What is inherently wrong with pixel art and retro styled games?

There's nothing wrong with it.

But honestly, man- /v/ is not a single person. Why do so many people fail to realize it? Is it that much of a shock for anybody who's new to imageboards?
Pretending the entirety of users on an anonymous imageboard holds a certain opinion is not only uneducated, but just plain illogical.

>>250275242
Because Shovel Knight is the Nickleback of indie games.

>>250275242
It;s good if it's done well, however it is done lazily and shitilly 90% and that shitty lazy crap quality is often excused by people who have no idea what good pixel art looks like.

>>250275242
the one critical downside to sprite-based graphics is that it's very heavily dependent on screen resolution in order to look good.
Anything that isn't upscaling by the power of 2 will look absolutely awful.
And it takes a lot more effort to produce 2D sprite animations which is inherently a 1-man job, compared to 3D polygon animation where the workshare can be divided by people.

Nothing is at all wrong with pixel art, nor is anything at all wrong with retro styled games.

What IS wrong is when people use "Retro" as an excuse for making a standard, flavorless titles with incredibly low-tier sprites that would be considered "retro" in 1980. Shovel Knight and games like it genuinely look like titles that I could see myself playing on an SNES. Shit like Thomas Was Alone is deplorable by all degrees.

Many indie devs don't do pixel art that's up to Metal Slug quality, they usually go for the off-palette "lets pretend we have 16 bytes of RAM on an underclocked Commodore 8x16 lel" pixel art with three whole frames because they're lazy shits.

That's what's making pixel art seem so shitty nowadays.

>>250276453 again

>Shovel Knight is getting dragged through the mud by /v/ for no real reason
>/v/ just starts parroting shit without knowing why

These kinds of comments are just idiotic, and only serve to represent some haughty "Man, everybody's stupid except for me" attitude. Drop it. You're not a special snowflake.

Share your opinions, and discuss individuals' opinions instead of making idiotic blanket claims.

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>muh retro pix

>>250275242
>And the amount of attention put into keeping it so accurate to the NES style is impressive.

What does this even mean?

>>250275242
>And the amount of attention put into keeping it so accurate to the NES style is impressive.
jesus christ never post on /vr/

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There isn't anything wrong at all with pixel art. The problem is that most pixel artists are just fucking terrible at making pixel art.

Some games get a pass because of what their obvious motivation is, but shit like Fez is just plain lazy. Titles like Shovel Knight and Cave Story are capturing the classic Megaman-Like side-scrolling shooter vibes, and capturing them extremely well.

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>>250276863
Shovel Knight looks nothing like a SNES game

TurboGrafx yeah

>>250276863
Thomas Was Alone looks like every 2D platformer prototype ever designed, ever. It's almost like the guy said "lol who needs actual graffix? I got these collision boxes, SO MINIMALIST! EAT THAT, VVVVVV! I'M SO HIPSTER I SHIT V-NECK TSHIRTS"

>>250275242
Pixel art is fine. It's bad pixel art that's passed off as SORETRO due to lack of artists that's not fine. Like everything on /v/ you need to take everything with a grain of salt.
>And the amount of attention put into keeping it so accurate to the NES style is impressive.

There's no real "NES" style. It looks more like an early SNES/Genesis game than anything. If you want an NES style it's usually a detailed background with flat colored actors.

>>250276869
Dude Metal Slug would take decades to make by a small indie team.

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>>250277143
It could pass well as a low-grade SNES game. Maybe some form of high grade NES title.

>>250276863
It's also how funny people try to excuse the shittiest music imaginable as "It's retro guys, of course it sounds bad because of the limited number of notes"

No fuck you, there were many fucking great tunes that work in that limited number of pitches and notes, just because you are a talentless hack who can't fucking make a song to save your life doesn't mean that "retro" music is inherently lifeless bleeps and bloops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93nIljXpqUY

>/v/ starts parroting shit

What's new?

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>>250277334
Are we looking at the same game

>>250275242

>And the amount of attention put into keeping it so accurate to the NES style is impressive.

I've yet to see a "retro" game limit the resolution to 256x240, use only up to 25 colors on a strict 64 color palette, separate graphical elements into 8x8 tiles with 3 colors max, and simulate NES hardware limitations being stressed when too many sprites are trying to be drawn on the screen.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Show me a game that reflects this "NES style".

>>250277365
I don't know why they think using a sound system and just half-assing it automatically means "RETRO MUZIX" and think that theirs is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14U64jWO85s

This right here is an absolutely perfect way to capture those vibes of past gaming (in the case of EO, they wanted to recapture Wizardry vibes with their compressed music) without just making garbage chiptune and saying "SO RETRO!" without actually making good music.

Parasite City was a pretty good pixel art game. Lots of good stuff in it.

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>>250277562
super bat puncher, now quit being a ridiculous autist, why not extend what you can do with the hardware while keeping the same feel?

>>250277484
Are you stupid?

Shovel knight is clearly going for a castlevania NES look, especially with the color palette

>>250277740
AKA nothing like a "Low grade SNES game"

>>250277206

A few years with no animation/art experience, maybe.

A few months if you really coordinate and you have a vague clue on what you're making with some good, prepped concept art, sure.

Decades to emulate the pixel art animations of Metal Slug? You must be really shitty at what you're doing.

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>retro
>16 bit
This how retro 16 bit looked like.
Now show me indieshit that looks this good.

>>250275242
The only thing wrong is when bad devs use words like "retro" and "8-bit" to cover up their shitty sprite art.

Actual retro sprites, and modern good sprites, are awesome. I just hate seeing those "flat" artstyles and shitty pixel art get praise cause lolsoretro

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>emulating something means it has to be exactly the same without using any of the modern benefits of technology

These games are just meant to evoke the same feeling, to be LIKE nes/whatever the fuck games, not identical. Anyone that bitches about this is a fucking autist, it's just a certain "look".

If a game went for low poly 3d to emulate a ps1 game, but had textures with better resolution and certain gameplay elements that couldn't technically be done on a ps1, are you really going to sperg out about how it's not accurate? For being better looking than a ps1 game?

