Anyone noticed how many games are getting anime graphics? Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, Prince of Persia, Street Fighter IV and Afroninja, what's up with that?
I like the style. It's a hell of a lot better than grey, boring photorealism. Give me graphics like in Prince Of Persia and Valkyria Chronicles over those in GTAIV or COD4 any day. The way those games look is just beautiful.
I like the style. It's a hell of a lot better than grey, boring photorealism. Give me graphics like in Prince Of Persia and Valkyria Chronicles over those in GTAIV or COD4 any day. The way those games look is just beautiful. Silent-Hal
i like it both ways some guys just are suited for anime/cartonnish graphics others are suited for photorealism graphics
[QUOTE="Silent-Hal"]I like the style. It's a hell of a lot better than grey, boring photorealism. Give me graphics like in Prince Of Persia and Valkyria Chronicles over those in GTAIV or COD4 any day. The way those games look is just beautiful. NuKkU
i like it both ways some guys just are suited for anime/cartonnish graphics others are suited for photorealism graphics
^Agree, Valkyria was well suited for anime like graphics since it was an anime like tale, Uncharted was an indiana jones like adventure and was perfect for realistic graphics. It depends on the game. The only complain I have with SF IV graphics is Ryu's face, he looks weird, also the new characters have odd designs
[QUOTE="Silent-Hal"]I like the style. It's a hell of a lot better than grey, boring photorealism. Give me graphics like in Prince Of Persia and Valkyria Chronicles over those in GTAIV or COD4 any day. The way those games look is just beautiful. JKusanagi
i like it both ways some guys just are suited for anime/cartonnish graphics others are suited for photorealism graphics
^Agree, Valkyria was well suited for anime like graphics since it was an anime like tale, Uncharted was an indiana jones like adventure and was perfect for realistic graphics. It depends on the game. The only complain I have with SF IV graphics is Ryu's face, he looks weird, also the new characters have odd designs
Uncharted did look gorgeus, but it's look wasn't entirely realistic. Some parts of the game were heavily stylised, especially the character models. I guess you've got to get a decent balance between art and realism, though like you said, some games just fit better with one style than with another.
Anyone noticed how many games are getting anime graphics? Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, Prince of Persia, Street Fighter IV and Afroninja, what's up with that?HarshGamer
You... like it gray? Joking aside, art like anime is not a bad thing. Period.
I think TC is just mad that Prince of Persia looked like the way it did. That game still looks realistic, kinda though, its a weird game.Zidaneski
No, i like it a lot, the others i've mentioned too. I've not said anything bad about the graphics, all i'm saying is, more and more games are designing their games with these kind of graphics.
[QUOTE="Zidaneski"]I think TC is just mad that Prince of Persia looked like the way it did. That game still looks realistic, kinda though, its a weird game.HarshGamer
No, i like it a lot, the others i've mentioned too. I've not said anything bad about the graphics, all i'm saying is, more and more games are designing their games with these kind of graphics. more and more?... 4 games isn't that many.. i mean they're really the first next gen games to have cell shading used effectively.
I hope there are more games that look like Prince of Persia cause it was awesome! Just beat it again today. I would have prefered White Knight Chronicles to be cell-shaded like Dark Cloud 2 but I guess I can hope that Dark Cloud 3 will follow that example.
there are genres/games i would expect to be anime-d up, if you will, and others realistic. i'm not really sure if i can dwell deeper into this discusion because i find that devs do a perfect job deciding how a game should look like (maybe that's just the inner sheep talking,lol, but i'm truthfuly fine with the way things are). I think there exists this balance; a balance i wouldn't change for anything. (if that makes any sense). I never really had a complaint about something like this before, so i don't have a strong opinion on the matter other than "let things be as they are."
Anime graphics are basically reserved for Japanese titles. Plenty of games are Japanese, and many of them you'll find have that anime look and its been happenin since the SNES era...even before. Thing I don't like is when too many Western developers start trying to mimic this art stile hey everyone has a right to use it...but my Sims? C'mon.
Games that have a kinda have a cartony feel to them but at the same time look realistic - like farcry1 or bioshock are probalby what you'd call stylised...either way they're not anime.
Also yeah, stile is spelt wrong...seems gamespot thinks the proper spelling is the s-word. :D
[QUOTE="Zidaneski"]I think TC is just mad that Prince of Persia looked like the way it did. That game still looks realistic, kinda though, its a weird game.HarshGamer
No, i like it a lot, the others i've mentioned too. I've not said anything bad about the graphics, all i'm saying is, more and more games are designing their games with these kind of graphics.
Well, i prefer my gaming world have various graphic style. So far most of them 3D polygon and anime, kinda bored of them now. We need more breath taking photo realistic like Flower and illustration (not anime) like Prince of Persia & Okami.
ok....-_-. whats wrong with cell-shaded grafics. The game actually looks pretty cool. For example, look at No More Heroes for the Wii. That has cell-shaded grafics and it turned out to be a really great game. Now look at Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm. The game looks like a cartoon because it is a cartoon. And yes it would look wierd having realistic looking DBZ characters
A couple of things TC. 1) It's called cell-shading graphics(but now should know that by now from the comments). 2) With the exception of PoP, Afro SAMURAI(not ninja) and Naruto have "anime graphics" because they're games based on the anime shows they come from. Prince of Persia had a more fantasy look to it than it did with regular graphics(and now they're GORGOUS:P). 3) There has been an uprise in cell shading but its not even close to the point where there's too many of them. Like I said, some of the games you listed either A)Needed cel-shading to stay true to the series or B) Wanted to give a different look for it and differentiate itself from other titles. There will be games that use cel-shading but they will also take advantage of the next gen(or current gen) hardware it's placed on(like Ultimate Ninja Storm).
P.S. Street Fighter tried to look more realistic. Here's the results: http://psx.ign.com/objects/005/005886.html Do you really want the game to look more realistic?
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