Beach aesthetics are cool, but what i really miss is the 2000s city nights
>>724005754max payne 1?
>>724005754I hope the Max Payne remakes (assuming Remedy doesn't die before they're done) can capture the mood. The Noir York sections in Alan Wake 2 were very appealing visually at least.
>>724005698Nothing beats 2000s urban game settings
>>724005698I live in a mud hut, so I find urban night visuals like >>724005963 spooky.
There's something really comfy about this 2000s blocky era
>>724005963
>>724009927>>724010050Very reminiscent of Dude Sex.
>>724012289It's just a follow up to Perfect Dork really.
https://youtu.be/ylHryPRpkTY
>>724012731Makes sense.
imagine if omikron had been a good game
>>724013801Fahrenheit was good for the snowy city vibes, but not for much else.
>>724013801I don't even remember what I read about it around 20 years ago. Only that it was technologically troubled, which was more like the norm back then.
holy shit it's boomer in here
>>724005698If you miss it, you should know that you can visit it in virtual reality. I've been there, it's comfy. VR Chat
>>724005698Agreed.
this is my type of threadgame: UT99
>>724016874Is that a community map? Don't remember it from the game's roster.
>>724017015yea it is
>>724017126>epictownv2
>>72400959099% of remakes are shit.
>>724017631hoping for that 1%. I've won poker hands with lower odds than this.
>>724017405Game?
2000's urban core: Max Payne 1 (2 as well but not as memorable)swart 4Darkness 2007FEAR getting up (mark echo's)L4DCondemned (literally the game)Vampires Bloodlines GTA 3 and 4Matrix Kane Lynch (underrated)classic Splinter Cell titles (a few levels)Hitman Contracts and Blood MoneyPrototype these are released in the 2000's depicting it's contemporary environment, we don't count games that depict futuristic settings or I'll be here typing til christmas (but it is a sister-aeshtetic in my eyes as it was also urban and gritty)
>>724018139filename retard first the darkenss
The 2000s was just the 90s with a hangover1999 was the peak of human civilization
>>724017126>Phobos>Deck 16>Gothic>probably Fetid>who knows what elseI missed that. Just had a practice session and while I'm rusty as a truck that spent 50 years near a sea shore I still came out on top in a Masterful practice match. Barely, with a -13 score for a while.
VTMB is 90's coded.
>>724018408
>>724018408Adding Tony Hawks Underground on the list
excellent taste
>>724018826how do you play ? is there a github page ?
>>724019569God I love how dirty and bleak Manhunt is. A real shame about 2...
>>724020208Yep, Carcer City always creeps me out
>>724018719>1999 was the peak of human civilizationpretty sure it was the 50s
>>724020089I just launch the same game I've installed in apparently 2006. I suck so much now that I've come second to last on Liandri but it's my favourite map for a reason because the second match I came first with a respectable lead. Long way to getting back into reliably beating Godlike on Hardcore and otherwise.
>>724020089I still have an archive, and it's not 2006 but close enough (2010) and I think it's an UHA archive as 7z fails to even open it. I can upload it if you want. Not sure it will work out of the box on whatever "modern" OS you use as modern MS kept getting worse and worse and pretty sure they've thrown out a lot of backwards compatibility after 7.
Also found a 7z and repacked it with a newer version. Will upload in a few minutes.
>>724020908There were no video games in the 50s. It can not be the best.
all of this looks absolutely depressing and lifeless
UT99https://limewire.com/d/wtD3n#K4gQqgEqxQ
>>724010615Bro - Urban Chaos (pc) was awesome. The latter half of the game threw me when I was a kid.Good taste. Kind wish they'd remake it, but it just wouldn't be the same.
>>724005698closehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP_3oo3RCGo
a lot of these images looks ten times better than the new gamefreak game
>>724024217>posts some gay shit>uses a Fred durst PepeYoure dishonoring the badge. Get it together.
