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.
Yeah I think it was kind of like a tech-demo for the Steam Deck. I had fun with it, but I truly don’t remember a single moment from it. These screenshots look completely foreign to me lol.
Valve did the same thing for the Index VR kit. They create these little brief but fully produced games to demonstrate the functionality when they release new hardware, and they’re delightful.
You bought the virtual console version of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark because you have fond memories of playing the carts on the N64 when you were young.
I bought the virtual console version of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark because I have never played them before and wanted to see what all the excitement was about.
We are the same, enjoying classic masterpieces of entertainment in our adulthood.
It’s hilarious because it’s the default control style now, but I remember trying Perfect Dark with the “2.1” controller setup where you used the center stalk on two N64 controllers (giving you a joystick for each thumb) and how hard it was to use initially. So different than the C aiming on Goldeneye.
He’s probably referencing the tech we already saw a few years back where the game would render incredibly simple untextured geometry, then the gen AI reskins it to look like a realistic video.
Or maybe someone’s convinced him we’ll make whole games out of Gaussian Splats
AI will eventually be given the task of creating a game based on prompts and it will be able to do that with minimal curation with considerations of other similar games and the consensus about them. It will be able to accomplish the entire dev in a fraction of the time of a conventional dev team of humans. This is probably 10-15 years away and will be the death of innovative risk taking games that come to be held in high regard.
What is emerging is AI upscaling that will eventually allow a game made 10 years ago to look new. Soon there will be extrapolative AI that can remaster something like Super Mario Bros or Goldeneye and make it into a modern gen graphics game regardless of what “modern” means.
AI can be a fantastic tool to ease the burdens of the game development process to decrease costs and time so smaller studios can focus on the core of what makes a game good. Unfortunately studios will integrate AI into the development process as they remove humans to decrease costs to an overall detrimental degree and the market will be flooded with mediocre derivative games that offer nothing of value in terms of experience.
This makes me feel like there will be a large group of retro gamers who will prefer the artisan, human-made games of the past, but ultimately a younger gen audience that won’t know the difference or care.
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