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I love going retro
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I've never really cared much about graphics in video games, and a game can still be great with even the simplest of graphics - see the Faith series, for example. Interesting story and still has some good scares despite the 8-bit graphics.
To me many of these games with retro aesthetics (either because they're actually retro or the dev decided to go with a retro style) don't really feel dated, but rather nostalgic and charming in their own special way.
And many other people also don't seem to care much about graphics. Minecraft and Roblox are very popular despite having very simplistic graphics, and every now and then a new gameplay video about some horror game with a retro aesthetic will pop up on my recommended, and so far I've never seen anyone complain about the graphics, only compliments about them being interesting, nostalgic and charming.
Also I have a potato PC, and it can't run these modern 8K FPS games anyway, so having these games with simpler graphics that I can actually run is nice. But maybe that's just me.
Ultrakill imo is a perfect example of how you don't need good graphics to be a successful new game today and TF2 is another example of what does good graphics even means as there's more graphics directions than just realistic quite frankly with the advent of photos scanning combined with how real graphics can get today id imagine game graphics are going to be like art when the photography was invented
It’s more about the controls than the graphics. Like, GTA San Andreas is probably still my favourite one, but trying to play with the old controls after having played with the new ones is so hard.
All they gotta do is update the controls and it’s all good