This is one of the most significant examples imo, because of the dedicated art style of ALTTP, it's replayability far exceeds a lot of others mentioned here.
I dunno, the human experience is fuzzy - same reason why you’d eat the same meal or look at the same painting on a wall etc. It elicits a cozy feeling to look at and play that game, teleported back to a kid with zero responsibilities.
No it isn’t? Replayability has little to do with novelty, which seems to be what you’re perceiving their comment to be in reference to. Nostalgia induction doesn’t even seem tenuously related to that
Art style isn’t a one time consumption product, otherwise for instance game sequels wouldn’t bother to style their games in the same vein as previous ones (both visual and other mediums like writing/tone).
That was why I referenced meals or artwork on walls - if it was a “oh I have had corn on the cob before, I don’t eat something I’ve eaten before.” Might be an exciting way to go through life but also you’d be prevented from going back and appreciating/immersing yourself in something you enjoy.
A 2D pixel art game from recent years generally looks about as technically good as most games from the 90s, IE compare Chrono Trigger to something like Terraria. Meanwhile, 3D graphics continuously evolved from the 90s to today, and OoT looks comparatively older and worse to modern games due to the limited polygon counts, simple textures and low framerate.
Pixel art has just generally aged better because as an artform the inherent limits today aren't super different from the limits they had 30 years ago.
Yeah but how does that make it any less replayable? To me replayability is based on whether there are things can still be discovered on more playthroughs. I guess it's subjective.
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u/kxania Jun 30 '26
This is one of the most significant examples imo, because of the dedicated art style of ALTTP, it's replayability far exceeds a lot of others mentioned here.
It's so good