Feel the "Character" of Games Have Gone Down?

[Iceman404]

I honestly do miss when I could say stuff like "wow this song sounds like it came right out of a Sonic game" yeah. More and more games today seem to lack varying, or rather, highly distinctive artstyles. Every Mario game, for example, has artstyle sure but looks the same as the last one, and the one before that, and the one before that; this is because they can shorten development time by importing character models from previous installments over and over and touching them up slightly. Us, being a spriting forum primarily, should understand this concept. A popular spriters thing is to see how you can make something that didn't even exist in a certain game initially fit in its artstyle because they all looked so distinct. That's not as much the case anymore.