>>42174692Imagine how Disgaea or Guilty Gear would've looked if it was fully 3D. It would completely lose its distinctive style. Don't forget games like Fran Bow or Darkest Dungeon. At the same time, if Call of Duty or Xenoblade had Doom-style sprites it would look like absolute shit. Fur Elise sounds like crap on a violin but is really good on a piano, same principle.
>>42179332You have never sprited anything in your life I bet (to put my money where my mouth is here's a work I did a while back). 2D takes magnitudes more effort for even simple things than 3D which allows for large amounts of reused assets and animations to be recycled to save time. In addition, if a change to a character is made for whatever reason, it's trivial to change the 3D model, but you tell a sprite artist that the character is going to wear a trenchcoat instead of a hoodie, no jury would convict him for what he does to you.
