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Hynad on 03 February 2020
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Dulfite said:
Azzanation said:

I have to agree with you on the art style here. Its one reason why I favour Xbox over PS in this regard, PS does realistic games really well and they all tend to carry the same focus on realistic art style with an over the shoulder 3rd person combat system. There are small exceptions here however many said PS has more variety of games yet when you look at there main sellers, its clear a one type genre focus. 

Where as Xbox still try to be diverse, they offer difference experiences like RTS, FPS, SIMs, MMO, Metroidvania and others etc. There games might not review as good this gen however there are quite a difference in playstyle and artstyle. 

Sony's next big hitters, what a surprise, two over the shoulder realistic type games in Ghosts and TLOU2. This is not a dig in any means to these games quality however its more of the same which works for them. Look at Xboxes next big releases with Ori 2, Battletoads and Halo. Very different games with very different art style approaches.

Maybe its just me but I can tend to agree Sony's main focus is very different to Nintendos and Xboxes.

Agreed! I'm not saying those Sony games are bad or sold bad, but just that they don't really embrace non realistic looking visuals often.

Them double standards and disingenuous comments. 

When on one side games are cautiously picked as the  most popular and best selling titles and disregarding all the others that don’t fit the biased narrative, and on the other side, the picks selectively and deceptively taken with somewhat diversity in the cartoon style but not using the best selling most popular titles,  you know the kind of people you’re going to argue with and they’ve already wasted enough of your time. 

Mario Kart 8, Super Mario Odyssey, Smash Ultimate, Luigi’s Mansion, Splatoon 2... Pretty much use the same art style.

Then you have all the other games that used a somewhat stylized yet still very much cartoon style. Games like Link’s Awakening, Kirby and Yoshi. 

For all the complaints about Sony making more realistic games than cartoony ones, you have to at least acknowledge the fact that Nintendo doesn't do anything other than cartoony visuals, be them made of clay, wool, mud, clouds or rainbows.

Sony makes TLOU, God of War, Uncharted, Spider Man, Horizon, sure. Yet all of them, while being realistic in nature, are all stylized a different way. The same as Nintendo’s different approaches to the cartoony style.

But then, Sony does make strongly stylized games like Medievil, The Last Guardian, Ratchet & Clank, Knack, Tearaway, Gravity Rush, The Unfinished Swan, Astro Bot...

What does Nintendo make that isn’t cartoony? Even Xenoblade 2 has embraced the cartoony style.

And by cartoony, I mean:

~ a simplified or exaggerated version or interpretation of something.


And I’ll never buy Azzanation’s BS for his constant negativity towards PS. 

Last edited by Hynad - on 04 February 2020