Looking good is about artstyle more than realistic graphics for me so most pixelart games.
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Celeste
Half life 2
Graphically I'd have to say either Broke the Investigator or Corn Kidz 64.
One, as someone described in a plauthrough video, looks like a Saturday morning cartoon. The other, I think nails that old 90s 3D somewhat stylized video game look pretty well, IMO.
Super Mario
celeste
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ground Zeroes as well)
Hollow Knight and Silksong
A lot of older 2d games can run on a portrait potato and the artwork holds up excellently.
RC2, civ 3, Anno 1602, sim city 3000, AOE2.
Mass Effect 2
They toned down the ass in the legendary edition unfortunately.
That's what mods are for
In good times, in bad times. They'll be on your side forevermore.
mASS effect.
mass erect
Portal 2
But how is it holding up?
lots of really good pixel art: Celeste, hyper light drifter, dead cells, etc
Ragnarok online is what made me love pixel art.
Wish gravity wasn't a greedy shit company that deserved to burn to the ground.
But man pixel art games are just special.
Obligatory Hollow Knight mention
Painkiller, 2002(?)
2004
Braid
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Amazing soundtrack too.
It’s Lies Of P - they left it in the image file name.
Super Mario World is a game that shows artistic design outlasts everything else. That game still looks and plays amazingly.
But I think the real issue is "looks good" is very subjective.
Doom
Even 2016 and Eternal have pretty moderate requirements for their fidelity.
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Dishonored.
Devil Daggers
Super Nintendo-era pixel graphics games like Chrono Trigger. Pixel graphics need a lot less computational power to look good IMO.
Similar for modern pixel graphics games like Risk of Rain.
Minecraft
Also Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
BG1+2 is peak.
IME, Minecraft looks kinda bad until you install shader mods, at which point it needs pretty substantial GPU power. But IDK, maybe Bedrock Edition is more efficient, I only ever played the Java version.
Halo 3
Lies of P.
(it says so in the file name of the uploaded image)
Myst of course.
StarCraft and WarCraft series.
Bit of an older one, but DMC4 definitely ran well on just about anything. MT framework was really good for stuff like that.
The Mad Max game from 2015 is surprisingly well-optimized.
Mario Sunshine
TitanFall 2.
Metal Gear Solid V.
... maybe a slightly more impressive than average potato.
Amazing what you can do with a well optimized engine, eh?
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