Board 8 > What SNES game has the best graphics?

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Haste_2
05/13/17 6:51:03 PM
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What SNES game has the best graphics?










Not sure if people will be interested in this poll, but I'm kind of in a SNES mood....

Hopefully I nailed all the big ones.
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JDPizza
05/13/17 6:55:43 PM
#2:


Wozz.

Nah, not really though, I just wanted an excuse to say "Wozz."
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Jeff Zero
05/13/17 6:56:33 PM
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I've always had a soft spot for Tales of Phantasia's luscious graphics. Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, Super Metroid, and Mega Man X1-3 all look super, too. And Seiken Densetsu 3. Not sure any of the SNES Final Fantasies strike me so strongly in this regard, but they're all solid.
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_SecretSquirrel
05/13/17 6:57:33 PM
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I don't think any game aged as well as Yoshi's Island.
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TomNook7
05/13/17 7:12:03 PM
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Terranigma
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FlyingForever
05/13/17 7:22:32 PM
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_SecretSquirrel posted...
I don't think any game aged as well as Yoshi's Island.


DKC games aged pretty damn well
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CaptainOfCrush
05/13/17 7:32:31 PM
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DKC

I always thought Yoshi's Island looked ugly.
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SSJSephirothGokuX123
05/13/17 7:38:15 PM
#8:


Sad to see Demon's Crest not on the poll, that game is beautiful in it's atmosphere and monster details.

Mega Man & Bsss might be the real winner through but that's on the technicality of using sprites from a PS1 game.
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Johnbobb
05/13/17 7:48:31 PM
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I'm biased, but I've always thought Kirby Super Star has aged really well
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NeoElfboy
05/13/17 8:05:58 PM
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I feel the opposite about DKC/SMRPG as some people; now that we're no longer impressed by things that look 3D I don't think they look very good at all. Classic 2D sprites are where it's at as far as aging well from this gen goes.

SMW2 certainly succeeds at what it wants to do but what it wants to do isn't really my style (graphically that is).

I voted Chrono Trigger but SD3/ToP are certainly outstanding too. Amazing, well-animated sprite-work.
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TheKoolAidShoto
05/13/17 8:12:45 PM
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Yoshi's Island look isnt just technically impressive(to the point where nintendo just refuses to port SuperFX games to VC), but its entire aesthetic is just amazingly unique and utterly charming to this day.
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Pokewars
05/13/17 8:19:40 PM
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DKC series still the best, as usual.
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05/13/17 8:21:26 PM
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Yoshi's Island: The Topic:

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05/13/17 8:22:45 PM
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MrGreenonion
05/13/17 8:23:25 PM
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Chrono and Yoshi are definitely the top two.
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Hardcore_Adult
05/13/17 8:34:27 PM
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The original DKC.

If you took a blind census to ask people WHAT year they thought the game was made in... I don't think 1994 would stack too highly in the answer barrel.
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Mega Mana
05/13/17 8:51:03 PM
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https://i.giphy.com/4qwEOWMElzzlC.gif
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Metal_DK
05/13/17 8:52:14 PM
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TomNook7 posted...
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05/13/17 10:10:48 PM
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Monopoman
05/13/17 10:30:49 PM
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If we are only going by USA releases then its Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, when including titles release only in Japan the late era JRPG's like Tales of Phantasia, or Star Ocean sure had extremely impressive graphics for their day.
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Jakyl25
05/13/17 10:38:10 PM
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On a side note, F-Zero looks great for a launch game. Really amazing Mode 7 usage right off the bat.
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tazzyboyishere
05/13/17 10:41:30 PM
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Yoshi's Island is fucking beautiful
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NFUN
05/13/17 10:55:13 PM
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I think DKC looks terrible.
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Kain66
05/13/17 11:02:39 PM
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tazzyboyishere posted...
Yoshi's Island is fucking beautiful


Agreed

NFUN posted...
I think DKC looks terrible.


