Nidhogg 2 looks like steaming faeces.
anon459 said:
I don't just or even mostly mean visual aesthetics, either. Lovecraftian aesthetic is supposed to be about inevitable decline, and realizing how powerless you are in the universe - which clashes strongly with an RPG's constant progression, even if that progression is leavened with difficulty and permadeath.
It's pretty dissonant to be feeling the triumph of beating a really difficult boss and then hear more of the narrator's over-the-top pessimism. The gameplay of DD is about succeeding against impossible odds, or at best winning a battle of attrition with a lot of casualties on your side, but the narrative side of it, such as it is, is about unrelenting pessimism and decay.
And, yeah, they don't succeed at the Lovecraftian aesthetic very well, either - the writing's terrible in most places, and the genuinely excellent voicework isn't given much to salvage the game with. If I wanted to parody DD's items descriptions I would probably come up with something like "Blue, like strangled dreams," but that's actually what they wrote for the Sapphire item description.
In order to be fully enjoyed, I had to shut off the narrarator, mute the music, and put on some fast techno music in the background, at which point it became a pretty damn good turn-based dungeon crawler.
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Nidhogg 2 looks like steaming faeces.
I don't like you.
Psychonauts is the ugliest game I can think of.
I know I'm not going to get a lot of support for this, but I think A Link to the Past is ugly and amateur-hour looking. It is inconsistent in perspective, has several different shading styles of which several of them are badly executed, things sometimes have thicker outlines for no reason, colour palettes are full of wasteful decisions, and it just features ugly, unmemorable design after ugly, unmemorable design. It's as clear as day that the visuals were made by designers and illustrators who did not really know what they were doing with pixel art. The only thing it has going for it, is that it is consistently poor, so you can relatively easily get used to it. Many of its issues are also present in Earthbound, which is another first party uggo.
The new SSF4 models were vastly improved though, like Ibuki and Dudley.
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There's something very wrong with Battleborn and heads. I mean look at this neck:
The game is beautiful in a Ren & Stimpy kinda way.
Psychonauts is the ugliest game I can think of.
I know I'm not going to get a lot of support for this, but I think A Link to the Past is ugly and amateur-hour looking. It is inconsistent in perspective, has several different shading styles of which several of them are badly executed, things sometimes have thicker outlines for no reason, colour palettes are full of wasteful decisions, and it just features ugly, unmemorable design after ugly, unmemorable design. It's as clear as day that the visuals were made by designers and illustrators who did not really know what they were doing with pixel art. The only thing it has going for it, is that it is consistently poor, so you can relatively easily get used to it. Many of its issues are also present in Earthbound, which is another first party uggo.
Boring af
