steven787 said:
HappySqurriel said:
Valkyria00 said:
First off off Im not really even thinking about the next generation Wii. This thought has been running around my head for a while so I thought Id finally post it.
When the next gen comes all the consoles will be in HD. Nintendos console at the very least will be 720p.
I dont wanna see Mario or Zelda in HD. Mario works in cartoony style so I dont want to see a realistic mario I just don think it would work.
As for Zelda I wanna see something stylish. Like what Valkyria Chronicles is doing. Not exactly like it but something like that. Or a badd ass Cel-Shaded version. Nothing like WindWaker though. More mature and stylish in HD.
Id like to see Metriod as third person game in HD. I think it work and look beautiful. Starfox is another not in third person back to how it used to be and in HD.
Those are two games I really wanna see in HD.
So what dont and do you wanna see in HD?
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The reality is that High Definition graphics has absolutely nothing to do with how realistic an image looks ... after all movies on DVD still look far more realistic than any computer game regardless of the hardware it is running on or the output resolution.
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But along with HD resolutions comes the textures, higher polygon counts and effects that make games look more realistic. That's what he means.
I am up for HD Starfox or Fable-ish Zelda.
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Even that's not that accurate though, it is the lighting and shading effects that comes from the highly parallelized programmable shading hardware (or stream processors on new PC GPUs) that produces the more realistic appearance; and this is not related to HD resolutions at all.
Anyways, enough semantics ...
Personally, I would like Nintendo (and all developers) to go all out and produce the best looking games they can when they're dealing with a series like Mario or Zelda where the sales will easily justify the development cost. At the same time smaller series (like Battalion Wars) should see improved graphics to the extent that they do not drastically increase developmment costs.