It's not that the style is bad, it's that it's often used lazily as shit and as a way to get off doing piss poor graphics.

Games like Metal Slug are good examples of a pretty pixel game.

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>>250278002
Noitu Love 2

Man, /v/ really is a bunch of fucking plebs

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What about 3d pixel stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tNUur2YoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBQppaKcS8

>>250278043

Yes because at that point you may as well just use half decent models and the real reason why you're not is because of a lack of talent or effort.

>>250275242
It is if it's Robert Paulson's crap.

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>>250278269
>the real reason why you're not is because of a lack of talent or effort.

Or, you know, a stylistic choice.

>>250275242
There's a line between having retro art and having a shitty art.
A LOT of devs don't know this.

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>>250277740
Are we looking at the same game?

Pixels are fine, lazy sprite work will have you called out. Shit like Thomas was Alone, Mcpixel, and DLC Quest comes to mind when talking about lazy sprites and animation.

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>>250278367
>there will never be a game that looks like a german expressionist painting

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>>250278151
Except Konjack never spout shit like "retro" or "16-bit".
He just does his pixel art the he likes it to be never giving excuses and explaining shit.
And guess what? The result is fucking amazing.

>>250278498
And it's quite clearly retro and 16-bit inspired, what's the fucking difference?

>>250278554
That it looks good?

>>250278250

I enjoyed Big Dot Heroes but I will shoot myself if I have to contend with anymore vocal based shit cause of minecraft

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Are there any recent games that have sprite art on the level of Metal Slug games?

>>250278453
I'm kinda confused why people shit on Thomas was Alone. Its not a game trying to be retro or anything. The minimalistic choice was done on purpose and even has a story reason behind it.

>>250278620
And is never coming out :^)

>>250278660
I think you mean voxel.

>>250278673
No. Jamestown sort of tried but it's not really as good. The IREM/Nazca/SNK bunch of sprite artists are the most talented ones this industry has ever seen.

>>250277740
gfx besides colors are more detailed than nes.

it's frequently used as an excuse for lazily made graphics and frequently looks worse than art from actual retro games that had effort put into them.

though the graphics are unimportant, and a lot of great games use the style.

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>got into videogames during the ps1 and n64 era during college
>never really gave a shit about nes or snes era stuff, don't hate them, but don't have as much fondness for them

>mfw everyone is nostalgic for something you don't "get"

The inherent issue modern pixel art has to overcome is the motivation behind using that style.

Originally, it wasn't a choice, but a technical limitation for games to look like that. Consequently, devs worth their salt would try to max out what they could within those limits e.g. high quality animation, clever use of the color palette...).

"Retro" pixel art in a conscious choice to limit yourself - instead of pushing the envelope (like the devs were doing when they created the art you now try to emulate - and that's the key term), you are regressing.

Thus, even when the motivation behind "going retro" isn't laziness, there is an inherent artificiality present in this choice that has to be offset by, for example, artistic effort, reliance on gameplay, or, more esoterically, "capturing the spirit".

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>>250278673

>>250278673
King of Fighters. Mercenary Kings tries and mostly fails.

>>250278002
What is in the OP maybe?

That boss' animation looks totally shit.

>>250279106
Just wait ten years, then the next wave of indie developers are going to start making retro low poly shit.

>>250278151
I'd love to see more like this. Like, that looks like it'd be at home in the arcades running on some 1992-era Sega or Taito board that you couldn't get anything near an accurate home port of until the Saturn and PS1 came out, it gives off that "advanced" feeling.

>>250279135
holy shit

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Ain't nothing wrong with pixel graphics OP.

>>250279220
>Mercenary Kings tries and mostly fails.
On it's own the sprite art is pretty fluid and nice to look at, it's just more simplistic looking and without as much detail.

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>>250279135
>>250279220
I already have KoF

>>250278486
>there will never be a game that looks like a polish surrealist painting

>>250278250
Voxel art will probably never really approach pixel art quality because it's a whole other dimension of work. Unlike traditional 3D modeling, which makes use of all sorts of rendering tools, if you approached voxel art the same way you approach pixel art (by paying attention to every single visible voxel) you would go insane before you ever finished anything of note.

>>250279135
so, more SNK?

>>250279243
I'm amazed it hasn't started already.

>>250279367
go play it then

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>>250279373

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>>250279461
BEKSINSKI

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>>250279401
it kiiiiind of has, just not at the level most indie games operate, it's mostly artists on forums who're getting into it.

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>>250278554
Except it's not. You won't find wide resolutions and full on 60 fps animations in retro games. As well as he doesn't limit himsellf in colors, shading and transparency effects.

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>>250275242
Modern retro graphics look like shit, for the sake of being shit. I doesn't look good, and I don't have to know why. It just doesn't look good ,and I don't like pixels for being pixels or "retro feel" because it sure as fuck doesn't give that feel. I'm not going to talk about graphics like I know thing in art or computer design.
Now that I have the moment, hello mommy, and fuck you, starbound.

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>>250279547

>>250279484
level of detail is inconsistent

looks like ass

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>>250279401
Yes.

Sadly they lost their backs on it and will probably never bother again. Plus ASW found a cheaper way to make their games look like anime so BBCP is probably the last time they'll use sprites either.

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>no one will ever, EVER try emulating beautiful amiga graphics ever again
>no one will ever, EVER do the sheer magic that Psygnosis did

>>250279574
You're going to outright say that game isn't retro inspired when it's quite clearly zelda

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>>250279530
>Using that meme shit on Zdzislaw Beksinski

>>250278673
Have more awesome works like that?

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Did somebody sayyyy pixel art?

>>250279753
"Inspired" isn't the same as "Trying to emulate".

>>250279823
Zdzszdhzwhat?

The problem is that pixel graphics can be absolutely amazing, they can be detailed and animations can look superb. But most indie devs go "Well I can't be fucked with all that so here's a blob of 20 pixels with a 2 frame walk animation and a 2 frame attack animation. I call it "retro minimalism"".

>>250279720
People shouldn't try emulating when they don't know how it works. I've had enough of one pixel width legs.
You have shitloads of tools today, do something else, stop clinging to the past you can't imitate.

