What happened to vibrant colors and unique lighting in games...

What happened to vibrant colors and unique lighting in games? I haven't seen any modern games replicate the feeling of N64/PS1 lighting.

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Colors are soi

you want garish looking rainbow gradients vomited onto random spots of level geometry?

indie games fill that role

souless post

The power gap was a lot closer back then, so devs had to make their games stand out by actually looking unique

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe actually has some pretty good looking tracks like Neo Bowser City and Big Blue. It's not completely gone, it's just not used by the low IQ brainlet mega corps that make most of today's AAA schlock.

i wanna vomit onto a random spot of your mom's level geometry

they've been forsaken for the realism meme

Yes.

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Unironically yes

Why is purple so rarely used anymore

/thread

Zoomers calls "söy" and "kiddy games" everything.

Would Starlight Carnival from Sonic Colors count?

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Bros...

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Fuck yeah
Any gay shit is good

FICTION BAD
REALISM GOOD

>tfw the remake on 3DS made the observatory needlessly drab and soulless

Normies rank games based solely upon their realism factor, all the assets get photoscanned and there is no room for creativity.

Amid Evil

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>Purple is my favourite colour

shit sucks

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