A perfect old example: Jagged Alliance 2 ( windows versions had better and more detailed graphics then the first DOS version (i own all the classic games (retail) and on GOG)
I mean in that era , the graphics were very good imo, i loved everything about the game, and when i compare todays 'wannabees' that obviously copied from jagged alliance , somehow forgot that ja2 games were 'unqique' in a way, i played many modern games but none of them compares imo to the old classics...

Shadowrun games are obviously inspired by jagged alliance, and todays games try to create a shadowrun clone, cause most of the younger devs probably never played jagged alliance so they took shadowrun as example.
Fallout classics another hit, commandos classics, and today we dont have games like that, they use weird vector/voxel like graphics, people and enemies in rpg look more like a vegetable then human and the list is endles and grows every day ....

I really miss the old games, lots of games of lower quality are released by the dozen since 2000...
thats almost 17 years lower quality games released everywhere, on steam, online, even a simple browsergame is average...

What the hell? This is game is only 10 euro cents more expensive on the Humble Store... without any discount applied! And it's got nothing to do to any "DRM-free tax" as it's also DRM-free there... :\


EDIT: I just noticed this note on the HS page: Hmmm... Should we expect a price raise here as well? Or are these just different ways of implementing a release discount?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/368390/discussions/0/1353742967821968316

Gotcha! In that case it's GOG who has the best deal (at least in my region). :D

Same here. From the image on the front page I thought that would be TLD 3.

Thanks for that.

Pretty cool that some of his stuff is released on vinyl.

There might be a Season 3 in the future but, understandably enough, the people at Game Kitchen are a bit tired of working on the same game for more than two years, and they're taking a break in order to work on Blasphemous (a game I think will be pretty awesome, but most of the other Last Door fans will probably hate since it's a huge departure in terms of gameplay and style).

As for Darkside Detective, I remember playing a demo of the first chapter some time ago, and liking it quite a lot. It's nice to see it on GOG; I'll have it wishlisted for now, as I'll probably be busy with Sundered -- which releases tomorrow -- for quite some time, and I'm also saving money for Ys Seven, which should be coming to GOG any time, this summer.

This game looks pretty good, I will give it a go at some point. Too much backlog right now.

Too true. Graphics so bad that no one has a face.

Hey, you don't need faces when you're #oldschool #indie #SoRetro. What do you mean "some indie devs actually work hard to give their games unique visual style and high quality graphics instead of slapping huge pixels together and calling it retro"? Pfft. Losers. We're the real heart and soul of old school gaming, man! I even played that Sam & Max hit the Secret of Atlantis game once!

Not really. I looked at their twitter; they have tons of promotional holiday-themed pixel art posted over there. The humor content of said art varies but the technical execution is consistently flawless. I hate shitty pixel art, but theirs is really fucking great.

In all seriousness, art styles in older games could range from raytrace renderings by the programmer to careful reductions of handpainted art by professionals. It wasn't all intricately detailed or appealing to look at. The Ultima 1 screens I picked could have looked much nicer using the same technology.

Some platforms were so limited that the artists struggled to produce any detail at all. Apple 2 low-resolution graphics were 40x40 or 40x48 with 16 colors, a more limited environment than the Last Door's graphics. Atari 2600 games weren't much better. CGA graphics had higher resolution but only offered 4 ugly colors at a time, counting black and white against the total.


https://goo.gl/images/w23By7
https://goo.gl/images/08AqDX
https://goo.gl/images/juoZbK

Besides, games like the Last Door and Darkside Detective aren't trying to copy older styles. They're coming up with their own interesting styles using low-resolution pixel art and expanded color palettes. Combining low resolutions and pixel art can be an artistic choice.

Imo it's the same as with the so called "walking simulators". You like the style or you don't like it. I don't know why everybody is talking about old console games as if they were the inspiration for this. Nobody ever said that. It's just a special kind of artstyle which some may dislike. Also I noticed that nearly 100% of the comments here are talking about the graphic style. I suppose there is an actual game behind all this artstyle. Will try the demo to see if the style is fitting the game and if I like the gameplay. The only thing that still confuses me is the term "micro-adventure" since I hope it's just a play of words regarding the artstyle or some content inside the game and not so much the length of the game itself which would be worse imo.

Edit: Just played through the demo (btw: CPU temps were about 45 degrees celsius for me and CPU usage about 35% on my i5 @3.1 GhZ so imo not that needy - but there is no vsync implemented at all). I have to say that the artstyle is nice and playing it was fun so far but at least the demo (which obviously is the complete first of just six cases) took me not longer than 30 minutes and I really looked at everything. Also there are no character animations in the demo - transitions are happening by simply showing the next scene so it does feel a bit like a visual novel with some minor puzzles. I am torn since the pricing would be much too high if all episodes will be like this - but I like the humour and the story could get interesting.

Bump for awesomeness. This is how you make a retro game, Ron Gilbert <.<

Damn. Looked promisingly lastdoorish, and I'm very, very okay with the graphics, but one screenshot (the door surrounded with with sigils) reminded me of something. And yeah. Already played it. Here : http://www.kongregate.com/games/spookydoorway/the-darkside-detective

Okay it was a shorter version (now renamed as a "demo"), just one of its "episodes" to test the public I suppose. But I didn't expect to see the series sold as a $10 videogame. Expect very casual gameplay.

And try it out before buying.