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[bomblord1]

All these suggestions are wrong because they are, in fact, all based on pixels.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

For me it definitely goes to Skullgirls, Dragon's Crown, Child of Light, and Rayman Origins.

My two top choices are Cuphead and Broken Age.

I love old cartoons and Cuphead does a really good job at replicating that style.

Is that game out yet?

 

[Pritchardo]

Good occasion to push a game from friends, Seasons after fall! (I'm not participating )



That said i'm a little frustrated with most "artsy" 2D games nowadays. They often chose to completely assume the 2d sketch asset thing and i tend to think it's actualyl not how a 2D game should look. Pixel art back then was more organic and lively.

But games like Warioland Shake it, Skull girl or Cuphead and Broken Age find back some of that groove by going all hand drawn animation.

Also Vanillaware is still the king at art direction!

As for Ori i'm not feeling it at all.. i'll try the game but it looks like the perfect indy 2d game cliche. Average assets being copied and paste all over with tons of moody light and blur to make it sooo eery.. Also the whole "dark counter light mistery forest with bloom everywhere" is so done and boring.

every inch of ori is hand drawn there are no tiles so no copy n paste job.

 

[liliththepale]

All these suggestions are wrong because they are, in fact, all based on pixels.

For the purpose of discussion, just take pixel-based game to mean a game where the internal buffer is half the width and height of the screen buffer or less.

 

[orioto]

every inch of ori is hand drawn there are no tiles so no copy n paste job.

Just look at any screen it's pretty clear there are textures used many times.. like any other game of that style (Vanilla ware, rayman etc...).

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

For the purpose of discussion, just take pixel-based game to mean a game where the internal buffer is half the width and height of the screen buffer or less.

I thought the thread starter meant non-sprite based games.

 

[Mupod]

yeah put me on team vanillaware, here. Odin Sphere in particular.

 

[More_Badass]

I thought the thread starter meant non-sprite based games.

"that aren't retro pixel-based"
Yeah, I assumed the same thing

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Trine 2.

That's what I came to say. It looks amazing, especially the lighting.

 

[Alo81]

*fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart* *fart*

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[liliththepale]

I thought the thread starter meant non-sprite based games.

There are very few 2D games that aren't sprite based, unless you're referring to the original meaning of sprite in which case there are very few games that are still sprite based.

edit: to clarify, at present a sprite is any 2D image or animation that's separate from the rest of the scene. Almost all game rendering today is actually in 3D, with 2D games doing orthographic perspective. Most everything from the characters to the walls and pickups are sprites in 2D games nowadays. Originally, like on the SNES and before, the background image was a separate single image that was precomposited of tiles and then sprites were separate images overlaid. That's not how any modern game engine works.

 

[Cachuli]

 

[Tizoc]

Does Garou MotW counts?

 

[More_Badass]

There are very few 2D games that aren't sprite based, unless you're referring to the original meaning of sprite in which case there are very few games that are still sprite based.

Pretty sure you guys are overthinking it. The OP most likely meant games that aren't pixel graphics.

Slain vs Apotheon for example

 

[liliththepale]

Pretty sure you guys are overthinking it. The OP most likely meant games that aren't pixel graphics.

Slain vs Apotheon for example

To be fair, I only brought this up as a rebuttal to "All these suggestions are wrong because they are, in fact, all based on pixels."

 

[Purple Cheeto]

not sure i get the line between "pixel art" and "non-pixel" in this thread. is it sort of like how apple says "retina display"?

I mean a lot of the games being posted in this thread are 3D games with restricted cameras, which is a completely different category one would think.

I thought the thread starter meant non-sprite based games.

But aside from stuff like Kirby and Guilty Gear where its actually a 3D model in 2D space almost every game being posted in this thread is sprite based.

 

[Train of Midnight]

Banner Saga definitely gets my personal vote.

 

[Griss]

My favourites:

Kirby's Epic Yarn
Muramasa
Rayman Legends / Origins
Braid
Dragon's Crown

We really need an HD version of Kirby's Epic Yarn. I'm so excited for Wooly World. Those types of games just always give me a good feel.

 

[bomblord1]

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Agreed!

 

[suzu]

Definitely Ori and the Vanillaware games.

I think OP just means games that aren't in a (retro?) pixel art style.

 

[Haly]

I should probably play Ori.

And Dust I guess. I have it, just never touched it.

Visually, Vanillaware stuff are my favorite games in the whole god damn industry. Too bad they're all noticably flawed, as games, in their own ways.

 

[Dog Problems]

Is that game out yet?

No. Last I read it's supposed to be out this year.

 

[Derpyduck]

Ori followed by Rayman Legends.

I also thought Outland looked great.

 

[Haly]

RE: Pixels? But everything on my screen is pixels!

I. What is Pixel art?

Every pixel does not literally need to be placed by hand
The job of the pixel artist is not to manually place each and every pixel. You aren't expected to behave like a robot, filling in large areas with thousands of single-clicks of the pencil tool. The bucket tool is fine. The line tool is fine. What's important is that the artist has control of the image at the level of the single pixel, not that you create the image one pixel at a time.

 

[Magic Mushroom]

Cuphead.

 

[Magnet_Man]

Super
Robot
Wars
son!

 

[Haly]

Wow that looks like old disney stuff.

 

[bomblord1]

Wow that looks like old disney stuff.

Looks like my life as a teenage robot it also reminds me of old pop eye cartoons.