I think that's part of the indie fascination of low poly horror. If your brain has to do some translating/inferencing of what it is seeing it adds a visceral element that horror especially benefits from
I still can't believe Alien Isolation came from the same studio that made Rome: Total War. Though I imagine the developer overlap was quite small. I've never bothered to look further into the credits however.
I think that's part of the indie fascination of low poly horror. If your brain has to do some translating/inferencing of what it is seeing it adds a visceral element that horror especially benefits from
I personally haven't found low poly horror to do too much for me.
Alien Isolation had to be one of the scarier games I've played, on top of SOMA and those both look great.
The issue imo of hyper real graphics is by taking a boring approach to it, the whole game suffers
I still can't believe Alien Isolation came from the same studio that made Rome: Total War. Though I imagine the developer overlap was quite small. I've never bothered to look further into the credits however.