No Rest for the Wicked Why do some creations age quickly, while others are timeless? A game from Moon Studios, creators of Ori. This time w…
No Rest for the Wicked Why do some creations age quickly, while others are timeless? A game from Moon Studios, creators of Ori. This time without Microsoft's patronage, though. Maybe that is for the better Dark fantasy, isometry, a camera like in Animal Crossing. A kind of Diablo for the healthy smoker The team either got there themselves or were inspired by knowledge from old Blizzard. I mean this GDC talk GDCVault — The Art of Diablo 3 TL;DR: Great Art is Ageless Actually, the lacquered Diablo IV melts with every month, while stylized Diablo 3 looks like animated art. Aged well No Rest for the Wicked is animated art. The only problem is that I could not touch it - Steam Deck chokes, and at playable 40-50fps there is too big a tradeoff in image quality And then I remembered that streaming services exist! Plus Gaming, for example. Image quality is better than from the Steam Deck I recorded a short video so you can imagine how it feels Yes, neither on Steam Deck nor in streaming is there any HDR or sharp image. But touching the artifact is valuable The last two pictures are for comparison. Screenshots from Steam Deck. Expert hat - my forecast: 80% that No Rest for the Wicked will age well. And in 10 years it will continue to look like animated art. Moonlight is famous for its ability to carve technology as craft. They make the best HDR implementation in the industry Just in 10 years I will grow enough to build a proper PC and enjoy good old games. Which, as of spring 2026, are in early access) You can admire how the game fully looks in their latest trailer on YouTube dedicated to the co-op update Why do some creations age quickly, while others are timeless? It seems that the more the focus is on craft rather than technology, the greater the contribution to immortality. The fewer signs and symbols of a specific era there are in the created object, the harder it is to read the trends inherent to the era of creation, the higher the chance of creating an object outside time, with a longer lifespan