Leave My Eyes Alone 8! Dreadful Graphics And Visuals
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- čas přidán 2. 05. 2024
- WARNING: This video may cause seizures.
Many times, I hear people say that graphics don't matter and that only gameplay counts towards making a game great. I disagree with this.
There are some games out there with such graphical problems, it can seriously spoil the experience. Today, I'm taking a look at the games that will test the faith of even the most devout "gameplay whores". Wow, never thought I'd say that. Except for the other seven previous times, of course.
Learn why being poisoned is even worse for you than you thought, why Saturn can't be trusted, why JPEG images suck, and... Top Banana finally loses its crown?!
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Episode 1: • Leave My Eyes Alone! T...
Episode 2: • Leave My Eyes Alone 2!...
Episode 3: • Leave My Eyes Alone 3!...
Episode 4: • Leave My Eyes Alone 4!...
Episode 5: • Leave My Eyes Alone 5!...
Episode 6: • Leave My Eyes Alone 6!...
Episode 7: • Leave my Eyes Alone 7!...
Don't Leave My Eyes Alone!: • Don't Leave My Eyes Al... - Hry
I'd watch a "Leave My Hands Alone" for examples of games with clunky, unintuitive controls.
I feel like that's something hard to convey in a video. With seizure inducing graphics like in this video it's easy to see, and with horrible music it's easy to hear, but a game with bad controls can only really be felt through a video if you've played the game yourself and can relate to it. Otherwise it's hard to determine whether the controls are awful, or the person playing is.
@@kyuubinaruto17 There is programs that let you show your control on screen
@@kyuubinaruto17 I guess he could edit in a diagram or a live demonstration of the controls?
Ohhh ark game is bad!!!
Like bubsy 3D
The Final Boss had such terrible graphics it literally lowered the video quality to 144p.
Most powerful video game graphic of all time?
If you mean the 144p final boss in Pulseman, then I think there's a good reason (Sorry if it's about a different final boss):
According to the instruction manual in Pulseman, the manual mentions about a device that's a "2d to 3d device" called "Eureka".
I think Pulseman's nemesis aka Doc Waruyama decided to use the Eureka device to become into a 3D version of Doc Waruyama to become as the final boss, and it looks like a "3D polygon-ish but it's actually 2D dot graphicified" Doc Waruyama.
I do agree about this part, but if that final boss was made out of actual polygon, then the game would lag and ruin Pulseman's shiny appeal on how capable this game can do on the Sega Genesis.
Sorry for this long explanation, but here's my comment about this 144p final boss.
@@DJANDREAJP I think he was referring to the final boss from J.J. Squawkers, but thanks anyways for the history lesson on an obscure game that I should try sometime.
@@doozy5184 My bad. I got confused.🙇
I honestly don’t think anything can top that one. That was way worse than Top Banana and anything else Git has covered.
1:53 I’ve been stung by something poisonous during a vacation in Mexico. Of course my vision didn’t look like that but since I was stung on my right heel, it felt like that to walk.
Did it do the static feeling
@@zoner_5477Nope
Not to be pedantic but did u mean venomous
Turning down my phone brightness in preparation..
too bad the lowest phone brightness is still so bright
1:30
God bless CZcams's proprietary compression algorithm. Just reinforces the eyesore!
Y'all may be talkin' about Top Banana's crown with JJ Squawkers, but I still haven't forgotten Hoi AGA's final level
I sure haven't with how hard the music in that level SLAPS
It isn't you in terms of the Dragon Quest stairs. It's very minor, but I can definitely see it happening.
This is why our generation has wodespread use of glasses
JJ Squawkers…
What were they thinking with the final level? I’m guessing what happened was they play tested the boss rush, but didn’t know what the background would look like yet and then only added it after the play testing phase and way overtuned it.
To me it looks like LSD with too much caffeine.
None of them bothered me that much until the final boss one. THAT was way too far.
