Meccanical
Member
I always thought those were pine cones.
But yeah they are apparently intercoms.
But yeah they are apparently intercoms.
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Visuals that just don't quite click
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Confidence Man
Member
While I appreciate the art as good art, it doesn't click with me. It doesn't make want to play the game, there's just something about it which I can't put my finger on.
Bastion's environments are like this character's aesthetic applied to world design.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I can't find pictures of it, but from most perspectives, Chase's (Uncharted Vita) triceps (which is just a texture) looks like mud. For around half the game I was wondering, why she always was muddy on her arms, only form some certain perspectives it looked like this texture should model a triceps and it took this long for me to realize ^^.
You mean the paper filter? That's kind of essential to the artstyle. Like, it's a completely different look without it. The whole point is that it looks like an old Japanese painting. You remove the filter and it just looks like a stylised 3D environment, nothing special.that fuzzy smear all over Okami that does not allow me to see the art.
Would be like wanting to turn off the dynamic lighting in Doom 3 so you could better appreciate the art. Or removing the colour red from Mario.
Phonomezer
Banned
Anything designed by Nomura.
Flachmatuch
Member
Absolutely not. The "paper filter" just makes the whole game look blurry, not like paper. And the idea that the art is nothing special without the paper filter is quite silly.
Max Payne's face in Max Payne 1.
For some reason I HATED Crysis 2's visuals. I played the beta and did not like the way the game looked.
Can't really say why. I think it was the brightness maybe... something like that.
Didn't like Blacklight: Tango Downs art style either. It was super bland and gray, and everything was made really grainy and the whole interference/blue screen of death/static effects they had when taking damage were annoying.
Single player graphics are amazing.
Agree 100%; even some Kingdom Hearts-like stylization would have been better than the realistic approach they went with. And I say this as someone that mostly enjoyed the game.
Conciliator
Banned
Most recently, Kingdoms of Amalur's visuals really hurt me. It's an imitation of successful visuals without any personality of its own. Some of the monsters look OK, but that's it...world design and character models are as bland at calculated as they could be.
Beyond that, to name something I'm sure I'm not alone on...Zynga style graphics are hellish(like Farmville, for example). They're so dispassionate they make Kingdoms of Amular look like Bayonetta.
Beyond that, to name something I'm sure I'm not alone on...Zynga style graphics are hellish(like Farmville, for example). They're so dispassionate they make Kingdoms of Amular look like Bayonetta.
petethepanda
Member
It's like they set out to emulate Curse of Monkey Island's fucking incredible art style and somehow managed to fail in every way.
To me that emulated screenshot looks like a lifeless, glossy pseudo-Japanese comic book. Something from UDON or whoever. As intended it's gauzy and pastoral and yes, it does at least look like traditional Japanese art in the vein of Hokusai if not "like paper."
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
How don't you see an intercom?
Meccanical
Member
sixteen-bit
Member
The Mass Effect 3 TV commercial suffers from the ugliest uncanny valley ever.
Sorry, I phrased it rather poorly. What I meant to say was that the everything about the story and characters in 13 felt like "googly-eye anime" (for lack of a better term) and that it clashed with the choice in graphics and art style.
The typical dudebro shooter graphics never clicked for me of course, but that's a given.
Hate the "UE3" look, especially when everything has an excess of bloom and pissfilter, and characters lack hair.
I normally like games with lots of color, but the World of Warcraft artstyle looks really weird and ugly to me. Characters have these strange proportions and stances, and the color palette isn't cohesive at all. It's just hard to put into words why it doesn't work for me.
Hate the "UE3" look, especially when everything has an excess of bloom and pissfilter, and characters lack hair.
I normally like games with lots of color, but the World of Warcraft artstyle looks really weird and ugly to me. Characters have these strange proportions and stances, and the color palette isn't cohesive at all. It's just hard to put into words why it doesn't work for me.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Epic Mickey
I loved Mickey and Oswald's animation and design so much but it clashed considerably with the bland, uninspired levels. I know it's supposed to be dark and drab and gloomy but Banjo Kazooie did that shit properly with a lot less.
The pallete is just sort of all over the place. Skies are piss yellow. Everything is soft and muted. It congeals into an ugly mess.
Ultimately, instead of being grim and dystopian, it just looks unrefined on multiple levels.
I loved Mickey and Oswald's animation and design so much but it clashed considerably with the bland, uninspired levels. I know it's supposed to be dark and drab and gloomy but Banjo Kazooie did that shit properly with a lot less.
The pallete is just sort of all over the place. Skies are piss yellow. Everything is soft and muted. It congeals into an ugly mess.
Ultimately, instead of being grim and dystopian, it just looks unrefined on multiple levels.
