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What do you not like about it?
He just told you: "it looks terrible." And he's not wrong; Factorio's art really does kinda suck.
Man I love factorio's art, had no idea people thought it was bad. Maybe at release. But there's alot of attention to detail in the sprites, even the trees sway gently in the breeze. You don't see that often in other games of a similar style.
It's the color palette. It's genuinely terrible. The pixel art itself looks pretty good but those colours just kill it.
Edit: god damn UK phone... color not colour.
still says "those colours"
That sentence could just as easily mean "I've never played it, but it looks like a really bad game".
I will restate the original question: What do you not like about it?
https://lemmy.world/comment/13329257
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14915311
I don't think it necessarily sucks. It's just old and I'm not a fan of it.
Calling Factorios graphics bad on a post praising Mindustry is just absurd.
It looks like the "good enough" placeholder art that devs put in before they get around to hiring an actual artist. It's serviceable to understand what things are and what's happening, but there's no style to it.
I personally disagree, I really love the dramatic sprite style they've gone with. Everything's so hyper industrial with lovely details when you zoom in.
It’s also so wonderfully mechanical and smoothly animated. Might not hit for those that didn’t grow up with similar styles or something.
I mean, it depends on how you are defining "style", but, to avoid being pedantic, I actually think that it does have a style, and a very recognizable and unique style at that. It has a very maximalist, industrial, gritty look to it that I love. Everything is so hyper-detailed in model design, texture, and animation. It all fits a very specific aesthetic. It's completely fine if that aesthetic is not to your taste, but I think it's disingenuous to say that it has no style at all.
This ia exactly on point. I have never played Factorio but can recognize it from any screenshot from its style.
Graphics. I hate old games.
Man I really don’t get this viewpoint at all…
Well everyone has their own viewpoint and opinions.
Is 2020 considered old...?. I understand that the game was available for some time prior to that, but during that period Factorio was in early access. 1.0 came out in 2020, and I am treating that as the full release, and everything prior to that is beta testing for development.
I meant old looking graphics too. Factorio definitely has it.
Factorio's art style may draw its inspiration from older games that had technological limitations that forced specific art techniques, but I'd only be guessing — I haven't found any official source that states where Factorio drew its artistic inspiration.
That is understandable