>>250275242
>what's wrong ...
Because the vast majority of the time it looks like something done in MSPaint and very poorly. And/or pixels of different fucking sizes. Also pixels non-orthogonally oriented like a damn flash game, thereby defeating the style of having pixels in the first place.

>>250279112
>instead of pushing the envelope
Sometimes it's not really about pushing any envelope; it's about making something serviceable for the game. Having this sort of expectation for 2D art to continue pushing the envelope in the wake of current demands for game resolution just isn't realistic anymore. It's extremely expensive and time-consuming to make high resolution quality 2D art and this just isn't something smaller developers can manage.

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Also

>that feel when I talk about KoFXIII not making money and I spent like $20 total on buying it twice

I don't even remember how I got it discounted out the ass on console launch.

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>All this KoF pics
>nobody plays it

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>be it pixel or low poly 3D, someone will shit on your game because you don't have a Jew budget
>might as well ignore these dumb sluts and make what you want to make in the best way you can.

>>250279912
>HURRRDURR I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT BUT I THINK I'M RIGHT HURR DURRR GOD I NEED BBC IN MY BOIPUSSY ONI SAAAAAAAAN

>>250279896
What if I make awful 2D sprites and just call them "shit graphics"?

>>250279956
If those fuckstains hadn't crapped on it with DRM I would have bought it, full price.

>>250279894
With the name like that you can sorta tell where his art comes from

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>>250279753
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of 8/16/whatever bit. And that's ok. You interested in learning the difference between games actually designed to look like that era, and shit like Konjak's games? Or just looking to sling some shit around on /v/ for fun?

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>>250279995
critical mass, muh netcode, etc.

>>250280063
congradulation, you made I wanna be the guy

>>250279653
>cheaper
Not really. The amount of work to make just a single animation in Xrd is as tiresome as making sprites. There was article about this and I could go on but it would take way too long.
They mainly did it for visual impact and BB won't get same treatment anytime soon.

Also I really don't like that weird lighting on new KoF sprites. Makes everyone look like cheap 3D model

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>>250279864
a couple

>>250280063

You'd be the first honest man in a sea of neckbeard hipster indie devs and their legbeard feminist indie waifs.

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>>250280184

There's nothing wrong with well-done pixel art.

The issue is that a lot of shitty indie devs go "m-my game is retro, that's why the graphics look shitty" and it's like, no, your game would look like trash next to any high quality retro game, you're just a piece of shit dev that didn't want to hire a proper artist.

>>250278673
>Two more frames than OP's pic
>A hundred times more fluid and beautiful, seemingly connected in all the ways that it should appear

What magic did those people employ when they made their games?

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>>250279894
Zdzislaw Beksinski. Pronounced like zgee-suave

He's polish.

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It's become a joke.
What you posted is beautiful.
Modern "pixel art" is horrible and devs rarely get it right.
Pic related that's a good example of today's horrible pixel art.

God damnit are you niggers still arguing about this? I thought /vr/ settled it. Everything before 1999 is retro.

Which means shit doesn't have to look like an atari game.

Lol you nerds can never stop bitching about shit.

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>>250280026
When you make what you want the best way you can, your work tend to turn out fucking awesome.

they don't exercise the limits of what's possible

the reason 3rd Strike is still a critically accepted game is because the software still doesn't run perfectly on every device, boasting slowdowns, input delays and other stuff. It doesn't make sense to have ultra stylized pixels that don't stretch the possibility of what is applicable in a game. Graphics are supposed to come as a takeaway from the other parts of game, rarely do graphics bolster the experience. People SELL video games through the native design of a game, but rarely do they take off because they are visually pleasing, the engine and capability of the game takes care of that. You can look like Metroid Prime, God of War 3, and Final Fantasy XIII, all amazing games visually but the graphics don't actually sell the experience, they are part of the reason the game is strong, but it would be heresy to say they're all about the visuals.

tl;dr pixel art is amazing and looks great but if they don't give way to some other dimension of possibility like FEZ it's just like every other indie game gone retro

>>250280172
>The amount of work to make just a single animation in Xrd is as tiresome as making sprites
Absolute bullshit. You better find that article because I doubt cel-shaded 3D compares to this.
http://andriasang.com/com81x/snk_celebrates_kof_art/

>>250280334
>that moon
wat

>>250280334
I thought that did a pretty good job of emulating the nordic cave paintings it was based off.

>>250280334
>that smooth ass moon when everything else looks like chunky shit

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>>250280301

"retro" is so often used as an excuse to be lazy and just make some soulless sprites that not even James Rolfe would spit on.

>>250280161
But PC version has great netcode!
>critical mass
What's that?

>>250280325
15 years of honing their talent at one of the best arcade developers there ever was.

>>250279574
His style is much closer to oldschool arcade games (where lots of color, transparency effects on some boards (I think Taito had transparency effects on their boards, can't think of other manufacturers that did), and high-framerate animations (because arcade budget and memory capacity) were all common) than oldschool console stuff.

it's still retro, just in a way that focuses more on quality (no one would look twice at an arcade game that wasn't eye-catching at the time of release)
the last bastion of quality

>>250279995
netcode's shit on console
most FG players don't do PC
>that feel when this is the reason no KOF2002UM for PC

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>>250275242

>talks how pixel art can be good
>posts flash shit

I think I'm gonna vomit.

>>250275242
because they treat pixel art as a ticket to put no effort in character designs, for ground background, and/or items. Pixel art can be fucking beautiful, but indie devs don't use it to it's full potential. Thats the problem with it. that and >>250279929

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>>250280479
last I got

>>250280491
You need a certain number of players to sustain or grow a playerbase or else people will quit because they can't find other people to play with/the game is perceived as dead and you bleed down to nothing.

>>250280542
why are you saying nigger so much

>>250276453
>/v/ is not a single person

Why do people keep saying this? He's obviously talking about the majority opinion on /v/. Are you so dense that you have to take everything as literally as possible?

>>250280334
Uh no, that's a fucking shit example. Point lighting, a bunch of random dots, and a jigsaw player sprite is not good pixel art.

