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Are you more attracted to realistic or cartoony games?
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I am strongly biased towards cartoony visuals. Games with good art styles can grab my initial interest on visuals alone, while realistic games need to put in a little more work to get my attention.
Yea, people should embrace it. Cartoons are great.
Yea, people should embrace it. Cartoons are great.
Realistic. That's why I don't enjoy Arkane games as much as I I would like to.
All the time while I was playing Prey I was thinking"imagine this game with the style of Alien Isolation"
All the time while I was playing Prey I was thinking"imagine this game with the style of Alien Isolation"
Ultimately I don't care between the two specifically, but I'm generally not gonna like a realistic game if it's trying to be actually realistic with its look. Capcom's "realistic" graphics, for instance, are the kinda stuff I like.
Typically stylized games are more appealing to me, but I dig realistic when done with as much detail and care as something like GTA V
I can play a game with any graphical style but if it's a game world I'm supposed to get lost and immersed in I would always want a realistic look. Cartoony enemies are the worst offender for me. I can play and enjoy something like dragon quest or BotW but they have zero atmosphere.
Cartoony. Grew up write cartoon style and it's just more fun to look at. There's so much untapped cartoon art or anime styles that haven't been translated to games yet, especially ones that take advantage of hardware.
Oh it's realistic all day for sure. I dig a comic book aesthetic or cell-shading done reaaaally cleanly (BL3 manages their signature look very well) but 9 times outta 10 i'd go for the realistic more than cartoony purely for my own ability to be immersed.
But i've been playing Rock and Stone lately and the way they present the lobby and the menus and everything is so well done it's incredibly immersive and I would say fairly cartoony in the graphics department, so it's not a hard set rule.
But i've been playing Rock and Stone lately and the way they present the lobby and the menus and everything is so well done it's incredibly immersive and I would say fairly cartoony in the graphics department, so it's not a hard set rule.
I know it's "not allowed" but I like both, but for the purpose of the poll I'll vote realistic.
That said:
That said:
On what planet is Disco Elysium "in-between" and not 100% cartoony??
Whatever you'd call Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
It's not "cartoony" necessarily, but it's a far cry from being "realistic" too. It's got realistic lighting, reflections, textures, and human models but highly stylized levels and characters and assets. Halo is another example of...I don't know. Grunt's aren't realistic at all, but the trees and mountains and explosions are all highly detailed and realistic within their setting I guess. This is not a black or white thing to me at all.
It's not "cartoony" necessarily, but it's a far cry from being "realistic" too. It's got realistic lighting, reflections, textures, and human models but highly stylized levels and characters and assets. Halo is another example of...I don't know. Grunt's aren't realistic at all, but the trees and mountains and explosions are all highly detailed and realistic within their setting I guess. This is not a black or white thing to me at all.
I don't mind both, but being into art since I could pick up a crayon, I'll always prefer something with a more creative artistic LOOK. That said, even with cartoony styles, I like variety. I don't like everybody hopping on a popular trend or samey looking anime characters. Unique look > garden variety look.