FF 7
>>724026539good shit on calling him out
There's something about these environments that is more than compelling and I can't articulate why.
>>724029668For all the shit and flaws it was real. Genuine.
>>724029668it takes you too another place familiar but distant
>>724029524dromund kaas.... home...
>>724005698I just like how maps look like source engine. Like in Garry's Mod. At least the ones with effort put into them.
it also feels like nowhere in the world is lonely anymore, theres always someone around no matter where you are.
>>724009590Have you seen modern Remedy?
>>724012289first pic is, but it's Revision mod
>>724019301Kingpin has some major bullshit game design, but the aesthetics are godly.
>>724030178Yup, they're still making ludo.
>>724030485beautiful art direction, too bad the game is horrendous dogshit
>>724030485>game ruined by nigEhh...
>>724018408>>724019301You're missing Half-Life 2 mod: Grey/standalone game: Remorse the List. The Warriors, Project Crypt, and if I'm being honest some newer indie games called Pigface and Butcher's Creek.And I suppose maybe Jawbreaker if I were to stretch that list, but the gameplay was just meh and it doesn't look early 2000s so maybe forget it.
>>724030069Close but you still haven’t figured it out yet. We are surrounded by people at all times but individuals have never felt lonelier.Also pprrrt!!!!! BbrbrbrP!! (__)0(__) [\spoiler]
>>724030725nice Game?
>>724032848Generation Zero
>>724005698Big City Nights, first thing I thought of reading that sentence.>2000 Man was the second thing I thought of (RIP Ace).>>724014037Get off my lawn zoomer.
>>724005698Is there any guides on companion mods or archives with saves or edited files? I see shit like Lily being listed in pda but she is just not doing anything and none of dialogues lead anywhere
>>724031840Oh and I forgot, traque too>>724018408>>724019301Otherwise that's mostly everything for Urban Decay that I know. But you deff need to include The Warriors regardless.
>>724019957man i wish i liked u2... the difficulty settings suck, the forced tuning is a crime in a game like this and a there are WAY too many races that are just copypaste of one another...
Robocop Rogue City has this vibe
>>724030950>AAAAAAHHHH NIGGERS
>>724005698>the tomorrow of yesterday is now the future of the past
>>724033914you know the people who worked on this game loved robocop. They nailed everything from looks to gameplay
>>724033556I didnt include warriors because they do not depict contemporary era of the release (that is the 2000's) and I explicitly mentioned that in that post thinking that someone would bring up the warriors
>>724034264>The sneed of yesterday is the feed of tomorrow
I made one in Minecraft (PS4) some years ago.
>>724009590It would be really, REALLY fucking difficult for them to fuck it up. So you can bet it will be dead on arrival.
>>724013946I remember thinking it was good right up until fucking angels started flying at him and attacking. At that moment I knew I had traded in like a quarter of my gaming collection in for fucking garbage.
>>724035350too much grass, needs more concrete
>>724029941Some Garry's Mod maps are just oozing with atmosphere that I wished they belonged to real games.
>>724005698Which Batman game was this?
>>724015043The fog as a way to hold back on draw distance added so much soul.
NIGHTMARE modpack for Left 4 Dead 2
>>724035835wasn't there a yt vid where someone explores this map in vr (non autistically), it was around 2020/21, such a great vid
>>724036216Holy soul
>>724029941>>724035835Figure I'll post one more.
>>724005698
>>724029941de_nightfever.was my favorite when i played css. check it out.>>724030069you know, this description reminds me of how the old gta games felt. odd mix of this + isolation. hearing the sounds of the world around you and watching npc's and cars fade into the distance.>>724030105tried to get into this game numerous times, but always dropped it. very high quality maps + visuals tho. it's why i kept trying it.
>>724030105gamu?
>>724005698Technology is not good enough for it yet
>>724029668It's the contrast. Modern videogames rarely get this dark and contrasty.Why so much dark though? Honestly i think it had something to do with CRT being the defacto standard for so long and CRTs have perfect black levels.
