Thread 718613805

>technology improves
>soul declines
Tragedy

>>718613805 (OP)
Top genuinely does look beautiful. That red sunset. It's stunning.

>>718613805 (OP)
Modern game developers seem to be deathly afraid of color.

It was soulless then desu

>>718613805 (OP)
There's no such thing such as soul, no matter how old the game is.

>>718613805 (OP)
Bottom image was created by an Indian devteam where smog makes everything grey and washed out. They have no idea how clear and colourful the world actually is outside of India.

>>718614105
Golem

>>718613805 (OP)
Bottom is a better composition, but has a more focus on the character.
I can see why you'd like the super saturated sunset better in the top pic, but the shitty sprites in front of it drag it down.

>>718614105
Soul is a ratio between result and potential. Modern hardware has super high potential, so the ratio won't be as good. You need limitations to truly put the human spirit on display.

>>718614429
Right is better?

>>718614568
You can't even lie correctly. You cracked under the pressure squeaked out a question mark as you lost your nerve.

>>718614105
Soul is the work as a symbol.
It's the ability to instantly connect, not with what is displayed as real, but what the author meant to make real.

In other words it's feeling empathy for the artist because your ideals match his.

>>718614664
Right is better though. Sure there's charm to the left but clearly the right side is better

>>718613805 (OP)
Games 20+ years ago
>made by small team of very talented programmers, artists, and musicians
>limited hardware made it easier to make simple, yet fun gaming experiences
>budgets didn’t have to be huge to make kino
>little to no publisher interference or investors telling you how to make games and who to make them for
>nearly every new game was a passion project
>new ideas and concepts constantly being used. Some don’t work, and others pushes the industry forward

Modern Gaming
>everything is corporate mandated and controlled from the planing of a game all the way until its release
>ballooned budgets that require a ton of outside investment and support
>dev teams are hundreds, if not thousands of people
>many people in dev team are mediocre or flat out shit at their craft due to DEI hiring practices and nepotism
>everyone used the same library of assets with very little variation since it’s more expensive
>publishers are risk averse due to rising dev costs, so games look like stale clones of more successful games that came before.

Soulposting is gay

>>718614429
Visual clarity reveals more flaws in the right, but left just masks it by having the background look like dusk/night the same way games use atmospheric scattering/fog.
Both have some awkward gives for the sake of gameplay, making the interactable objects much flatter and out of place, such as the sprites floating on the left and the stone block on the right.

>>718613805 (OP)
This is not a matter of soul, the one below its a reference, its not supposed to be a 1:1 recreation.

I never played SMB3 but this one flat orange color in the background immediately evokes a feeling of dusk in me, it's like I know exactly the type of atmosphere the devs wanted to evoke

Meanwhile Wonder looks pretty but only has a handful of atmospheric levels, the others feel like empty spectacle and not real atmosphere/times of day/places etc

>>718613805 (OP)
>no helmet
Nintendo will be responsible for all death from children riding wheels without helmets l.

>>718613805 (OP)
You lost your soul already

>>718615909
Think of all the kids kirby killed by swinging his sword, hammer, etc at other people. Nintendo are mass murderers.
Let's just hope kirby doesn't pick up smoking or feeding chocolate chip cookies to birds next.

>>718615223
this is try-hard pseudo-soul THOUGH

>>718613805 (OP)
terrible. absolutely terrible. tragic. simply put. the fucking least they could have done, would have been to recreate it 1:1. it's a fantastic scene and would undoubtedly have looked fantastic as is, so why change it? stupid fucking zoomers, mang...

>>718614338
true, indians love smog and antisoul gas, because that's all they've ever known. recreating it in ue5 makes them cream their pants harder than raping a fellow jeet.

>>718614489
fuck off, it's SHIT!!! IT'S SHIT!!!!!

>>718614429
NTA but fuck buzzwords and fuck the peoople who base their personality around them.

>>718613805 (OP)
>Sakurai makes a tasteful reference
>AIIIIEEEEE NOOOOO MY PIXELSHIT SLOP WHEN I WAS STILL A KID AND MY PARENTS WEREN'T DIVORCED IS SO MUCH BETTET MUH SOUL MUH SOUL

I have boomer fatigue

>>718618656
It's not nostalgia. I hated it as a kd, I wanted the newest and coolest realistic graphics. Now I understand. I don't want realism, I want style and vision.
It's not nostalgia, it's taste.

>>718617148
It's a reference in Air Riders, not a Super Star remake.

>>718613805 (OP)
How is this even a soul vs soulless when they aren't depicting the same scenery? It's kirby on the bike looking at the sun from a completely different location at a completely different time of day.
>>718617148
Why the fuck would a racing game contain a 1:1 recreation of that cutscene from Kirby Super Star on the SNES? Have you all gone fucking bananas? This is literally just a screenshot from Air Riders that nintendo posted to twitter

>>718619718
i don't care, i want the top picture.

>>718613969
thats what i noticed as well everything was to be fucking washed out and if you add even the slightest of color to something its too eye raping and not easy on the eyes fuck you zoomers give me my colorful games back

>>718613805 (OP)
>>718619718
the funniest thing is: they both look bad
in the top, kirby is literally on a chicken nugget
on the bottom, kirby is on a ground texture ripped from Just Cause 2

>>718613805 (OP)
is it the most sovlful game ever made? did shinomura make any more games?

>>718613805 (OP)
soul / souless

>>718613969
>>718619990
The game is full of saturated color and rainbow puke like every Kirby title. Dumbest possible franchise to accuse of this from seeing one screenshot of a skybox.

>>718613805 (OP)
Another victim of the anti-soul gas

>>718617419
>forumslop cringecore opinion

>getting up in arms over a tasteful reference

This is so tiring.

>>718615725
Wonders really was great looking. Too bad I'm not that much into platformers. I did one playthrough and call it a day.

>>718620218
>did shinomura make any more games?
Unfortunately, Sakurai made him... "disappear"

>>718613805 (OP)
Modern artists are not taught color theory or cartooning, and focus groups are consistently telling developers that the market wants realism over style.

>>718613805 (OP)
Sad and true.
Would saturation and more colorfulness make bottom pic souvler?

>>718614105
Plebbit

>>718622052
It's not about the reference, it's about primitive technology being superior to modern when it comes to soul

>>718615725
classic / censorslop

>>718613805 (OP)
bump

It's a reference from a completely different game. This thread is peak autism.

>>718620218
No, that game is Sonic Adventure 1, but Kirby 64 is up there.

>>718620218
It's not even the most soulful Kirby game. Super Star always wins.

>>718614429
right is ok (not good) to look at. left is ugly.

I have millennial fatigue

>>718614429
Both are ugly Westslop.

>>718631286
So go to bed

>>718621137
It's not colorful enough.
We're in such a big color recession that even the bright, faggy kiddie games gets watered down and desaturated.

>>718614489
That's a whole lot of big boy words, yet top speaks for itself, while it's hard to tell what the hell is going on at bottom.