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Penny Arcade - Comic - Artful Dodging
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Artful Dodging
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Actually that's too harsh. Let me walk that back.
I won't kill your family. It'll just be you."
The hardware limitations cause it to look bad on a technical level: object and texture pop-in. But the stylized look I love, the way it's colored like a painting, the really dark, contrasting shadows in the trees and mountains. The sky is just gorgeous.
So yeah, if that game was running on more powerful hardware, and if the remaining pop-ins were replaced by fade-ins, I'd say it looks amazing.
Ultimately though, it's really fun.
Tough, but fair.
I don't think history really bears that out.
Well, it's not Deadly Premonition 2.
We're at a less-than-optimal point in Switch when it comes to resolutions over 720p (or at 720p), draw distance, anistropic filtering, and a few other things, sometimes even in titles specifically designed (and only appearing on) the Switch, and not just the Switch versions of current games that are also getting Playstation 4 and Xbox One releases. "Okay, it's not optimal. But it's not Deadly Premonition 2." As noted, it helps to evoke an art style that is particularly forgiving to the technical limitations.
My biggest complaint about the game isn't the art or the game world either one though. My biggest complaint is the weird time travel thing. I'm not a fan of the MC being a kid from modern times who gets yoinked back in time by Arceus. It creates a weird time paradox, where the future basically creates itself in the past. I'm not that far yet, so maybe they address that or smooth it out a bit later. But from where I am in the early game, it definitely feels like "kid from the future goes back in time and invents Pokemon society as we know it today, thus creating his own existence."
That an the shape of the land still looks like early BotW previews with no attempt at shaping stuff or adding detail to look more natural.
I'm also wondering why they used the BotW engine and not Mario Odyssey, but whatever they use doesn't excuse the awful color pallete choice, or poor world environment shaping.
Somebody could do an amazing thing by replacing the ground textures in this game.
whosoever thinks is lost
oo pulled your knickers down laddie
it were im sir the artful dodger the artful dodger did it sir
the artful dodger eh
Well, we have a good example of a game that really does explicitly look like traditional Japanese paintings, and gets away with graphical limitations because of good use of that. That being Okami. I think PLA looks fine, but it doesn't really hit that stylized look that I get from Okami.
That said, I'm kinda tired of the "this looks like a gamecube/PS2 game" as a bad thing. Because there are a bunch of games on those systems that still look great to this day.
But I assume when people say that they are not comparing it to the games that hold up, they are talking about the average game. Which, yeah PS2 can get pretty damn good, my personal favorite is FFXII, but the average does not hold up well.
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That can be said of every generation though as it depends on the art direction on how well something holds up. Take paper mario for example. That still looks great and its a nintendo 64 title. Tales of Vesperia is another one that holds up well mostly because of its cell shaded art style people say.