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Zekkyou on 24 February 2017
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Goodnightmoon said:
Faelco said:

There is a difference between "beautiful" and "technically impressive". He did say that the game was pretty overall, but that the graphics were pretty bad themselves.

Pretty bad? lol What point are we reaching that we think a game like BoTW graphics are pretty bad? is getting ridiculous.

And btw, artsyle is a fundamental part of the graphics, is not something you can separate, to say this game has bad graphics is just mindblowing and probably very biased.

Good and bad are relative terms. While i personally think 'bad' is excessive, relative to current AAA standards BotW's graphics are certainly sub-average.

To your second point, in the context of video games art style and graphics have always been treated as separate by many people. You're right that the end-result is tied to both, but they're still two separately defined properties. If you look at BotW and think it looks visually amazing, then you are in-fact separating them. You're saying it's sub-average tech (relative to market standards) doesn't get in the way of how you feel the overall game looks. If they were critically inseparable, then the lacking technology would drag down your impression of the overall image, but because you're able to see them as distinct elements with subjective impacts you're able to devalue one without affecting the other.

There are plenty of other games like that too. I think Persona 5 is one of the prettiest looking games ever made, but graphically it's decidedly sub-average.