Could a GOOD game with absolutely ATROCIOUS art style sell well?

Imagine I make an amazing game, something you would shill for free because it is so fucking good but it looks like this piece of shit right here, would you even bother to pirate it?
Let's use a differente example, imagine Cuphead drawn by me, same exact gameplay and music but cancerous graphics, what would you think then?

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Cuphead was praised as a graphical deviation so it would just be a shitty and ridiculously hard platformer

no,visuals always come first on selling,it's the only thing you have of the game before buying it,and normalfags always fall for it

BotW

No. Simple visuals? Sure. Atrocious ones? No.

yeah sure, someone will bother to fix the artstyle with mods anyways

Cuphead had good gameplay and it wasn't a platformer

are you braindead

The game would become trendy specifically because it has terrible art. the next hipster craze. Though the programming should be good regardless.

No, you are, Cuphead is a boss rush game, not a platformer

There's normally a lacking of art AND gameplay as developers have no talent. But it can happen. In the era is f N64 Nintendo had games with good gameplay, but low poly graphics. We can debate they did good art with the graphics their hardware could support.

I played two worlds for like 5min before i dropped it because the graphics looked so bad.

Are you braindead?

With several platformer stages that use the exact same core gameplay. And several bosses utilize the platforming movement.

of course
Minecraft sold trillions and it is aesthetic cancer

If it cost money? Probably not. If it's free? You have a pretty good chance for a flavor of the month type game.

iji's an honestly fairly ugly game, but it's also really good and well received, both on and off Yea Forums

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Terrible example, Minecraft as shitty as it is as a game it actually has great art style

In this day and age as long as it's shilled and marketed well enough it'll sell regardless of its actual content

factorio is not a very visually appealing game, and and it used to look even worse in alpha. But it's still doing very well commercially and people have been praising it for the well thought through and extensive mechanics and exemplary amount of polish it has received over the years. In my opinion it is one of the best games ever made.

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It looks fucking terrible and it's all placeholder stuff. Notch was convinced to leave it looking like trash because fans enjoyed the trash, so why bother making it look interesting.

Cuphead is a Run N Gun, maybe you think they're platformers but that's a different question.

I was 12 or so at the time and compared to other games i had played it looked so bad i couldn't bother with it. I made my mom bring me back to blockbuster and got dmc4 instead.

This reminds me of those SNES games that used sprites from low poly 3D models. Does that kind of art style have a name?

I mean if it has extraordinary gameplay that balances everything perfectly, then yeah maybe someone will buy it for $15. but don't expect to be a billionaire from it (also remember that there's thousands of games that get released everyday on steam that has the same shit art style, and are usually down voted to death)

Pre-rendered sprites?

Deus Ex looked fugly even during it's release, people still loved it.
I think Iji looks pretty ugly, but I would still recommend it to plenty of people.

If you can code a whole good game, you can kickstart it and pay for artists.
Even text-only games work, though these are usually financed by a handful of autists on patreon. Also they're porn

That's more an amateur art style than atrocious, you can at least tell what everything there is supposed to be.
Now something like pic related would be a difficult sell.

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*dabs on you with moxie*

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look into dream quest. A super fun card building game that looks actually awful.

I always dreamed about a game coded by an adult but drawn by a kid. If the kid actually makes everything look like it is supposed to be despite looking shitty (impossible with your example), it could be something interesting to play, it would be like being inside the kid's mind.

Undertale

It's called Rimworld and I have and am shilling it for free

You reminded me of the time where kids drew monster designs before a proper artist took their concept and made them into a real piece of artwork. Kids minds are actually some of the most creative.

sadly no

Yah dude huge text boxes are hilarious.

Just learn to draw OP

Based brainlet

Play this game. One of the best RPGs in years.

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well yeah when you post a horribly compressed old as fuck image it sure looks like shit
the artstyle of the game is actually really nice and works well with the overall theme of industrialization

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If want to make a popular game with shit art just go the Undertale route and focus on story and music.

Cuphead is a open world RPG why do you think you get to go anywhere and pick your upgrades?

This.

>furry mommy for the weird furfag people crowd
>furry bara cuck dad for the numale crowd
>skeletons for the underage LOL RANDOM XD crowd
>gay characters for the LGBT crowd
>kid with no arms to appeal to disabled people
>main character never talks or emotes, appealing to the autistic socially awkward people