>>724039060ballisticNG
>>724036049Yep, definitely.
Good thread. I actually can't fault Bloodlines 2 for its night city, it looks great in most places, the problem is that it's empty as fuck and there's literally nothing you do in the overworld besides fighting some random goons, and the game itself is shit.
>>724041920I also have no idea how to remove UI
>>724005698I hate real life cities.I'm too autistic for the constant noise, lights shining through gaps in your blinds at 4am, frequent bizarre stinks caused by overflowing stormwater drains, incessant helicopters ferrying boomer cardiac patients and raped minority women to hospital and the ever-present mirror windows on high rise buildings that overlook you at all times and you can't see them but you know people might be in there. Watching you. Looking. With their eyes.
>>724005698Check out my Gmod map. It's 2000's urban dark citykinohttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3430625966&searchtext=lower
>>724045146All I'm getting from most of these is that vertex colour lighting your environment is very important.
>anons reposting some of my screenshotsfeels warm and fuzzy man
>>724043027Looks fantastic
>>724033660Yup, U1 is better.
>>724043027How long did it take?
>>724049442I miss that short era of 3d vidya where textures were just photographs.
>>724049796
>>724005698soulthe only "recent" game that gives me similar feeling is deus ex human revolution, detroit was cool
>>724049508First map I made. Took about 2 weeks of 3 hours and a restart midway once. I was learning hammer as I went.
>>724043027>>724051246Not bad though it's missing something. Could've used some better colors, maybe?
>>724051246Wish I had a means of exporting Hammer maps to Godot or Unity. I'm just so used to the brush style of workflow that I can't get with Blender. Looking good for a first map though. Only thing I'd suggest is lightmap shadows for the underside of the table/chairs in that diner.
BANLEDADSRETVRNTOPVPER
>>724029556forced soul
>>724030473Love it how everything jiggles and wobbles with the OpenGL renderer like they were made of jello. The game was hard as fuck at least in the beginning, men built like tanks of jiggly meat beating you up with lead pipes and eating 9mm bullets for breakfast
>>724051703>Wish I had a means of exporting Hammer maps to Godot or UnityThis is already possible for bothThere's nothing about a game engine that prevents importing data, you just need to make an importer for it. Source engine and even Quake .bsp can be imported to both enginesYou could have at least tried to look into it anonhttps://github.com/H2xDev/GodotVMF
Good thread lads
First half of Fighting Force is about brawling in the city with alternate paths to take.
>>724052221NT in the Mirrors Edge universe.
Play Transmissions: Element 120Free source mod on steam that shows the upper limit of autism in Source Engine mapping. Solo Dev and it took years iirc.
>>724005698None of this will come back in the rest of the American US mcEmpire’s dwindling cultural existence because zoomies like to eat literal human fecal matter and liquid squirting shitZoomers are content with shitslop like infinite sportsnigger ball zoomblox zoomcraft valheim zoomnite ass creed pig shit, and devs know it
How has cyberpunk not been posted yet?
>>724055498>zoomers reee>posts a millennial what did he mean by this?
>>724055557this is about 00s city night aesthetics
>>724015043I always found GTA3 depressing which is why I didnt look back when Vice City and San Andreas came out. Sunny with palm trees clears hard.
>>724029668It's the clean graphics. Simple square shapes and lines with baked lighting. Your eyes read a area instantly and know what is in the gamespace and what isn't. It's pleasant on the eyes.Modern game has smooth rounded plastic look, tons of clutter everywhere and harsh dynamic lighting. It's ugly.
>>724024217Tell me you're missing a frontal cortex without telling me
>>724019569>>724020208>I GOT A NOSE FOR THE DAMNED AND IT'S TELLING ME THAT YOU'RE HIDING HERE SOMEWHERE
>>724056251And modern games are obsessed with REALISM, and top it off all maps have markers or yellow paint telling you where to go or which items can be used. It just takes you out of the experience entirely.
