I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup played in the terminal with ASCII graphics. I wonder whether there are other hidden gems out there which don’t get attention because they are “ugly”?

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Stardew Valley, hands down one of the graphically ugliest modern games, like 80’s console style. Though it’s a really good game and I’ve put a of lot of hours into it. People say it’s meant to look that way as intentional retro styling, but damn it’s ugly. I actually added a mod on PC to use AA on the blocky graphics and it makes it look a lot better.

    • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.orgBannedEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Stardew isn’t 80’s console style at all? It’s just pixel art? And doesn’t even look bad.

    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You can not like the art style of Stardew Valley, but calling it ugly in the way DF, TOME, DCSS or other games that have very rudimentary graphics styles are I think is missing the point in this context. A lot of effort and production time was put into Stardew Valley’s graphics, it is undeniably not “ugly” the way other games that developers focused all their time on gameplay instead of graphics are.