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10 years later, why does this screen look so good?

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Damn.....can u believe that? This shit impresses me more then all the next gen shit we seen. It's not just the graphics too, the sunset, huge forest....makes you just want to explore.

I remember seeing this pic in a magazine after E3 04 and was frozen. Stared at it for a good 10 mins before I dashed home, got money and bought it. Man that was a bomb ass issue. Zelda, pikmin 2, star fox assault, paper mario, donkey kong jungle beats, Geist, resident evil 4. Bare shit.

If Zelda u can look like this then that's me satisfied. What do u manz think of this image?

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At first, I thought it was Shadow of the Colossus, then I saw the dogs and said, "SotC had dogs?!" Didn't notice Link until after all of that.
 
I know a lot of you are giving the OP shit for this, and rightly so, but I honestly don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the way Twilight Princess looks, and it still has some nice graphics even for today (especially if you run it on an emulator in higher resolution):

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Obviously as with any other game, it's a product of its time, but I think it stands the test of time well compared to many other games.
 
Damn.....can u believe that? This shit impresses me more then all the next gen shit we seen. It's not just the graphics too, the sunset, huge forest....makes you just want to explore.

You're imagining things. What sunset? What huge forest? I see neither of those things.
 
I remember being hugely impressed with it back then, with all the early footage and screenshots we saw of it, but as it came closer to launch it just started looking old. As it released at launch with the Wii, it had to contend with 360 and PS3 games... if it had not been delayed a year it would've been fine, but it was and by then we'd seen far more impressive stuff, and Twilight Princess just looked... dull.

Anyway, you can't talk about Twilight Princess without linking to the greatest reveal reaction video of all time.
 
The picture in the OP still looks great atmospherically. It and a lot of the other early Twilight Princess screenshots get at the heart of why a lot of people play Zelda.

It's a player character on a horse in the middle of a mysterious forest with sunlight creeping in through the trees. It looks like the kind of place you want to explore. Shadow of the Colossus is probably the only game that evokes the exact same feeling.

You guys are just hung up on tech.
 
Amazing and beautiful but...

Zelda U >>>>> Witcher 3 anyday for me!

Not graphically but as a game!

Anyway. Back to the topic. I'm a huge Zelda fan as you can see from my post above^^. But I even think that screen looks like a Ps2 game.

It's amazing what Nintendo did with the GC hardware, so it makes me more excited to see what they will do with Zelda U!
 
I'm sorry OP, if you think that the low res, pixelated, super compressed, jaggy picture of Zelda is more impressive than Witcher 3 (which you called shit already), Ryse, Killzone SF, Tomb Raider, MGSV, etc. than you're either a troll, someone with glaucoma, or wearing some SERIOUS nostalgia glasses.
 
You're imagining things. What sunset? What huge forest? I see neither of those things.

Exactly. Western photo realistic AAA games do all the work for you, leaving nothing to your imagination. Probably the main reason why I find them visually unappealing, there is no sense of wonder or mystery.
 
Exactly. Western photo realistic AAA games do all the work for you, leaving nothing to your imagination. Probably the main reason why I find them visually unappealing, there is no sense of wonder or mystery.

Thank you. The douchey techno-fetishistic responses in this thread are totally missing the point. Tech in an of itself does not make a scene more evocative, more prone to provoke imagination. What OP was pointing to was the capacity of an image to gesture to the things not shown. But gaming has, from the start, been hijacked by a capitalist desire for "realism" i.e. a fetishistic reproduction of what is, rather than the creation of alterity.
 

Preferred the town shot gif but yeah, Everything about this seems very alive, beautiful and epic. Nothing in that Zelda shot compares by a huge margin. A few trees blocking out distances does not make me want to explore it vs a whole country where you see mountains, towns, farms, forests etc from miles away.
 
Twilight Princess was a muddy, murky, ugly looking game from the day it released.

If you truly believe that looks better than anything we've seen of next gen I really am curious how the world looks through your eyes!
 
I know a lot of you are giving the OP shit for this, and rightly so, but I honestly don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the way Twilight Princess looks, and it still has some nice graphics even for today (especially if you run it on an emulator in higher resolution):

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Obviously as with any other game, it's a product of its time, but I think it stands the test of time well compared to many other games.

Game looks beautiful in a higher resolution. I may not have liked TP all that much, but it did look pretty good at times.
 
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