Is there a name for this type of visual style?
formerly low-polycurrently blockslop
retroslop, indieslop, its some kind of slop
People who say that everything is slop remind me of that one south park episode where Stan sees everything as crap.
>>727777883I mean they've kind of got a point, go to itch.io and try to find a 3d indie game that doesn't go for the PS1 look
>>727777127Minecraftlike
>>727778065NTA but I'm fine with it. I'd rather games look like console games from 20+ years ago than the ultra realistic garbage we have now that all looks the same and runs increasingly worse despite advances in tech
>>727777127>Wolf3D-tier pixel density in the environment>Quake 3 pixel density on the gun>dynamic lighting>specular shading>chromatic aberrationIndie griftware nostalgiabait garbage of the highest magnitude. Not even bothering to avoid looking horrifically anachronistic and inconsistent.
>>727778227things wearing other things skins has always made people uncomfortable
>>727777127Inconsistent schizocore.
ps1 pixel style
Eh, so long as it's readable I don't mind that style.Like others have said better that than a "we bought all the assets from the unreal engine library/nintendo hire this man" style that runs like shit.
>>727777127creatively bankrupt indie devs capitalizing on people's nostalgia by choosing the easy rout of emulating the ps1's artstyle
>>727778765PS1 literally looks better than what you and OP posted.
>>727778990it literally doesnt
>>727777127imagine trying to recreate the PS1 style and somehow making it feel more like modern games than actual early 3D with all these dogshit inconsistencies and post processing effects
>>727777127it would look a lot better if it was consistent
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>>727778923gaem?
>>727777127that gun has more detail than even some PS2 games
>>727777127There is. It's called shitty graphics.
>>727779141Airframe Ultra, not out yet
>>727778923I really like the look of Airframe Ultra. Shame the gameplay is PVP multiplayer only.
Is it so hard for an indie dev to boot up Quake and take some pictures or an actual PS1 game?
>>727777127pixelshit
>>727777127>>727778765The inconsistency in the polycounts and texture resolutions is making my ass hurt.These could look so much better than they currently do.I don't understand why so many devs make these stupid stylistic mistakes. It gives the impression that they never actually played any of the games with the visuals that they're trying to ape.
>>727779382Why would anyone do that? Not like the goal is to be 100% authentic. Easy to make things are commonplace because they're easy to make.
>>727777127faux retro
>>727777127inconsistent texel density sloppa
low poly with pixelshit textures
>>727777127pseudo-retro aka nostalgia-slop
>>727779382Most of these people are too young to even have real nostalgia for what they're claiming to emulate the style of. They're just copying other indiefags copying other indiefags.t. literally making a Quake map right now
The PS1 look is aesthetic as fuck. Inject that shit directly into my veins.
>>727777127MGS1
>>727779615I never liked this excuse for mediocrity. It doesn't have to be 100% authentic but it doesn't have to look like deep fried dog shit either. LEARN from the source material you are referencing instead of going for the most surface level approach.>>727778341This anon spells it out. I'm not saying you can't combine the old and new but you should understand what made the old look visually appealing in the first place. Yes old games were pixelated but it's not just>thing but 8-bit What era is your main inspiration?Why did the developers of that time make textures or models that way? What limitations were there? Why did they use a certain color palette? These are questions a "retro" indie dev should be asking. I don't hate the idea of 3D games using old graphics as an art style but I hate the execution most of the time.
>>727777127Schizo art direction
>>727777127this fucking sucks actuallywhy is everything so low poly compared to the gun the fuck
>>727777127Yeah these are two different art styles between the gun and the level. The gun is more evocative of Quake, while the level is like some caricature of PS1 aesthetics.The best looking mid-late 90s-style game I've seen in a long while is probably Beta Decay.
>>727778194Minecraft textures have higher resolution than this slop
>>727777127That's clearly going for a quake style.>>727778765This shit just looks like a dying GPU.
>>727781718>That's clearly going for a quake style.You clearly don't know what Quake looks like.
>>727781871>abloobloo the pixels are slightly too big to be exactly like quakeok
>>727780070based mapperbro. I used to be heavily into mapping around age 10 in 2000 especially for HL, CS, Natural selection mod, etc. Never even got close to finishing a map either. Around that time one of my clan members for Medal of Honor Allied Assault was a talented mapper, he had a portfolio built up of maps he created. He actually got hired to work for Infinity Ward and told me he was working on a game called "Call of Duty."If I had just continued with my studies I could have gotten a career in gamedev as a level designer. Too bad.
>>727782012NTA then it's clearly not quake, the enviroments look like a PS1 game while the weapon is on par with a dreamcast/ps2 game
>>727778923Forced SOVL is the most soulless thing possible
>>727777127It irks me that the gun is in a different style than the environment but otherwise this looks fine, the people pretending this is like level 3 billion certified SLOP because it isn't a lovingly crafted bespoke perfect imitation of their favorite old game are overreacting.
>>727777127Is this AI or a real game?
