Uninspiring Art Design in Modern Games

From an artistic standpoint I can see his claim, or at least a sample of it. That games today are getting pretty derivative of each other. However that sort of thing existed even Back Then, it's just the aesthetics have inverted. So instead of crazy nonsensical character designs with Saturday Morning appeal the norm, we get the Badass Gruff Oh Please Take Us Serious Because We Swear We're Mature Adolescent lot. The latter wasn't seen as frequent Back Then and the former is a harder lot to come by now.

That said, the quality of art assets, artistic production, aesthetics, and world building are done with much more care and deliberation today. Maybe that's part in parcel why they don't inspire (if they don't that is)? Many games today are visually defined to such a degree there's small room for interpretation - older games had small sprites, ugly polys, and smatterings of concept art to go off of for player visual cues.

For all I know though there are just as many (if not more) people creating as much fan art for God of War, Gears of War, Modern Warfare, Halo, et al as anything from Back Then. I know there's no shortage of fan lovin' for WoW and that isn't as ancient as say, the original SMB.

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Originally Posted by Hero

Dude, as much as anyone may dig World Heroes, you can't say it enjoys the same fan following Darkstalkers has. Hell, in terms of SNK-based fighters, it doesn't have the same fan following KoF has, whereas DS has as much (if not moreso) an active fanbase as Street Fighter.

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I was joking. World Heroes was shit, but sometimes I'm fond of shit just for its shittiness. Dig ?

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Originally Posted by Shine

I hate when people filter their perception like this. Shin Johnpv is right, but even further, every generation thinks "our music was better, our movies had more soul, our shows were more original," and they are all full of shit. Try replaying some of those games you love so much and tell us there wasn't some formula at work there, or rewatch some of your favorite shows, still think the Go-Bots were cool? Just accept that you're getting old and you're out of touch.

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I think our generation was shit and the previous generation was where it was at, music wise. In fact a ton of people think that.

On topic, when a character is drawn with 20 pixels, it leaves alot more to the imagination.

Edit: Didn't notice hero said it way better than me.

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Originally Posted by Destin

I think our generation was shit and the previous generation was where it was at, music wise. In fact a ton of people think that.

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I think we already have a thread about that very topic (I may have even made it).

Yeah, the music is pretty different. I think it has a lot to do with modern games trying to copy film and produce soundtracks that don't distract from the game, as compared to previous games that wanted to pull gamers into a game with music. One is trying to not run you off, while the other wants to bring you in.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Not really. Fan art was just an easy term to use.

To be more precise, I'm asking "why do some games have this certain something that makes artist both young and old want to create when they see and play it while other titles do not do this?" or "why do some games inspire creativity while others do not?" and "Is the lack of creativity in a decline?"

I didn't write all that however, because the original post was already long and I know how much ADD most of you have.

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A certain amount of whimsy that was common in games back in the day when coloful mascots and vibrant pallette searing environments were the norm? One can only get so worked up about another generic war sim that's all the rage.

Perhaps games just take much less imagination than they used to in order to get full enjoyment?

People just play the wrong games. At least Buttcheeks does.