Hardware graphics don't matter. Art style does.

I think my hair matters?

i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.whoisryanmack

Are you a wii owner, future owner or pissed off fanboy? Ihellzhitman

[QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.magus-21

[QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.magus-21

I actually partially agree.  A great example of your statement:  Okami

[QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.whoisryanmack

I think my hair matters?

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[QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.htekemerald

[QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.magus-21

[QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.whoisryanmack

Dude, you obviously are very uneducated in this field. Art styles are only necessary in games like Zelda and WoW, because actual polygon counts and hi-res textures are out of the question. A game like Crysis is a game that takes place in very realistic environments, and when they (devs) increase polygon counts and resolutions, all they can do is make the game more immersive, making the player feel like he/she is in a warzone.

The exception: games like GeOW and the Halo series. They both contain phenomenal, system-pushing graphics, and also contain great art design. These visual styles combine the realistic and the not-so realistic, and when tech-specs meet art, the game absolutely thrives.

Games like Halo and GeOW will never, ever work on the Wii, nor will devs like
Blizzard ever make games like that, because they lack the power. Blizaard makes exceptionally good cinematics, it's just a shame that they spend all of their time making the movies and not making their games look pretty.

This is just a dumb comparison. :| Hardware will give the devs power to express ideas and thoughts, but it's not the only limiting facotr to a game or anything. Art styles are purely personal preferences. What may be a "great" art style to you, could be a crappy one to another. Some are agreed to be, some are not. But art is just expression, it may not be as good to anothers art, but then again it may have a different art style too. yoshi_64

[QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.magus-21

A true masterpiece combines both forms of graphical beauty. Gears of War combined art with technical power. Beautiful masterpieces of artwork, massive ivory statues lay in rubble on the ground as monsters paraded over them. While playing it felt like it was more than an above average looking game with only technical power. Statues and pillars of art crumbled around me as I spent a whole magazine on a Locust Boomer and rockets flew over my head and created massive explosions and kicked up dirt and dust into the air. Pillars and buildings that once stood as a testimony to the art and world of Sera toppled over as an emergence hole opened up, and Locust poored out. Textures made designs on the walls look better, extra hardware made everything look more alive.

Dude, you obviously are very uneducated in this field. Art styles are only necessary in games like Zelda and WoW, because actual polygon counts and hi-res textures are out of the question. A game like Crysis is a game that takes place in very realistic environments, and when they (devs) increase polygon counts and resolutions, all they can do is make the game more immersive, making the player feel like he/she is in a warzone.pyoob

These visual styles combine the realistic and the not-so realistic, and when tech-specs meet art, the game absolutely thrives.pyoob

But what about those games that have both? Great examples of this are FFXIII and Gears of War. Both games raise the bar technically, and have great looking art styles.The_Game21x

:lol: just accept it... wii's graphics suck hard ! and you can try work your way around it or come up with what ever excuse you want, its not going to change the fact that they hurt the eye's of anyone that has actually played a next gen console.shaggymcp

[QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.whoisryanmack

[QUOTE="shaggymcp"]:lol: just accept it... wii's graphics suck hard ! and you can try work your way around it or come up with what ever excuse you want, its not going to change the fact that they hurt the eye's of anyone that has actually played a next gen console.Imallvol7

[QUOTE="Imallvol7"][QUOTE="shaggymcp"]:lol: just accept it... wii's graphics suck hard ! and you can try work your way around it or come up with what ever excuse you want, its not going to change the fact that they hurt the eye's of anyone that has actually played a next gen console.magus-21

[QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"][QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="whoisryanmack"]i will agree. not completely, if the textures look like hell, but the art style is good, it still wont look that great.magus-21

[QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="Imallvol7"][QUOTE="shaggymcp"]:lol: just accept it... wii's graphics suck hard ! and you can try work your way around it or come up with what ever excuse you want, its not going to change the fact that they hurt the eye's of anyone that has actually played a next gen console.Imallvol7

[QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="Imallvol7"][QUOTE="shaggymcp"]:lol: just accept it... wii's graphics suck hard ! and you can try work your way around it or come up with what ever excuse you want, its not going to change the fact that they hurt the eye's of anyone that has actually played a next gen console.Imallvol7

The ugly textures that ruin the artistic feel that Nintendo had going with TP say otherwise.fatzombiepigeon

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Although I see your point, i think were still1 generation away from that. This is the 1st generation that allows for things as basic as realistic light, clothing, skin, physics, etc. Athough "art" is almost impossible to define, we've only just reached the point where we have all the basic builing blocks to allow for a game being rated on it's graphic forbidden>