How come we don't get high profile AAA games in 8 bit style

>>377761425
I don't think studios go in-between the all or nothing approach to games. It's too risky to make a big budget and heavily marketed 8-bit game as it hasn't been done yet. No studio would want to take that risk.

>high profile AAA games
>mainstream
there's the issue
AAA budget means maximum focus group testing so the most people possible like it

can't have a game be too videogamey

>>377761425
>>377761830
you can't make a big budget 8-bit game, 8-bit games take 1/100th the effort to make than AAA shit does

>>377761425
Wouldn't it be 16 bit?

Sprites have a stigma against them. Literally seen as behind the times, and any time someone says sprites looks nice it's a backhanded compliment. "Oh yeah man, it looks great for sprites" Basically everyone ingrained the idea that 3D is better at some point and now it's impossible to overturn it.

A great example is Street fighter. Look at third strike; then at four. Particularly Chun-li's spinning bird kick. At launch, people praised 4's animations and graphics for being fantastic. Even though most of 4's animations are terrible and mediocre. Majority of people just don't understand animation at all.

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>8-bit

>>377761425
are you retarded?

>>377761425
even i, a first year graphic design student at a community college, can make a sprite comparable to those top "sprite games" today

its easy to make, takes like 2 hours, and you WANT TO PAY FULL PRICE FOR THAT?

>>377762396

Possibly. I'm a physics major but I'm too much of a bitch to change to a major I actually like.

>>377762342
Nobody knows what 8bit is anymore truly, they just slam it on anything that remotely means pixelshit.

>>377761425
That picture isn't 8bit just so you know.

>How come we don't get high profile AAA games in 8 bit style anymore?
"8 bit" games look objectively shit/

>Must heavily advertised mainstream games have realistic graphics nowadays?
he says as he posts a heavily stylized game with loads of 2d art that has already sold over a million copies.