Psychonauts

HA! dude 2005 was the same year Shadow of the Colossus came out. No one played this on release because it was pushing any technical limitations. It had/has style and vision.

Anyway, the low poly and brutal model stretching in the cinematics will probably always give this game an indisputable charm over the visuals of its sequel for me.

i think visuals aged perfectly, because it has a cartoonish style. it doesn't need too much details. overall, games with this kind of style aged the best, imo. it has that 00s feel, but it's fine. more realistic games from early 00s are the ones that aged poorly visually.

honestly i dont mind the poor textures because everything about the game is incredible and i adore the style to death. the art style has aged very well with its weak graphical fidelity, and i still think this is a near perfect game with the only real complaints going to some of the typical 3d platformer issues.

and yeah half life 2 came out a year before this too, i definitely didnt go into this game expecting outstanding graphics, i was a kid when i heard about this game and ive wanted to sit down and play it through for about a decade and a half. i finally did and i love it.