How did the faces in this game look so good?
Effort
something that costs $50 million to make is generally gonna look good
>>12630786Sega used to be a very talented company, if you can believe it.
The Japanese are honestly masters of vidya faces. I don't know how they do it. RE4 and Silent Hill 2 to 4 looked generations ahead due to the faces.
How did the feces in this game look so good?
>>12630786Balbit Singh did the textures
>>12630786Do they? Playing the game back in the day I thought it was distracting how the main models looked ok but the majority just had that uncanny shrinkwrapped "mask" look
>>12630946arr rook same, so extra attention is paid to minor details and expressions
>>12630946>The Japanese are honestly masters of vidya faces
>>12630786Only the female models were any good, they looked a generation ahead of the male characters for some reason.
>>12632139Proof the developers were straight. Horniness is a huge motivation for artistic achievement since the dawn of humanity.
>>12630786The budget for the game made it possible.
>>12630946uhhh
>>12630786>>12630946Is this samefagging? Shenmue's faces looked "okay". The only really impressive faces were a couple main characters, almost everyone else looked like they were cardboard cutouts.
>>12630961This part probably gave someone a boner
>>12632110You simply can't appreciate the artistry and genius of FromSoft games
>>12633324Me. That someone is me.
>>12630786>>12630946It is the eyes. Specifically, their beliefs and social ques are strongly concentrated around using your eyes and upper face. Coincidentally this is also the the part that causes the most uncanny reactions from people when it is done wrong. So, they have more experience and developed skill with shaping faces by stubbornly tackling the hardest part first.
>>12633302they're flat but nothing else from the era comes close even still. seriously show me one game from 1999 with faces like that.
>>12632139>>12632278Nozomi has an (maybe more than 1) official render/artwork where you see her nipples through her nitted sweater.
>>12634438source?
>>12632139>>12634438Why did Ryo never bang (or even kiss) Nozomi?
>>12630786I tell you if Shenmue came to the PS2 after the Dreamcast died it'd be what GTA is today.
>>12635002I can't really see that. 99% of GTA's appeal was killing anybody you wanted and Shenmue doesn't have that.
>>12635002Absolutely not.
>>12630786iirc they used 3d scans for faces, back when the tech was new for games
>>12635002True. Just look at how well Yakuza did on the PS2. Having it be an Xbox exclusive is a mistake.
>>12633434well that's a little unfair considering the other 6th gen consoles weren't quite out yet in 1999https://youtu.be/wKiQNjMQkTg
>>12634448It's on shenmue dojo. You'll find it by searching for nozomi harasaki render on google also.
>>12635475Oh my lord I'm going to coom
>>12635294Yakuza is something of a spiritual successor, but they’re only similar on a surface level. Shenmue was way too slow paced and Japanesey for GTA normies.
You can't even attack in the overworld of Shenmue, how the fuck could it even be in the same genre of GTA?Personally I think the series is an evolution of the point-and-click genre
Can we even call Shenmue a game? Just kidding kek. I can't get back into this series. Its never going to be finished.
>>12630786it's not that incredible really. the dreamcast had twice the vram of the ps2(ok that is kind of incredible) allowing for such detailed textures to be feasible, you just need a guy who can paint well at that point. mainly it was just a fortuitous aesthetic choice. the particular style of the game allowed for such high contrast painted facial detail. in something else that static detail might have come off as offputting.
>>12636549Technically part 3 is the final one.
>>12636574Yeah, the Dreamcast’s main graphical strength was being able to have sharp looking textures on relatively low poly models.
>>12636204yeah that's the one. Like I said there is one more. Unfortunatelythey are of a very early stage nozomi and doesn't look like her final apperance that much. But it does tell a story how the devs were men of great culture for sure.
>>12636829>visible pussy lipsWhat the fuck