Shadow Hog
Member
Specifically, what bothered me with this one was Guybrush's hair. Just what the heck did they do to it? The way it comes off of his forehead looks so unnatural that it almost comes off as a bad wig - the original graphics didn't have this problem at all.
It's like they set out to emulate Curse of Monkey Island's fucking incredible art style and somehow managed to fail in every way.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Special Edition was better about this, fortunately, but admittedly I've been playing through that with the original graphics instead.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Snkfanatic
Banned
Can't agree with this at all, I love BF3's style and I am one of the few people that think the dirty camera look adds to the atmosphere of the game.
"What's that smell??"
Android18a
Member
Star Ocean 4's Edge:
These kind of looked like Marionettes to me. In cutscenes, it's like watching a Gerry Anderson puppet show. There's just something weird about the visuals in this game. Kay.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Crysis 2.
Hold on, hold on. Don't lynch me yet. I am perfectly aware of how excellent it is technically, but 2 things grate to a degree that ends up with me not liking the visuals.
1. The insistence on having to use a post process AA filter if you want to use DX11. Fuck that noise. And specifically fuck its ability to ruin any high res texture.
2. The overall picture quality. This is super hard to put my finger on. Look at the below:
I think it's the way in which things lose their detail in the distance. It could be an LOD issue and partly be related to the FXAA I've applied. But it's grainy, smudgy and just looks wrong.
Overall I prefer the look of Crysis. The image is more... consistent? I dunno:
Hold on, hold on. Don't lynch me yet. I am perfectly aware of how excellent it is technically, but 2 things grate to a degree that ends up with me not liking the visuals.
1. The insistence on having to use a post process AA filter if you want to use DX11. Fuck that noise. And specifically fuck its ability to ruin any high res texture.
2. The overall picture quality. This is super hard to put my finger on. Look at the below:
I think it's the way in which things lose their detail in the distance. It could be an LOD issue and partly be related to the FXAA I've applied. But it's grainy, smudgy and just looks wrong.
Overall I prefer the look of Crysis. The image is more... consistent? I dunno:
The biggest problem with Crysis is the hideous sickly-looking color filter.Crysis 2.
Hold on, hold on. Don't lynch me yet. I am perfectly aware of how excellent it is technically, but 2 things grate to a degree that ends up with me not liking the visuals.
1. The insistence on having to use a post process AA filter if you want to use DX11. Fuck that noise. And specifically fuck its ability to ruin any high res texture.
2. The overall picture quality. This is super hard to put my finger on. Look at the below:
I think it's the way in which things lose their detail in the distance. It could be an LOD issue and partly be related to the FXAA I've applied. But it's grainy, smudgy and just looks wrong.
Overall I prefer the look of Crysis. The image is more... consistent? I dunno:
Almost ruins the game.
Color filters are ruining gaming.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Crysis or Crysis 2? I find Crysis 2 hits you with a number of filters throughout the game.
I've also noticed Crysis 2 is stylistically different to Crysis in a way that doesn't quite sit right with me. Half movie realism, half cartoon.
petethepanda
Member
Agreed, LeChuck's Revenge SE's new artwork was a huge improvement over Secret's. It actually matches / compliments the original style.
HyperBitHero
Member
I agree with Okami.
Frankenstrat
Member
Some hair in UE3
Meccanical
Member
The art style of Star Fox Command was awful.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Problem with SO4 models is the awful facial animation, same happens with RoF. Models looks ok to me.
boiled goose
good with gravy
humans in MP3. Hideous. Definitely one of Retro's weaknesses regarding visuals.
bioshock. Why are people made out of shiny platic?
bioshock. Why are people made out of shiny platic?
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
I can't believe I ever got used to Falco's enlargened forehead, which he's sported since Assault. Thing was borked over!
The art style of Star Fox Command was awful.
For that matter: Link's lips in Skyward Sword are nightmare fuel. Irksome every time I see them, and all they do is make him look like Michael Jackson.
That's just the bulky armor they're wearing. They look like normal people without it.
Frankenstrat
Member
^ UE3 game and with best hair in any video game/engine ever.
FUCK
I forgot about alice
Ok, hair in Mass Effect series
sixteen-bit
Member
Not really
chickdigger802
Banned
oh yeah. The visuals of the 999 sequel. They went from awesome 2d sprites to barbie plastic 3d models.
Theonik
Member
The picture is actually on Remedy's site and is hidden on Alan Wake in the form of QR code on one of the walls
Max Payne's face in Max Payne 1.
Looks like Tim Tebow.
How? Oblivion was awesome. Sure it was really bright - but it didn't seem off at all.
So far the only post I agree with is the Fire Emblem post. Those character animations are pretty awful.