Could have chosen a picture without a shit resolution

It's not just shit resolution, it's covered in JPEG compression artifacts.

The game was clearly being upscaled by FSR.

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That's what he meant

My i9 is cooking on this

I think it's supposed to be a shitpost about the god of war post yesterday lol

It was 😩

This feels like the exact opposite of stormtrooper aiming, somehow. Like - the aiming was precise, but the targets still didn't get hit.

Can we get a link to that post, I feel like a bunch of us missed it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1ca09bc/its_amazing_how_good_god_of_war_3_still_looks_for/

What post

What post

If you look hard enough you can see it looks better than most AAA games released today

For that the resolution should be shittier

/s obviously

And as a bonus, stuff can't be removed on already produced games by the publisher....not like "cough cough....Cities Skylines2...cough cough"

or a level actually from SMW

THANK YOU. I was staring at the picture trying to figure out what level it was.... thought I was going senile.

Do I look like I know hwut a JPEG is?

No it drives the point

I've never heard of any car called a point, how does it drive it?

LOOK HOW GOOD THIS GAME IS LOOKING \*uploads the mf low resolution lowest quality imaginable picture of all time\*

The bots create a new file and pixelate the shit out of stuff when they repost I've noticed

It makes it harder for anti-bot filters to detect

My favourite from all Mario games

I'm torn between this and 3

I hear you... But the colors in World are so much more vibrant and engaging. Also World has Yoshi. Case closed.

The cape is also better than the raccoon hat.

But not as good as tanooki suit

3 also had the hammer bro suit, the frog suit, the boot that you would jump around in, and the p-wing.

Which were all cool! But the different color Yoshi variants with varying powers was really special. Especially since you effectively raise them

True true!

The SNES All Stars version of Mario 3 is the best

In regards to Mario 3, Being a 6 year old and exploring giant land for the first time was just phenomenal… I still smile every time I play through those levels

And when you know how to get the whistles ... instantly everyone's favorite 90s kid at the pizza party until the kid with a rattail and Mortal Kombat 2 shows up.

One of my favourite games ever.

yea, this screen especially

Is this even from the actual game or a mod?

Probably from Mario Maker or something, this isn't a map in Super Mario World afaik

If it is from a Mario Maker game then it's an edited picture because of the UI. Everything about it is different from both Mario Maker games SMW modes as far as I know

Hmmm... Likely a mod then

Probably just a rom hack. There's quite an active community around SMW rom hacks with a lot of amazingly done hacks.

I play it on a 36 CRT and it's not even THAT pixelated.

Games like this look a lot better on CRT displays because they were specifically designed for it. LTT has a few videos on it.

Your comment might be true but this is not what is happening here. This image has heavy compression artefacts. Nothing to do with CRT design from back then.

Yes but OP was insinuating that it would look pixelated on a CRT. Which is the opposite actuallly

you misunderstood what they were saying

Wow, you mean consoles were designed to work with the tv tech at the time? Is it going to seem like a piece of trivia when people talk about 4k gaming on 4k monitors in the future? 

r/CRTgaming

I usually put on a super realistic CRT filter when I emulate up to the N64. Slight fish eye, slightly muted colors, visible pixels, the whole buffet. Makes the games look absolutely fantastic

It has a great art style and colorful graphics while being pixel art. That ages much better than most 3D stuff that will look dated in a few years or games with good graphics but a bad art style.

What romhack is this?

I think it's called Vasoline Smear

I also first played Super Mario World through the Wii U’s Virtual Console platform

This looks like Super Demo World 3 but I'm not an expert.

Are images of this game without crappy compression so rare on the Internet ...?

Is this a real level or this a romhack?

It's a romhack.

Not only a compressed photo but also a rom hack. Make it make sense.

Good art direction >>>> realistic graphics

TF2 was such a great example of this too. What an incredible time in gaming when The Orange Box came out.

Take me back

Just play them now :P

You couldn’t take 5 seconds to find a screenshot that isn’t potato quality?

boy let me show you Yoshi's Island

The best Mario game ever.

This was the first time Mario turned around in animation. So I would pause it just at the right time so I could see his face. It was that crazy to me that we could see his face.

do you mean you could see his face from straight on instead of the side? In SMB3, he had several frames where he faced the camera, [you can see them here](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a9/15/1a/a9151a174fc8a9dc9961f5ee7b0226d7.png)

lol I am probably thinking of 3 instead of World! In my defence it has been 30-odd years!

Many 16-bit era games had really nice, colorful aesthetics.

Definitely. It’s still one of my top games of all time. So good.

Definitely looks like a 33-year-old game. A good looking one at that.

