The dramatic improvement in graphics brought about by the 6th gen allowed devs to flex their muscles with new effects such as water, advanced lighting, and physics sims. But at the same time it was all done in an era before the generic photorealistic look took over, and locales still had to be interpreted by an artist first and foremost, which resulted in a lot of iconic, wholesome beach levels. As games began chasing realism, we lost that magic. Now, everything aims to look as close to real life as possible and that dreamlike, slightly exaggerated charm has faded away.In those games, you can see a mixture of tech and genuine love for the planet with hopes for the future. We will never see such optimism again.
If games started doing this today you would get to video game beach #3 and start saying "great, more beachslop"
>>729243582If games started doing this today they would all look the same with the same exact photoslop beach. So that would be beachslop.
Yeah
>>729243234BIG
you didnt care about vidya beaches until algoslop programmed it into you
>>729244659BEACH
>>729244764literally who
>>729243582Thats just because games today suck outright. I think OP is just nostalgiac for the 2000s.
>>729243234beaches are white supremacist anti-poc slop
>>729243234>before the generic photorealistic look tookMax Payne came out in 2001. It's photorealistic because they used photos for their textures.
>>729246249it's not even remotely photorealistic
>>729246346THEY USED CAMERAS TO TAKE PHOTOS, IT IS PHOTO-REALISTIC.
>>729246678there's even a photo of your mom sucking my dick
its christmas why are you having a thread about tropical lands
>>729243234Is that Dark Chronic?The Legacy Dungeon in Dark Clouds was peak 90s kino
>>729247183that's when you have threads about tropical islands
the Dead Island 2 beach is the best part of the game, bring back beaches
>>729246249sm64 also used photos for their textures, is that realistic?
>>729245328OF
>>729243582to be fair, unreal 5 would add that soulless trademark faded colorless lifeless filter all over them.they would all indeed look like identical beachslopgen 6 was a rare time where all consoles were still completely different from each other architecturally, and devs usually created their own engines in houseevery beach and every water was unique
>>729243582>dumb zoomer doesn't know games all used to look different and unique
>>729243234Very rarely are devs and companies truly excited to share what they've been working on out of joy for it.>but it's an industry to make money!Yes. You can have both.
>>729243582Nah. Designers, artists, and programmers were actually talented back then and making games they actually wanted to play.
Obligatory.
das rite
>>729243234The "obsession with beaches 2000's video games" exists only in your head.t. 45 year old.
>>729252317dumb zoomer
>>729243234there wasnt any obsession with beaches. a handful of games out of several hundred having beaches in them isnt anything special ffs.
>>729252969dumb zoomer
>>729250114So womfyNeed to finish playing Dank Chronic 2, just needed a break about Dank Clouds
I really loved the obsession with beaches
this was graphics in 2004
>>729253061k unc
We must go back.
>>729255172Remake When
>>729243234Trueth.
>>729253718>several screenshots from the same few games the unc cope is real
aieee
>>729248727SOVL
Oh beachy beach..
>>729249084>>729253718
>>729252317>t. seething zoomie
>>729243234I think the origin of "1990s/2000s beaches" was just from how prevalent and popular Japanese games were. Japan is an island, of course japanese people would overrepresent tropical and subtropical beaches.
