Comment on Mina the Hollower: Release Date Announcement Trailer (October 31)
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m tired of the pixel art aesthetic.
You can pick any artistic style you want. There literally aren’t any real hardware imitations to graphics anymore. And yet it’s always realistic graphics for AAA games, and pixel graphics for indie games (with a few rare ones in between that do it different).
Sigh…
Yeah, me too. I grew up with heavily pixelated 80s graphics and I have zero desire to return to that now that technology has improved so much that it’s not necessary.
Shame, because it means there are some games that I just won’t enjoy, but so it goes, there’s lots more stuff to play.
simple@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Then it's not for you. I find pixelart very charming, it's not just about hardware limitations.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know it’s not. It’s about a sizable portion of indie developers and gamers being stuck in past nostalgia.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“UGH why do people write haikus any more, use the whole page you dummies, it’s not 1913 any more”
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Joe’s on you; I believe poetry is just pretentious writing.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are a lot of types of games that are inherently not broken in their designs, and there are advantages to portraying the aesthetic in the same style, like quickly conveying to your audience where your inspirations came from so that they know what type of game it is. In a similar way, lots of games have moved on to a PS1 aesthetic these days.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re… Not exactly disproving what I said or making a real case why it’s beneficial. On the contrary, you’ve only reinforced exactly what I’m talking about:
For quite a period, and still today, the indie scene is dominated by pixel art, because those people grew up with games that looked that way, and are still stuck there. But now the people who grew up with the PS1 are also capable of completing game projects, and they themselves are stuck in their past.