Agreed
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Haste_2
05/13/17 11:05:35 PM
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I haven't played much of any of the late Super Famicom RPGs, so I'll go ahead and say Yoshi's Island. Second place goes to SMRPG.
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banananor
05/13/17 11:11:43 PM
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the thing about smw2 yoshi's island that gets me is that the apparent pixel size isn't consistent

it looks like someone glued together a scrapbook of wallpaper, newspapers and crayon and they don't go together

it's totally a taste/subjective thing but it looks janky to me
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Justin2Krelian
05/13/17 11:16:05 PM
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Close between SMRPG and FF6
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Lopen
05/13/17 11:23:34 PM
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I'm the rare guy who thinks the SNES's "3D" look seen in SMRPG and DKC's graphics don't really age well at all

Yoshi's Island, FFVI, CT, Super Metroid are respectable choices. I went with Super Metroid just cause I really liked the contribution of the visuals to the atmosphere but yeah all 4 are really good.
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ProfitProphet
05/14/17 12:04:48 AM
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Earthworm Jim
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Paratroopa1
05/14/17 1:08:14 AM
#30:


Kirby's Dream Land 3

Maybe the most charming looking game ever
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LOLIAmAnAlt
05/14/17 1:13:29 AM
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People say that it's basically short of a miracle that Doom runs on the SNES so I'll go with that.
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TheKnightOfNee
05/14/17 2:48:34 AM
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Paratroopa1 posted...
Kirby's Dream Land 3

Maybe the most charming looking game ever

Yeah, I think it's this or Yoshi's Island
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SSJSephirothGokuX123
05/14/17 5:33:01 AM
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Oh Dream Land 3 is also a good one, that game looks super smooth on the Retron 5, the pixels just disappear and almost has a modern indie game look.

Also shout out to Secret of Evermore, that game mixes JRPG and WRPG atmosphere surprisingly well, and Gothica is just beautiful.
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Monopoman
05/14/17 9:47:31 PM
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...
People say that it's basically short of a miracle that Doom runs on the SNES so I'll go with that.

Yeah, if you try emulating the port of Doom on the SNES on most handhelds like say a PSP it runs like shit. That and Duke Nukem 3D on the Genesis are by far some of the most demanding ports ever for the hardware they were put on.
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SeabassDebeste
05/14/17 9:49:36 PM
#35:


definitely donkey kong country

maybe not the most beautiful, but definitely the best 'graphics'-wise
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StormTR
05/14/17 11:09:21 PM
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I think George Wood of Navgtr explained this best when he said: "Donkey Kong Country is truly perfect. If you do not get this amazing new generation of Donkey Kong madness, you are stupid! Yes, I know, that's insulting, but it's also the truth!".
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faramir77
05/14/17 11:28:41 PM
#37:


Yoshi's Island looks way better than any of the DKC games. I don't know why it isn't even winning.
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Nelson_Mandela
05/14/17 11:30:18 PM
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SD3 or Yoshi's Island. It kinda just comes down to style preference at this point right?
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Orochimaru_Fan
05/15/17 8:10:00 AM
#39:


Radical Dreamers
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KingButz
05/15/17 10:53:00 AM
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Lots of people here never saw Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean (not surprising since they never came to US). Both those games looked like nothing else on the platform
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redrocket_pub
05/15/17 11:00:58 AM
#41:


Killer Instinct
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WazzupGenius00
05/15/17 1:35:26 PM
#42:


Taken as a whole it doesn't compare to stuff listed here, but Dragon Quest 6 has some individual moments that look pretty damn good
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_SecretSquirrel
05/16/17 12:37:19 AM
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I love how SMW2 and DKC2 are on the same line of the match pic today. Just looks gorgeous.
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Haste_2
05/16/17 12:53:08 AM
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Agreed, SecretSquirrel.
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metroid composite
05/16/17 1:03:35 AM
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DKC is really pretty, and probably still looks alright.

Star Fox was the one that really dropped jaws at the time, but nowadays the novelty of "OMG polygons" is kinda lost.

One of the Toy Story games had some kinda cool tech with perspective.
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foolm0r0n
05/16/17 1:14:38 AM
#46:


FlyingForever posted...
_SecretSquirrel posted...
I don't think any game aged as well as Yoshi's Island.


DKC games aged pretty damn well

What you have both said is true

Yoshi's Island takes this by a mile though. It's insane how good it looked back then and still today

DKC has aged very well, but DESPITE its prerendered graphics, not because of them. They had the artistic skill to use all those crazy futuristic effects really well and appropriately, unlike other games trying to do the cutting edge. But there's just a lot they couldn't get around with, being prerendered. Repetition and angle alignment issues and such. Yoshi's Island has none of that. It's visually flawless.
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lordjers
05/16/17 1:58:37 AM
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Why DKC2/3? Should be DKC1/2.
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