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Early 3D games always had something off about them to me. So today, I decided to finally put those feelings into words, as we explore topics such as dated gr

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That said, I don't think that modern graphics are necessarily a detriment to being scary. I just don't think there are many AAA horror games that get made these days. Most of the innovation in that genre today is probably coming from the indie sphere, where you're not going to have Capcom-level art direction. 6. Award.

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But early 3D games that went for serious tones all came across as completely ridiculous. All these goofy-looking, only roughly human-looking characters being serious, often with serious voicework. But with no facial expressions (or very limited ones), and often with corny-as-fuck exaggerated motions, like head-bobbing or hand-waving, just so

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If you answered the latter, then the low-polygon horror games produced in the early days of 3D graphics might scare you as much as they scare me, and you might want to avoid Puppet Combo's

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nep5a7/low-poly-horror-games-returned-2018
Video games fire on all senses, making them prime objects for reminiscing. Nostalgia as both a marketing tool and design focal point is a powerful thing, a large reason why so many games from

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The worlds themselves were made in 3D, initially just as mazes. Then, as texturing became more advanced, more realistic-looking areas were created, like those in Catacomb 3D. Interestingly, the

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Marionova64 told Polygon. According to Saltysoda, another Super Mario 64 horror machinima creator, we're likely seeing this resurgence of nostalgia for the game because most of the folks who

https://whynowgaming.com/the-horror-games-harking-back-to-the-psone-era/
Horrorshow isn't alone, either. An increasing number of developers are using the nineties 3D look to make horror games. Hackett's community began experimenting with it in jam projects like Broken Paradox, which kicked off its run of tiny horror titles."Everything is a little less well-defined, so it's hard to tell exactly what you're looking at," explains Hackett.

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The early 3D era pushed the industry forward, but for Tsui and others, looking back at games that took advantage of the hard work in 2D that preceded them was like 'watching paintings come to

https://www.polygon.com/videos/2018/6/21/17488594/survival-horror-graphics-surround-sound
To pinpoint an enemy, the player will move the camera to determine where the sound is coming from. The fear mechanics in survival horror games work because you know that if you can hear an enemy

https://www.gamesradar.com/exploring-the-resurgence-of-the-low-fi-3d-visual-style-of-the-ps1-era/
The revival of the low-fi 3D aesthetic associated with that console has been far more low-key. Rather than gracing Game of the Year lists and winning high-profile awards as 16-bit-inspired titles

https://www.reddit.com/r/creepygaming/comments/59sd32/why_are_older_video_games_more_creepy/
Also due to the primitive animation features, you can never predict what a character is going to do. Think of a modern video game -- it's easy to tell when a guard is alert, sad, happy, surprised, etc. But with older games guards have the same expression all the time which comes across as creepy. This might be the reason why high quality

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New games can be pretty scary, but I think there is something fundamentally creepy about PS1 and PS2-era 3D graphics. My theory is that outdated graphics look very old and forgotten... Outdated graphics also make games feel more lonely if that makes any sense, because the graphics clearly indicate that the game is old and no longer mainstream

https://www.mattmontag.com/flat-shaded-3d-polygon-games
Hotshot Racing, a 2020 game by Lucky Mountain. Most flat-shaded 3D video games were released between 1988 and 1996. These games rendered with untextured polygons peaked around 1992-1993. Many of the early games utilizing solid 3D shading were flight simulators. With the introduction of Playstation in 1994, texture mapping became the norm, and

https://www.polygon.com/2015/5/27/8660273/neverending-nightmares-devastated-dreams
(No points for guessing why expectant father Gilgenbach found this particular legend so utterly terrifying.) Like Infinitap's last effort, Devastated Dreams is a black and white, two-dimensional

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/early-3d-games-that-still-look-good.1135937/
Nov 6, 2015. #49. gelf said: Yep Sega Model 2 games still look stunning. Even the Saturn port of VF2 still looks decent. Shame that early Saturn ports of VF1 and Daytona USA were really shoddy. Poor Daytona USA ran at roughly half the resolution and less than half the poly count, at 20-25 FPS with massive pop up.

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Yes, but Ion Maiden is not doing "early 3D" for the player models and whatnot - it's aping Doom and Duke Nukem, not Quake 1 and other "early 3D" games. Those player models and weapon models are all billboards. Imho, graphics were a huge step backwards when they moved away from billboards for 3D games. Like how Diddy Kong Racing was uglier than Mario Kart 64, Quake was uglier than Doom.

https://thenerdstash.com/5-terrifying-horror-games-coming-in-2024/
The most recent trailers, showing off Stranger Things actor David Harbour in some Lovecraftian early 20th-century environments with some terrifying monster designs, make it seem like this could be the defining survival horror title of the year. Alone in the Dark is set to release on March 20th, 2024. Little Nightmares 3 Image Source

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If the rest of the game is half as unsettling as the first two chapters, Little Nightmares 2 might be an early contender for one of the scariest games of the year. Little Nightmares 2 is scheduled

https://lucrorpg.com/why-ps1-games-have-an-eerie-atmosphere/
10 key reasons why PS1 games have eerie and scary atmosphere: 1. Blurry Graphics. Blurry graphics of PS1 puts you in an atmosphere almost like a fever dream. You feel like as if your character stuck in a nightmare realm. Number of pixels are enough to see what's happening, but not clearly. Your brain fills the blanks with imagination and your

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreams/comments/7ofu86/anyone_else_having_these_terrifying_geometric/
Anyone else having these terrifying "geometric nightmares?" I don't know if these dreams have a name of their own, but for the last few months, i've been frequently having these. And seriously, these are some of the most panic inducing things i've experienced in my life. They always start with an empty void and a constant static like white noise.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17400/why-were-early-3d-games-so-full-of-muted-colours
Undoubtedly. While there may have been 'a lot' of games that set a sombre tone of greys and browns (and not much else), there were also a lot that didn't. Here are some screenshots from The Best PS1 Games, Ever!:-The colors used are chosen to match the tone of the game. Take Tomb Raider for example (IMO the best 3D game ever!).

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Heart Machine gave Hyper Light Drifter fans a long and enticing look at the 3D sequel, Hyper Light Breaker, and brought some good news: The new game is coming to Steam early access this summer

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The Little Nightmares games are absolute masterclasses in horror, whether the developers consider them horror games or not. They tap into so many different kinds of human fears like the fear of the unknown or the uncanny vally. Little Nightmares 2 even delves a bit into cosmic horror. Little Nightmares is a masterpiece.