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by Vested Id 09/26/2012, 5:01am PDT |
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Mischief Maker wrote:
Vector games were and are legitimately unique and beautiful, yes.
8-bit Nintendo games were not. Nintendo games looked like shit even back in the day. I remember reading an article in Nintendo Power where someone was asking why TMNT the arcade game looked like shit on his Nintendo compared to the arcades, and the Nintendo flunky had the balls to say it was because the kid was connecting the game to his TV using an RF adapter instead of a direct digital connection.
STOP INTENTIONALLY MAKING UGLY GAMES TO "PAY HOMAGE!!!"
First, NES games looked incredible compared to proceeding home systems. Second, the NES was on the cusp of graphical representation in videogames (on home systems in any case) that could be interpreted directly without requiring the context of a story or other external factors, which puts it in a very special place artistically. Instead of this square representing a man and this duck representing a dragon, you could build a little man and a world for him to go running around in and it was unambiguous for the most part what you were looking at, even if it still took a lot of ingenuity on the part of the designer – coveralls, moustache, cap, painting the clouds green and reusing them as bushes – to make it apparent. Games on the NES had what feels now like the perfect balance of abilities and constraints for a graphical designer; everything you are looking at is an abstraction but it adds up to a concrete universe. It's sort of like a piano - not the most incredible sounding instrument of all time but you can play just about anything on it and it has wonderful harmonics.
I'm personally a lot less enthusiastic about faux 8bit design of things like Habbo Hotel, which have a clean pixel look that is just lies. |
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ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING RETRO GRAPHICS!!! by Mischief Maker 09/25/2012, 2:41pm PDT 
"Wizorb" in the Humble Bundle looks like shit, BTW. NT by Mischief Maker 09/25/2012, 2:42pm PDT
Re: ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING RETRO GRAPHICS!!! by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/25/2012, 3:47pm PDT
CGA is hipster cool by Roop 09/25/2012, 6:05pm PDT
Re: CGA is hipster cool by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/25/2012, 7:56pm PDT
I am getting the idea that hipster cool is not cool. NT by Shredder 09/26/2012, 11:36am PDT
Dithering leaves me withering NT by Hipster Id 09/26/2012, 10:05pm PDT
Depends. You aren't taking photos then changing them to CGA, are you? by Mischief Maker 09/25/2012, 6:45pm PDT
Re: Depends. You aren't taking photos then changing them to CGA, are you? by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/26/2012, 10:55am PDT
it might be better to pick your own 4-color scheme by jeep 09/25/2012, 8:23pm PDT
Re: ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING RETRO GRAPHICS!!! by laudablepuss 09/26/2012, 8:22am PDT
Re: ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING RETRO GRAPHICS!!! by Vested Id 09/26/2012, 5:01am PDT
Not incredible sounding? by Entropy Stew 09/27/2012, 7:33pm PDT
Fact: 99% of baroque music recordings are ruined by harpsichords doubling everyt NT by Fullofkittens 09/27/2012, 8:47pm PDT
The NES aesthetic works better for some genres than others. by Jerry Whorebach 09/26/2012, 6:13am PDT
Re: The NES aesthetic works better for some genres than others. by Fussbett 09/27/2012, 9:26am PDT
Figures an Out of This World fan would take issue with that point. by Jerry Whorebach 09/27/2012, 11:05am PDT
Re: Figures an Out of This World fan would take issue with that point. by Fussbett 09/28/2012, 1:31am PDT
Wizorb stretches the definition of '8-bit Nintendo' to include the TurboGrafx-16 by Jerry Whorebach 09/28/2012, 3:49am PDT
Eh? Street fighter EX was out on the PS1 by Entropy Stew 09/27/2012, 4:12pm PDT
Timelines by Fussbett 09/28/2012, 3:24am PDT
I must also take issue with that quoted bit by Arbit 09/27/2012, 3:34pm PDT
Have you ever actually played an NES game? by Jerry Whorebach 09/27/2012, 7:02pm PDT
Games ruined for lack of animation, part I: Double Dragon (Master System) by Jerry Whorebach 10/05/2012, 6:01am PDT
Re: ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING RETRO GRAPHICS!!! by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/27/2012, 7:43am PDT
But Professor Asperger, we already know what vector graphics are!! NT by go fuck yourself 09/27/2012, 8:08am PDT
Gemini Rue had nothing to do with CGA. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/27/2012, 9:46am PDT
And I don't give a shit if it didn't use CGA. It looks like it did... by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/27/2012, 10:54am PDT
Re: And I don't give a shit if it didn't use CGA. It looks like it did... by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/27/2012, 12:02pm PDT
Christ. Some site is still doing the "no hotlinking" thing. by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/27/2012, 5:43pm PDT
it's still a bad idea by jeep 09/27/2012, 6:15pm PDT
One would think an old fucker like you would know more about old video formats NT by but apparently you're too retarded. 09/27/2012, 1:47pm PDT
You really think that's going to fly on a forum with its own Vectrex game? NT by Entropy Stew 09/27/2012, 4:21pm PDT
How do you feel about the silhouette style of games like Limbo and Deadlight? by Jerry Whorebach 09/27/2012, 8:31pm PDT
I think I've been misinterpreted in this thread by Mischief Maker 09/27/2012, 8:57pm PDT
What's a good e-mail address to hit you with? by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/30/2012, 9:14am PDT
Re: What's a good e-mail address to hit you with? by Mischief Maker 09/30/2012, 9:22am PDT
A special fuck you to MM by fabio 10/11/2012, 1:30pm PDT
I'm going to be a huge hypocrite with "Hotline Miami" by Mischief Maker 10/11/2012, 1:59pm PDT
That video gave me motion sickness by Entropy Stew 10/13/2012, 9:13am PDT
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