Thank you so much for picking up Pulseman as one part of this episode.
Not only that this game inspired my roots on how to make music (including Konami's beatmania, which I met this game after Pulseman), this game reaches its 30th anniversary at this year (2024, to be exact).
I have a new suggestion for a new series: Leave My Hands Alone. It's a series where you can go over bad/annoying controls that hurt your hands. Not just button mashing and messing with muscle memory, but also controls that have buttons you don't want put in places where you can easily press them.
An example I would come up with is a recent one: the Atari 50 collection's 7800 games, which have an L button that can't be relocated or changed (within the game that is) and will immediately reset your game and make you lose all of your progress if you press it. On PS4 and PS5, the best way to do this is to go into Settings and re-locate the L button with Triangle. I imagine it's the same to do the equivalent for the Xbox consoles. On Switch, however, you can change buttons to remove the L entirely (as well as that screenshot button while you're at it), but only on the Joy-Cons, which are poorly made and known to "drift" if you use them too often. Use one of the Switch's alternate controllers to avoid this problem, such as an SNES controller, whose shoulder buttons hang out like an exposed posterior, meaning you easily run the risk of taking a big, fat L by pressing the button by accident. Your best option is the NES controller, which still has the L button, which is at least small and easy to avoid pressing. It lacks an X button however (required to press before you press A to start a game) so you still have to have a different one on hand to press X to initiate the game in question, be it a Joy-Con or otherwise.
There's also those infamous Mario Party minigames where you have to twirl the joystick around really fast, and people were rubbing the skin off their hands 0_0
@@deen7530 That's part of the "Button Mashing" category.
Can lousy ports of otherwise good games count for this?
Because the PC port of the original Dead Space from 2008 would fit easily. For reasons I can't fathom, they apply analog stick deadzones to mouse movement which makes mouse aiming feel incredibly stiff and unresponsive.
@@qu1253 Without a doubt! There seems to be quite a few downgraded remakes lately where almost everyone prefers the original. I think it's due to a problem inherent to gaming, especially console gaming, where people are happy because the game is coming to (a) new console(s).
Audiences of other media dread remakes because they know there's a big potential to miss the point of a known classic. I guess we just don't have the same standards because having standards for full-priced games just isn't as fun.
oh, that reminds me:
in an old SNES game, "Tiny Toons adventures, Buster busts loose", there's a segment at the end of level 2, where your character is supposed to automatically sprint-jump onto the train engine.
BUT, if you made the mistake of changing the button layout so that A does something other than Sprint, then your character will DIE there instead!
17:27
Might be "Miam-miam !", French for "Yummy!". Now, maybe Lub Lub is yummy too, but that's one of the many questions I can live without an answer to.
I'm not the biggest fan of the faux-3D during the SNES era.
The one example that sticks out to me is Secret of Mana. Whenever you want to take off, you're greeted by an extreme close-up of Flammie's sprite that looks less like it's flying towards you and more like it's becoming a pixelated mess. But this pales in comparison to the world map, where technical limitations really make it hard to look at, let alone navigate. Oh, and the lightning strikes in endgame aren't helping
Top Banana will always be in my nightmares because of this series (Still an interesting and good series though)
I hope you don't take it personal if I skip all future iterations of this particular series even if I'll still follow the rest of the channel. Owww...
I still remember how ridiculously young I was when trying FF6 for the first time, not even understanding what that pixelation effect coupled with the heartbeat noise meant at first. Mega Man 2's boss flashing was even worse then, especially the dragon. Glad most modern games avoid this kind of thing.
This series makes me glad i avoided most of those games back when i suffered majorly from epilepsy.
One of my own personal leave my eyes alone experience was in the original kirby super star when you defeated any boss or miniboss, the screen would erupt into red and white flashes
I believe those pumpkins are saying "Yum Yum" or maybe the French version "Miam Miam"
So not only does J J Squawkers have absolutely atrocious graphics in the final stage, but the music there is just the boss theme that loops incredibly quickly, becoming very grating to listen to. Hoi Aga's final stage had kickass music despite the over the top visuals, and even Top Banana had the decency to not have any music to demolish the eardrums with.
