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VintageGin posted...

what is objectively ugly

Something that some extremely high percentage of people on the earth finds unpleasant to look at when they look at it. If you think such things don't exist and that a lot of video games don't fall into this blanket... if you're saying such things don't exist at all it's you showing your lack of education and nuance on the subject-- art is something you can teach exactly because there are certain principles when applied correctly are generally pleasing, and certain things when not tend to be met with revulsion. That doesn't mean that there aren't artists yet to come who will perfect styles that don't respect certain concepts, but that also doesn't mean joe schmo who didn't do that either retroactively becomes good when that artist tries something new-- it's a sum of its parts kinda thing.

But no, it's not every that 8-bit offering or retro looking game is ugly like some people are trying to dumb it down to. Plenty of NES games or retro games that imitate that look of many different styles look quite good because there is an artform to pixels too.

And then there are some that are just not pleasant to look at by pretty much any standard but some self righteous internet guy will defend to the death.