Should games just stop trying to look "good"? It just feels wrong and distracts from the experience
>>736029570"Real" and "Good" are not the same things. A game should look good -- it should be pleasing to look at, clearly show what's going on, and not strain the eye. Visuals are a tool to assist the player engage in the gameplay, not a goal on their own. Too many modern games miss that and think the shiny colors make up for not actually being fun. It's a natural result of the game industry being infested with people who want to make movies instead.
graphics dont need to look better than half life 2
>ai slop threadsfuck off, faggot
>>736029793Clearly the modern definition of good fucking sucks, the only actually good looking 3D game in the last 10 years is Kunitsu-GamiEveryone else has no idea what they're doing regardless of if they're making stylized or realistic games
>>736029570NINTENDO
Breath of the wild has a nice aesthetic, realism doesn't mean better
>>736030183if it didnt have anti soul gas and washed out colors
>>736030183BOTW looks like ass, the idea was nice but they couldn't execute it properly for whatever reasonFor a game that actually pulls of the look, see Ni No Kuni (2010)
>>736030320Botw does it better desu
>>736030470Sadly no
>>736030523Stalker goes for a realistic look while botw goes for an animated look, botw looks better
>>736029570>Should games just stop trying to look "good"?there;s this bizarre trend in modern games where graphics fidelity and your GFX card running at toaster levels=betterthe reality is the skill that is balancing out>what the player is likely to focus onwith>the more interactive parts of the worldwith>running stablywith>well thought out lighting and effectsto>emphasize the good shit and essentially distract from the bad shitis a lost art because when different departments of several hundred pajeets or whatever fail to have successful communication you end up with a game with>unnecessarily taxing graphics>dogshit performancealso most companies/games clearly lack a solid QA/playtesting department, see>crimson desert
Jeets don't realise that for a game to look good it needs both good art direction and graphical fidelity, and while a good art direction can compensate for "bad" graphics (see any game made before the year 2000) the reverse will only ever result in shitty ue5 looking asset flips
>>736029570>AI slop
>>736029570GOOD MORNING SAAR!
>>736030523>comparing a dungeon to a outdoors areaIs this bait?
>>736030758>botw looks betterIt does not
>>736030910everyone should have stuck with source engineeveryone should play FEAR before going into an art and level design departmentyou dont need bullshit faggot ass efects to make a game look good
>>736029570kys ai tranny
>>736031045Wow anon we had no idea the image was AI until you pointed this out!!
>>736030035>>736029570HIRE
>>736030320Not the same style at all. You like a certain style better, thats fine, but it doesnt do it better
>press x to A
>>736031140Ok, and you shit on the street.
Yes. about 10 years ago.They should have focussed on artistic direction and creativity instead of just dumping the lighting onto the consumers machine. But gaming is a cold hearted business now so no dice
>>736031167Both are trying to look like anime, and Ghibli-style anime specifically BOTW falls short in so many ways, Ni No Kuni looks amazing to this day
>>736029945...but that looks like ____
NHTMHTMcheck 5
>>736029945I liked the way Granblue Relink looks even though it's anime. Objects at distance looked like they were drawn cause they applied some filter to it.
>>736031251BotW doesn't look like Ghibli.Where did you hear that it was supposed to?
>>736029570Why is Link a fathead midget
>>736031352My eyes told me
>>736029570Art style ages better than photorealism.MML is a fucking PSX game and it still looks fine even if characters only have 10 polys to their name.
>>736031540>Source; I made it upThanks for confirming it's not true.>I-it looks like it because of referenceslol, lmfao.No.
>>736029570ohhh my saar this is looking most amazing nintendo pls hire this man!!!!
>>736031581Looks a lot better than AAA 2025 western games
>>736031608>he needs a source to tell him something obviousYour stupid ass would need a source to tell you this is meant to be Nintendo's Mario
>>736031581>durr it ages better>meanwhile decade old photorealism games aged wellBro you have to go all the way back to ps1 to show photorealism not aging well
>>736029570this looks like a banner ad for some MMO you have to try
>>736031045>A, D, 0, Stink lines, Nightwing logoWhat did Link mean by this?
>>736031725PS4 games already look like shit
>>736031719>Changes the topicThanks for confirming it doesn't have the Ghibli art style.
Anything past the ps360 era graphic wise is overkill and is ruining video games
>>736031801>blown the fuck outThanks for conceding
>>736029570Even if this wasn't Ai, this looks so goddamn shitty.
>>736031776look better than 240p ps1 game
>>736031775
>>736031904Cool benchmark scene, where's the interactivity
>>736029570Personally I like games that look like video games. Which is to say they look like how they did when I was a kid. Video games are supposed to have sprites and chiptunes.
>>736031854I literally didn't concede, ESL.
>>736031805its bizarre how rarely a company prioritizes performance over trailer-quality ingame screenshotsEven more embarassing is that the only company imo that has consistently used>almost entirely ingame stuff, in and out of cutscenesis capcom, and that non capcom games still feel the need to peddle shit trailers as "captured in-engine" and STILL not have them be indicative of the actual product
>>736031985Thats the last level of uncharted 4, now you are changing the topic to interactivity despite old games like mega man legends having little interactivity
>>736029945Retard.
>>736029570>press the x button to press A
>>736029570I like that Zelda is collecting Mario coins.
no. games should always look good. why shouldn't they? high resolution polygons, texture and lighting does not automatically equal "good", OP. even games with crap graphics like Morrowind can look "good", in a way. its just limited by its graphical fidelity, but the style is there.
>>736029570>its 2026>even AI cant triforce
>>736031725>you have to go all the way back to ps1 to show photorealism not aging wellWatchdog aged like milk.