I only have a problem with cheap and lazy minimalist pixel art. Especially when it's scaled up so the pixels displayed on screen are more than the "artist" (to use the term loosely) ever placed by hand when they created the content in the first place. Pixel art with actual effort and draftsmanship put into it, where each pixel in the source image is an actual on-screen pixel, is fine.

That said, it's conceivable that eventually screens will have such tiny pixels that scaling things up for final display will be okay, but we're not there yet, by and large.

>>250280667
It's a good example of shit. get it right.

>>250280667
That's what he's saying.

>pic related that's a good example of today's horrible pixel art
>example of today's horrible pixel art
>horrible pixel art

>>250280667
>I can't read

>>250280667
Good example. Not Good art.

Demonstration.

>>250280740
Gah, I'm sorry. It's late.

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I really want this to not be shit.

>>250280334
>each "pixel" is something like six on-screen pixels

Horrible pixel art indeed.

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>>250280184
>>250280301
>>250280479
Awesome, thanks man I love these stuff

>>250280419
>>>/3/423437

Here you go

>>250280687
Scaling is fine, depending on the style of game. If the game's style looks good enough, give me huge fucking bosses with limbs that move in and out of the screen like this is on the 32X.

if it looks like a bad 5200 game and you're doing that shit, we have a problem

>>250280841
I'm so fucking hype for this. It's legitimately good looking, visually.

better not play like shit

>>250280160
>>250279873
Talk about splitting hairs.

>>250280026
I don't know what your idea of "low poly" is, but I'd say below a certain point, it's actually MORE work to make a 3D model look good.

>>250279574
what game is this?

>>250280334
I hate this style of "pixel art" with a fucking passion

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>>250280875
This is a perfect example of how graphics don't sell a game.

Alpha is an amazing looking game, but the polish of the game sells it more than the visuals, the feel of supers, the lifebars and so on make people go "oh man Alpha 2!"

Only enthusiasts get up to say man I can't wait to study the backgrounds in Alpha. I mean I wasn't an enthusiast when I did that, but I was the rare exception.

>>250280576
Even this is good. Neo-Geo had to get a new board every time they delivered a Metal Slug, to offer more complex, more powerful sprites. I don't mind pixel art being generous or grandiloquent but why it has to seem exceedingly simple is beyond me, why it also has to not like, push the limits of the game is also beyond me.

>>250281124
Thinking PS1 Era, like MGS1 and Vagrant Story. Not really into the "chibi" low poly stuff.

I just hate semi-transparency effects. Please stop doing this,doujin shmup developers. Lasers look like shit done this way.

>>250281152
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One of the reasons pixel art for modern games doesn't look as good as older games is pretty simple and glaringly obvious.

Indie games are typically made by a small team. One person to maybe three on average. Most of the games that look fantastic are made by whole teams.

Now I know there are exceptions which are made by one guy and it looks fantastic, but they're just that. Exceptions. Hell, even Noitu Love 2 which was shown as an example is a ridiculously short game. And I guarantee that part of the reason is due to how much the guy had to animate.

2D animation, especially fluid and detailed animation is very very time consuming compared to 3D. So its not surprising when one aspect is lacking compared to others when the artist has to pull double or triple duty.

>>250280184
I've never been fond of this style of "animation." Why does the outline of the sprite brake randomly on frames? I know the reason, mind, moving parts of the sprite around like a flash animation just looks shoddy compared to hand-made animations. Shit reminds me of those terrible "moving" Gen V pokemon sprites that have about two actual frames drawn.

>>250281257
>Indie games are typically made by a small team. One person to maybe three on average. Most of the games that look fantastic are made by whole teams.
In other words
Today every fucker who can make sprites (even if they're shitty) thinks he's an artist and goes on to make a game or at least make the "art' for a game

think the main reason why i hate most of it is that they don't understand why precisely retro games have a specific feel, it's based on the limitations of the hard ware

there's so much "8 bit" indie garbage out there that in fact uses 24 bit color and infinite palette colors per sprite

>>250281352
>Why does the outline of the sprite brake randomly on frames?
Because it's a GIF dummy. It's perfectly smooth in-game.

>>250281257
Guilty Ger was made by the one guy with his small team, and it still looks amazing compared to some other games we have today. Your game could just as easily look like Pokemon or Yume Nikki and people would still enjoy it, there's not a single reason why you have to have a game with detailed sprites that doesn't come up with the best of them.

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>>250280576
These look amazing, the only problem is that characters/objects like these are usually so minimally animated. That flying ship thing isn't animated at all aside from the jets and the robot's animation is mostly just moving the arms without redrawing anything. Get some pixel art that well done WITH fully redrawn frames of animation and that's truly impressive.

Speaking of which, that's what was so great about Metal Slug games, they had big, hand-pixeled characters that were indeed fully animated for the most part, with frames aplenty.

Where can I learn more about these old school color platelets? I want my game to at least have a consistent coloring scheme and not be a soupy mess like most games.

>>250281521
>Guilty Ger was made by the one guy with his small team, and it still looks amazing compared to some other games we have today.
I'm sorry but the original Guilty Gear has always looked like ass.

>>250281453
It's not like there's much of a choice for those just starting gamedev. 3D modeling us hard as fuck.

I've always wondered if Cave Stroy could run on any of the 16 bit era consoles.

>>250281352
>>250281490
er no
It was that way for gameplay purposes as his arms move all over the screen, and for cool destruction effects.

Metal slug 7 was also cheaper so they used that kind of animation more often.

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>>250281627
The backgrounds are alright.

PSX sucks dicks at 2D so that comes into it as well.

>>250281668
But there still are people who start with 3d modelling. Shit, there is free software you can use to manage that.
Or maybe they should stick to getting a job they're good at.

>>250281521
As stated, there are exceptions to it. However, not everyone who makes a game has an art background, or is able to expend that much effort to make a game. Since making one in general where you have to program on top of everything else is rather time consuming.

That said I do agree with you that some people should expend a bit more effort in their stuff.

>>250281352
if in-game, those arms rotate in real time, it's fine
if they don't, someone was too lazy to clean up those edges

>>250281627
Eh? GG1 played like ass, but looked pretty good for a PS1 fighter. Actually looked like it was made for the PS1, rather than being full of cuts.

