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5 Gorgeous 2D Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bionic-commando dept.

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."

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  1. Oddworld by Skreems · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  2. ?rp=49 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "?rp=49" like in "when I click on the link you get some money" ? :p

  3. RPGs by krotkruton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. But what Lunar? by samwh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lunar is the best 2-d RPG series ever. Sad that there will never be any more, 3d or otherwise.