PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do.

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PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. - Lemmy.World

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One of the things I really enjoyed about Marathon (versus Doom or Quake) is that Marathon had colours outside of brown, reddish brown and greenish brown.

It wasn’t an engine limitation, it was a design choice. Heretic is a colorful game, and it was using Doom engine.

It’s especially bad in Quake, all monsters look like a moving piece of a wall, and the level design is walls on top of walls with some walls in-between. If not for the revolutionary game engine, it would seriously flop.

Oh, I don’t disagree that it’s a design choice. 1990s id Software had, we’ll, let’s not call it a style