>>250281683
It's style (in terms of graphics and sound) is closest to the TG-16, but its actual execution is more like a Genesis game.

>>250281683
It could easily run on a Neo-Geo. There might be quite a lot of sprites sometimes for an SNES or Genesis without slowdown though.

>>250281027
Personally, I never liked seeing pixel art get blown up ever. Not even when Mode 7 was the big cool new thing. It just completely kills the appeal that imagery where every pixel was placed by hand has in the first place.

>>250281683

possibly, but there's some effects like the trails from the fireball launcher that would cause some serious slowdown. while some of the effects look simple, play any snes game that has a lot of garbage on screen at some points (gradius III is a good example) and you will see slow down as well as flickering

Did you know that all art is made of pixels?

>>250281595
the second one is metal slug

>>250281909
Did you know that ice is still water?

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>>250281824
I'm a huge sucker for scaling effects.

motherfucking Galaxy Force II and OutRun and the like were my lifeblood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaUQfcRyjcY
based 1998 sega

>>250281772
You don't even need an art background nowadays. If you wanted to, you could design a game around the idea of pong or breakout and add a creative twist. It'd sell like crazy. It doesn't have to be gorgeous, it just has to look like it can stand with what else is out there.

>>250281824
Yeah I don't like sprite scaling period. I understand how much work might be needed to traditionally animate some really big things expanding though.

>>250281975
wow, did I type '98?
I meant 1988, fuck.

>>250278673
No because that art was made by professional sprite artists who don't exist anymore.

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>>250281194
How do you even achieve something like this? Do you first draw it properly and then pixelate it or do they do it pixel by pixel? I never understood the process behind pixel art

>>250282164
It's all the in-game engine man, water effects and the works

>>250281986
Considering what this thread is about, I'd say that some people will complain regardless.

I do believe overall people should try to do better with their graphics, and not use RETRO! as an excuse to not do much, however I don't believe that they should be held to the same standards as games made with teams either.

>>250281806
I'm sure it could run fine on 32x.

>imagining Cave Story on the 32X
Saving a system.

>>250282164
Generally you draw something for real first and use that as a basis for doing it "pixel by pixel". You don't just scan it and convert things.

>>250281218
Yeah, those are the kind of counts where I'd say it's more work, at least personally. Even if I'm shooting low, things tend to come out at PS2-level poly counts then I have to cut them down. So it'd actually be less work to just go for that. Also the higher counts make it easier to deal with UV mapping, in my opinion.

That said, to be clear, at a certain point it gets to be way more work too. I'm just saying that to me, the sweet spot for easiest poly count to pump out and look good is about 2,000 or so, I can do that in one sitting. To do anything less than that in the name of low art budgets seems counter-productive in terms of efficiency and looks worse to boot.

>>250282164
I always thought these backgrounds were painted first and then digitized.

and then painstakingly edited to look good

>>250282258
It'd be more than fine on the 32x.

sound would be an issue if you didn't do it in software though, since Cave Story's sound is FM-like but not actually FM (also, uses 8-9 channels)

>>250277732
I know this was an hour ago but Super Bat Puncher doesn't simulate NES style. It's NES homebrew and actually works on a real NES.

Also, it was never finished and hasn't posted an update in 3 years. RIP

>>250282164
For BGs, it tends to be sketched, scanned, resized, and then done pixel by pixel.

Sprites can be done the same, but I usually just go pixel by pixel from the start myself.

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This guy was a lot of fun to fight, really cool animations too.

>>250282421
The difference being what exactly

>>250281960
No it becomes a crystal.

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I really wish this retro fad would end already so we can at least get to making early '90s-level art.

>>250282164
You have to draw what you want and then you do it like an ink print. You apply your base colours to each area then you start applying layers of each colour until it looks good.

>>250282164

depends on the scale, but for something like that they probably started with extremely basic outlines of everything, then basic colors, then basic shading. they just work their way up layer by layer

>>250281920
I know, that's why I said "for the most part." They unfortunately got lazy or cheap at some points, but that doesn't negate the awesome animation elsewhere.

>>250282562
I say modern devs are incapable of that.
They're afraid of hard work

The problem is that Shovel Knight is a pixel art NES-style platformer that has had many pixel art platformers come before it, that really sucked. So people are going to dismiss it out of hand, despite it being a really good game.

>>250282562
I want some low-poly games.

>>250282543
>implying it somehow makes it stop being water

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>>250282591
>>250282565
>>250282423
>>250282334
Thanks for the answers
I never thought about the effort that went into these backgrounds while playing

>>250282507
One is a simulation of a retro style made by limitations of an older game format and the other is actually written in that format.

One is a choice and the other is necessity.

>>250279574
>60fps animations in retro games

No. Retro games ran at 60fps, but most NES and SNES games had animations that were 12 FPS or 24 at best.

>>250282810
But low-poly looks like shit. Why would you want that? That's just more nostalgia-pandering.

>>250282891
Oh and carbon is diamonds, right?

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>>250282810
They're around, but out of legitimate inability to do better.

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>tfw can't animate worth shit

>>250283012
>implying diamonds is carbons in higher temperature

PS2 era had the best graphics imo.

Even compared to today, games then felt like games. They had fully mastered 3D, had access to beautiful 2D like in Odin Sphere. They didn't try to be hyper realistic or anything. They tried to be games, tried to take you to a different world.

You don't see that any more.

>>250283183
Diamond is a carbon allotrope.

>>250282954
But the end result is the same

>>250282979
N64 low-poly looked like shit. It looks very nice with good shading and textures.

>>250283180

that isn't bad, maybe a little less exaggeration on the hair sway

it's already better than most indie shit

>>250283229
Sixth generation had nowhere near the level of 2D that previous one had. It was already dead by then.

>>250279223
It's because the gif loops before the animation finishes.

>>250283180
Is this the bitch in pop'n music

>>250283268
>>250283012

iron in liquid form is iron.
iron in solid form is iron.
Same goes for water and ice.

>>250283180
If this is yours, it isn't a bad start. It just needs to be, literally and figuratively, more animated. Real walking uses the pectorals and waist. More frames and at least slightly exaggerated body movements are the key to good looking animation overall.

