Disagree strongly. Pixel art almost always sucks. I play something like Stardew Valley and the whole time I’m thinking “This is a good game, but I wish it didn’t look like shitty blocky garbage”
Factorio is another. I used to love the Minecraft tech mods, loved Satisfactory etc, so I’m a fan of the genre, but when I try Factorio I lose interest within an hour because the whole game is an ugly brown pixelated mess. It’s so bad that it’s actually a barrier stopping me from enjoying the game.
I like polygons.
No you don’t understand, JUST the polygons and in a countable amount too.
I don’t need the textures. It’s my aesthetic.
I tried OSRS as someone that’s never played RuneScape before and I gotta say, the pretty polygons are one of the main reasons I kept playing and had fun. pretty world doesn’t have to be 100GB
Games with good art design are superior than “good graphics”.
In my honest opinion, one of the worst things you can do in a game is try and make a realistic-looking person. All of the games who have stylized their art have absolutely lived on in history as great games that are still great to play today.
Metal Slug has got some of the coolest pixel art. https://www.spriters-resource.com/neo_geo_ngcd/ms/
They really must have had some pros on their art team.
Both are nice. I love simple aesthetics prsented masterfully, but I have NEVER played a game that evokes the surreal and beautiful as well as Alan Wake 2 which is using technology to facilitate that
I’m so bored of pixel art games. There’s plenty of standouts but more often than not, they look like…everything else. It’s so hard to make a unique aesthetic when you’re literally limited on pixel count.
I think they’re as are as popular as they are because you can make an awesome game on a low(er) budget so there’s more awesome games out there. But as it stands, I need to hear some really good things about a pixel game to get me interested because the aesthetic itself is a turnoff for me.
Blasphemous was the first pixel game that jumped in my head for really outstanding art. Wild character design, and the kill animations are unique and brutal.
It’s like they saw what castlevania wanted to be and blew it out of the water.
Unique, high quality pixel art styles are definitely attainable. I’m just bored of the retro aesthetic
Completely agreed!
Dead Cells, Terraria, Valheim, Prodeus, and so many more, gorgeous because of–not in spite of–their pixel graphics!
Valheim is decidedly not pixel art.
Maybe pixelart adjacent? The textures are clearly chunky as is the foliage and many other transparencies. It’s a 3D world but so is Prodeus and Dead Cells. Both use pixel art masking (not sure what it’s actually called) to make it pixel like. Dead Cells is more pixel art than Prodeus but they both bend the rules of pure pixels compared to Terraria. And I like that!
Pixels or not, valheim is so beautifully atmospheric! It’s like morrowind and studio ghibli had a baby and named it Baldur. I have a home in each biome that I rotate through just to experience their unique beauties.
That’s awesome! I gave up after the swamp. I died way way too often. And the sea monster hunting me down out of the blue was the end for me.
You should should absolutely go back and try it again, the Mistlands and Ashlands are so well designed. I find the swamp is easiest if you take it slow and use the hoe to build roads through the muck. Serpents can’t catch the iron tier boat unless you fight the wind and they’re not really worth the hassle to hunt unless you really want their head for decor, normally if I see one I just detour to wherever the wind takes me until they lose interest.
It’s also even better with friends.
I’ll keep that in mind and see if my brothers want to play with me.
Looks at fancy almost photorealistic game with beautiful graphics and a complex storyline that cost tens of millions to make yeah imma go play minecraft
Factorio is my jam. So addicting and the pixelated nature holds up well.
Seems like a solid place for me to plug Deadbolt to anyone that hasn’t played it. It’s made by the risk of rain guys with Chris christodoulou making another iconic soundtrack.
It plays a bit like if hotline Miami was a stealth sidescroller, using fluid motion to get in, kill the enemies, and get out as quickly and smoothly ad possible.
Everyone should give it a try, it’s one I consistently ignore new games for.
One of them is art, the other is just reality…
I spent my childhood playing SNES and early PC games and I can’t stand playing modern pixel art games.
I just got Risk of Rain
One of the best games out there. RoR 2 and RoR Returns are both stellar as well.
The soundtrack is phenomenal.
The game seems way too hard at first, but once you get into the flow it’s incredibly satisfying.