>>736029570There's barely any good looking games out there these days. The vast majority of them have the corporate slop aesthetic
>ue5 + dlss5 combo late 2026is your wallet prepared?
>>736030320Ni No Kuni had great looking environment textures but its 3D cell shaded stuff looks like ass.
>>736029820>t. poor
>>736032746nta but>pay more>devs do less, charge more, and theres a higher barrier of entry>and standards have dropped
MR NINTENDOFIRE THAT MAN
>>736032453it's insane that in the modern day era where almost every game is rife for shitposting, /v/ doesn't play half of the shit and instead of funny OC webms like this we have twitter reposts
>>736032585*loads up old consoles with flashcarts/ODEs*Shan't be participating.
>>736032585Not to mentions most of those games will probably be remake slop
>>736030320>best looking zelda to date>some anon:>hurr durr ugry game/v/ - contrarian board
>>736034884looks bad desu
>>736034884They went for a specific style but its not good.
>>736035274 You people say this about literally anything that isn’t chasing UE5 giga-shader sludge. The style is the entire reason it holds up. Soft lighting, painterly textures, cohesive art direction > “muh realistic pores” that look outdated in 3 years. BotW/TotK will age 10x better than whatever grey-brown photoreal slop drops this holiday. Style is timeless, fidelity isn’t.
>>736029570If your game doesn't run on a shitty laptop I actually don't even want it.The industry is still struggling to make a good game above 20GB
>>736032343shit taste
>>736029570Almost like, all these realistic graphic shits that makes games into unrecognizable piles of mush was planned in tandem with the eventual rise AI generation. Can't tell it's slop generated if all the games in the past years have already been looking like slop.
This is where we should have stopped graphically wise,putting realistic graphics in shit like DMC just feels wrong,realism should be exclusive to racing,shooting and sport games
>>736034884It looked bad on release anon, they had good intentions but fucked up the execution
>>736035449Who's gonna tell him
>>736035449>>736037203
>>736037289
>>736037203pure sovless
>>736029570Link is supposed to be a twink, that dude look overweight and old.
>>736037581>>736037717>bro just mod it then it will look 0.4% less shit
>>736030523you have to be like 12 to take that bait seriously
Realism is ass regardless.Why the fuck would I want realism in the stuff I use to escape reality? Oldfag gamer here, but if your game has forest desert mountain jungle island plains vibes: like it's the real world, yeah, the game is boring. 1000 games did that before, I don't care your trees have a few more pixels.
>>736029570I don't think Twilight Princess looks realistic at all and that's how the remake should look.
>>736029570i'm so glad i don't have "taste"i looked at this image and enjoyed it, i thought "huh, that's a nice high fidelity forest scene, its cool to see my childhood gaming experience in high definition - i never imagined i would." instead of "ew look at that pixel, this is clearly AI SLOP, it looks so fucking gross. the palette is wrong. um... where's link's commissioned tailpussy?" you AI haters and "taste havers" are so miserable all the time, it'd be funny if it were better contained
>>736029570>pretending zelda with this level of detail wouldnt be kinoyou niggas are gay
Graphics retards have always been retards. All of the best games of all time aren't even in 3D.
>>736032746Why does 4chan hate Half Life 2 now?
>>736029570>Should games just stop trying to look "good"?No.>It just feels wrong and distracts from the experienceIt's not necessary, in fact some games don't need it, however "distracts" is pointless. If the game itself is good, nobody gives a shit what the graphics looks like. However a graphical style that matches your game can help immersion. The only time it "distracts" is if the game already rates from bad to mediocre.>ai imageNeck yourself>>736030523Imagine being this much of a disingenuous faggot
Game visuals peaked here
>>736038654Even when you get past it being AI, that level of fidelity feels wrong when you know how games are madeYou know it's expensive as fuck to make, you know it can't take risks as a result, you know it required hundreds of people to work on it diluting any creative vision, you know it can't afford to keep it up for long or have surprises, you know it reduces interactivity etc, it's just a bad fit for the type of experiences games should be
>>736037289i fucking hate when games raise the black level for "muh artstyle" it looks like shit black should be fucking BLACK control does the same shit
>>736040789I don't think it's on purpose. I think the developers are just incompetent. I played Wukong and the black levels look like an LCD from 2008 even on an OLED. How can you make an entire fucking video game and not notice this?
>>736041170 in control and zeldas case it is 100% intentionalthey think the grayness over the colors makes it look like a fuckin water painting or something
>Press X to A
>>736029570>Should games just stop trying to look "good"?Yes. It's a race to the bottom at this point with Nvidia pretty much bribing every major AAA studio to make their games needlessly demanding, in order to sell their latest top-of-the-line GPUs.
>>736034884Everything pretty about that game has to do with world design rather than graphics. This image does a pretty good job at showcasing how the world you're traversing is really good and well done (minus the repetitive dungeons), but the graphics kinda suck lolCould stand to have less of the sanitized grey look to it imo
zelda if he real
>>736030758>botw looks betterrofl, lmao even
>>736029570I don’t think they look good right now.
>>736041231I didn't really notice it in those games that much. Wukong and Chronos were the worst, but I modded Chronos to fix it. The cave level on Wukong gave me flashbacks of playing that Metro VR game on a Quest 3. Can't see fucking shit.
>>736029570>press X to A
>>736041469i know it happened accidentally on RE0 for steam you have to use reshade to fix it
>>736032637And yet, you can't tell us 10 better looking celshading RPGs. GaaS doesn't count, btw.
Zelda's colors get muted by anti-soul fog. Terrible choice for such a game.
>>736029570yeah, we should just use AI filters for that stuff
>>736042569i enjoyed botw and to a lesser extent botw-nuts and boltsbut if this is the future of zelda for the next 10 years im gonna be sad i guess we will have to see how oot does
