lmao I remember playing this with my older siblings so long ago
The same place mid tier clothing and the middle class went.
Most mid-tier studios were massacred during The Great Recession. I’ve been banging the drum that a second video game crash happened around 2010-2012 because these studios ultimately could not afford the transition to high definition. Much like how studios can’t afford the transition to 4K now.
I remember the ghost catacomb levels and literally anything that featured the Nazgul from Return of The King being an absolute nigger to get through too.
Im tired of bad pixel art. Look at ff6, secret of mana, chrono trigger sprites and no indie game comes close to that level of detail.
you just mash square till you hear a clash and hit R2 to do an insta kill. There's no cooldown between blocks and youre invincible for the whole parry animation, after that you get a damage buff and healed for free.
Even ones that try to replicate it look bad, like Cosmic Star Heroine. It wants to be Chrono Trigger so badly that it looks even worse than it would've if it didn't try and fail at it.
And when they do produce a gem, it becomes the new standard for the next half decade.
Well I hate how you guys are all Gloomy Gusses and can't find anything to enjoy
How detailed is the art in those games anyway?
Like thats good but thats rare, thats genesis/megadrive tier art there. What game is that anyway?
The sad part is that 4k isn't even the standard used nowadays, a lot of people are perfectly fine playing on 1440p or 1080p.
Game is Steel Assault (spoiler alert: filename), which is incidentally not a rare once-an-eon benchmark of pixelart, but some fairly random-ass literally-who (sadly underrated) game that I'm sure broke no sales records. Meme games with actual funding (TMNT, Blasphemous, Octopath Traveler, whatever) can easily keep pace. It's pretty normal for pixel art games to have better graphics than 98%+ of SNES/Genesis games, disregarding any spicy-hot takes about taste in art direction or "soul" or whatever. I could flood the thread with 500 megs of gifs but I don't need jannies nagging me. So I don't really know what people are complaining about. Then again, I never really got the complaints about simple high-res art. Flash games can look good, flash games can be good, so if it "looks like a flash game", so what.
Tyrian 2000 has better and more detailed art than a lot of the pixelshit indies.
Took me a few tries but I beat this as a teen. I didn't think it was that hard but most levels did take a couple of attempts.
2d vector art is harder to produce and people dont care much. Look at Ben Fiquets stuff or Behemoths games, people dont have that kinda skill anymore. Pixel art can also be good but most people are too attached to laziness. There are good pixel artists, they just work less compared to the shovelware produced by idiots. My standards for pixel art is the stuff on arcade, especially the stuff produced by Capcom Data East and SNK, Genesis and SNES comes second. Again people dont put in that level of effort anymore.
