A big thing in the indie scene these days are developers who are able to make their own games based on stuff they grew up with, so we get the sidescrolling brawler throwbacks like Fight 'N Rage, or people make what are essentially long lost sequels to classic platformers like The Messenger or Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon...but how many like the idea of these 90's shooter/survival horror throwbacks, bad looking polygons and all?
I like pixel art, but pixelated textures on low end polygon models just looks kinda crappy to me. There's nothing wrong with being nostalgic of that era, but when you got games like Strafe and Dusk trying to replicate those earlier shooters, another being like Ion Maiden, which actually looks abit better than these, with more modern elements, like actual aiming, it doesn't feel overly fun to me. I know I'm spoiled on shooters nowadays and I like games that bring back elements of that era as I dig Shadow Warrior and the older Painkiller or the new Doom, but I just tried to play Strafe and it was just kind "bleh" and not because it's specifically bad or anything, it just didn't feel like this is something I want to relive.
It's not even just pure shooters as a smaller burgeoning part of the indie scene are 90's survival horror games, stuff that is supposed to emulate the ideas of the original Silent Hill and Resident Evil, again with ugly graphics and visuals and all. To be fair, I'm not really nostalgic for that era a lot of the time, I mean I didn't start playing shooters till Goldeneye and more specifically 2000, and I hate tank controls, so anything trying to emulate that era of movement drives me nuts.
Anyone else like this bit of retro throwback? It's one of the few types of retro I don't really care for, but I'm curious to hear other peoples views on it.
