Ugh. I hate games with pixel graphics. That trend needs to die already.
Ugh. I hate games with pixel graphics. That trend needs to die already.
It's not a trend, it's a means by which people can do good games with much smaller teams and budgets than 3D games generally require. That's probably never going to change.
No, it's just a hipster fad. You can do 2D art without going pixel. It's just lazy and unattractive. Literally anything would be better than that.
It's like they're trying to imitate graphics from a particular generation such as SNES, but stop short because it doesn't look anything like that.
What does it mean to "do 2D art without going pixel"? What are you expecting exactly, for them to scan in hand drawings instead?
Or one of the million other ways to create art on the computer without intentionally exaggerating the pixels.
I don't know what "intentionally exaggerating the pixels" means. Or what you're talking about when you say pixel art.
If you mean resolution, working at lower resolutions and therefore with less detail simply requires less work and talent, like I've been saying.
Now obviously this game is specifically evoking the art style of the Mother series
not just using "pixel graphics."
LOL, Rakehellion's really doubling down on ignorance here.
"It's easy to make better graphics, just tell Photoshop to do it"
I agree with Rake, this trend does need to die. Hell, it needed to die 15 years ago. Only herp derps and hipsters like this shite. its 2015. If I want to play a block game i'll dig out my son's wooden blocks from when he was a baby 21 years ago.
I also hate minecraft for the exact same reason. its 20-effing-15, not 1989.
I said start with a higher resolution source image, idiot.
Going through your post history it seems as if you're incapable of saying anything that isn't whiny or negative. Maybe you need a life coach.
I agree with Rake, this trend does need to die. Hell, it needed to die 15 years ago. Only herp derps and hipsters like this shite. its 2015. If I want to play a block game i'll dig out my son's wooden blocks from when he was a baby 21 years ago.
I also hate minecraft for the exact same reason. its 20-effing-15, not 1989.
That's rich coming from a guy who attempts to be as much of a pompous jackass as possible in every post.
But back to the point...
What are you talking about? Source image? What do you think these indie developers do, paint a high quality painting and scan it in at low res just to piss you off?
Pixel art is created by clicking pixels one at a time with the color you want. There is no source image. The pixel art IS the source image.
Creating high quality art takes a lot longer than crude art. What takes longer, drawing a stick figure or painting the Sistine Chapel? Why would you think video game art is any different?
to get masterful fully 3d crysis-like level graphics is going to require a lot more than 50k worth of kickstarter money....
What takes longer, drawing a stick figure or painting the Sistine Chapel?
So don't play it? Even if only "herp derps and hipsters" like it (which is false, but whatever), let them play it and enjoy it. No one is forcing anyone to buy these games.