How I feel now everytime I load up a new 8bit indie game. I want those kinds of game mechanics. I want those style of games from the perspective of playstyle. I do not enjoy 8bit graphics.
My experience has been that 8-bit on the consoles in the 1980s is very different from 8-bit in most indie games right now.
The art direction in old games felt more polished and easier to look at.
Yeah. I have a similar experience. Those developers were working pretty hard within the constraints of the mediums they were working with and they made some truly amazing stuff as a result. I feel like 8bit is an attempt at nostalgia in new games and it doesn’t land for me. I know I’m probably in the minority. That’s okay though.
This is how I feel about mobile games. Even the good mobile games will have some epically animated scene that shows all out war between a bunch of magical badasses with explosions and all kinds of epic shit.
Then the gameplay is some low effort turn based game where the characters barely move and the attack effects are pathetic light shows.
To be fair actually sick effects and attacks would probably take like 30 seconds per turn. Looking at you final fantasy VII
But, I’ve been told my entire life that FFVII is literally the solely greatest thing ever and is itself the 2nd coming of christ its apparently so perfectionly good.
I remember there being some sci-fi shootet game for the SNES that had some old fart playing a banjo on the cover. What was that game?
I just googled it, and what the fuck?
It looks like the artwork guy got one order for a sci-fi videogame, and one order for a hilbilly folk band album, and was like “I think I know how to halve my workload!”
My favorite
I love this one. Why is his face off center? Why does he have a normal gun?
I dunno if that’s the same. VVVVVV at no point indicates it’s supposed to represent anything more complex than what it looks like, it just embraces minimalism as it is.