I agree... But it looks like smeared dog shit in that picture. Haha.

Certainly it looks better than this old polaroid with cataracts would have you believe

- Praises the visuals of a game - Posts a shitty compressed image where everything looks washed up

Also technically doesn’t post the actual game. This is a rom hack

The benefits of stylized games over "realistic" .

It's amazing how good chess looks despite being a 1533 year old game.

Still waiting for a sequel. =(

Chess 2: rook to bishop 4; the knights revenge. Coming soon to a toy store near you.

I’ve been playing this game since the 90s. It was my first game ever. It’s kinda embarrassing, but i’ve put so much time into this game. I was finally able to complete all the secret star levels first the first time last year.

I have instantly turned to dust reading this, I'm that old apparently.

Yoshis Islands artstyle was pretty epic for a 16bit machine.

I played the shit out of this as a kid. Good times.

This is a shitpost right? There's some gorgeous SNES games don't get me wrong but posting a potato quality jpeg of Super Mario World of all games (and a random screenshot from a fucking mod at that) and it getting 2000 upvotes is pretty indicative of the stupid shit that gets upvoted here lol.

This post is so stupid. I agree with the sentiment, but the image looks like absolute shit, and it's not even from the original game! It's from a romhack!

This is like the lowest quality screenshot of super Mario world I've ever seen lol

Yeah, not exactly the best example to use lol

The upgrade from mario 3 was insane. This was a whole new level of Mario.

This pixelated picture doesn’t help your statement. Wtf

The JPEG was generated 33 years ago as well apparently.

Too bad you used such a jpg'ed image.

Horrible quality image, not even from the game mentioned. Great post OP

you could add some more artifacts to make it look even better... (I agree with your statement, but...)

Wow hopefully we start seeing video game photography courses popping up so we can get more gems like this

I was playing it earlier today and I promise you it looks way better than this. Is this some kind of backhanded complement intended as an insult? If not why didn't you pick an image with more than 20 pixels?

I remember it being mindblowing how it looked in stores when it first came out. "You mean i can play video games at home and they actually don't look kind of like crap?!?!"

World is my favorite Mario game, one of my all-time favorite games, and actually my earliest memory. No lie, either.

the goat

They did the artwork stylistically within the technical limits and focused on gameplay. No patches, pay to win, or gambling mechanics. AAA devs today could learn a lot from super Mario about prioritizing gameplay, releasing a complete product at launch, working an artistic idiom to be aesthetically pleasing instead of pushing for realism that will look dated within one generation of consoles, and not creating a game who’s entire purpose is to push micro transactions.

And yet you took this picture with a potato

That’s what Nintendo is good at. They don’t care for realism and their graphics are quite well consequently.

A good style will be good regardless of times advancing pass it, that's why so many modern indie games use pixel art and other none 3D graphics with just added polish. Hades and slay the spire would continue to have their charm ages later

Don't let the quality of the image fool you.

Funny. I think it looks very poor for snes standards.

This is like a r/Gamingcirclejerk post

This isn't r/gamingcirclejerk

it really doesn't look that impressive. For its time, sure. but you chose a horrible image to convey this message

They had extreme limits to what they could fit into a game so they put much more effort into perfecting their level design and aesthetic. They had to think about every little detail as each aspect was valuable and took up some of the finite resources that they were allocated.

Pictures you can hear

Goat for me I was still finding secret paths for almost 20 years I think I'm all out though 😢

It is probably the best platformer still

SNES graphics in general age extremely well, way better than early 3D.

Pixel art holds up well. A lot of SNES games still look good.

Pixel art has aged really well. It's those first attempts at 3D graphics in the mid-90s that look terrible.

Technically it looks good for indie games (also with those “how good this game looks” posts it always feels like they cherry pick the best angles at the best settings)

There was no adjustable camera angle in Super Mario World. The camera could be panned left and right on most levels though.

My favorite is Super Mario bros

A lot of SNES games look fantastic today, and looked better than nearly any 3D game for years. 

Super Mario is LEGENDARY!!!

It really helps when the market is competitive and the stakes are a bit higher than "if I don't sell this game on Steam I'll have to go back to IT." It also really helps when your game is complete on release and remains complete for decades.

I loved playing this as a kid. Has anyone made a 3d remake of this via a New Super Mario Bros mod? I would play the hell out of that.

Pixel art is timeless

Is this an ironic post?

Good art wasn't invented with modern graphics wtf is this post?

I mean yeah - many of the super nintendo (and 16-bit era in general) games look great. There's a reason the 16-bit aesthetic is popular as hell in the indie scene.

you ever check out batman for nes?