>>724056251This. It has irked me for decades that 90% of gamers and devs are obsessed with fidelity and graphics, and how now GPUs cost twice the price of a full PC + a monitor back in the day, but games look exactly the same, have 0 gameplay, they look ugly and have no aesthetics. Majority of games look like 3d asset flips now. No soul. When will they learn that less is more. Your video games don't need to look like real life or even like movies - they just need to look like fucking video games.
>>724018408It's a shame most of these games suck. Only Blood Money, MP1, and VTMB are good.
>>724005698The best aesthetics are the ones you never ever see again
>>724013801As someone who still has the three disk foldout, I do. Still fucking loved that game. Anachronix kind of made up for it despite bombing. Still, the dialogue alone…back when they made games for gamers and passion because we were nerds. Now everything is normies and I’m old.
nights should be orange from sodium vapour lamps
>secret kino aesthetic>blood omen 2 city levels>soldier of fortune 2>007 night fire
>I'm just gonna head into the diner, warm up a little and get a cup of cawfee.
>>724057982
>>724057864>driver 2 >crazy taxi
>>724058071Sorry meant driver 3Also add true crime streets of la
>>724005698It's both hilarious and really, really, really sad that Pokemon ZA actually looks worse and sounds worse than Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines in every single way.No voice acting, no NPC specific animations for conversations, the environment is way more sophisticated. Also, the art design in Bloodlines is not only way stronger but despite being from 2004 actually manages to have a more livable city environment, it's a world that actually reacts to player actions beyond "here's something that wants to fight you".Troika is the antithesis of Game Freak / TPC.Pure soul vs truly soulless.
>>724005698You don't enjoy modern lighting?
I never played GTA 3 or Shenmue, any mandatory mods or are they good as-is? Shenmue playable on PC with kbm?
>>724056608megalolz
>>724053770I bet this is from the remustard version
>>724059683You'd be wrong.
>>724060259I bet it didn't look so vibrant. Or maybe it was the shitty 17inch LCDs of the time
>>724060413>LCDFound your problem.
>>724030725was gonna say this looks exactly like sweden then i looked it up and it's set in sweden. very cool
>>724029941I see INFRA assets but it's no place I recognize. What is that
>>724060764alternative 80's sweden in which sweden mattered
>>724028907>whats this one?
>>724062730They have some comfy environments in the game. Wish I could get my friends to play it more than one evening in total.
>>724057836>tfw my neighborhood still has orange lightsnight walks are still peak
>>724009927>>724005963>>724005754I was extremely fortunate to grow up with these games
>>724064121Midgar was my favorite part of FF7.
Batman and Robin for Playstation has great aesthetics but literally everything else about the game is shit
>>724020908>women couldnt vote>no civil rightsah, youre a r/pol edgelord
>>724019846what's the best way to play GTA3?
>>724065826PC version with all the ps2 content restored. Looks cleaner than upscaled through pcsx2, has a vastly more stable framerate and you can the option of both controller or kb/m.
>>724057035Couldn't reverse search this one, what game?
>>724066802Looks like need for speed underground 1 to me.
>>724063708
>>724062994Max Payne
>>724065354Or maybe he likes that a family in his country could afford so much without both parents slaving away in cubicles with endless overtimes. Or that they could afford more than 0.33 children per family. Or that day to day life felt much safer in middle class neighbourhoods, which were larger and more numerous. Or he doesn't like the fed doing fed things like what happened in 1971.Maybe he considers the downsides an acceptable sacrifice for that. Maybe he even believes that the downsides can be circumvented or even fixed. You never asked. You just jumped to retarded conclusion right away. Just like the strawman you dragged in, you're also exactly the same part of the retarded "culture" "war", just with a different coat of paint.
>>724065354can you blame him for being nostalgic about the times where the industry was still in the us and the companies had to actually pay taxes?
