Miyamoto: games nowadays look so realistic that they all look the same

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estebxx said:

mountaindewslave said:

estebxx said:
im pretty fucking sure that Uncharted doesnt look the same as Bloodborne which in turn doesnt look even close to Horizon which at the same time doesnt resemble Halo in any way, and none of those look like Hitman, which doesnt look the same as The Witcher 3, which looks different than FFXV... and so on and on...

but sure lets shit on realistic games by saying they all look the same :/ (im sure there is no sort of artistic design in those games...)

neither Bloodborne or Halo are really aiming for insanely close to reality graphics (one is with monsters, the other with space/future). I think Miyamoto is more addressing the Far Cry's and Assassin's Creeds and Crysis games that you see all over the place that obviously primarily are aiming to look closer to reality

those games may have fiction in them but they ARE trying to look as close to reality as they can, none of those games is trying to look cartonish or cel shaded, they are trying to look real dark and gritty, they are just set in fictional worlds, if you look at the character faces, the world, the clothing, the textures etc. its very clear that they are trying to look as real as possible

The fact of the matter is, that only specific genre/style games look the same. It's the same within nintendo. Certain mario games tend to look the same.
Football games looks the same, racing sims look the same, kart racers look the same, certain fighting games look the same.
COD is going to look like a lot of other games because a lot of other games are trying to capitalize on the COD forumla. This doesn't mean ALL developers are doing the same thing.

This is where MIyamoto's argument really flops because it's just the nature of the beast that some styles are going to look similar. Like someone else said, would you get mad at the artist of a highschool manga for having artwork similar to another? Would you look at corn-flake type cereal and complain that cereals look the same by comparing frosted flakes, wheaties, and corn flakes, among others?

Miyamoto should be more worried about the throngs of upcoming indie developers taking notes from Nintendo and having a more nintendo like artstyle, or completely besting them at their own genres (like metroid).

Success breeds imitation.