Can indie developers stop showing off how nerdy they are by making 8-bit/16-bit games?

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PullusPardus said:

Salnax said:
Nothing wrong with 8 bit styled graphics. Sure, they don't fit all games, but considering how they help developers save money and they provide a sense of abstract representation, they have a place.

Besides, Terraria is 16 bit.

do we really need like shoot em ups / beat em up styled in 8Bit  games every month for the sake of being indie? 

indie shouldn't be about throwbacks to old days , it is supposed to be about pure innovation.

this is backwards thinking.

 

The progression of game development from 8bit to today can be seen as a linear path...

What could be more innovative than going back to a point in time and diverging from that linear path to make completely different genres never thought of before?

Show me a Terraria made around the days of the SNES....