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> it's just nostalgia having grown up playing Final Fantasy games for SNES

What did Nintendo do to you people? I've grown up playing very pixelated games on the ZX Spectrum but I have zero nostalgia for those graphics.

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It’s because the art for these games was so good, it didn’t feel like the hardware was a limitation, more like it just had a particular style.

I’m currently playing Octopath Traveler 2 and it completely recreates this feeling, the art is beautiful and very pixelated.

Well, at least the Nintendo nostalgia is saving me money since I can't even look at fake pixelated graphics when I look for new indie games to play.

This is not the only way to do low budget graphics. Too bad very few creators realize it.

What are some other techniques you’ve noticed?

Final Fantasy IV and VI, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Ogre Battle, and Zelda: A Link to the Past all still look great to me to this day. I think it's just a timeless art style. And it's not all just nostalgia, the early 3d games which came in the next generation of consoles, and which I probably spent even more time playing, all look like trash to me.

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