>>724010615ugh I got to do the necessary legwork to get it working on pc.I want a remake of sort of it but I know that there is no way that it won't work out terribly
Where is the anti-soul gas????
>>724071641It has a black female protag, so that alone would make it impossible to duscuss on /v/
>>724005698this thread is depressing, art direction was so much better back then
>>724018719the 90s with a hangover is infinitely better than what we have now
>>724071843Be inspired instead of depressed. Improve, create.
>>724005698This is more akin to 1980 city than 2000s one tbfh.
>>724071262ah nice
People used to shit on it for being a bad sequel but for me the urban industrial setting was excellent.
>>724073442Which BloodRayne is that?
>>7240736062
>>724071760Shut the fuck up you weasely nasal cunt.
>>724033923yup
cool thread
Cant wait for indie devs to get nostalgic over this era of vidya.
>>724080478We're 7-10 years away from that. Right now we are psx n shiet.
>>724017631System Shock and RE2 were good
>>724057970Beautiful
>>724081003Sequel when?
>>724005698comfy winter night setting is probably the ONLY thing vtmb2 has done right
>>724017051this a cs1.6 map or something?I love downloading obscure cs maps, finding maps lost to time that nobody played. really a weird time capsule, makes me feel like an archaeologist. stumbling upon late 90s-early 2000s artifacts left there like movie posters or songs from the time is fun as fuck
>>724083018vtmb1 player apartment is peak comfy. I have no idea how they managed to fuck that up in vtmb2. How did they come up with an idea to have a dead cat on the floor in a mold heap in your safehouse?
>>724029941source engine is so good and comfy
>>724049602imagine if need for speed had some crazy maps that the old games used to have
>>724054217>Transmissions: Element 120nice, i will, always on the lookout for some cool hl2 mods
>>724013801It was tho, even with it's shitty side gameplay mechanics (gunfight and brawl).
playan Chaser (2003, completely unmodded) and man, look at this motherfucking SCALE.Now this is oppressive and dystopian, completely mogs CP2077
>>724081294Never. It would require a proper investigation to even figure out who owns this right now.
>>724085454Given the series ended with porsche I enjoy what I have.
>>724005698So reverse solarpunk? nightcities essentials.
>>724087661Love this compilation. Saved.
>>724005963>>724063828gta 3 hits different than any other gta. its not even my favorite but this game nailed atmosphere perfectly. can hardly think of any game that does it better
>>724087661Soul
>>724083946what's this?
>>72402090850's where a bubble built on massive amounts of war loot, it was actually the 1850's.
>>724065354>but muh womensLmao.
>>724090650Me on the bottom
>>724090650The times you could sit on a soft couch without being afraid that it's soaked in various bodily fluids of hobos and junkies, and it's not ridden with lice and bed bugs.
>>724015043GTA3 really captures the dreariness of living in urban hell. The gray, foggy, cold dreariness. Every color washed out by overcast skies, trash just floating around everywhere, rude ass people who are all frustrated about the same things you are and wish to go home to try and forget it all for a little while, but they can't because of the never-ending noise and lights outside their window.
>>724091309it's the permanent audio echo and trail effect that does it for me
>>724014847buy me a headset thenI sold my Quest 2 a couple of years ago unfortunately
>>724005698irl my experience with being in a night city has been bad. people act like i am a criminal or that i am vile and avoid me. it just makes me want to stay inside
>>724051984how?
>>724026471wat map?
>>724071641Just get the GoG version
>>724091446but Tyrone... you ARE a criminal
>>724091446Have you tried being white?
>>724085478>>724085278Game?
>>724053427fuck yeah jews won't let me upload files so i'm glad someone let me scream. I would've chosen a night level though. it's also unbelievable how more detailed it looks in my memory. aesthetic kino
>>724093439Yakuza 5, this is specifically Sapporo that you only get to visit for one day.