17:56 JJ Squawkers starts exactly like Growl.
The people who made jj squackers final level background probably made the same mistake as the people who made hoi agas final level background
Iznogoud has all the charm and design of a CD-I game.
Happy to see Mega Man V and Pulseman get mentioned, even if it wasn't for good reasons. I actually really loved Pulseman's aesthetics, only the final boss really caused me eye pain but at least he's not too tough.
I think Violet Wisteria, a fairly recent indie game, would make a good fit for this series with at least two parts I’ve seen of it.
J. J. Squawkers has a hard mode. I *think* the last level's background has a different palette and I swear it's even worse.
i just remembered a "trolls" game i played on an Atari 800 many years ago.
EVERYTHING on the screen (except my character) flickered and flashed in different ways!
i couldn't even tell the walkable parts apart from the background!
Wait, do Tick-Tock and the lamp not exist in the original DQ4? Because the lamp lets you go straight to night-time and carries over from Meena and Maya's equipment
He was talking about DQ3, not DQ4.
@@KrimsonKattYT he was talking about DQ4, not DQ3.
@@spidermacho123 The commentor was talking about Dragon Quest 4. Whoisthisgit was talking about Dragon Quest 3 very clearly.
@@KrimsonKattYT 8:24
I don't even have epilepsy, but even I'm a little dizzy after watching this one, so be careful everyone!
the poison flashing while playing fire red at 2x speed as a child is so nostalgic haha
16:11 that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen hahaha
9:33 does the night light not exist in dq4 nes? I could've sworn it's at least in the ds remake
oh, that last one reminded me of an arcade game i saw once , LONG ago.
in the second level, the enemies will spawn RIGHT where you are standing, EVERY ONE OF THEM!
unless you DUCK just BEFORE they appear, you DIE to EVERY ONE.
and no, you can't crouch-walk!
I have a nomination, and it's literally one of my FAVORITE game series of ALL TIME: PS1's Spyro Tilogy.
The Magenta and SUPER Bright Greens that are used in Spyro give me splitting migraines if I play more than 30 minutes at a time. I hate even nominating it, but the reason why I love the Reignited Trilogy so much is they got rid of those super bright colors that featured so commonly on 3d models in the Play Station 1 era. It causes me severe physical pain. My eyes start hurting, my head hurts, and the migraine can last for more than a day. I love that game so much, I'm so thankful the reignited series came out because otherwise I haven't been able to play it in 2 decades.
Argh, I had to be reminded of these nasty poison effects! Good thing they got less annoying over time
If you think the clouds in that FF6 fight were terrible then wait until you see a certain boss fight in Romancing SaGa 3
A very good (if slightly hard to swallow) video.
Anyway, all points are subjective and personal, if understandable, but I had to note some moments:
-I'm pretty sure, DQ4 stuttering effect is caused by NES being unable to render at fast speed. It's also probably not very noticable at monitors it supposed to run on. On ladders it's actually intentional as someone's bright idea to simulate stepping. Indeed, on modern monitors it annoys much more than it's supposed to deliver.
-As far as I'm aware, you're supposed to pronounce it "is no good". Also I think, it's two different laugh tracks, but I can't get them to be side by side, so I'm not sure.
-On the same matter, background remind me of Zelda CDI games, where, if I remember correctly, they were hand-drawn, not prerendered (as in 3d prerendered). Not a good sign either way.
-Pumpkins kinda do sound like they saying "LubLub" more than "Nyam-Nyam", as other people claim. I think it is close to the track you used for your elephant LubLub back then, except in lower pitch (rather your one is in much higher pitch). Maybe it's the same one?
