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StuOhQ on 21 June 2015
bowserthedog said:

There is a difference though between realistics art style and pushing technology. Kingdom Hearts 3 and the new Ratchet and Clank aren't realistic art styles but they are still on the cutting edge of graphics.


Exactly. "Star Fox" didn't get ripped on for it's graphical style. It was criticized for its bad textures, low poly models, and lack of modern lighting/effects. 



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captain carot on 21 June 2015

Halo and Mass Effect look different. Horizon looks different than other games. Mirrors Edge and Fallout have their own look. And Witcher looks totally different than Skyrim.

I could possibly say that all anime style games look the same. And Nintendo try's way to hard to give to many games a nintendoey look. Nothing of that would be wrong but it wouldn't be half of the truth.



curl-6 on 21 June 2015

Obviously games like Uncharted can overcome this with artful and stylized takes on realism, but I agree as far as the straight-up uninspired realism of Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed.



sam987 on 21 June 2015

There was a time where games look like pixels, then they look like cartoons and finally like movies. It all depends on the art style and creative minds of the developers. Nowadays more people prefer interactive cinema games like Uncharted, TLOU. It's more immersive and 10x better than going to the movies. He just try to defend the Wii U after seeing UC4..



Goodnightmoon on 21 June 2015
Burek said:
Well, he is obviously defending his inability to create a realistic game. Of course, nobody expects that of him, since he is a cartoonist. He should stick to what he knows, because he is not able to adapt to the 21st century gaming.

Of course, because in the 21st century cartoonish and non-realisitic games in general must be dead...



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IamAwsome on 21 June 2015
pokoko said:

Yeah, I hate when different games all look the same. 

 

 

Those are all Mario games. What were you expecting?



JRPGfan on 21 June 2015
TimCliveroller said:

Have you seen Star Fox? ... That's actually art style.

 

We all know all non nintendo games all look the "same" and lack imagination right?

I mean just look at this.. how dull is this? who would ever buy such a game as this:

 

Am I right?

 

we should all aim to make games that look more like this instead:

 

Right?



curl-6 on 21 June 2015
sam987 said:
There was a time where games look like pixels, then they look like cartoons and finally like movies. It all depends on the art style and creative minds of the developers. Nowadays more people prefer interactive cinema games like Uncharted, TLOU. It's more immersive and 10x better than going to the movies. He just try to defend the Wii U after seeing UC4..

I've seen UC4, and I'm still perfectly happy with the look of Wii U games like Captain Toad, Mario Kart 8, or Splatoon.



HollyGamer on 21 June 2015

That's explain why Star fox zero look so retro and had similar look with the Game cube version.



Volterra_90 on 21 June 2015
spemanig said:
Volterra_90 said:

I'm happy with how it looks, I think people are exaggerating, graphics are not that bad. Obviously they are not great, but, the game is not too painful to see. But I'm thinking how people reacted when we first saw Super Mario 3D World, and look how it turned out. It needs some polish, but I like the art style and the cartoonish feeling of the game. 

Nobody was complaining that SM3DW had ugly graphics. They were complaining that it looked like a boring retread of a 3DS game. Even I thought it was a 3DS game when I first saw it because it looked like SM3DL.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think that some people thought that it looked bland, boring and ugly and many people were dissapointed with it... I understand what people are saying about Starfox Zero, it doesn't look like a 2015 game, I agree with that. It's more like a 2006 PS3 game. But I don't think that's so... bad. It lacks polish, but I like that cartoonish art style and some aspects of the game. I'm not too demanding on graphic aspects, so, I'm not the best voice in this subject, though. I actually love how this level (9:00 onwards) looks. It's Platinum as fuck xDDD.