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You have no idea on how charming these games look.
by anthk 1y ago
You have no idea on how charming these games look.
- lukan 1y agoOr I do, because I played them? But that was my not well received point about nostalgia ..
- anthk 1y agoI didn't play them. but I owned a Game Boy in late 90's and I emulated 8-16 bit microcomputer/console games in 2001-2005, and I really appreaciated them.
- Keyframe 1y agoI get your point. Truth is on both ends though. There truly are games which peaked in their visual style and even with modern power at their disposal nothing could be added that would make them look better. The medium they used, some of them, they used it to its maximum potential. I'd take pixel art's swan song game of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Modern rendition of it with let's say more detailed graphics, even vector one, would just make it look worse. It's perfect the way it is and I'd argue if you were to do it today and you chose the same art style, it'd come out the same with only smaller differences (like overall high resolution but still "subdivided" into smaller ones, effectively still being lower resolution).
- lukan 1y agoI get the aesthetics of pixel art games. And I would likely not enjoy modern remakes of them. My point above was just, that I do admire those arts as great of their time - but looking at them today like in the picture above, I simply don't like the pixel style as an art style on its own.
- Keyframe 1y agoThere's one, soon to be released, which is highly anticipated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFYMG3QLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFYMG3QLw
- chamomeal 1y agoLooks like return of the obra dinn! Which was obviously targeting this look on purpose. There are also some great blog posts by the obra dinn guy about 1-but dithering. They make the rounds on HN once in a while