>>727782313I checked. It's a game called skarven.
>>727780508>excuse for mediocrityNobody but a dozen of people care about this without any bit of irony. Same people would shit on any Source game for not looking like HL2. It's not the kind of audience anyone wants to pander to.
>>727782854Looks like Graven but in a modern Settings.
>>727782179Amusingly, Call of Duty still has a lot of Quake 3 engine bits under the hood despite the engine being upgraded with every iteration for 20 years. Supposedly they still do BSP blockouts for level design with something resembling Radiant or Worldcraft.Unfortunately the mapper/modder to AAA gamedev pipeline has been closed for over a decade. I just do it for fun.
>>727778540So that's why activists are so triggered by fur coats and leather?
>>72777712790s graphics looked like that?
>>727780070>>727779382It's just zoomers trying to re-create millennial era entertainmentI'm currently waiting for touhou to resurge and maybe even harmony
>>727777127yeah, pc slop
>>727783442You don't get it. It's not 90s unless it's some zoomer's flawed perception of what PS1 games looked like from what they've seen of some E-celeb's video essay.Quake 3? Never heard of that unc.
pseudo-retro indie game
PS 1.5
>>727780070It's still soulful and better then unreal engine slop
Hot take but i like it. It allows for stylistic expression and comfy atmosphere.
>>727780070Align your vertices with the brickwork texture, don't bend bricks in half without a seam.
>>727777127Voxel.
>>727777127Ugly
>>727788501If I were using vanilla Quake textures they would be aligned.But I'm using a texture WAD converted from American McGee's Alice and the bricks are unfortunately offset very irregularly. Will probably just end up editing the texture.
>>727777127uncslop
I dont' care about your childhood. PS1's shaking textures are ugly, lowpoly can be pleasant like that one Megaman game. I'm simply not gonna play your RE rripoff #261.
>>727789229The way you have the bricks looks fine and that brick texture is the way every brick texture of that era was done has nothing to do with AliceJust because someone tells you you are doing something wrong it doesn't mean you have to believe themT. Person who actually worked on textures as early as 1994
>>727790103Well thanks, but he is right. The Alice bricks have seams that are notably unaligned vertically compared to vanilla Quake bricks, which can look odd at corners.Not the biggest thing of course, but it does tingle my autism.
his 15 year old Backwater Gospel animation had way better art styleshould have used that instead of this blocky overused pixelated style
>>727790887They're designed to be tiled x number of times and you're reducing the x
>>727777127>the environment has an extremely lower texel density than the fucking gun"Dogshit" - that's the name of this visual style
>>727790887Don't need to edit the texture for a simple x-offset shift
>>727791429Logically back up the statement you just made when the texture itself is inconsistent as he took the time to make an image to showWhy do low IQ people "contribute"
>>727781045>>727778765names of these 2 games?
>>727777127Oatmeal
>>727777127nostalgiabaitlikeslop
>>727777127Faux retro.
>>727777127Voxel
>ps1 styleIt doesn't fucking look like PS1 games at all. It's far TOO low resolution and low poly.
>>7277920022nd games is brush burial gutter world
>>7277920021st is beta decay, still not out yet, had a few playtests but no EA still.
>>727777883nobody cares about your cartoon slop
>>727777127pseudo-soul
>>727793363That cannot be the name, sounds retarded
>>727779351>PVP multiplayer onlyDoes he have a fetish of wasting the coolest aesthetics possible on the shittiest games imaginable?
>>727794170it is
>>727779046Yes it does, zoomoid retard. This is a PSX game. Notice how it doesn't look anything like what indie devs call PSX graphics. It has an actual sense of art direction and good use of environmental and character textures. That just looks like someone gave up before they even started and tried to sell this shit for a price tag.
>>727779697>ps1 >retro
>>727795759Sorry, old man. Ps1 is retro.
>>727795759Anon, PS1 is over 30 years old
>>727777883The irony is that this retarded overuse of "slop" has turned the term itself into its own form of slop.A lazy criticism that means close to nothing, takes no effort to throw out, and leaves no lingering impact.
>>727783174Now you have to be a female or transwoman to work gamedev.
>>727797261‘Slop’ is the perfect buzzword to describe 2020s media. No substance, empty calories, endless repackaging of ideas that at one point has merit. But that point is long gone.
>>727777326>blockslopKEK GOTEM anon
>>727797454It's just the latest in a rotating shorthand for "I don't like this".Soulless is out, slop is in! Everyone place your bets on how long mid will last until replaced with the next ebonic downvote.
>>727794028It's a good analogy
>>727777127Faux low-fi
>>727778923The easy route is using default settings for shaders and free store assets. You're an idiot who's never dev'd anything in your life.
>>727778923I'm getting ptsd flashbacks to Jack 2 vehicle controls
It's Don'tRememberWhatGamesLookedLikeCore
>>727795356This was made by a full team though, it's pretty hard for a single devman to compete with>>727795021oof, thanks I suppose. Sounds silly but cool
>>727799936yeah
