.

 

[FoxMcChief]

REmake style of super high end 3D models on top of a looping video.

 

[Hudo]

Mid 90's to early 00's Anime
Stuff like Xenogears, Breath of Fire IV, Valkyrie Profile, Legend of Dragoon, etc

But to be more specific, I still think Breath of Fire IV is one of the best looking games ever.
The artstyle has that late 90s look Im talking about, and blends excellent spritework with 3D environments in a matching style that does a great job blending both styles together (I'd argue a better job than pre rendered backgrounds with basic 3D models like many other Ps1 Rpg's)

I still maintain that Breath of Fire IV easily shares the "best looking PS1 JRPG" crown with Vagrant Story.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Whatever Snatcher was doing on it's Sega CD version, I want more of that:

110% this. We need more early 90s cyberpunk vibes, badly.

Games like Ion Fury and Selaco give me hope.

 

[Exede]

I would like to see a more modern approach to the WW style of Cellshading. The emotions the game carried... So good.

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

instead of:

Although I'm a huge SF6-fan.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Vagrant story, best console game of the late 90s. Image quality and art style were and still are out of this world.
Why hasn't this been done again? Why no sequel or port? Why is locked on ps1?

Mega Man legends:

Brave fencer musachi:

 

[Kataploom]

Maybe 90s anime, but that's it, currently games with the art styles I like look better than ever

 

[Ceadeus]

I would really like Nintendo to manufacture new game boy color and game boy advance and start making new 8 and 16 bit handheld games again.

Retro, but in 2024. No backlit, no nothing. Maybe just wi fi and free multiplayer.

 

[March Climber]

There was criticism of the 360/Wii/Ps3 era, their rules was basically dark, brown and black games. I think today they would focus on better lighting and choosing the right colors.

Now that people here are nostalgic for the PS360 gen, they seem to have forgotten their own complaints about that gen.

Most of those fun colorful games from the Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube/Xbox gen were mostly gone or covered in a specific warm tone color scheme, bloom effects, and heavy motion blur.

It was a whiplash seeing a ton of great varied franchises, old and new, suddenly missing and the ones remaining using the yellow/green/gray/brown color scheme with bloom to try and find an audience.

It also didn’t help that we had a few renowned Japanese PS2 devs suddenly chasing the Gears of War trendline and making their own Gears but just worse quality.

There are a lot of gems from the PS360 gen, but the choice in art styles did not help it age as well.

 

[Ceadeus]

instead of:

Although I'm a huge SF6-fan.

SF6 model looks like Zack Efron after plastic chirurgie

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Transformers War For Cybertron

Street Fighter Alpha/Zero

Batman AA

 

[ssringo]

Don Bluth style except it's full on gameplay instead of animated cutscenes.

 

[Trilobit]

I am starving for next gen cel-shading games. Especially adventure games.

I would like for developers to aim for the fidelity and style of The Iron Giant from 1999:

 

[Bloobs]

 

[Croatoan]

Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, Luis Rojo.

Basically I want dark, mature, balls to the wall heavy metal fantasy again. Give me blood, leather, tits and ass and pecs and cocks. Fantasy is too safe and generic outside of fromsoft games these days.

 

[Hypereides]

Speaking of art styles in general; Personally, I want to see some ambitious AAA studio make a 3D game that intertwines 2D animated characters into its world building/premise. Quite like Who framed Roger Rabbit or Cool world. Why it hasn't been attempted yet by some big studio, I dunno. I can imagine it would be kinda tricky to pull off though. Video for moodboard/reference:



To see a game like that in the 2020s would be so cash. Cuphead has already brought golden age rubber hose animation back into the mainstream. Its all about tacking on some believable realism onto it.

Its honestly astounding how well the visual presentation from the original Mirror's edge holds up to this day. The EA c-suite seriously doesn't understand what they had going there.

On a sidenote, the soundtrack is also pretty stellar too.

 

[nkarafo]

Speaking of art styles in general; Personally, I want to see some ambitious AAA studio make a 3D game that intertwines 2D animated characters into its world building/premise. Quite like Who framed Roger Rabbit or Cool world. Why it hasn't been attempted yet by some big studio, I dunno. I can imagine it would be kinda tricky to pull off though. Video for moodboard/reference:



To see a game like that in the 2020s would be so cash. Cuphead has already brought golden age rubber hose animation back into the mainstream. Its all about tacking on some believable realism onto it.

Actual good 2D animation like this is a lost art. Nobody wants to draw 24 animation frames by hand and even if they did, nobody wants to finance it. I'm sure Richard Williams (the animation director of Roger Rabbit) would have a lot to say about this matter.

Cuphead also does frame by frame animation but that's a once every 20 years thing.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Muramasa is one of the most gorgeous games I've ever played, despite that tbh it gets pretty repetitive. There isn't really anything like it except other Vanillaware games, but I think this is still the best looking.

I'd crawl on my stomach through broken glass for a remaster of this.

 

[Hypereides]

Actual good 2D animation like this is a lost art. Nobody wants to draw 24 animation frames by hand and even if they did, nobody wants to finance it. I'm sure Richard Williams (the animation director of Roger Rabbit) would have a lot to say about this matter.

Cuphead also does frame by frame animation but that's a once every 20 years thing.

If any of the management/c-suits in these AAA studios have a single ounce of artistic integrity left in them, they would finance something like this blindly. It would stand out in a good way and differentiate itself wildly from the competition.

 

[ljubomir]

 

[xrnzaaas]

Less saturation, less colors. I mean it works for some games (I even enjoyed 200% saturation in AC Mirage), but it definitely ruins the experience if the game wants to be more serious.

 

[CGNoire]

Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, Luis Rojo.

Basically I want dark, mature, balls to the wall heavy metal fantasy again. Give me blood, leather, tits and ass and pecs and cocks. Fantasy is too safe and generic outside of fromsoft games these days.

This.

 

[cireza]

Back to 240p pixel-art for fighting games. That would be awesome.

 

[Trilobit]

There was criticism of the 360/Wii/Ps3 era, their rules was basically dark, brown and black games. I think today they would focus on better lighting and choosing the right colors.

The atmosphere in TP was great. So dark and mysterious. If done right with Switch 2 tech and, as you said, better lighting it could be awesome if Nintendo wants to make a darker Zelda game next.

I would like to see a more modern approach to the WW style of Cellshading. The emotions the game carried... So good.

Talking about emotions, I had completely forgot how expressive Link was in this game. When I played TP afterwards it was like watching a botox-damaged Link who could barely express anything in comparison.

It was truly like playing a Sunday matinee cartoon. I hope we get this style once more. I'll look like this if it happens:

 

[Furiousrunt]

Vibrant, colourful. Gimme greens and blues!

Over Jump Rally Steam

 

[Bond007]

I came in here to say Auto Modelista. Im glad it's already been mentioned.

I also enjoyed The Mark of Kri art style.

 

[Hypereides]

I used this reference yesterday with the team artist! Don't think it is going to work for the project but I needed to try it

Godspeed on your game project, dude. Hope it works out for you guys.