RoadHazard
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The latter would be awesome, but the former just seems much more likely.
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New The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild screenshots from now until launch
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The latter would be awesome, but the former just seems much more likely.
Team Alucard
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I loved the enemy and environmental design (barring some ugly n64 quality textures).
It was the character design for everyone not Link/Zelda/Ganondorf that was a total eyesore.
TheMagician
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l can say is it looks great in the direct DF footage.
It would be so amazing to have interactive seasons again.
Lately I felt it should return as it gave Oracle of Seasons such a nice mood.
I don't think there's going to be seasons. It'd be lovely, I love the autumn look in that shot and it'd be great to have any area transform to such a look during the appropriate season, but we've already seen a snow area when the game was shown off at E3. I really think it's just going to be areas.
Sorry, but I don't get why people keep bringing the colour pallete up. It's clearly a stylistic choice. They've mentioned they're inspired by gouache art and it reflects just that
I'm all for bright and saturated colour palettes too, but lower saturation doesn't equal bad and it really weirds me out how people seem to think it does. It's totally fine if it's not your preference, but it's still a legitimate art direction choice
Sorry, but I don't get why people keep bringing the colour pallete up. It's clearly a stylistic choice. They've mentioned they're inspired by gouache art and it reflects just that
I'm all for bright and saturated colour palettes too, but lower saturation doesn't equal bad and it really weirds me out how people seem to think it does. It's totally fine if it's not your preference, but it's still a legitimate art direction choice
Joeshabadoo
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its important for people to understand that time of day/weather drastically effect how this game's art/world comes through and is presented to the player (for better or for worse)
here's a quick grab of the game to match that initial e3 2014 reveal in the ways you're describing:
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EatChildren
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There is almost nothing appealing to me about the chosen image. Not negatively appealing, but even based on the footage we've seen so far it's such a nothing screenshot. Exceedingly average on a technical level, and artistically not a particularly astounding or emotionally evoking vista. A bunch of low res shitty treetops (and not that many at that), flat hill hidden in the distance, and shit rock textures.
Link's shield looks dope though so I'll give it that.
Kinda thinking it's time for a blackout on this game though. As much as I love Zelda, Nintendo has proven to be utterly abhorrent at respecting their own games in pre-release media and have a shocking tendency to spoil huge chunks of them. I feel with Breath of the Wild more than anything the sense of discovery and wonder is paramount to everything else; to wander into a wilderness you know nothing about. And while I don't really care what others do, I really, truly feel in this case my experience with this game will be significantly enhanced by seeing and knowing as little as possible about the world itself from hereon out.
So consider this a shitpost and a tap out.
Link's shield looks dope though so I'll give it that.
Kinda thinking it's time for a blackout on this game though. As much as I love Zelda, Nintendo has proven to be utterly abhorrent at respecting their own games in pre-release media and have a shocking tendency to spoil huge chunks of them. I feel with Breath of the Wild more than anything the sense of discovery and wonder is paramount to everything else; to wander into a wilderness you know nothing about. And while I don't really care what others do, I really, truly feel in this case my experience with this game will be significantly enhanced by seeing and knowing as little as possible about the world itself from hereon out.
So consider this a shitpost and a tap out.
Retromelon
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You could have just said botw isn't presented in its best light by this image, but no, you had to make a sweeping generalization about all console zelda games being vaguely repressed somehow, like the gamecube and n64 were underpowered systems. Such a shame, really!
Nah, it's true. They always have these big ideas on what this new Zelda game should be like, but end up having to do significant trade-offs because of the hardware.
At least they nailed the art style in OoT/MM 3D, WW HD, SS, and now BotW.
Imo this looks already dated
I don't care for cutting edge technology and Nintendo are wizards of making beatiful games from weak tech but this screenshot looks meh. Hope it won't feel the same when I will be playing.
If fairness, this is a particularly bad looking screenshot.
Here's one where the game actually looks good.
Nintendo needs to do at some point an open world game where Zelda team designs the characters and Monolith Soft designs all the environments and fauna and flora.
Is that an actual screenshot though? The name says artwork and there are no jaggies and we have seen how many jaggies there are in the game, at least on Wii U.
Is that an actual screenshot though? The name says artwork and there are no jaggies and we have seen how many jaggies there are in the game, at least on Wii U.
If you ignore the trees, sure.
Shit, good question. It does look better than most in-game screens, but artwork is usually a lot more distinct looking.
That's a downsampled high-res in-engine screenshot.
It looks like a screenshot but rendered in higher resolution than what we will be actually getting and yes, this one looks great.
Yeah, that makes sense.
PancakeBurglar
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Looks great!! Love the fall colors. I hope this is something we can expect daily until launch.
Joeshabadoo
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some textures have been lovingly crafted, others def not (yes, certainly a conceit required to get a game of this scale with all these layered systems running on Wii U tech). The hope is that we'll have enough grass with random floral spicing that is being effected by the natural elements and link's movement, swaying, to render on top of the lower res textures and hide the rougher edges. And also that said grass is loaded in to the game world with fairly decent draw distance.
This screen shows that these less flattering sections/textures wont always be well disguised, but it should not be taken as an indicator of color saturation seen throughout much of the game
It's not about competing with Sony and MS. It's about having some consistency in the environment. Not having these kind of very poor textures in a game that otherwise is pretty great looking. You can blame the aliasing on the performance, but these kind of textures that seems to be out of Twilight Princess is just cutting corners.
In terms of art style and colors it's a nice looking game but techniclly you can see it's far maybe even generation behind what comes out now like FFXV or Horizon.
Edit:
It just dawned on me. This game would really benefit from HDR.
ReyVGM
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What do mean they "always" show tech demos? They have only done Zelda tech demos 3 times, and out of those, Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess ended up looking miles better than the tech demo.
So 3 demos out of 15+ games, 2 of which looked worse than the actual game release is "always"?
playingwithfire
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Ok but I'd rather explore the Hyrulian landscape for myself, and not via unflattering lo res screenshots.
I would say that even Breath of the Wild looks way better than the TP-style tech demo we saw for Wii U.
Diprosalic
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The recent backlash against this game is interesting. At e3 everyone was all in and now it seems like it's quite hated.
I'm still in, can't wait to play it in 3 months time.
I'm still in, can't wait to play it in 3 months time.
Screamapillar
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I'll have to rely on gaf and gamexplain, as I hate Facebook and intentionally dont have it installed on my phone
Same here this is my dream game a huge open world Zelda game after Ganon wins.
Artstyle looks very cool imo and it depends on the time of day how it looks. Nintendo should show more daytime screens. The textures might be bad but i rather have that and a huge world to get lost in than Wii U tech demo and a small/medium sized world. The artstyle also masks it pretty well just like with wind waker, it's only noticeable in screenshots to me in gameplay videos i don't even notice it.
It's gonna be a blast don't worry people!
I'm certain the backlashers are not the same people who praised it lol
You know that there is a large range of emotions between all in and hated, right? Do you know that criticising some aspect of something is not equal to hate? Do you know that one can enjoy a game even if one criticise some aspects of said game, right?
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