fawker wrote on Sep 12, 2012, 16:26:
The whole retro fad at the moment has everyone gushing about old 8 bit games. I didn't have an option, I had to play these games if I wanted to be a gamer back in the day. I wouldn't touch them now with a ten foot pole.

Unfortunately this fad has crept into indie games, and it's allowing some developers skimp on art and whatnot yet still be marketable. Much like Instagram will be forgotten about in a year or so, yet the pictures taken will still look like ass, with no one around to remember why.

Overall, great to see things like Kickstarter. But, its rather embarrassing that these shitty graphics are the face of the indie game movement at the moment.

But having played many a brilliant indie game that looked like crap but had awesome, addicting gameplay I put up with them.