In my opinion Story and experience has a greater impact than graphics.
Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agothis looks like something that came out 35 years ago.
Super Mario World came out 35 years ago. There’s no excuse for a game to look this primitive in 2025.
RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
How about a game developed by two people on their own winning an award which was won last year by a game with a budget somewhere north 100 million dollars?
Is that a good excuse?
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
ConcernedApe created Stardew Valley etirely by himself.
So “no”.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
The “excuse” is it is appealing to some and not you, which is fine. I personality love the art style (it’s what got me interested in Qud in the first place).
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Not all games are about graphics, and this looks completely serviceable to me. I understand struggling with ASCII roguelike interfaces (never really got the hang of it myself), but everything here looks easily identifiable.