Top 5 great games with bad graphics

In honour of all the stick Twisted Metal’s visuals have been getting after the game’s first PS3 reveal, here’s a rundown of the best PlayStation games to have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

[SuperMassiveGav]

Both reports are claiming that these games all looked good at the time they were released. This simply is not true of any of them.

One also claims the article says Silent Hill is too gloomy. It does not.

[Nike]

Okay, explain me this: How is that Disgaea is considered to have terrible graphics? You're blatantly subscribing to the point that 3D graphics are automatically better than 2D graphics. The issue is way too complex to simply dismiss as one being better than the other. It's like saying cel-shaded graphics aren't as great as realistic graphics, when in fact it's a matter of how the aesthetics of both are suited to a game or not.

As for the other games, I'm sorry to say but some of those games were considered good looking in the day. And considering these were in the 90's - almost a completely different time in terms of graphics and sound - it's not hard to believe some people back then found those games good looking.

Also, I believe the author (who may be you, I don't know) edited the article when he saw the criticism against "Silent Hill looking too gloomy" just so he could call out the person reporting. Very mature of you, sir.

[Games4M - Rob]

The game he should have mentioned was Disgaea 3 - that game has zero excuse for looking the way it does on a next gen console, dunno why they didnt just release it on the PSP.

[Akagi]

Or, you know, you could respect his opinion as we would with yours.

[Nike]

Would've done that if only he hadn't called out my report in the comments section (that's what the disagree section is for in the reports). :)

[SuperMassiveGav]

And I did not edit the article. You clearly just didn't read it properly first.

Disgaea's graphics are a mix of bad 2D and bad 3D. Overall, they're bad.

Back then, people found these games ugly, as reviews written at the time will attest.

At least you apologised for not knowing what you're talking about. Apology accepted.

[Nike]

Me: "As for the other games, I'm sorry to say but some of those games were considered good looking in the day."

Gav: "At least you apologised for not knowing what you're talking about. Apology accepted."

Talk about not reading things properly, but judging from your response, are you retarded or something? And how about posting some of the reviews "at that time" to lend credence to your claims? Douchebag.

[Montrealien]

SuperMassiveGav , you have no idea what you are talking about...

Silent Hill at the time was a great looking game, I bought that game day one and no one in their right minds would of said the game looked bad at the time for a console game at the time, that would of been just dumb.

Twisted Metal also looks good for the time, in fact, I will stop there. I feel like I will just be arguing with a kid that tells me that the 1933 King Kong looks horrible. You have to see it from the stand point of when it came out.

but whatever, its his opinion, I just don't agree with it, at all.

and just to mess with you gav..

Silent Hill review, gamespot, yeah, the internet existed back then...

http://www.gamespot.com/ps/...

score 8.2

"Aside from a slightly grainy cast to Silent Hill's look, its graphics are pretty tight"

Twisted metal 2

http://www.gamespot.com/ps/...

score 8.8

"The only downside of TM2 is game control."

[Redempteur]

disgaea is bad 3D but it's certainly NOT bad 2D..

Also there is nothing wrong with GTA graphics AT the time of the release

[Anon1974]

It's ridiculous to look back at these older games and judge them based on their graphics. You might as well write an article about "best movies with the worst color" and review a bunch of black and white classics.

In their day these games had fantastic graphics.

[gtamike]

The images are so bad, were that taken using a phone?

[SuperMassiveGav]

All the PSone images were taken using whatever technology was available to take screens at the time. They were used in magazines and any screens in magazines would have been of similar quality at the time.

[PopEmUp]

I think there no phone that have a camera at the time, just wondering how old were you at the time?

[Christopher]

I dunno, I didn't think the graphics of TM3 looked that bad. Are we at the point where graphics > gameplay, especially during an alpha build?

[mushroomwig]

Obviously they look bad compared to the games released today but back then they were fine, think what games will look like in 10 years time compared to the ones today..we'll be laughing.

Also, Twisted Metal for the PS3 doesn't have to look like Uncharted 2.

[gtamike]

Here's a better picture of Twisted Metal 2

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rVQLx...

[PainisCupcake]

GTA didn't look that bloody bad on PS1, I know PC had a higher res, but that's ridiculous.

[ElementX]

They should be showing top PS3 games with bad graphics, not PS1 and PS2 era games.

[mushroomwig]

It should be about all current generation video games. =]

[Corrwin]

Yet they've done much better than expected (even by your average Halo Fanboy's standards).

[thief]

We are talking great games with bad graphics, not average games with bad graphics and great sales
Another one for the list: MAG. The greatest game ever that had average graphics (by PS3 standards).