>>250283180
You need to learn foreshortening dude, and redraw the whole body. Shoulders don't stay still when someone walks. The motion of the torso is really important to any motion.

>>250280638
>majority opinion
I defy you to find any thread on a controversial subject that goes the exact same way every time.
Factor this by time of day × shitposters, and you have "/v/".

>>250283394
Obviously there was less 2D then, but the technology was there.

There's nothing inherently wrong with pixel art: I just hate it when indie devs make games that look like ass with the excuse that it's supposed to be "retro" when in reality no retro games look like most indie pixel garbage. Of course graphics are secondary to whether the game is just fun or not, but it's pretentious and disrespectful towards actual pixel artists to pretend your shit graphics are a homage to older games that actually look good. It's understandable than an indie dev might not be able to afford making good graphics for their game, but I'd just like them to be honest and say the graphics look shit because their budget is peanuts, not because it's a conscious stylistic choice.

>>250283697
>>250283697
This topic is not controversial, at least not on /v/.
Modern pixel art is shit.
Phil Fish is a jackass
SJWs are ruining vidya.
Sure, there are a few retards who say otherwise but always exist for every topic ever. That doesn't make every topic controversial

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>>250283180
Here's some less old stuff.

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>>250283269
I'm not trying to attack retro indie games. I'm just pointing out that Super Bat Puncher isn't a style choice. One anon asked another to name a game that *simulated* NES specs exactly to prove that no indie devs completely follow the limitations. Super Bat Puncher was named as an example of a game that simulates NES specs and I'm just pointing out that the game wasn't a simulation. It's a real NES game not a style choice. And the anon who said "no one follows the limitations exactly when they don't have to" is correct.

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pixel art is so fucking hard and time consuming

>>250280334
>>250280849
low-res pixel art when the game actually runs at a high resolution is cancer

the smallest distance a sprite should be able to move is the length of one of its pixels

>>250283697
>I defy you to find any thread on a controversial subject that goes the exact same way every time.

What are feminism threads alex.

>>250284062
so is making a video game, that's why you take the effort to do it right

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>>250283180
You're right, you should give up and stop fishing for compliments with your worthless art.

>>250280334
But that game isn't trying to be retro, it's trying to be minimalistic.

>if it doesn't look like metal slug or king of fighters it's garbage!

>>250280445
>>250280471
The moon is the same resolution as everything else, it's just further away so the pixels look more condensed.

>>250283697
There are rarely controversial topics on /v/. After a topic has been discussed for some time a majority opinion that most people conform to will establish itself.

Ask /v/ if Dark Souls is hard or if Gone Home and Fez are good games. You'll have a pretty one-sided thread, even though the majority of people outside of /v/ don't hold this particular opinion.

The few controversial topics on /v/ don't go the same every time because that's how discussions on controversial topics go by definition. When someone says "Why does /v/ think..." he obviously implies it's not a controversial topic.

>>250284038
Its a minor pet peeve of mine, but I absolutely hate it when people do this. If you look at the pattern on her skirt, it never moves. Its like her sprite is layered over a static pattern which has transparency over her skirt. So when she moves it only shows a different part of the static pattern, but never moves with the image.

>>250284678
Yeah, I can't stand it either.

>>250284678
I'm the opposite

I love that shit, one of the reasons I loved Chowder so much.

>>250284575
To be fair, on those topics at least, a lot of people who are of a dissenting opinion tend to be well.. I hate to use the term, but more casual or leaning one way or another.

/v/ tends to 'hive mind' at least partially because of two reasons. One that people aren't censored heavily here, so its easy to say things and not get banned for an opposing opinion, and two, lot of people here have been playing games and are passionate about games.

>>250284407
Did you read the topic?
Let me help you
>What is inherently wrong with pixel art and retro styled games?
>pixel art

>>250284895
It's a little strange that her hat and sleeves don't follow the same pattern layer, though. I love the effect as well, but the inconsistency is offputting.

>>250284407

Of course it is garbage, why take the easy way out instead of striving to be better?

>>250284895
I was trying to remember what show it was that did that. It annoyed me so much. It feels just.. lazy to me.

>>250284575
>There are rarely controversial topics on /v/
Morrowind
VtmB
Planescape Tormen
better RPGs: east vs west
Dwarf Fortress
etc

>>250284985
What's your point exactly?

>>250285102
I'm almost positive the East Vs West thing are typically troll threads.

>>250285134
My answer was on pixel art, not on retro styled games.
By the way, everyone can create something shitty with as few tools as possible and call it minimalistic. That doesn't make it okay.

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>>250275242
Problem with these threads is they inevitably devolve into circlejerking over the same fucking gifs we've ALL been seeing in these threads for fucking years.

We get it KoF / Metal Gear / whoever got it right, but instead of reposting the same shit can we ever move past it and look towards some new shit?

Pic related, trying to find OC in these threads

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>>250285319
Needs to be smoother.

>>250285195
There's dedicated troll threads but they were created because it was fertile fodder.

>>250285319
eh eh eh

There is nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just commonly abused by lazy indie faggots.

>>250285259
And to add to this, actually minimalism actually looks good when it's done properly. Unfortunately, just like retro, minimalism has become an excuse to pretend your shit graphics are a stylistic decision.

>>250285358
that's from a low budget H-game

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>>250285358
>>250285441

>>250285404
Honestly, mostly its become a thing because of the whole concept of Weeabo that some people misunderstood and started taking it as truth. Which is bizzare.

>>250285563
Also i have the laser separating loli gif but it's on another level compared to these so i won't post it.

>>250285869
thank you.
thank you very much.

>>250285487
It still needs to be smoother

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>>250279953
>There will never be a new Light Crusader with graphics like this.

>>250279135
thats beautiful

>>250285869
eh
i want it

>>250284678
Yeah, that bugs me too. Not just in that sprite, but in the occasional cartoon that does that effect. The static, immobile pattern totally clashes with the illusion of movement elsewhere.

Speaking of nitpicking and stylistic preferences, the pegleg thing she's got going on bugs me. I don't even like undersized hands and feet (for example, that's my biggest issue with Wind Waker style,) but she's in that more extreme version where there don't seem to be any feet at all. Never got the appeal there at all.

