good pixel art in games like dead cells/hyper light drifter etc looks gorgeous.

The toon shading in stuff like the wolf among us is a design choice and makes it stand out. Personally stylistic choices stand out more for me. This Article talks more about people opinions on pixels 'It’s good, but kind of pixelated…' and shows how the really nice looking art of King of Fighters XIII gets a worse score than the shoddy looking graphics in Street Fighter IV.and also a comment mentions that if you give pixel art larger resolutions people just think its 'regular art thats been stored badly' ignoring all the work that went into drawing it.Īdditionally most games that were made with pixel art look alot worse when people try to 'depixelize' them.either by hand or programatically.

Obviously Gameplay comes first and graphics are a second point but it seems like quite a few gamers see pixels as 'cheap' and would prefer poorly made 3d models.įactorio also uses 3D models that are then outputted to 2D and touched up Friday fact on it and there are comments on the steam discussions to the point of 'a cheap pixelated game like this has no right having a AAA price tag' When my girlfriend found out she asked why they would purposefully make it look worse 'see the 3d looks so much better I'd prefer it looking like that' while personally lots of 3D games/models look like shit.most 3d games that try to look realistic age terribly once better advances in technology come out while alot of 2d/pixilated games still look nice years later. In dead cells (a game I think is gorgeously put together) a 3D pipeline is used to generate pixelated 2d sprites.

Size of hyper light drifter sprite