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Smeags on 15 November 2014

With an amazing color palette, great lighting, wonderful attention to detail, fantastic (and often hilarious) character animations, and silky smooth 60fps, I can most certainly understand them having that viewpoint. Mario Kart 8 is an incredible looking game.

Really the only thing going against it is its lack of AA. But with how smooth and consistent the game looks in motion, it honestly isn't an issue while you're playing the game.



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Deeds on 15 November 2014

How is this possible? There is no way CGI that is cartoony can look good. Cant you see how godawful all Pixar movies look.



SubiyaCryolite on 15 November 2014

The bait is strong with this one



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d21lewis on 15 November 2014
HoloDust said:
While MK8 does look great, I find it to be a bit, let's say...conservative choice for "best visuals".

I would go with ISS or SO, as a good balance of technical achievement and art design...at least when it comes to AAA titles.

Off topic but I wwonder how a Sunset Overdrive vs Infamous Second Son debate would go.



NightDragon83 on 15 November 2014

Wait a minute, this can't be... how can a game that's running in only 720p be considered the "best looking game of the year?" I've been told by numerous "experts" that anything sub-1080p looks atrocious and is damn-near unplayable. Any game that is discovered to be running in 900p only for example is subsequently shit on by the community. Yet a game like this gets high praise for its visuals???

Next someone will say that gameplay matters more than graphics in a game... pfffft. AS-IF!



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Jumpin on 15 November 2014

Developers on PS4 and Xbox 1 have the hardware, but lack the artistic ability to top Mario Kart 8.



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Talal on 15 November 2014
irstupid said:
I don't get why people every care about a TECHNICAL marvel.

You know what can be considered a technical marvel? Assassin's Creed Unity. It has a shit ton of npc's roaming around.

I'll take a game with flawless visuals in whatever art style it chooses and flawless gameplay and fps over any technical marvels anyday.

Mario Kart 8, the entire world fits and looks exactly how it should. There are no random things that make you cringe when you see them. No pop up in the distance. No bugs, ect. So spare me the technical aspects of it having AA or not or whatever else you want to say to downplay it.

When I'm playing the game I'm 100% able to dive into it. There is zero immersion breaking things going on. That to me is a technical marvel.


Because some people don't consider seeing pixel edges flawless.



Euphoria14 on 15 November 2014

How predictable. As usual the media is once again showing their anti-Nintendo bias.

 

In all seriousness, game looks great. Will be one of the games I grab when I one day get a WiiU.



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biglittlesps on 15 November 2014

Last of US PS4 looks worse than MK8 ? So whatever ND did is just waste and they should just go with Colorful art game instead of Realistic game world and physics. EG should have said one of the best looking but not only.



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Game_God on 15 November 2014
Talal said:
irstupid said:
I don't get why people every care about a TECHNICAL marvel.

You know what can be considered a technical marvel? Assassin's Creed Unity. It has a shit ton of npc's roaming around.

I'll take a game with flawless visuals in whatever art style it chooses and flawless gameplay and fps over any technical marvels anyday.

Mario Kart 8, the entire world fits and looks exactly how it should. There are no random things that make you cringe when you see them. No pop up in the distance. No bugs, ect. So spare me the technical aspects of it having AA or not or whatever else you want to say to downplay it.

When I'm playing the game I'm 100% able to dive into it. There is zero immersion breaking things going on. That to me is a technical marvel.


Because some people don't consider seeing pixel edges flawless.

 

So I guess this is a bad painting:

 

It lacks colors, the lines are not straight, you can 2 eyes on the side faces, it looks like a child painted it it right???

A great portion of what I call the "hardlycore gamers" seem to have a very narrow minded view of the world & games in particular.

I would say that maybe the lack of culture & open mind is what makes them enraged against anything that doesn't try to parrot reality, that's all they know, that's all they want in their games realistic FPS... yet they think they are so "superior" & hold the "truth" with their tunnel vision & lack of education!



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