I fucking despise "shitty on purpose" indie games

The trend needs to die once and for all

Name one.

>>712806783
Hollow Knight

>>712806783
fpbp

>>712806783
Undertale

>>712806856
>>712806904
Those aren't shitty on purpose, they're pretty much 100% sincere.
If you think they're shitty, then they're just shitty fullstop, nothing "on purpose" about it.

>>712806783
cruelty squad

>>712806783
noita

>>712806704 (OP)
Pixelart or lowpoly isn't "shitty on purpose", it's just legitimate styles of minimalism. Something similar in spirit to lowpoly existed in normal art since forever way before 3d was invented: cubism, abstract art, etc. Pointillism is a bit similar to pixelart, if you look deeper, especially ultralowres pixelart with ultra strategic pixel placement.

>>712807002
>they're pretty much 100% sincere.
lol

>>712806704 (OP)
>posts eternal NGMI casual pleb gamer with THIS thread
lol

You choose the games you buy

>>712807321
If your pixel art looks like this, then I agree it's not shitty on purpose

Anything below this is absolutely shitty on purpose

>>712806856
>t. mindbroken contrarian

>>712807536
Hollow Knight looks like Alien Hominid, a free Flash game made by two dudes in their spare time, not aiming any higher than that visually for a paid game is absolutely phoning it in on purpose

>>712807438
I suspect that your mind can't comprehend more abstract and reduced styles. That's a you problem, it takes a lot of skill/effort and there are enough people who appreciate it.

>>712807868
pretty...

>>712807353
>>712808191
Okay then maybe what you dislike isn't the level of detail or rendering style, but character designs themselves. It's more like "goofy on purpose", like characters looking "dumb", comedic or unserious, rather than their drawing quality being bad.

>>712806856
spbp

>>712806704 (OP)
I haven't played indie games in a decade because there used to be a lot of good ones but now it's just oversaturated slop and even big name studios put out "indies" now. It was good while we had it and now it's garbage. Happens to everything. Indie games, anime, you name it.

>>712808720

>>712808191 here, i was a different anon i just liked the art

It's so funny to me that cruelty squad ran the line perfectly and then psycho patrol r fell uncomfortably hard on the "just plain shitty" side of the line and the fanbase disappeared in an instant.
Also deadly premonition.

>>712806783
There are a ton of games that use intentional shittiness as a marketing gimmick, like Goat Simulator and Banana.

>>712806704 (OP)
The trend would die if Gaben would start gatekeeping what games are allowed on Steam. An upfront fee of $50,000 would honestly go a long way.

>>712806704 (OP)
Black Souls 1 and Cruelty Squad are the only ones I can think of. Unless you're thinking of the low poly aesthetic ones.

>>712806783
Schedule 1, R.E.P.O., only up, baby steps

>>712808720
Goofy on purpose works for designs and content, not rendering styles

>>712810832
Yeah, a long way to making it suck.

>>712807868
Yacht Club is the only one working in reduced styles and putting in the effort

>>712812926
"Goofy on purpose" is only applicable to rendering styles and content, rendering style can't be "goofy".

>>712816391
>only applicable to rendering styles and content
>rendering style can't be "goofy".
??

>>712806704 (OP)
I feel like those died years ago and never eclipsed Goat Simulator

>>712816852
Click on literally any streamer and you'll see them playing kusoge of the week every week

>>712807407
Voting with your wallet doesn't work and it has never worked in history

>>712817152
Why are you watching things that upset you? Are you stupid?

>>712806856
I still can't get over how shitty this game was.