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Shovel Knight, for example, has a pretty valid 'retro' style, as it is pretty faithful to actual old games and isn't completely fucking retarded looking. (I've never seen gameplay or played it though so I can't judge the gameplay)

The problem lies with games like this looking nothing like actual retro games and just using the 'retro' style as a copout for shitty graphics

>>250284983
>/v/ tends to 'hive mind' at least partially because of two reasons. One that people aren't censored heavily here, so its easy to say things and not get banned for an opposing opinion, and two, lot of people here have been playing games and are passionate about games.

Those are not the only reasons in my opinion.
4chan and by inclusion /v/ is counter-culture. People on /v/ started claiming Dark Souls wasn't challenging after the difficulty on the game started being greatly exaggerated by the media and casual players. /v/ hates Gone Home with such a passion because it got undeserved acclaim by mainstream media. Dark Souls isn't as easy as most people on /v/ claim it is and while I haven't played it Gone Home is most likely not the absolutely godawful game people make it out to be.
Another reason is that many people who post on here make /v/ a part of their identity, so they conform to popular opinions whithout questioning them and reject opinions that don't fit the identity.

>>250285102
I've never said there aren't controversial topics on /v/, but I don't feel like VtmB, PS:T and DF are particularly controversial. You've got the occasional guy who doesn't like those, but the games are beloved by the majority of the board.

>>250286287
>that palette
>those models
There is nothing "valid 'retro' " in that.

>>250286540

that's his point

do people on /v/ still play starbound? or has that game been long abandoned. I havent played it for more than half a year. Did they ever finish it?

>>250286461
Yeah, that's how it used to be with Morrowind and Planescape as well. Then the new generation decided that reading is for faggots.
Also new DF is weeks away from release (according to Toady which doesn't say much but still...) and I rarely get to see any DF threads (maybe 1 every 1-2 days).
These are dark times, you just don't know it yet.

>>250275242
>accurate to the NES
there's a huge article about how they basically broke ALL the rules when it came to programming a game for the NES. The only thing that came close to being similar to the NES was the music, which itself was WAAAAY too big to fit within a NES game cartridge

>>250286671
Not even people in the General thread on /vg/ play Starbound anymore

When I go back and play say, SNES games, I think they still look pretty great. However, if there's one regard in which I'd say they didn't age so well, it's the generally low amount of animation frames characters have. Like, when I went back and played Chrono Trigger again, it turned out I somehow remembered everything moving more smoothly than it actually did. The overall character animation was just plain chunky. To tie this into the actual topic, my point is that I wish these retro pixel art games would retroactively fill that gap. I can only assume the low frame counts were due to cartridge size issues, but these days, you could make SNES-looking games with soooooo many frames of animation per character, thus keeping the appeal of those older visuals without the weaknesses they had. I'd be all over that.

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>>250279135
Gawdd bless the queen ;_;

>>250286797
that's sorta funny and sad at the same time for me

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>>250285972
Well this is the last one i have.

>>250286173
no

>>250286671
There is practically no mercy for this game on practically every board. /sbg/ actually advocates avoiding the game.

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>>250285259
I know this gets thrown around a lot, but I'd legitimately like to see you do better if it's so easy. I'm not saying you need to be a master artist to judge this kind of stuff but don't act like the artist came out of nowhere and knows nothing.

I say this in every thread like this, but if it's so damn easy, why is no one from /v/ capitalizing on the style? I know there were some real shitpiles like passage that genuinely are made by shitty artists who are using the low res artstyle as a crutch, but don't lump games like S&S in with those hacks.

>Terraria is once again in Steam Top 10 most played games of the day
It's art doesn't do much for me but it's not the focus of attention.
My point is, it doesn't have to be good if it's not the main attraction of the game. Just decent.

>>250286941
nigger

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The X series has always been my favorite simply because of its visuals and amounts of fun

should I start bumping with art?

>>250287163
Go ahead

>>250287093
well what exactly happened to it, did they not even finish the game? last time i played it was still in beta. they did the very last character wipe

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>>250287130
When did I say it's easy?
Why the fuck can't you mongoloids learn to read?

If the sprites are high quality then there's nothing wrong with it.
But they never are. It's always just used as an excuse to avoid learning how to make 3D models.

>>250287265
Oh right, I guess "everyone can do it" means it's hard.

>>250287130
No one's saying making good pixel art is easy: people just don't like it when devs throw around the words "retro" and "indie" to justify that their pixel art isn't very good.

>>250287245
They promised more than they could deliver
They promised almost daily updates and people expected good updates. Instead,they got shit that add nothing to the game.
The company spends money on a new dev team to start working on another game (some pirate MMO)
The company rented some office in London with a huge rent cost. It's like they only want to spend money, just not on Starbound.

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>>250287376
Please quote the post which said that.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGBUdNSWNY

thread theme

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>>250287245
Chucklefuck moved the entire team to London and wasted plenty of time and dosh doing that. There was also silent news that some staff left.

Oh yeah they have an office puppy now too.

>>250287372
Would you rather see low quality sprites or barren 3d models?

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Indie games should stop doing pixels and start doing low poly models.

>>250287130
At the risk of revisiting the constant "why aren't you making a game" threads, the issue is that you can't make a game with art alone and art skills are all I have. Just doing the art alone for a game would be more than enough work, throw in programming too (which I have no aptitude for at all,) and even if I -could- program competently eventually, it'd take years and years to make a game. And that's ignoring how I'm paying my bills until if and when I finish the game to sell it.

Basically, at least some of us aren't doing it simply due to lack of programming skill and not having enough money to hire a programmer.

>>250287602
Not him but I'd personally like to see competent people doing their job right instead of a bunch of "video game artists" produce another "work of art"

I've seen more hard work go into the sprites and 2D animations for japanese porn games than most western indie developers put into their super cereal 2deep4u platformers.

