Yeah there are games like that which tend to age pretty well. However they are almost always stylized in a very particular direction. If we take games like Dishonored or Deus ex for example - they both look very good and they are both beautifully stylized. However, I'm almost certain that 8 years from now their age will be…
I agree that journey would probably be considered timeless, I'd also throw Bastion into that category as well. But I wouldn't put SotC in there because while it was visually ahead of it's time, by todays standards it's clearly dated looking. I think the art style has to work so well with the hardware that it is not…
I disagree. Super Mario Bros. and its family of pixelated games have timeless visuals, almost specifically because of the highly constrained technology. It seems like most people feel like early (or even contemporary) 3D game art will somehow be different and become forever obsolete as the new hotness rolls around. But I…
I'm defining timeless here very literally, if something is timeless then you can't look at it and think that it belongs to a specific period of time. By modern standards pixel art is considered a "retro" look which is a descriptor in itself of a specific time period. Perhaps that will change as time goes on and pixel art…