In general I agree, but... its River City Ransom. How different could it really be?
MOTW style sprites for RCR would be pretty fucking sweet, albeit totally different - if thats what you're getting at anyway
NES games looked like NES games because of hardware limitations. New games look like NES games because people are huffing-heavy-nostalgia.
The aesthetic was fun for a while. I loved the look of Cave Story, the fun re-imaginings of some games, hell even 3D Dot Game Heroes and the ilk... but now it feels like we've done the retro thing to death.
I'd love to see some fresh 2D games that would have made our NES playing selves cum our pants if they came out back then. I'd love for these games to do more than sell an aesthetic and actually make cool 2D games that push the current technology.
Maybe making this point in a River City Ransom reboot thread is sort of dumb. I get it... It's RCR, and it probably should look like RCR. It's just getting harder for me to get excited about the nostalgia-ware these days. I just want some killer new 2D stuff, but I almost feel like the only reason people even buy 2D stuff now is because it has NES graphics.
Hell people are even going meta and copying Atari 2600 style graphics now. Haha. I'm just afraid that's all 2D is ever going to be from here on out, and the days of gorgeous hand drawn 2D games are going to disappear into the ether.
Well... until those become retro, of course. Shit, maybe in twenty years they'll do games that look like Disney cartoons, and I can cum in my twenty year older pants.