Jawbreaker
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Have you seen the cauldrons? Having finished the game, covering the entirety of the map with 100% completion, "uninspired" is certainly not the adjective I'd use.
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Technically impressive games with terrible art style
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Have you seen the cauldrons? Having finished the game, covering the entirety of the map with 100% completion, "uninspired" is certainly not the adjective I'd use.
This right here is the ultimate evidence that opinions can be wrong.
The machines design are literally one of the best aspects of the game. You sir have a... lets use an eufemism... peculiar taste.
Edit: Oh my God and now another guy is saying the game looks "uninspired". A game about robot fucking dinossaurs. I cant take you guys serious, it has to be trolling.
lots of areas in the original were bland and ugly looking
capitalCORN
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Okay, like which level exactly?
TheRedSnifit
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Like what? 95% of the game takes place in a gorgeous jungle and that awesome spaceship (which is still jaw-dropping today). Are we talking about ship? Which is in the game for, like, half an hour at the very end?
dr guildo
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dr guildo
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Green Yoshi
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Blood Wake (Xbox OG)
indoors look bad, shacks look awful, the grass is especially ugly. maybe i'll reinstall and take some screenshots tomorrow. the game looks good in a lot of areas, but also really bad in others. it's very inconsistent.
LelouchZero
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I'm quite surprised to see a mention of Horizon Zero Dawn, the art-style is very nice and much love and care definitely went into it.
Possibly at the expense of the sandbox gameplay elements the first game offered. As it then became a more linear FPS.
I see what you mean but I don't have a general dislike for the art-style of Nuts and Bolts, I do understand what you mean though. I guess it's down to personal preference as-well.
Possibly at the expense of the sandbox gameplay elements the first game offered. As it then became a more linear FPS.
I see what you mean but I don't have a general dislike for the art-style of Nuts and Bolts, I do understand what you mean though. I guess it's down to personal preference as-well.
Certainly has the ugliest art style of any game ever made but It's not technically impressive either
Killzone 2 I found ugly despite it being a graphics showcase at the time
alexanderftw
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World of Warcraft ugliest art style....what...? It basically set a standard for mmo's back then and even Today, its art is almost unmatched. Its art is one of many reasons why the game is still being played a lot.
TheRedSnifit
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I don't think you know what "art style" means.
I'd also question what other games you were playing in 2007.
"Awful"
"Inconsistent"
ivanthebearable
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Thread seems like one of those threads people are using as an excuse to bash a game they don't like because reasons tbh.
lvl99 Pixel
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what?
nelsonroyale
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I thought this was a thread about terrible art styles, not terrible opinions...Horizon? Crysis and Order 1886 mentioned? ...
Anyway, Oblivion it is. I remember my dad walking past when I was playing that, and he couldn't stop laughing at how ugly the characters looked.
Anyway, Oblivion it is. I remember my dad walking past when I was playing that, and he couldn't stop laughing at how ugly the characters looked.
Everything's so chunky, the characters in particular are horrible to me. I'm not really a fan of the graphics in any Blizzard game
Insert Disk Two
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For me, Street Fighter 4 and 5.
Chairmanchuck
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Messiah:
Sudeki:
Sudeki kinda felt like the devs wanted to imitate japanese anime characters, but somehow made them look like "my first deviantart anime copy".
Sudeki:
Sudeki kinda felt like the devs wanted to imitate japanese anime characters, but somehow made them look like "my first deviantart anime copy".
xochipiltontli
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Did someone just say that Horizon was bland looking... What. That game is beautiful, and that recent interview where they said they aimed for the game to look like perfect documentary footage goes to show that a lot of care was put into making the game look the way that it does. Some facial animations look off yeah, but everything else is fantastic, technically and stylistically.
And 3 of these images are just natural scenery -a show of the impressive Decima Engine-, nothing to see here.
The other 3 are nice but -in my opinion- not impressive, in terms of art style.
The problem is the same of Killzone games: impressive engines, poor (often very poor) artstyle.
At least Horizon is an improvement for Guerrilla Games, I agree on this.
The Dear Leader
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The thing about art styles is they're subjective.
Jawbreaker
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DieNgamers
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The Banjo games, Perfect Dark and Conker's Bad Fur Day looked great, I still love the style so some of you guys are wrong!
At least these games had character – something that's only slowly creeping back into games this generation. Games like Zelda BotW, Nier:A, Gravity Rush 2 or The Last Guardian are beautiful.
Then there's always your bland hyper realistic tactical shooter or open world game. Even Witcher III doesn't look too hot for me, with the exception of the environments of the Blood & Wine DLC.Those are great!
At least these games had character – something that's only slowly creeping back into games this generation. Games like Zelda BotW, Nier:A, Gravity Rush 2 or The Last Guardian are beautiful.
Then there's always your bland hyper realistic tactical shooter or open world game. Even Witcher III doesn't look too hot for me, with the exception of the environments of the Blood & Wine DLC.Those are great!
dr guildo
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???
dr guildo
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Define "impressive art style", and please, show examples to corroborate your vision of "impressive art style", and why this is impressive where HZD is not according to your standard. Thank you...
dr guildo
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nelsonroyale
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They are hardly just natural scenery. Everything from the lighting, to the landscape composition is tweaked. It is like saying a landscape painting doesn't have art style. Horizon goes for a highly stylized form of realism - hyper realism. In that way, it is similar to the Uncharted series.
dr guildo
Member
This, the way the greenish lighting is overwhelming the forest scenery is just a pure form of art because it doens't exist IRL.
What's wrong with Fast?
dr guildo
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Not only based on preference but also in lack or richeness of references to compare of.
If you are familiar to science fiction movies for instance, I mean, you are a crazy fan of those movies, so you are more competent to talk about art direction in those movies than the one who watched only a few of them, right ?
I mean in movies, tastes are built on experiences too. The more you see, the more you can have elements of comparision, and references to bring face to face.
TheRedSnifit
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Switch exclusive.
pseudocaesar
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If anyone ever tries to argue that an opinion can't be wrong they need only look at the ned's trying to say Horizon looks bland or uninspiring.
This and "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder" are one of the most annoying and persistent thought-terminating clichés. That's why you better avoid the word "art" in the creative business.
Let's rather call it visual design instead of art style, because design is not entirely subjective, there are certain principles to adhere. I would know, because I had to study those for 4 years. :/
You can certainly say if a design is thought-out, is balanced, is coherent, is aesthetic...or if it isn't.
eso76
Member
to an extent.
The thing about art styles is that a lot of people have no clue what they're talking about.
Triggerhappytel
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I really enjoyed the gameplay in Red Faction Guerilla. Just a damn shame so much of the game from the characters, mission design and visuals were so poor and rote.
Yeah, Crysis is at once an incredible game and an incredibly ugly game. Some of the stuff in the first game is crazy beautiful, and I have honestly no idea why they went for the inner-city military installation look in the second game. Haven't even played the third.
Most of that was down to the art style used by the developers though - presumably they were trying to emulate the Gears style? You also had titles like Borderlands, Mirror's Edge and that beautiful Guilty Gear 3D game created using UE3. Heck, even Batman: Arkham Knight, which retains that stocky-character look, but is a bloody gorgeous game.
This is true, so many times I'll see people throw the word bland, uninspired without explaining why
Honestly UC4 outside of character models did not impress me
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