Why is it still so, so easy to differentiate between the pixel art of an indie games that tries it's best to look like a games straight up of an old console and pixel art of games actually made during the period of said consoles? The only people who say shovel knight looks indistinguishable from an actual nes game made in the 80s are ign reviewers
>>730896030>Why is itidk you tell meI'm not gonna debate some retard and keep your thread alive while you jerk off in the corner watching spergs fight spergs.
>>730896030The difference between for example, NES spritework and modern indie games recreating NES spritework is adherence to the strict limitations of the consoleNES developers had to find workaroundsIndie developers going for an NES style just have to make it 8 bit while ignoring everything else that makes it distinctly NES
A lot of modern sprite work just seems a little "bulbous". Few games of the era would opt in for such large sprites, and would never be that detailed.
>>730896030Shovel Knight looks a million times better than MegamanWhy do you keep making these retarded indie game seethe threads
nobody is trying to make it indistinguishable
>>730896030left is literally incapable on nes, too many different sprites and more colors than possible, sprites also had a dimension limit that is not respected anymore
>>730896030Parallax backgrounds.Parallax backgrounds everywhere.It's like Ulillillia personally inspects every game to make sure that they have them>>730899102At least we've moved on from that hideous 1-pixel noodle limb era.
>>730896030Shovel Knight did not try its best. It added more colors and effects than are possible on the NES
>>730896030Yeah Shovel Knight looks slightly better.
older sprites were designed to work woth CRTs, if you made them today it would look bad on most screens, so they attempt to amke a style of pixel art that looks like what the pixels would look like to a person looking at them on screen
>>730896030>The only people who say shovel knight looks indistinguishable from an actual nes game made in the 80s are ign reviewersAnd IGN reviewers are retards. Shovel Knight is obviously NES inspired but they were both aware of actual NES limitations and when to ignore them because they're fucking annoying (eg sprite flicker). They used to have a whole bunch of write-ups on their blog about the making of stuff, from the sprites to the 'body swap' mode that's half "we want players to feel represented blah blah" and half "holy fucking shit Propeller Knight makes for a sexy rule 63 version and our artist gave her thighs like goddamn zeppelins" but I don't know if those posts are still up.
>>730896030Limited memory meant "reuse the shit out of lowres sprites"Indies don't have that problem, nor do they see that as a problem as most indie games take at least 100mb of ram just for existing. They have no concept of "squeezing it down" for a cartridge.
>>730898769They limit the palette and it still looks like shit THO
>>730896030Limitation breeds creativity. Original 8-bit games were developed under very strict constraints due to technical know-how still being in its infancy, and hardware having hard limits.Modern Indies don't have any of this and are developed by people who didn't grow up playing those games, so they tend to half-ass things or they simply are oblivious to many things that made retro design great.
Can we talk about how fucking gay it is that this guy is a core character of shovel knight
>>730901606the curse of kikestarter OCs
>>730901384Shovel knight does not actually have the NES palette, I remember reading that they had to add cheat colors when they couldn't figure out how to represent some things (like black people lol)
>>730901606The world if muffet was shoved into every game in his place instead: *insert utopia image*
>>730901734That was such a croc of shit too. They clearly said it used MUH NES PALLETE as a way of loosely implying "Bro, it's so authentic you could probably run it on an NES" to retards without saying as much
>>730901734shit colors*
>>730901606I mean in Specter Knight’s campaign he is important. In the other one’s he’s treated as a side character.
>>730902472He had no business being that important to spectre knights story, apparently the faggot who made the OC hated it but I don't care, it's gay and annoying
>>730896030Games like Shovel Knight go for the NES look but are avoiding its limitations that limits its colors and visual detail, idiot.