[PopEmUp]

I thought warhawk should be include too then

[Corrwin]

Halo may be average, but it's addictive as hell for millions.

You don't need complicated game play and narrative to be a good game: see Tetris, Mario Bros etc.

[Jeff257]

I never had a SNES growing up. I went from a NES to a N64 and PS1. Back then PS1 games had some of the best graphics I had ever seen. Of course a lot of games had great gameplay as well which is why they still remain fun even to this day when the graphics obviously wont look as good by today's standards.

[OSU_Gamer]

I honestly think these articles are coming out just because people have been complaining that the new Twisted Metal graphics. That's also why you see Twisted Metal mentioned in the article.

First of all those games looks great for the time they came out....and Twisted Metal I'm sure will look awesome.

Edit: LOL, I should have read the article..its the first sentence.

[PopEmUp]

fan of twisted metal, doesn't care about graphic, is about the solid gameplay that make people want more and more, not like Crysis that game is like wow and then in a few hours you get bored at it and never wanna play it ever again :P

[Anon7349]

Criticizing Crysis's Gameplay?

I like how assume that just because the graphics are the best graphics in any game available that the gameplay sucks because it's obvious you haven't played it.

Crysis is a fantastic game even if you play it on the lowest settings possible.

[Meryl]

all of these are playstation and one of the games is silent hill, at the time it was one of the best graphical games you could play on, is this some kind of anti-sony site??
maybe we should post up speccy graphics, xboys would be shocked if they think this is bad, it get's worse:):)

[SuperMassiveGav]

No, it's actually the site of a specialist PlayStation magazine. The point of the article is not to say "look how bad the graphics were on old PlayStations", the point is to say, "so the graphics on the new Twisted Metal game don't matter".

The PSone and PS2 both had great graphics for their times, but none of these five games did. They're UGLY, and if you can't see that, you're looking back with rose-tinted glasses just because they're GREAT games.

[Daver]

hmm the pictures of this article suck, i dont remember Twisted metal and GTA looking that bad.

oh and whats the goal of this?

[FwanK]

Im still playing Twisted Metal 2 after 14 years

[LiquifiedArt]

Great Avatar, Great Game, Awesome Effects! I may have to pick it up.

[PopEmUp]

what games is that?

[DuneBuggy]

Yeah..TM2 is pretty much the sole reason I still fire up the PS2 nowdays.
I own every TM game (except Small Brawl), and TM2 is still my favorite.
I literally used Twisted Metal 3 as a coaster because it was sooo bad.

[Acquiescence]

Great game, but looks like ass.

[MrBuffalo]

The areas in some of the playable sections looked ropy but I think in the cut scenes Yakuza 3 has some of the best facial animations. At the end of the day when a games fun you quickly forget about the graphics. It sounds cliched but creating a believable and immersive world isnt down to looks or even realism. Mario 64 is waaaaaay more immersive than some (no game mentioned to avoid fanboy slappy fight) so called blockbusters that have come out this gen. If a game is good enough the graphics become secondary. If it isn't then people wont shut up about how good the graphics are.

[Redempteur]

Yakuza 3 does not use cutting edge technology but there is nothing with the graphics used ..See how many people there can bee in the streets of kamurocho ?? That's technically impressive IMO ..it's really crowded

[riksweeney]

>fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down

One of my favourite descriptions of all time :)

[ceiltsei]

HAHA.. that screenshot of Twisted Metal 2 was horrible. They should have at least used a proper shot.

Lucky me, I own this for PC and it looks quite a bit better.

[NumeroUno]

Disgaea still destroys anything out there that labels itself as a "JRPG" nowadays - bad graphics or not.

[clarkdef]

This artical fails. Stop going on about the past

[Shmotz]

Silent Hill? bad graphics? That game was PRAISED for its art direction and atmosphere.

Twisted Metal 2 also came out in 1996 and back then the game looked damn good for its time.

The other games I cant comment on but the author was a moron.

[crysis12]

Wow no cs 1.6?

[kesvalk]

i remember that some time i could understand where i was on twisted metal 2...

the game wasn't ugly, the graphics were confusing...

one of the uglyest gmaes on PS1 was metal gear solid, but the art and direction was so good, the game don't seems to be ugly, even today...

[hot4play]

I remember Twister Metal 2 not looking that bad, lol...oh and Silent Hill looked good at that time! Reviews even praised the atmospheric graphics...

You want a PS1 game that looked bad AND played bad? Bubsy 3D. lol!

[Pumbli]

This guy obviously did not have a PS1, too bad. Silent Hill looked excellent for it's time.

[Spenok]

Its funny that every game mentioned is OLD. Did the guy ever think that when these games launched they had good graphics?