Title: Pet Peeve in the Gaming Industry

Date Posted: Thu Feb/19/15 at 12:08pm

terakhan

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Joined: 24-Mar-13

That peeve is one simple thing: Calling a game 8-bit, just because its pixel-based graphics.

This is an example of an 8-bit video game character. The face is actually on a separate sprite from the body, but each graphic tile in the game has 4 colors, or three and a transparency, if needed.

Here is the same character, in one of his 16-bit titles. Much more varied shades of color, and the face is actually part of the main sprite in this game, thanks to the color palette.

This is a screenshot from a game called 8 Bit Boy. If you look closely at any given tile or sprite, you see a color depth greater than 8-bit allows.
Its nitpicky and pointless, but if you're going to call a freaking game 8-bit, even if its just a cutesy name to attract retro gamers, it should BE 8-bit.

Date Posted: Fri Feb/20/15 at 11:54am

Starship

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Joined: 13-Dec-11

I agree but you'd have to be a moron to actually think the new pixel art games are really 8-bit.

Date Posted: Fri Feb/20/15 at 1:18pm

terakhan

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Joined: 24-Mar-13

There is an abundance of both morons and people who were never around for the 8-bit generation.

Date Posted: Fri Feb/20/15 at 2:03pm

Starship

Posts: 549
Joined: 13-Dec-11

I technically wasn't but I grew up playing a lot of 16-bit games on my super nintendo.

Date Posted: Sun Feb/22/15 at 9:45pm

Boyachi

Posts: 1553
Joined: 02-Nov-11

You see back when I was in highschool there were the cool things called
"Goths". These people were the not quite punks but dressed in black and hot topic. They wanted a crowbar of separation from "Emos". Emos dressed in black to show the color of their emotion and how "crappy"(it typically wasn't) their life was. They were drama queens starved for attention about how sad they were for no reason at all.

They evolved into something worse. Emos, while I was no longer in highschool evolved a backbone, somehow. I would blame it on misuse of Lady Gaga's "Born this Way" except it happened before that and hipsters wouldn't listen to anything so mainstream. Hipsters consider themselves the $#!+ and liked obscure things that you really never heard of most of the time, which for some reason made them feel as though they were better than you even though they were socially incapable of interacting with the masses.

Marketting for emos and goths and punks was way easy. When it came to hipsters, stores looked for old douchey clothing and retro items, typically made right before the average hipster was born. Hence the 8-bit craze returned. For the hipster. Since the average hipster had never played the original 8-bit games from the source, they didn't just followed marketing's Shepard's crook and enjoyed this perversion of 8-bit.

In unrelated news, I saw a teenage greaser the other day hanging out with an ivy league guy. It was so bizarre that I was caught staring. I mean... the fifties? Wow.