Worst Eye Bleed Moment

[gorfias]

So, my boy's been playing NBA 2K10 and thinking it meh. He kept coming home from a friend's house and telling me, there, they play NBA Live 2004 on a Gamecube. Finally, getting sick of it, I was able to buy it from Gamestop for $1.99. I kept 2K10 (Was offered 50 cents for it!) to compare and contrast with NBA Live 2010 for PS3 ($12).

My thoughts: 2K10 much prettier than live. If you want hard, 2K10 is harder than live as well. But if you want fun, you'll be dunking and dribbling with tricks very fast in Live. Lot of fun.

Course, after the boy declared the PS3 version didn't have the same camera angle, off to the the cube version we went. I started it up and screamed, "oh, my eyes!!!" My recollection is that the cube had decent graphics, even compared to this gen, but this looked Gen 5!!! Boy apologized for wasting my $1.99 Something good came of it. Ends up, he and pal are playing on something much smaller (19" CRT?) than the 40" LCD we were playing on.

I know I'm a graphics whore of the first order (got an HD 7970) but I also understand gameplay comes first. You can play a game with graphics the stink in the eye, but are just fun to play. Live 2004 is likely that way. But still, given how good the cube had been, this was a surprise.

When is the last time you had a good game that made you try to claw your eyes out?

 

[Jarek Mace]

Mass Effect 3.
It's a good game, but I hate it so hard I want to scream.

 

[DoPo]

No, not really. Graphics don't really impress me either way. As I say in all these topics, I play Might and Magic 7 (currently on hold, though), after all. The game looked bad even when it came out in 1999, it was worse when I picked it up for the first time several years later. The series as a whole aren't renowned for impressive graphics. The last game uses pretty much he same engine as 7 - the difference isn't big. It's very small actually, uninitiated person can confuse screenshots from both (the others just recognise the place or the UI...). And yet, the visuals didn't bother me neither then, nor now - the series are really good and is one of my favourite ones ever. As long as I can see what's going on, I'm happy - that means that it shouldn't be too blurry/pixelated or whatever but other than that, whether it runs in 640x480 or 16 million x 9 million is not that relevant.

 

[Pearwood]

Dwarf Fortress. If it physically kicked you in the shins when you started it up it wouldn't be much less user friendly, mouse support is either non-existant or in the form of dodgy mods I can never get working, your little minions think it's a good idea to go for a drink of their highly flammable booze while burning to death because they tried to swim through a river of lava and it's undoubtably the most detailed "Here is your own world, do something interesting with it" kind of game in existance.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Only a couple times. Now, I'm rather biased towards bloom effects, but when they're improperly used, all they do is show just how shoddy the art design can be at times. Two occasions that I can name off the top of my head are Fallout New Vegas and Mass Effect 3. Both these games really suffer from having homogenous looking environments and rather drab palette choices.

Take Shepard's regular uniform for example. While it looks alright at first, when it is put against lighting effects, it just turns into a mush of jumbled textures in my eyes, and I cannot pick out where lines are supposed to begin and end.

 

[Fractral]

The original half life. I got it as a present from valve for christmas and I tried to play it but something about that game makes me feel very, very sick. I don't even know what it is- I just cannot play more than 10 minutes at a time without feeling like you do when you try and read in a car. Which is a shame, because I loved HL2 and the game is supposed to be quite good.

 

[fireaura08]

Deus Ex (the original). I played it for the first time last year (over the summer) and boy, did it look bad. The voice acting in some parts (Hong Kong) was worse. At the very least, it was a lot of fun.

 

[Luca72]

I played Bioshock a few weeks ago for the first time, and it didn't make my eyes bleed outright, but there was definitely some hemorrhaging going on.

The poly count is pretty good, and a lot of the effects are nice, and the backgrounds are astounding. However, some of the animations are just.... weird. When Splicers attack sometimes it's like frames are missing, and the same thing happens with a lot of the particle effects. When I try to move through the environment I find I have a lot of trouble focusing on anything that isn't directly in front of me. I watched some Let's Plays on youtube just to make sure it wasn't something on my end, but I see the same things with their videos. I've become so used to FPS's at this point that trying to kill something with my mouse and keyboard offers basically no challenge - except in Bioshock (which actually makes me like the game more, oddly enough).

 

[MortifiedPenguin]

Most of the time I don't really care about graphis, but games that use "White outs" I hate. God my retinas hurt just thinking about it.

 

[saintdane05]

My eyes started to bleed when I looked at Xenoblade. MOst of the time, its fine. But when we got close ups of the faces...

Allow me to put it this way. If I had a cent for every pixel on a character's face in Xenoblade, I would have about 65 cents. I am not joking.

 

[Landrius]

The Witcher (the first one) made me wince internally at the aesthetics, at times. It had the weirdest graphics problem I'd ever seen. In some ways, it looked great and in others it was so bad that you just couldn't bear to look at it. It made for a fascinating and mildly upsetting dichotomy.

I'd never encountered a game that I could honestly tell you had both good and bad graphics, all at the same time, everywhere in the game. Usually a game either looks good or it doesn't, right?

I'm glad the Witcher 2 was so much prettier. Still enjoyed both of them.

 

[EHKOS]

Most of the PS2 games I go back to do that at first. After the first hour I get used to it again.

 

[VoidWanderer]

Insert MiB game here.

And don't get me started on the control setup!

 

[Pete1001]

Okay, how do I put this - Im the guy who sometimes still plays through System shock 2, but prefers to play with the original models because he thinks the fanmade HD versions look silly.
I guess what Im saying is that graphics could bother me more.

(dolphin feet, hee)

 

[spartan231490]

Some of my favorite games are monster rancher on the PSX, fists of rage on sega genesis six pack, super mario world for SNES, and duck hunt on NES, I don't care about graphics.

 

[lacktheknack]

Dwarf Fortress. If it physically kicked you in the shins when you started it up it wouldn't be much less user friendly, mouse support is either non-existant or in the form of dodgy mods I can never get working, your little minions think it's a good idea to go for a drink of their highly flammable booze while burning to death because they tried to swim through a river of lava and it's undoubtably the most detailed "Here is your own world, do something interesting with it" kind of game in existance.

http://genodeen.net/files/dfterm2/screenshots/soiled_dfterm2_uncluttered.png

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1752/11in4.png

http://www.epinardscaramel.com/images/test/dwarf_fortress.png

It's utterly fantastic.

 

[BernardoOne]

Early 3D games. I want to stab my eyes just for looking at it.
Everything else is fine in my books. I still love to play some upscaled NES and SNES and there are some beautiful games.

 

[MiriaJiyuu]

I don't really put stock in graphics when I'm playing a game; a game is defined by game-play not graphics... but playing a current-gen game then switching to one that's almost a decade old would definitely cause your eyes to bleed at the graphics for about an hour. I find it goes away after that. Watching older movies that have CGI in them have the same issue.

Unfortunately older games often correspond to things such as strange glitches, weird invisible walls for collision and occasional awkward movement since the physics engine is often outdated and rather simplistic... oh and lag if you manage to get enough guys on the screen.

 

[rhyno435]

Just started playing Condemned: Criminal Origins. It's weird to think that THAT is what graphics were like, even on X-Box 360, only 7 years ago. It's crazy how far things have come even on the same system.

 

[crono738]

After playing Starcraft 2 for a couple years, I went and reinstalled SC1. I'm no graphics whore, but after 2 years of SC2's pretty visuals, I can't stand how Starcraft 1 looks.