alt Hacker News> it's just nostalgia having grown up playing Final Fantasy games for SNES
What did Nintendo do to you people? I've grown up playing very pixelated games on the ZX Spectrum but I have zero nostalgia for those graphics.
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freetime2 • today at 12:03 AM
Final Fantasy IV and VI, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Ogre Battle, and Zelda: A Link to the Past all still look great to me to this day. I think it's just a timeless art style. And it's not all just nostalgia, the early 3d games which came in the next generation of consoles, and which I probably spent even more time playing, all look like trash to me.
It’s because the art for these games was so good, it didn’t feel like the hardware was a limitation, more like it just had a particular style.
I’m currently playing Octopath Traveler 2 and it completely recreates this feeling, the art is beautiful and very pixelated.