RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Game is still absolutely stunning! I will happily get this again for the improvements!
New Zelda Wind Waker HD videos
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Projectjustice
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Exactly, it cant be compared 100% to real life.
Ok, this looks seriously incredible.
I feel really bad for the people that dislike the new look, but as far as im concerned this is a million things better. Can't wait for the 20th.
Edit: I think the crispness of the colors is noticeably more appealing. I also love the distinct change of shade between the ocean and the sky, and how natural the lighting blends and inclusion of shadows. Looks more alive and vibrant than ever.
I feel really bad for the people that dislike the new look, but as far as im concerned this is a million things better. Can't wait for the 20th.
Edit: I think the crispness of the colors is noticeably more appealing. I also love the distinct change of shade between the ocean and the sky, and how natural the lighting blends and inclusion of shadows. Looks more alive and vibrant than ever.
Jaded Alyx
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I'm in the Caribbean right now, and as much as I like how the game looks, the bloom or whatever you want to call it is exaggerated. It does however succeed in giving the game the proper atmosphere and feel.
wait are you saying it looks like real life or not? lol
this seems like you want to be on both sides of the argument haha
Sounds good! I'll keep your offer in mind as I plot a cross-country tour visiting my fellow GAF members. (Half-serious, but man that would be fun)
Game looks fantastic, but I can understand the complaints about the bloom... It is a little overdone in parts but I think Nintendo were really trying to nail the "beach sunlight" look for this. They succeed in some areas and fail in others, hopefully like some other posters mentioned already there is a slider option for the bloom.
Projectjustice
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WW isnt emulating real life due to artistic style. However, the setting is that of a tropical island in nature and the GCN version it never gave me that sense of a hot bright tropical day. This does and it brings me back to when I used to live there. I used to go a lot to Boca Chica beach, look up it up if you like. On a good sunny summer day its bright and hot and thats the feeling I get when I look at these Wii U screen shots and videos.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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This. It is obviously exaggerated, but it goes well with the proposal. It will probably be nice to, after you spent an hour or so crawling inside a dark dungeon, come out and see the sun shinning outside in contrast.
Them clouds.
Can agree with this.
Doctor Decimate
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only complaint i have about the lighting is how stuff looks kinda weird indoors. they look more solid or something. not sure how to describe it, but it looks a little cheap.
plagiarize
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Carpe Libertatem
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This is not an argument but I'm glad you have stated your position for the record. I have inscribed it on the universal book of records for safe keeping.
mugurumakensei
Member
Game looks beautiful.
Oh man, that DOF filter was weird. Always aggravated me on Windfall.
...it -is- gone in the HD version, right?
plagiarize
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It wasn't an argument. It was a narrative. A FACTUAL ONE.
look at Xaz's screenshots.
yes... it is gone.
KillerTravis
Banned
Like we are in this forum to not express opinions.
Yes. It is gone. Praise the sun.
They're actually all about making the Zelda games have a sense of realism and to suck you in and feel like you're really there. Miyamoto focused on it at one of his GDC speeches. They just don't try to make it realistic.
For some odd reason the bloom in Outset Island is particularly...much, but then in some similarly sunny places like Windfall it's fine for the most part.
Also odd is that Link looks like a clay model in a few shots (most notably in darker areas/scene), but then looks like his old model but better in others. It might be perspective though.
Also odd is that Link looks like a clay model in a few shots (most notably in darker areas/scene), but then looks like his old model but better in others. It might be perspective though.
The_Joker1721
Member
Game looks great. Can't wait gonna download it as soon as its available.
I don't know why you thought my comment was saying otherwise, but i wasn't mocking his opinion, merely implying through a lame joke that it does not further the discussion we're having, since he quoted me.
Mango The Magician
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I'm curious what a Twilight princess remaster would look like on the Wii U. There's a lot of holes and bugs in that game that would benefit from a remaster, I kinda want one now. Also Roalgoal + Gyroscope. ;P Regardless though this looks great.
Vire
Member
16:9 really helps this game a lot. Is this game native 1080p or 720p?
Looks very crisp eitherway.
What the -- did you shop this?
Nibel did.
Native 1080p, apparently. Still 30 fps, though -- probably because the animations were synced accordingly. No biggie, though -- will look hella crisp, all uncompressed on an HDTV.
Ah, OK.
mugurumakensei
Member
1080p/30fps
plagiarize
Banned
The discussion about whether or not Wind Waker is trying to look like a realistic depiction of a sunny day, or a stylized one? Neither looks realistic. One looks sunnier and doesn't have a hideous DOF filter all over everything more than ten feet away. I go with that one.
Realism be damned. Sunny and inviting be praised. You said it looks best on a clear canvas, and the HD canvas without all the crap DOF is MUCH MUCH clearer. That is not debatable, or opinion.
Jaded Alyx
Member
I took this pic the other day..I don't know if this qualifies as an "irradiated wasteland of light" or not 
Bluemercury
Member
Just lol.
1080p 30 fps.
Well there are multiple tendrils to the discussion, part of it being a discussion of how accurate the bloom is to real life (seems we agree on there), another part of it being whether this 'stylized' bloom fits in with the original game's wickedly original art style.
This third discussion started by you is about the original game having a weird vaseline DOF filter (true) and thinking the bloom is superior. I am not sure why the trade off would be one ugly thing for another ugly thing, but I prefer the original because it allows the full range of the primary colors to come through and doesn't have that washed out look.
Once this HD remaster goes indoors or the game is at night, of course, all meaningful comparisons very well end: this HD Remaster obviously massacres the original from that point on.
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