Slashdot Mirror
5 Gorgeous 2D Games
kukyfrope writes "With the advancement of technology, it's rare to play a game that doesn't incorporate 3D graphics. While 3D games are great, classic 2D side-scrollers are beautiful in their own way. GameDaily takes a look at what they believe to be the top 5 most visually striking 2D games, with less text and more screenshots because words don't do these games justice."
I always found the Oddworld games to be visually stunning. Abe's Exodus beats every game on their list except Yoshi's Island, for me.
Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option.
The Urban Hippie
"?rp=49" like in "when I click on the link you get some money" ? :p
I always thought Alucard was animated with amazing fluidity. Sure, his sprite could've used more detail--like a face--but the actual animations were and still are impressive.
Looking past the article's scarce content, I completely agree with its point. However, I look towards RPGs for support. Personally, I loved the old tile-based RPGs such as Final Fantasy 3, the early games of the Breath of Fire series, along with the first Dragon Warrior games. These were relatively simple games where you didn't have to worry about bad camera angles or how well you could control a character like in the bike races in FF7. I also dislike how in many games today, there will be some places where you have to stand in just the right position to make an event occur, which was obviously much easier in tile-based games.
I'm not saying that these things don't belong in RPGs, but that doesn't mean they are required either. I feel like there is still a market for simple, 2-D games. After every RPG I play, my dad asks me if he can play it because even though he loves the games, he can't play a lot of them due to his almost complete lack of hand-eye coordination (he played FF7, but I had to get him through a couple parts). Making games more realistic, and consequently more complicated, does not always make the games more fun.
Lunar is the best 2-d RPG series ever. Sad that there will never be any more, 3d or otherwise.
Imho Worms 3D isn't as good as Worms DC was on the Amiga. I can't talk about Worms 2 and whatever more 2D-titles there might had been because I haven't played them more than just a few minutes. Also the small worms in worms 1/dc doesn't matter to me since I'm there for the gameplay and not the graphics.
Those games are barely animated at all. Sure the sprites are high-resolution, but most of the moves have very few frames of animation and there are tons of 3D effects used as well. It's like watching a slide show.
Games like Last Blade 1 & 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special 1 & 2, Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves, and Street Fighter 3 are all much more impressive because of the fluidity of the animation.
Except for Yoshi all titles on that list have seen releases this generation and Yoshi is going to see another sequel soon as well. I think there may be a certain bias in the article.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
"Funny"?! Damned kids! ._.
The Ur-Quan Masters!. The Best 2D Game Ever.