Is it weird that I prefer the look of pixel art as it's displayed on modern monitors as opposed to CRTs?
To clarify, I mean i like sprites looking more clean and blocky as opposed to blurred on an older display.
I mean I love CRT art but people also overstate how much CRT art was "made for that"; lots of quality CRTs had very sharp pixels and the artists were drawing for those sharp pixels. Plenty of older games look great with sharp pixels and were really meant to be played that way. Not everything was Vagrant Story.
wait, how were they meant to be played with sharp pixels? what kind of display would allow that?
Quality CRTs? I used to have a Sony Trinitron that was sharper than my current LCD
so funny that gamers are paying huge amounts to get 144hz monitors when we had 500hz monitors for awhile
Not ripping on people who never used them but there were great CRTs back in the day. The problem was not refresh or display sharpness - you could cut yourself on the pixels from some high end displays even in the late 80s - it was that they weighed 60 fucking kilos and needed their own power substation. You could severely injure yourself moving them and god help you if you let the magic smoke out
Also as Nire points out you can't make your monitor go BWAAAAARM anymore and display an acid trip rainbow to make them sharpen back up
I don't know what Degaussing was meant for other than to make me feel extremely satisfied