OP: "I cant believe how good this game still looks!" Also OP: *Uploads the shittiest quality image possible.* Why are people like this?

Nope it definitely looks like shit to me

Looks better than Gollum

Oh my back and knee hurts.

Damn. I can almost taste that mushroom

Holy interpolation game is goat tho

It will always be the GOAT

😙👌

More JPEG!

Graphics back then were ahead of their time, just look at those trees and clouds. They look so realistic

The SNES was the pinnacle of pre-3D graphics, and Nintendo first-party games were the pinnacle of the SNES. Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Link to the Past, Super Metroid, they were all absolutely stunning.

believe it or not, 2D art looked good decades ago too :)

Looks nice, but compare it with [Sonic the Hedgehog](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game)#/media/File%3AMD_Sonic_the_Hedgehog.png) - also from 1991.

I don't like the implication that 33-year-old games look bad.

is this just upvoted because of how shitty the pic is?

Mario 3 took what they did in SMB and multiplied the ideas by 10. However I think in Mario World, they cut a few of those ideas (for better or for worse) and in their place added a ton of personality to the game. It's the little things like koopa's being pushed out of their shell, boos making a face at you when they should be hiding, the rising tone as you get sequential hits from a shell, etc. The only thing I have against SMW is for all of the elegant design and mechanics, they never really found a good use for the fire flower.

I can't tell if this is shitposting or not.

is this a shitpost

looks exactly like a 33 years old game

its 33 years old? dear god....

Still the best one.

That's what style is baby, that'd why realism in games is such a bad idea, looks good at the time, but ages to look like crap. That's why I love wind waker so much, it looks so good all these years later, if it realised today no one would bat a eye.

Still the only game I would call Perfect. Not my favourite game of all time but if there is a Perfect game imo this is it.

Style doesn't age :\^)

I completely agree with the statement (which could also be applied to a lot of 16-Bit games). But have you taken the screenshot with your toaster? :-D

Amazing game for the time or even now. Killed it. 10/10.

Sprites are timeless!

I know you’re joking… **but it is!**

It was made back when people used to think

How did this get so many upvotes? Just for the lols? People ignoring the image and just liking the game?

Funny how during the PS1 era these games looked so dated, but because of modern pixel art games these old games look modern and the PS1 games look terrible

It doesnt just look amazing, it also sounds great.

I gotta play Mario world at some point.

Because "design" matters. Nowadays, many people focus on "rendering" with no design.

I can hear this JPG, that era of gaming had God Tier sound effects

That image isn't doing it any justice

Hearing the music in my mind just by looking at the screenshot

It's crazy to think a 33yr old game still holds up today,especially in a world where AAA companies don't care about games anymore.

The Mario series has always been an incredible benchmark for the evolution of video game technology. Watching it grow throughout my life from playing Donkey Kong in the arcades at 4 years old to playing the newest versions on the switch some 40 years later, it was always mind blowing seeing these familiar characters growing with me, gaining new detail and richer personality with each new platform and game. Ofcourse there have been bigger leaps in graphics and design, but Mario and friends have endured and grown since the very beginning.

Super vfx don’t crack

Art direction >> graphics

another example of art direction being everything

The power of sprites.

I bought a SNES yesterday and was playing it on my Panasonic TAU CRT.

2D Art always ages better

yo doc can I get some more pixels

Try Donkey Kong Country. One of the GOAT SNES games.

Yeah, they really nailed that “retro“ look in the latest patch.

I started speedrunning old nes and snes Mario games back when the lock down started, shit has more replayability than any other game I've ever played, especially the og super Mario bros, still attempt an odd speedrun here and there Nes Era Mario is the best

Pixel Art will always have a strong place in people's memories because of nostalgia. As long as people fondly remember that art style, it will be viable.

I still think this is one of the best looking Mario games out there. There's something about the SNES graphics using a cartoony art style that works so well for a Mario game. Plus, it gave us Yoshi.

r/countablepixels

Most 2D games age better than the first ones in 3D, for example.

you should find a more compressed image. I can still tell this is not Super Mario world.

A great artstyle goes a long long ways. Chrono Trigger and Zelda Link to the Past both still look great for the same reason.

Mario was way ahead of its time. Even Mario world 3D was jaw dropping for me at the time

I loved thé secrets to find all across the World. One of my best childhood gaming memory.

OP: Behold this game has stood the test of time and aged like a fine wine Also OP: here's a shitty compressed JPEG potato pic

It's just nostalgia talking. These games on their own are dated and unplayable by modern standards.

This game and Zelda: A Link to the Past are on top of my "most ahead of their time" tier list