Do you prefer games to be extremely visually impressive, or do you prefer a stylized art direction...

Do you prefer games to be extremely visually impressive, or do you prefer a stylized art direction? What're the best examples of both that you've played?

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Depends on how much effort you want to put in a game. If you want a game to be remembered for it graphics and other stuff you need to go beyond such as Crysis did.

Uncharted 4 really impressed me its realistics facial animations. Was a real "man, this is the future" kind of moment for me, and pretty much one of the only moments of that kind I ever had.

Oxenfree did everything right on the other side of that spectrum.

Personally, I don't care what the game looks like in the end, but I can't deny that I'm often drawn to stylized visuals.

Stylized all the way. Look at Bastion, Transistor, Darkest Dungeon, Don't Starve or old gems like Abe's Oddysee.
Or Dark Souls - I was surprised when people were saying that game looks like shit. It's beautiful for me; it has it's own atmosphere. I don't care if it doesn't look like real world, I'm old enough to have working imagination.

I'm an indie game developer so for my own sake I want to shy away from realistic graphics. I hold the belief that games with art styles age better when done correctly. It is easier for a game with realistic graphics to show its age. That said, I can appreciate when newer games show off their hot new tech. I remember being amazed by parallax mapping when that started becoming a thing.

I lean towards more heavily stylized. Some of my current favorite games, and some of my most anticipated games like this. Examples being abzu, journey, INSIDE, Head lander, The Last guardian etc. This also goes for games that I am excited for, Gravity Rush 2, yooka laylee, Rime, Thatgamecompany's next game, tokyo 42m Dragon Quest 11, and KH3 and it goes on. For me visuals are only second to animation and gameplay.

I think that overwatch has an amazing artstyle but that is where it stops(for me) I just cannot get into that style of gameplay, so I believe that the artstyle was wasted on that game.

Realistic graphics are a gimmick because the technology keeps progressive. Once we hit the "photorealistic graphics" barrier X years from now, it won't be technically impressive after a while, at which point, people will realize that style wins.

That looks really good. Which game?

I disagree with you on Overwatch, but I can see where people come from when they say they like the artstyle.

You're cute

May I remember you graphics have not improve in 10 years.
Here is a 2007 ingame screenshot (not bullshot)

>Which game?
ABZÛ

here is 1997 ingame screenshot for comparison.

But a good stylized art direction is visually impressive. That pretty much goes hand in hand.

Also. Stylization is important. Not only striving after realism always fall short of the real thing, inevitably making the final product look awkward to an extent. But even beyond that, reality isn't all that impressive in the first place. Which is one of the primary reasons for why humanity has been drawn towards art since forever.

Is that also Abzu? I thought the entire experience was underwater. That screenshot looks gr8

no that is rime

Wait a minute this is a body swap anime? I thought it was legit the keit-ai meme come to life

Can I have some context on this gif?

Boy in girl's body
Does what any guy would do

Some new movie that came out a while ago, no idea if it has subs
Guy goes into girls body, girl goes into guys body
One lives in the city, the other in the country side

No idea beyond that, but it's supposed to be good

A boy falls in love with a girl.
Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl’s phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day’s confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn’t exist in this universe at all. She is the girl’s alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC’s own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

The screening got leaked, but as someone who caved and watched it yesterday, I'd say wait for a cinema release or a clean rip. It was honestly a good movie, and the bad screening doesn't do justice to Shinkai's visuals.

Simply ebin.

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