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.
it’s a stylistic choice, not a performance one. This post is as if you’re going to an art musem, complaining about cubism art when you like impressionalism. Effort is still needed to make good pixel art, especially because of the smaller resolutions.
As others said, just don’t play pixel games. There are literally thousands of games out there that use a different art style