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Unity is a very weak engine though, so the standards fall down respectively
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Engines are as good or bad as the developers using them and the design decisions behind the game. There are excellent examples of Unity games with strong art direction and great graphics.
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It's fine that indie devs use it for easier to make, less resource intensive graphics, but it's that they do that and then pass it off as cool hipster and retro.
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That’s called marketing. You can’t sell a game by saying how “yeah we made it look this way because we couldn’t afford to do it better”, you have to sell how everything is a deliberate choice made to create the best possible experience.
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As far as your second point, there's only SO MANY games I can take making that claim
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The market is definitely saturated with SNES homages. I can’t wait for the second wave where developers start making PS1 homages.
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I'd say, if you do something, do it right. If you aim to make a game that looks like a SNES game, study for a while how SNES games work. If you don't, that's plain laziness Nep mentioned.
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No, it’s making decisions about features. Every game developer has to weigh up decisions on what content to include and what content not to include in their games; in your example the developer can very well decide that expending resources on coming up with a solution to make character sprites never use subpixels when moving across the screen is not a wise investment and that working on another feature would be a better use of their time.
It’s also one thing to reference something and another to emulate it completely. Filmmakers can choose to use black-and-white or film grain to evoke the feeling of older movies, that doesn’t mean they need to go back to old methods of camera framing or voice recording as well.
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Take a look at Freedom Planet, I think THAT game pulls the "homage" card very strong and fairly. It's very obviously taking from other games, and meant to play like them.
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There’s definitely merit in creating a game in this way; that doesn’t mean other options are invalid. Would Fez be better if it was more accurate to retro games?