>>250280426

How could these games look so gorgeous when the playstation era final fantasies look like shit

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Bump

I NEVER knew this guy was segmented

>>250287650
Only if they don't make them look murky shit like that

>>250275242
The issue with pixel art is that high quality animated pixel art is actually pretty hard to pull off due to the artist essentially having to draw each frame individually to make it look nice. That means for most indies, they have to stick to either low quality art, or high quality art with almost no animation.

However, I dont actually mind the art as much as the fact that most indie games are boring platformers. It's one thing to accept that a programmer may not be able to create the best art ever, but to fall back on such a boring premise is so lazy.

>>250287417
What does that have to do with Sword and Sworcery though? No where in any if the dev's description of the game do they claim it to be retro or NES inspired, in fact they rarely even mention the art style, it just is what is.

My point is that you're making blanket judgments and instantly writing off games by good artists who choose to do a minimalistic style for a particular game, because some asshats called their shitty looking game retro.

>>250287602
LQ sprites < LQ 3D models.
HQ sprites < HQ 3D models.

>>250277365
Obligatory Tim Follin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J0H5ah1G7A

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>>250287759

>HQ sprites < HQ 3D models.

But that's fucking wrong.

>>250287796
Reverse the arrow for the top one. I'm drunk.

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i like pixels
i like low poly
i dont like realistic stuff

im sorry that this causes you so much pain vee. heres a picture of a cute girl. i hope its enough for an apology.

>>250287650
If it's 2D, I don't want anything below SNES-level graphics. if it's 3D, I don't want anything below PS2-level graphics. Those represent the points where 2D and 2D hit the minimum power to look truly good.

>>250287130
I actually really adore the sword and sorcery art style, it's not setting the world on fire with talent or anything, they just went for a nice clean style which works and looks unique enough.

>>250287867
That's more like it, but no reason to resort in super deformation.

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>>250287893
Textures are more important than poly count.

>>250287893
I don't want anything below the current level. There's no reason to go back when you can make better and advance onwards.

>>250287763
Nigger what are you even trying to say? Just because they don't praise the art or don't even mention it themselves it's okay?
It's ugly, it's disgusting, it's not something I'd expect to see these years and that cannot change.
>BUT IT'S MINIMALISTIC
No, it's shit. Minimalism still required some effort in order to create a nice result. This was just sloppy work.
Sure, if you think a man shitting on his hand and then rubbing his shit on his chest is a work of art then of course this couls also be considered "art", "good" or whatever you want it to be

>>250287602
Simple 3D models can look great with some nice lighting effects and colouring, animating them is another story though. Not impossible for a developer to get good at quite quickly though even without art experience considering the very tech minded focus of 3D animating.

>>250287529

>>250285259
>by the way, everyone can create something shitty with as few tools as possible and call it minimalistic

>inb4 I'm wrong because the words "everyone can do it" weren't in the post word for word

>>250287376
>>250287529
>>250287763
I'm still waiting faggot.
Where's that post?

>>250287867
Why make the poly counts super low but then have higher texture resolutions than say, PS1 games ever had, plus other stuff like texture filtering and AA that games of that era wouldn't have had either? Either go authentically retro or don't go retro at all.

>>250287884
>implying those of us who want good graphics also want realism

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>>250288030

>>250287870
Explain.
Hopefully it isn't something redundant like "lel style".

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>>250288157
>everyone can create something shitty
Learn to read nigger.
Everyone can create SOMETHING SHITTY. Not SOMETHING GOOD. I'd personally feel ashamed to release such a thing and call it "my creation".
I fucking hate you so much.

>>250282891
that was king of fighters 99 right?

that is an incredible background

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>>250288174
Because it's sexy as fuck.

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what kind of name is metalsharkplayer?

>>250288065
Fuck you, it looks good you fucker. I'm sorry that you have a bug up your ass about low res art. You can zoom in to any screenshot down to the most pixelated level possible and say it looks like crap.

>>250277365
I was so angry when I played VVVVVV for this very reason.

They want you to think you're playing a C64 game down to the fucking fake load menu (which should take about fifteen minutes longer, but whatever), and then the soundtrack is generic indie game blips and blops, completely missing the SID chip's unique characteristics and the different methods composers had to use that made the C64's music so famous.

>>250288202
That's good. It's no muddy, it's well textured and showcases both model and the textures well.

>>250288307
So you do consider a man with his shit on his chest "good art".
Alright then, opinion discarded.

>>250288242
My entire point is that you think that S&S game looks shitty and was easy to create. I bet you couldn't even make something as good as that shit, as effortless as it seems to you.

>>250277124
>Titles like Shovel Knight and Cave Story are capturing the classic Megaman-Like side-scrolling shooter vibes, and capturing them extremely well.
Cave Story wasn't even an attempt to go for the 'retro' style, it's just that's all the author could do. Not to mention he started work on it in fucking 1999, when 320x240 was a perfectly reasonable native res for a one-man indie game.

>>250288407
No holy shit. You can't just paperclip statements like that you nigger. By the way if you disagree with me you fuck kids.

>>250288174

Looks cool, man.

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>>250287650
I want a new Custom Robo that looks like this.

>>250288048
I'm willing to cut the indie crowd some slack in regards to low budgets and all that. It takes a lot of work to make the best graphics possible on the newest hardware. Still, considering the advancements in technology and tools, I'd say it's reasonable to set minimal expectations. Especially in regards to 3D graphic creation, things are sooo much better than they used to be. It's not nearly as hard to make PS2-quality 3D content now as it was back then, so small teams should be able to manage.

>>250288428
> I bet you couldn't even make something as good as that shit, as effortless as it seems to you.
Why would I try do something I know I'm not good at? Why would I do what that guy/those guys did?
Holy fuck, are you one of those people who actually believe anyone can do anything they want? Because that's not true, you know.

>>250287884
shes hot sauce

>>250288653
that looks awesome, is that actually from a game?

>>250275242
>"NES" style
>yellow pixels
aayyyy lmao!

>>250288665
Why do you keep shifting your position? Is that game so shitty looking that anyone can make it, or is it not shitty looking and requires more effort and skill than you can produce? It can't be both, you can't just play the victim when it's convenient for your argument.

>>250288653
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6vJS04RWAo

These look very eerily familiar. I've seen this gif all the time but it just now hit me

>>250288776
ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy