It's good! (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, August 29, 2017, 13:36 (2652 days ago) @ cheapLEY

It's good, but…

The graphics. You have a game that outputs in 4K on the PS4 Pro, and you make low resolution pixel art! This drives me nuts. The pixel art should be colorful and detailed for at least 1080p. But no. Retro = low resolution. It's a good looking game but it would have been mind blowing if they had actually USED the resolution they were afforded.

The sprite rotation also looks like shit, with aliasing and huge quality drops. Technically that's how it would have looked on a 32X, but we are running on modern hardware for fucks sake. Sprite rotation should not look like ass.

Better than you remembered it. That is how you do a retro game. Even Ron Gilbert admitted for Thimbleweed Park that they added high quality scaling to the sprites even though it wasn't technically correct, because "that's how you remember it in your mind".

Use the fucking hardware, Jesus christ. It's such a shame for really great efforts to be soured with bad conceptual decisions.