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Leonhart4 posted...

Like if you're going to argue something is objectively bad, then you should be able to discuss the objective metrics that make it bad instead of just saying so or saying enough people agree to make it so. Otherwise it doesn't actually enhance the conversation and becomes a word that leads to topics like this.

And to be fair that's why I rarely do such things. But I do take offense to people trying to dumb it down and say that people who think Axiom Verge is ugly just don't like pixel art and that all NES games were just as ugly-- it clearly is not that. You'll note my first post in this topic was saying there are a ton of NES games that look way better than Axiom Verge 2.

If you want the first most glaring thing that makes it feel ugly to me it's the contrast and color choices. Everything sort of has a blurred together feel and the important elements don't pop enough (the latter is more functionally a problem, but the former is offputting particularly when the blurred together colors are shades of browns or these miserable baby blues). It's not really a discussion that interests me because the opposing side is saying "it's an artistic choice dummy" and I don't have the depth of study to articulate to them why they're wrong even if it is pretty obvious to anyone with eyes. And of course, they're going to double down with some random piece of art that was drawn entirely with poop browns as though that defeats the argument. It's just not worth my time. Just because people refuse to see why certain elements to the style are offputting to most people and because people who do don't care to refute every insipid counter-argument doesn't mean it's purely a matter of opinion.

Just because I don't have the energy or knowledge on the topic to explain to them exactly what it's doing wrong and why that's wrong, doesn't mean that it isn't clearly doing things wrong. Saying they're more "right" because they fall back on the "OPINION" defense is dumb.

Anyway yeah. It's fine, like, if you think the game looks great, awesome, but that doesn't mean it does. It means it doesn't, and you like it anyway.