The bit rate at the end actually helped me because everything looked so blurry that it was difficult to concentrate my eyes on something and everything became a jumble of things like watching static on a television xD only the text was legible
Finally, a mention of one of my favorite (and one of only two) Mega Man games I ever played, even though it's just to talk about Saturn!
EDIT: Dunno why I said "Fooleys" in there as well. He never mentioned or showed them even once. Their screen-strobey effect is slower, so I guess to him that means they're less eyestrainy.
Thank you for showing off JJ Squawkers, this game has Leave my eyes alone as its 2nd home!
I'll say this: Saturn's flashiness is WAY less of a factor on the original Game Boy, because the screen size was small enough that it didn't really hit that hard. When you blow it up to a bigger screen, it has a lot more impact. So that can at least be excused as an accident of modernity.
I think I picked up on what you were talking about with DQ4 when you went up and down the stairs, there definitely was visible jittering there.
"You press Square to jump, hold X to run and press Circle to attack." ...Right, someone get the fucking Hague on the line, I'm pretty sure that's a Geneva Convention violation.
I wasn't too bothered by the JJ Squawkers one...until the last phase. That one was brutal.
My eyes are unfortunately used to pain. Clearly official games are far from immune to visual atrocity, but the untamed world of ROM hacks has no quality check entry barrier. And I've suffered quite a bit of visual atrocity from them...some of them are just ugly, but when they start getting flashy it starts getting painful.
While it's relatively minor, the Shadowfell in Baldur's Gate 3 has this annoying lensing effect that makes everything look blurry. Not that bad if you're playing the game on a computer monitor or a TV, but a handheld PC like the Steam Deck? The image becomes so muddy because of the lower resolution that it feels like I'm playing the game without glasses on.
Luckily it's a short section, even shorter if you're smart and kill Balthazar before entering the Shadowfell (which you should, because fighting him in the Gauntlet of Shar is way easier).
6:00
Can Mega Man V be remade already? It's a fresh concept, to have bosses based off of planets (and, as of recently, a dwarf planet) of the Solar System.
Speaking for myself, all 9 are at the very least... good. Even Uranus, widely regarded as the weakest, and Venus, my least favourite are decent.
Becoming blind suddenly became slightly more appealing after seeing that final boss
9:47 yeah the going up and down on the stairs I could definitely see the flashes.
The character in iznogoud looks like he'll give me a thousand lashes if I don't die of laughter
a game that did that poison flash effect even WORSE than FF6 was Eternal Filena (also on SNES)- thought it was bad enough it went every step when you were poisoned? try getting that effect EVERY TIME YOU TAKE A STEP, during an entire UNSKIPPABLE section where the protagonist is blinded, with *NO WAY TO STOP IT* other than switching Filena out for someone else...
Definitely wasnt about to go to sleep before seeing this, nope. My eyes surly will be fine!
Try doing "big bang" on the acorn archimedes
I've never played ff6 and I thought, "oh come on it can't be that bad." Oh my god that was horrendous.
Glad I don't suffer epilepsy (apparently, Armake21 wasn't so lucky, supposedly dying of it, poor guy).
J.J. Squawker boss rush sure is nasty on the eyes and Sega Outride/Outdrive.
DQIV, at least from the recording, does seem to stutter, but not flash. The stuttering is very distracting, though.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one bothered by that horrid stock child laugh.
Also I’ve never heard of JJ Squawks I have got to try that out
Okay that wasnt just me with LttP and that section, I also did that lol
A suggestion for a video, horrible tiles.
Wow… Glitchy
10:49 What about stage 6-4?
I could have sworn they toned down the poison effect for the FFVI PS1 port.
I disagree with that last game taking top banana's crown.
10:00 i can see the screen flashing specifically while ur on the stairs
OH NOOOOO
Wow, that one in Nightmare Circus is BAD. I was feeling fine for most of them until that one.
Okay that last one takes the cake 🤮
Dear Gods!