Hehe, that will be upsetting many users because they confuse technical aspects with good looking. Mario Kart on WiiU is indeed a very, very good looking game! I am glad they didn't use an Xbox One or PS4 title by default because way better hardware.

There's nothing particularly 'bold' about saying [x] looks the best. If they were making a graphics comparison then sure, it would be a bold (and incredibly stupid) thing to say, but when talking about visual appeal, which includes art direction and the like, it's simply a matter of personal preference. I think Transistor is the 'best looking' game of the year. Am i bold too?

Yup Agreed!

A shame Smash Bros looks fairly unambitious graphically. LBP3 on PS4 also looks like a lazy port :(

By best do you mean most intensive or advance?

Best to me means how the graphics are utilised, the appearance they create. A game could have 100m polys on screen versus a game with only 100k poly but nicer lighting and pretty particle effects. The latter game in my opinion would have the ''better graphics''

Perhap, but Eurogamer's saying it in front of a substantially bigger audience than you or I. ;)

Smash's less detailed graphics seem to stem from it allegedly running at 1080p/60fps, which would leave only half as much pixel fillrate for shaders and such compared to a 720p game like Mario Kart.

So the subjective opinions of anyone with a decent size audience is bold? :p

A bold statement would be something you could consider 'risky', something unlikely to be accepted. With exception to those thinking he's talking about graphics rather than the visuals themselves, i doubt you will find many that don't think MK8 looks good. Many will of course disagree with him thinking it's the best looking, but they'll understand why someone could choose it. That's not bold.

I meant graphical in technical terms.  The style of the graphics are great though like I said, and I would say it is an attractive looking game, just not the best for the year

I think it's far to say that its bolder to make a controversial declaration in front of a bigger audience, yeah. I'd be much more comfortable telling a politically incorrect joke to just my brother than to a stadium full of people, for instance!

I agree that in theory it shouldn't be controversial, because you're right, it's just an opinion, but in this age of pixel counting and graphical obsession, I can see this ruffling some feathers.

Especially coming for Euromgamer who many associate with digital foundary.