Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s less about copying and more about the man-hours that it takes. The difference between a 2d and a 3d game is several magnitudes of work. The difference between high-quality 2d art and pixel art is similarly several magnitudes of work.
Indie developers simply don’t have the manpower to achieve that in anything remotely close to reasonable amounts of time, and (successful) indie dev times are usually already quite long.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This, but also pixel art is an art form in its own right. It started with technical limitations, but exploring the limits of those limitations has created something uniquely and independently appealing for its own sake. Good pixel art just looks better than a lot of 3d stuff. And these days you can chose whether or not to stick to all the original limitations or not, giving more creative freedom and flexibility.