Weren't some of those pre-rendered sprite sheets? Thinking especially of cRPGs and stuff like Diablo 1/2. Not to take away from either direction, or maybe even

Weren't some of those pre-rendered sprite sheets? Thinking especially of cRPGs and stuff like Diablo 1/2. Not to take away from either direction, or maybe even to say that there's a whole separate era and "look" in there that was post pixel art but before realtime 3D.