For me, art-style is way more important than the graphics quality. Old, modern, ultra-realistic, that's not my priority when it comes to the game's visual. While pixel-art is not my favourite style, I see this amazingly distinctive look so many times in pixel-art games. Look at Celeste, Stardew Valley, and Iconoclasts. You know they're all pixel-art games when you see them but you also know how different they look to one another. But that doesn't mean I don't like (or even hate) modern days graphics. I'm just prefer something more imaginative than "more real". I still have so much more thing to say in this matter that I've been thinking of writing a post about it for a while, and of course, I can't write an entire post in a comment right? lol. Great read!