what do you think of cellshading graphics

and here is the grass in Tp you seeits not just one color there are little patces of dirt and different shades depending on light as wellas shadows

EmperorZeruel

In most cases I prefer cel-shaded graphics. Wind Waker is the best looking Zelda to date because of it

I think they are much more fitting for side-scrollers.

I can see where you get the ''lazy'' arguement, developers are using more and more cell shaded graphics on the Wii because that console isn't quite capable to meet today's standards for realistic-like graphics. But that's not laziness, that's just adapting to a certain level.

Plus making cell-shaded graphics that don't actually feel tacked-on (just for the sake of having ''teh orygeenaleetey'' ) can be quite hard. But many cell-shaded games look impressive.

Zelda: Wind Waker (still to date, one of the very best), Prince of Persia and Okami are 3 games that have the very best cell-shaded graphics in my opinion.

I think cell-shaded is nice, it stirred controversy last gen but this gen it's becoming widely accepted and is a nice change. Some games are absolutely gorgeous to look at in cell-shaded visuals, just look at Prince of Persia! It's like a painting coming to life!

I think they are much more fitting for side-scrollers.

dark-warmachine

And Braid too

MachoBuzzzy

Not cell-shading. In fact, I don't think Castle Crashers is, either.

[QUOTE="MachoBuzzzy"]And Braid too

Cherokee_Jack

Not cell-shading. In fact, I don't think Castle Crashers is, either.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="MachoBuzzzy"]And Braid too

MachoBuzzzy

Not cell-shading. In fact, I don't think Castle Crashers is, either.

So basically, I've traveled back in time to 2002 and we're discussing Wind Waker vs a "realistic" looking Zelda.InsaneBasura

[QUOTE="MachoBuzzzy"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

Not cell-shading. In fact, I don't think Castle Crashers is, either.

Cherokee_Jack

Oh yeah!

Oh yeah!

Aljosa23

[QUOTE="Aljosa23"]

Oh yeah!

MachoBuzzzy

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"][QUOTE="MachoBuzzzy"] They have awesome Art style anyway:PMachoBuzzzy

That one is truly cel-shaded, and also looks fantastic:

[QUOTE="MachoBuzzzy"][QUOTE="Aljosa23"]

Oh yeah!

Aljosa23

I prefer realistic graphics but I don't knock cell shaded graphics. I will never not play a game because it has cell shaded graphics.

[QUOTE="MachoBuzzzy"]

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"] That's true.Cherokee_Jack

That one is truly cel-shaded, and also looks fantastic:

I've seen that the redactors of the local PC magazines worship this cell-shading method a lot... I don't know why, it looks so childish and ugly to me... It was cool maybe in 2003, but not now :D

Crimsader

[QUOTE="InsaneBasura"]So basically, I've traveled back in time to 2002 and we're discussing Wind Waker vs a "realistic" looking Zelda.lebanese_boy

[QUOTE="lebanese_boy"][QUOTE="InsaneBasura"]So basically, I've traveled back in time to 2002 and we're discussing Wind Waker vs a "realistic" looking Zelda.EmperorZeruel

[QUOTE="EmperorZeruel"][QUOTE="lebanese_boy"] Well I don't think the issue back then was so much as to Link being in a coortonie graphics but more because of the false promise from Nintendo with that Link vs Ganondorf battle tech demo shown in spaceworld.Cherokee_Jack

I love cell-shaded graphics. They will usually look very beautiful on the artistic side.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"][QUOTE="EmperorZeruel"] thats what prety much the whole reason why i gave up zeldaEmperorZeruel

I think it's great when the developers use cel-shading the right way. Recent games like Prince of Persia looks really good and Borderlands too!

On alot of games it looks terrible. But on some games, like PoP or Valkyria Chronicles, it actually looks pretty good.

I can see the Wii loving them because realistic graphics take a lot more horsepower.

Ilike cel shaded games a lot, i wish more developers would use this form of graphics more then realistic. Realistic graphics get boring really fast, and usually only have a lot of gray in them or brown.

Cell shading is great. It can really make a game look fantastic (Wind Waker and Prince of Persia both look freaking amazing)

at first i hated Windwaker, but the look of the fire was really awesome. Cell Shading > wannabe realistic textures that look like crapmetalisticpain

Realistic textures that look good>cellshading

It depends on the game really.

Seeing how Wind Waker is one of the best looking games in the past several years, I would say cel shading is awesome.

It would not work with every game though. There is room for all types of art styles and rendering techniques.

[QUOTE="metalisticpain"] at first i hated Windwaker, but the look of the fire was really awesome. Cell Shading > wannabe realistic textures that look like crapJade_Monkey

Realistic textures that look good>cellshading

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^ I hate cellshading.

It's just a way to excuse the lack of memory and of shader procesing power of the current gen consoles.

The worst thing was PoP witch made the characters look 2D papercuts.

I could excuse the cellshading if the gameplay would have been good, but it's not the case. Game deveopers seem to be suffering of the ET syndrome for time now.

"personaly hate it. Its not impressive at all and sems like an excuse not to work hard, because it sems a lot easer to make."

you are just lame and quite pathetic. Its called artistic taste!

i personaly hate it. Its not impressive at all and sems like an excuse not to work hard, because it sems a lot easer to make. when you looks at a dirt road in cellshading games it is just one solid color, but in normal ones you can see different textures and the grains of dirt on the ground. the same for other things someones shirt will just look the same al around, when in a normal game you can see wrinkles and different colors on the shirt depending on the lighting.

EmperorZeruel

Easy you wanna no how easy it is to make a realisic road texture you photosorce it make it seemless with cell shading you have to make everything from scratch the only thing that is remotely hard in realisim is face textures.

its alot harder to make cartoon graphics look good than realistic graphics.

next time you should know what your talking about before you write something.

a simplistic cell shaded game that does not take alot of processing power.EmperorZeruel

I absolutely love cell shading.... I really cant acurrately express just how much I love it. It looks gorgeous on almost every game that has it.