Do you like pixel art?

[Tito Anic]

Denzi does beautiful pixel art

 

[Lyric Suite]

Shit filter is shit.

 

[Edward The Mediocre]

Beautiful pixel art, like for example in Legend of Kyrandia games, always makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

I also wonder if I'm in the minority when it comes to emulation/DOSboxing - as in I never use any "advanced scalers/shaders" that in my opinion only distort the original. I only use "normal" scalers, which scale pixels in a linear fashion. Take a look here for example and tell me with a straight face that supersai or advmame looks good?

As a person that grew up with crts I can assure you that I did not like how crts made things bleed into each other. I always preferred the display to be crisp as in I could see the individual pixels themselves for somefucking reason, donno why I just did. This is the main reason why I look down upon people who use filters and crt hipsters.

 

[FeelTheRads]

It was shit CRTs that melted things together. Quality CRTs were much crisper than the first consumer grade LCDs and games looked great even on midrange CRTs.
I have however NEVER seen a CRT so shitty as to make a game look like those filters. Perhaps the shittiest ones would be close to 2xsai.

 

[Delbaeth]

Pixel Art without a scanlines filter is pretty ugly to my eyes, considering the vast majority of pixel arts games. Very few can shine without scanlines.
I believe I am more into digital art but not into pixel art.
I'd rather simplistic 2D vector graphics.

 

[Naraya]

Beautiful pixel art, like for example in Legend of Kyrandia games, always makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

I also wonder if I'm in the minority when it comes to emulation/DOSboxing - as in I never use any "advanced scalers/shaders" that in my opinion only distort the original. I only use "normal" scalers, which scale pixels in a linear fashion. Take a look here for example and tell me with a straight face that supersai or advmame looks good?

Sometimes I use hq3x and it works great, like the Quest for Glory 2 remake.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic but in case you aren't - this is exactly what I'm talking about - looks like shit.

 

[Naraya]

Beautiful pixel art, like for example in Legend of Kyrandia games, always makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

I also wonder if I'm in the minority when it comes to emulation/DOSboxing - as in I never use any "advanced scalers/shaders" that in my opinion only distort the original. I only use "normal" scalers, which scale pixels in a linear fashion. Take a look here for example and tell me with a straight face that supersai or advmame looks good?

As a person that grew up with crts I can assure you that I did not like how crts made things bleed into each other. I always preferred the display to be crisp as in I could see the individual pixels themselves for somefucking reason, donno why I just did. This is the main reason why I look down upon people who use filters and crt hipsters.

I am perfectly aware how it looked on CRTs (I got my first PC in 1990) and I don't remember such bleeding. And I didn't have a top monitor either (the brand was A-MATIC, lol) - in fact I'm quite sure that CRT is the main culprit I'm wearing glasses today, heh.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Thing is, that much like with text games (or books if you wish), with pixel art it's your eyes and your brain that fill in the details. You're not supposed to count the pixels, you see the image as a whole.

Take a look at that ridiculous screenshot above.
Or at this shit:

is that really how you were supposed to see that font? Or those portraits? Not only do those filters distort the image they also achieve the impressive result of producing an image with even less details than there were in the first place. But at least there's no pixels! Can't have pixels, they give you cancer!

There was no magic blurring standard CRT that everybody made graphics for. You were supposed to see them as they were.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Be careful with those filters, they are known to cause cancer.

 

[JarlFrank]

Beautiful pixel art, like for example in Legend of Kyrandia games, always makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

I also wonder if I'm in the minority when it comes to emulation/DOSboxing - as in I never use any "advanced scalers/shaders" that in my opinion only distort the original. I only use "normal" scalers, which scale pixels in a linear fashion. Take a look here for example and tell me with a straight face that supersai or advmame looks good?

Sometimes I use hq3x and it works great, like the Quest for Glory 2 remake.

Uuuuuh
yeah clearly
clearly

 

[Edward The Mediocre]

I am perfectly aware how it looked on CRTs (I got my first PC in 1990) and I don't remember such bleeding. And I didn't have a top monitor either (the brand was A-MATIC, lol) - in fact I'm quite sure that CRT is the main culprit I'm wearing glasses today, heh.

Maybe I'm thinking of console games instead since those CRT hipsters are just obsessed with CRT tvs as well, and the fact somebody that my family knew gave us an assload of NES games as a kid. Although I can say with confidence I miss the degaussing button on that were on CRT monitors, I liked the spilt second screen distortion and the sound it made as well.

 

[Damned Registrations]

TVs were definitely blurry as fuck- there was no discerning pixels on that shit, unless you were playing something really ancient like the earliest NES games. I think that is mostly what those filters are meant to mimic. CRTs weren't that blurry at all that I recall, I remember very distinct pixel edges on games like Scorch on my old 486.

 

[SerratedBiz]

CRT pixels were defined as fuck and the main thing I remember about my first foray into LCD TV/Monitors was how everything looked like someone smudged screen elements with each other.

 

[Marquis de Lirium]

.

 

[Naraya]

Entertaining talk for those interested in pixel art: http://gdcvault.com/play/1023586/8-Bit-8-Bitish-Graphics

 

[Severian Silk]

I think the hipster pixel art is okay too. Fez is an attractive looking game.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Put old games through the scan lines and shadow mask grille of a CRT and watch that "pixel art" miraculously turn into standard low resolution digital artwork.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/109252.htm

 

[Astral Rag]

Take a look at that ridiculous screenshot above.
Or at this shit:

Youngfags will think the game is supposed to look like this. Thanks inx1le.

 

[Rabbid]

Is this considered pixel art?

Spoiler

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Is this considered pixel art?

Spoiler

My choice was to either resurrect this thread or the 2D Art Appreciation thread started in 2014 --- and that one wasn't specifically about pixel art.

 

[pippin]

Take a look at that ridiculous screenshot above.
Or at this shit:

Youngfags will think the game is supposed to look like this. Thanks inx1le.

I would honestly prefer changing the font into something more modern, even Arial or some shit like that, instead of applying that cum filter to everything.

 

[Excidium II]

Arial is for your school work, not video game font.

 

[pippin]

Still better than cum fonts.

 

[Excidium II]

Anything is better than anything InXile touched.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Anything is better than anything InXile touched.

Exactly. Be grateful the game isn't in Sans Serif.