[nottorp]

> ludicrous amount of art requirements to be considered acceptable in my mind to the public audience

Do you want to do the next Carmack game? Not even Carmack is doing Carmack games any more :)

> releasing an 8-bit (but looks worse somehow) pixel art clone

Good pixel art is harder than it looks and I'm not sure it takes less time. But there is a middle ground between fake 8 bit and high budget with hundreds of artists.

[Madmallard]

I was talking specifically about indie games that have obviously not very high quality pixel art with my statement.