Nah, I think you should just never think about Zelda again, leave it for people without shit taste.I'm sick of the cartoony crap also, give me realistic. I'd like to play a darker Zelda game too, think Zelda Universe but designed like the Gears of War universe. Totally reboot Zelda, it's time.
Yes. Kena looked just gorgeous and probably with a reasonable budget as well. Something Nintendo should easily be able to do. Zelda does not look awesome not even interesting at all since forever.
They were highly limited by the hardware. But it's definitely not cell shaded. It's as realistic (and mature) as they could back then.OoT looks realistic?
The graphics are so atrocious you couldn't tell what kind of art style they were going for.
Honestly it's not, it's very cartoony, look at the character designs. Look at the Stalchilds for instance. Zelda games are Anime and Cartoony.They were highly limited by the hardware. But it's definitely not cell shaded. It's as realistic (and mature) as they could back then.
Same creator made a snippit of the game Ghibli style and to be honest it really fits.
Practically FROM software took that very unfulfilled promise and made an empire with it. People want that style of adventure game very much.
And yes, Wind Waker was an insult to the fanbase, I'm still furious over it and what it did to Zelda.
Nope. BOTW was the perfect color palette and style for Zelda going forward.
Realistic games look ugly, noisy, and flawed since they are trying to look real.
Your opinion. Every screenshot of it looks boring and bland to me. Some artwork though, those are often great, if they could make the painted look, with brush strokes, for their game graphics, a bit like 11-11 memories retold, that might look cool. I don't even like Okami overall but it looks still much better or the minimalistic Wind Waker looks also better because its simple style works well. The recent Zeldas just dialed Wind Waker to the max with much more objects and detail but the same flat rendering then just looks cheap, dated and kinda even stylefree.ToTK is one of the most visually appealing games out there.
Same creator made a snippit of the game Ghibli style and to be honest it really fits.
Twilight Princess was peak Zelda, mature and good graphics, good times
I want souls-like Zelda game
If 20 people can make biomutant to look like this on a ps4, it is definitely not an hardware thing, sw2 is more powerfull than a ps4 on paper.Realistic? On Nintendo hardware?
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Exactly, Zelda games should be a showcase in visual and game design.100%. At least one mature, realistic-looking, 18+ Zelda game would bring a new group of adult gamers to this franchise and help it grow. It would be a cool experiment as well.
But I think it runs into hardware limitations, which is why Zelda (and other Nintendo) games are still cartoonish-looking as those graphics age better and are easier to scale as well.
It's a shame that a legendary franchise like Zelda still does not look as good as AA games by first-time studios like Kena.
Pikmin? Xenoblade? Bayonetta if you count that?Although I agree that at least one Nintendo franchise should try and go for realism in art style.
A Zelda game with an Elden Ring type setting, would do huge numbers.I want souls-like Zelda game
Nintendo has gone for realism in the past, they just chose to stop pursuing it once games got more costly to make.Why the the fuck would I want that? Fuck no!
I like Nintendo game because they are not going for realism.
You have plenty of games trying to look realistic, Zelda is going for more of a fairy tale thing and that's fine, it's unique.
I remember a quarter century ago when Nintendo lied and told us we'd get Zelda graphics like this:
But instead we got
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The Zelda universe could be so much more, if people held Nintendo accountable.I'm sick of the cartoony crap also, give me realistic. I'd like to play a darker Zelda game too, think Zelda Universe but designed like the Gears of War universe. Totally reboot Zelda, it's time.
EmbarrassingI'm sick of the cartoony crap also, give me realistic. I'd like to play a darker Zelda game too, think Zelda Universe but designed like the Gears of War universe. Totally reboot Zelda, it's time.
The darker direction was the right direction to take.It had good dungeon design but I disagree with everything else. In fact this game me doing things like leaving saves at the start of dungeons so I could replay them without ever having to deal with the rest of the game ever again. The graphics were actively ugly and the tryhard maturity (LOOK HOW DARK I AM NOT WINDWAKER) was eye rolling. Said as someone who resented Wind Waker. I'm glad some people can enjoy it though, I just can't. And I really really tried, and bought it twice on both GC and Wii back then.
Why don't you understand that games can have realistic art styles, and STILL retain creativity and artistic vision?What is it with gamers and their obsession with realism? Fuck creativity or artistic vision right?
It's fucking Zelda.
I've been wanting a Twilight Princess remake closer to the manga ever since I've read it. Thing is dark.A Zelda game with an Elden Ring type setting, would do huge numbers.
The art style is part of the creativity and artistic vision. Realism is not some ideal to be targeted.Why don't you understand that games can have realistic art styles, and STILL retain creativity and artistic vision?
You guys let Nintendo get away with the bare minimum.
Nintendo apologists.