New Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 screenshots: Now with cel-shading!

Initially I thought they were deliberately going for sort of a faux PSX/PS2 look, but now I have no idea what they're doing.
 
hold up!
I just saw the Unreal Engine Gamescom Sizzle Reel and lo and behold Tony Hawks Pro Skater shows up, so that game uses Unreal Engine 4.

lol I mean that engine is pretty spectacular by default and they manage to make it look dull like that.
 
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This one got me well done.
 
There is no way the game can provide me with as much entertainment as this thread.

Tony hawk as a brand was already dead. They are just digging up the corpse and pissing on it at this point.
 
The game actually isn't cel-shaded (at least it doesn't look like it). Cel-shading refers to flat shading with sharp "steps" of light and shadow rather than a smooth transition between them. It can be outlined or not, but the outlining itself isn't cel-shading. This just has poor outlined character models with poor textures and poor lighting.

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The game actually isn't cel-shaded (at least it doesn't look like it). Cel-shading refers to flat shading with sharp "steps" of light and shadow rather than a smooth transition between them. It can be outlined or not, but the outlining itself isn't cel-shading. This just has poor outlined character models with poor textures and poor lighting.

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I mean, obviously this is nowhere near the gorgeous art of Jet Set Radio or XIII, but that's obvious because this is just a rush job by Activision and Robomodo to cover up the shitty visuals.
 
The game actually isn't cel-shaded (at least it doesn't look like it). Cel-shading refers to flat shading with sharp "steps" of light and shadow rather than a smooth transition between them. It can be outlined or not, but the outlining itself isn't cel-shading. This just has poor outlined character models with poor textures and poor lighting.

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Yeah, it doesn;y have banded shadows like cell animation. But there does seem to be some sort of high contract/ posterization filter applied to the models to give them a weird paper cutout look.
 
Yeah, it doesn;y have banded shadows like cell animation. But there does seem to be some sort of high contract/ posterization filter applied to the models to give them a weird paper cutout look.

They've always looked like that. Even in the first batch of shots the characters didn't look like they were part of the same environment
 
They've always looked like that. Even in the first batch of shots the characters didn't look like they were part of the same environment

I dunno, maybe it is just the lighting, but the textures look altered to me.

Here's a screengrab from an older version of the game:


It is still the same model. But the pant texture looks different and the skin tones have been pumped up to show more red and yellow pigment. It looks like they turned up the contrast on the textures to me and sharpened up the blacks.

I'm not going to split too many hairs though. The game still looks pretty bad either way.
 
I personally thought the graphics were lacking and need something (anything), but after seeing these I know it wasn't this.
 
I personally thought the graphics were lacking and need something (anything), but after seeing these I know it wasn't this.

Looks like they were trying to do what Gearbox did with Borderlands. That looked terrible too so it's not a big surprise.
 
The Last Tony Hawk

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Oh my god, you beautiful bastards! I'm literally crying with laughter. I fucking love these topics on Gaf so much.

Save us EA. You're our only hope.

Seriously though; EA fucked Skate so thoroughly and so quickly. They should make a new one and make PewDiePie a playable character. That would probably sell a shit load of copies, and as long as they kept the gameplay intact most original series fans wouldn't really mind if it meant a new Skate.
 
I'm liking the colors in this level.

Take 2 should really bring back Thrasher: Skate and Destroy.
I recently bought both Thrasher: Skate and Destroy and the first Grind Session. Neither one was really good I'm sad to say. But maybe if they were updated they could be.
 
I'm kinda sold on the game after watching that. The art style looks fine in motion.

The black outlines really aren't nearly as noticeable. They should've just released footage rather screenshots. The screenshots are terrible while it looks fine in motion.
 
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