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Samus Aran on 12 June 2014
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SubiyaCryolite said:
Samus Aran said:

Zelda looks graphically better than anything you showed on PS3. I dare even say it looks better than a lot of XBONE or PS4 games. It has a great artstyle, something you can't say of GT5 or even that trailer from the Last Guardian which didn't look remotely special to me. 

You need to learn how to differentiate between art and tech. Team Fortress looks better than Left 4 Dead 2 and yet it runs on an older version of the Source Engine. The Witcher 3 and the next gen Elder Scrolls will totally decimate Zelda from a technical standpoint. Heck I'm willing to bet Zelda wont have a single town as big and detailed as the locations we've seen in the Witcher or even Dragon Age Origins thus far. 

Zelda's art style means the game wont need sub surface scattering, it wont need complex facial animation, it wont need a thousand bones and mocap, it wont need volumetric smoke, it wont need per-object motion blur, it wont need 1,000,000 particles on screen, it wont need hundreds of light sources, it wont need simulated weather, it wont need tessellated waves, it wont need apex clothing, it wont need bokeh depth of field, it wont need horizon based ambient occlusion.

If you disagree then please tell me in technical terms how Zelda competes with a typical XBox One or PS4 game? Emphasis on technical terms, not that "looks good to me" BS. Huge vistas have been done before in Skyrim so what's so mind-blowing (technically) about Zelda. The only thing worth bragging about is the large amount of grass present in the foreground while Link is on Epona. I don't think console versions of Skyrim had that much vegetation on the plains. Cell shading and bloom wont impress me when freaking One Piece Unlimited World Red uses a similar form of it and that'll be on the 360 and PS3 as well.

I'm not saying Zelda is ugly or unimpressive, I'm just not hyping it up to be something its not. This will end up like Mario Kart 8 all over again. Promise the world yet something like Forza 4 offers identical performance in 720p with hardware anti aliasing on top.

I'm not playing games for any of that bullshit you just mentioned. I go by looks alone, and Zelda obliterated pretty much any game shown on PS4. Oh wait, there wasn't a single PS4 game shown that didn't run on a high end PC. Definitely not Arkham Knight at least. Is Zelda U better technically? How could it be? It's on a weaker console. Yet it still can hold its own easily thanks to the great artstyle, attention of detail and polish Nintendo put in this title. 

Have fun playing One Piece Unlimited World Red, think all you want how it looks just as great, but me and many others will have a lot more fun with Zelda U. 

I'll buy TW3, on pc. The superior version. And yes, it looks great, but not every game has to be super realistic. 

You're making a lot of assumptions on a very short ingame gameplay vid.

edit: just looked at a One Piece trailer. LMAO, you're full of it if you think that game looks remotely close to Zelda U.