Forum user junkboy at Way of the Pixel has taken a whole mess of next-gen games and given them the demake treatment. Gone are the flawless 3D renders and sprawling environments that have a life of their own, instead replaced with pixelated 8/16-bit sprites and static backgrounds.
Beauty in games is an eye of the beholder thing. I happen to be crazy for the antique sprite graphics and chiptune music that we're missing in games these days. If the choice came down to paying $60 for a beautiful, hi-tech piece of gaming art, or $15 for pixels and bleep-boops, if they were the same game, with the same story, I'd probably go the $15 dollar route. That is a testament to two things: 1) the quality of many of today's games and developers, who think they can slap hypnotizing graphics over a five hour adventure with a shitty storyline, and 2) classic games never go out of style. I'll always support a developer that caters to the old school gamer in me, even if they do it to market an upcoming movie.
Unfortunately, junkboy's brilliant demakes are images only. Oh what I would do to actually play these games..
Attached below are Soul Calibur, Bayoneta, Killzone, and Red Dead Redemption. See the rest here.
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