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[Loxley]

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?

 

[botty]

Maybe this guy just woke up after a long coma and hasn't seen Final Fantasy XV.

 

[SeventhSon]

Dude, that man is Metroid, the space robot.

Do you mean Halo, the green robot with the blue compute girlfriend?

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

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.

 

[GuessWho]

Ok this is amazing LOL

 

[Uncle Rupee]

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.

 

[akachan ningen]

The only thing that looks good is your eye doctor's paycheck.

 

[Creaking]

This looks shit :lol

Are you serious?


EDIT: not bad actually but far from impressive

That's all we needed to know.

we all know what needs to be done here..

Better yet

 

[plagiarize]

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.

 

[Entrecôte]

 

[Epcott]

Suprised not one person thinks it looks good.....

It does...









as a GCN game.

 

[Herne]

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.

 

[Phediuk]

Even when Twilight Princess was first revealed in 2004 I thought the textures looked bad.

 

[cheststrongwell]

Pffff, looks like a PS2 game.

 

[LiK]

It doesn't.

correct

 

[Creaking]

I do have to ask why the horse is so smoky.

 

[jim2point0]

I do have to ask why the horse is so smoky.

It's exhaust. From the tail pipe.

 

[DryvBy]

Looks like it's been reuploaded to Imgur a bajillion times. Got anything less compressed and artifacted?

Not compressed enough. Try making saving it in MS Paint a few more dozen times.

 

[RedSwirl]

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.

 

[jaxword]

Final Fantasy 6 looks better than every game since!

 

[jello44]

It's FreeMufasa, probably.

Pretty much this.

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

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!

 

[LookAtMeGo]

I do have to ask why the horse is so smoky.

Hes exhaust-ed... hyuck hyuck
edit : beaten

 

[fredrancour]

Damn I need to give TP a second runthrough. Holy crap has it really been 7 years....

 

[ChosenPredator]

when I see that and the metal gear solid one...I just think what rockstar will do with red dead redemption 2..it makes me tear in joy.

 

[Akahige]

I'm so confused but this thread.

 

[MormaPope]

 

[CaptainSlow]

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.

 

[dragonbane]

Damn I need to give TP a second runthrough. Holy crap has it really been 7 years....

Time to watch speedruns. Super fun. Rage inducing too.

 

[Daingurse]

Not seeing it OP, lol. Looks pretty bad to me.

 

[Tuck]

It really doesn't.

Plus the game itself didn't even live up to the image in the OP...

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

This x1000. Play more games (or more consoles) OP.

 

[Dr.Acula]

Why does this screen look so good?

 

[Roshin]

Zelda U >>>>> Witcher 3 anyday for me! Not graphically but as a game!

So how was The Witcher 3, then?

 

[BaloneyFraise]

 

[Ansatz]

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.

 

[somuchwater]

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.

 

[-Deimos]

That's terrible. Look at the textures they're like from 1999 and that soldier has like 2 polygons in his whole body.

 

[Seance]

This looks shit :lol

Are you serious?


EDIT: not bad actually but far from impressive

lmao

 

[Jigorath]

I think OP forgot what year it was.

 

[Arondight]

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.

 

[todd360]

Maybe this guy just woke up after a long coma and hasn't seen Final Fantasy XV.

I have been in a coma for 6 years. Has Final Fantasy 13 versus come out yet?

 

[TetraGenesis]

Uh-oh. Thread backfire. Sorry, OP.

 

[CrimsonCrescendo]

I have been in a coma for 6 years. Has Final Fantasy 13 versus come out yet?

Versus XIII is XV.

 

[TheJerit]

That's all we needed to know.



Better yet

where has this been all my life??!!!

 

[Seance]

This thread isn't for real though is it? Least OP has to be drunk or something.

 

[todd360]

Versus XIII is XV.

whaaaaaaaaaaatttttttt??????? man I missed so much in my 6 year coma.

 

[Poimandres]

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!

 

[botty]

I have been in a coma for 6 years. Has Final Fantasy 13 versus come out yet?

Perfection takes time.

 

[LordGouda]

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):

Gallery (beware of spoilers)

Some selections:

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.