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Message: [QUOTE="Phage, post: 257141, member: 3302"] I didn't say a single thing about playing them, nor did I say that I dislike these games. I've played plenty that were legitimately fantastic. My point was that labeling them as "PS1/N64/8-Bit" style games when they are not is annoying. I have no qualms with their existence. I enjoy quite a few of them. I actively encourage them so that studios without huge budgets can still put out banger titles with a pseudo-retro aesthetic. My complaint is that they're misrepresenting themselves and muddying the waters on what classic console titles looks like. This whole topic is supposed to simply be hot takes/pet peeves, so it's not some huge problem that I have, merely a personal gripe that I happened to share with another poster. I've had discussions with people who have looked at older games and said "Well that's a PS1 game." when I could tell at a glance that it was PS2, because the PS1 could *never* have handled that level of detail in textures or that high of a poly count. It's a legitimate issue that people seem incapable of distinguishing between two systems that had *vastly* different graphical capabilities. If you want to make a game in this style, just call it a retro-style game and be done with it. If you're going to market it as being in the style of a specific console then fucking *be accurate*. If I see a game advertised as being PS1-style and get a PS2 level graphics and textures, I'm gonna call it false advertising, because it is. Ultimately, I think you've completely misunderstood the pet peeve that I put forward. You're trying to defend the existence of these games at all, which was never even brought up. I simply don't like them being labeled as a specific console and then not being anything like the actual games for those consoles that I grew up on and experienced in real time. If you're just a "retro style" game then rock on, I'll dive in and enjoy some low-poly, non-specific graphics and classic-style gameplay without all the bloat of modern games where there has to be sixteen different kinds of progression and a crafting system. If you lie to me and tell me I'm in for an N64-style adventure and I see ray-tracing and 4k textures, I'm going to feel deceived. [/QUOTE]

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