/vr/ - Retro Games

Filters have their place (more so in the 2000s when computing power was limited) but they get misused. Their goal isn't to make pixel art look HD, it's to make pixel art upscaled by bilinear filtering less blurry.

If you're running a game through a 4x filter, you're generating 16 new pixels for each original pixel. Usually that's gonna look like shit.