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Zekkyou on 16 April 2014
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Zero999 said:
Zekkyou said:

I think you are confusing graphics with aesthetics. Nintendo's game looks great, but that can almost entirely be credited to their artistic skill, not their graphical ambition. Graphics are the technical side of a game, it's texture, filtering, AA, shading etc. In that respect Nintendo have been incredibly underwhelming

To use your example of 3D world, it's using basic flat textures, surprisingly low polygon characters and environments, and is has basic edge detection AA (which is almost embarrassing when compared to the SMAA T2X variant used for infamous).

Again, their games do look great, but that certainly isn't due to pushing the technical side of things :P Which, like i said, is a shame. They certainly put more effort into maxing the hardware of their previous consoles.

you are just denying credit where it's due. the biggest example so far is mario kart 8, wich is gorgeous on both aesthetics AND graphics. other games like, nintendoland, 3d world, pikmin 3 and W101 do the same is smaller scales.

I really have no interest in having another of these conversations with you Zero, it's boring to talk the technical sides of games with someone who bases their comments on a bias rather than common sense. If you wish to believe Nintendo are graphically ambitious with their early 7th gen AA and static flat textures, then by all means you are welcome to your opinion. But if you wish to believe that, then you'd also have to consider the likes of Ryse and inFamous as graphically phenomenal in comparison, so as to not contract the logic by which you reason.

That said, I do find it odd i was told numerous times last gen that the Wii's game looked great because of their art style, and that graphics don't matter. Suddenly that doesn't seem to be the case ^^