03-07-2012, 02:11 AM
i believe we had this discussion back in the day, though i'd explain why they became an ugly fad.
while the initial DKC became a huge sucess being one of the very first games with a fully integrated aesthetic like this one(and the whole visual impact this had back in the mid 90's) it started a MASSIVE trend of virtually making EVERYTHING with prerendered 3D sprites wich lacked what made the original DKC so charming, thus generating a huge wave of horribly designed games with ugly prerendered sprites wich did nothing but became an early death the the whole thing.
while the initial DKC became a huge sucess being one of the very first games with a fully integrated aesthetic like this one(and the whole visual impact this had back in the mid 90's) it started a MASSIVE trend of virtually making EVERYTHING with prerendered 3D sprites wich lacked what made the original DKC so charming, thus generating a huge wave of horribly designed games with ugly prerendered sprites wich did nothing but became an early death the the whole thing.