In my mid-30s but didn’t grow up with video games.
When I started playing them on my own PC, it was NFS, Half Life, Rise of Nations, and Call of Duty that got me hooked.
Now that I’m looking for games to play on my Deck, most of the games perfect for portable gaming appear to be with pixel art aesthetic.
Just why? Is this nostalgia? In the 90s, deveopers were using every trick possible to squeeze performance out of hardware (been watching videos about old games like Rollercoaster Tycoon, Prince of Persia, Doom etc) and I can’t even get indie games with some eye candy?
Never have I been so disappointed to find out that Balatro and Vampire Survivors are pixel art games. My interest disappeared faster than a Lamborghini.
Whatever happened to other art styles? Why don’t we see games with vector or pseudo-3D (or 2.5D) art?
Anyway, that’s my unpopular opinion I guess.
I am fine with 2D games (Mini Metro is addictive af) but I think pixel art is just lazy.
This is an uneducated take, pixel art is hard to do well. It’s fine if you don’t like it but if you insist on calling it lazy I insist you look into what it takes.
pixel art is a stylistic choice many people find novel, you can dislike it all you want, but the take that it is lazy is in itself intellectually lazy
This comment to me just settles that you absolutely don’t know the effort that goes into making pixel art look good.