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Re:The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it by mercurial on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:00PM (#9654978)
> 2D doesn't always age that well either, try to play Diablo II or Starcraft 1. I promise it will not look the same way as you remember it.

One of the main issues with 2D is the fixed resolution. If you can live with that, it's not bad. I actually played D2 again a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Same for Planescape Torment.

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Re:The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it by aaaaabbbbbb on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:53PM (#9656830)
Pixel art has problems with the fixed resolutions of modern displays (which CRTs lacked), yeah, but vector art and/or high-resolution but (relatively) sparsely-detailed/stylized 2D art can be effectively scaled to a wide range of resolutions with minimal artifacts.
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