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vivftp

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Oct 29, 2017
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Maybe a slightly better comparison pic I found online:

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And yeah, older Joel looks great and better.
 

Viol8tor

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Oct 25, 2017
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He looks good to me.

He's aged what, like 10 years in part 2? And that's 10 years in a post apocalyptic world lol.
 

CountAntonio

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Oct 25, 2017
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The eyes look different. Less intense and more tired but somehow less weathered. It's a great looking model but it does lose a bit of the feel of the original.
 
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New Joel looks like a high-profile actor playing Joel in a movie, with that stylish rugged appearance. Original Joel looked like an everyday guy.
 

TheNexus

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Oct 25, 2017
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This is what happens when you age. I see nothing wrong with it.
 

2CL4Mars

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Nov 9, 2018
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It's not that he doesn't look great fidelity wise, it's that he doesn't look like the same person. New Ellie at least resembles old Ellie.

Yeah...the problem is that when you see him in the trailer you can actually tell it's Joel and not "Hey, who's that guy? he looks familiar, I wonder who is it..." You could make the same argument for Marcus in Gears 4 vs gears of war 3 and it wouldn't make any more sense than your argument here.
 

the-pi-guy

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Oct 29, 2017
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There's nothing wrong with his face.
He just looks different because they made a higher quality model to take advantage of the hardware.
 

vivftp

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Oct 29, 2017
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The best picture of Joel from TLOU 1.
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Naughty Dog targetted realism way too hard at the expense of the characters, Joel mainly. Everyone else looks pretty much ace.

lol, I really don't think we're seeing the same things her OP. Joel in TLOU2 looks like an older Joel and looks better in every way.
 

BrickArts295

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Oct 26, 2017
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Reminds me when people were flipping out at the Nathan Drake PS4 face reveal
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He really did look like Pedro Pascal.

They did fix him a bit
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But I think New Joel looks pretty good.
 

Omnistalgic

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Oct 27, 2017
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The best picture of Joel from TLOU 1.
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Naughty Dog targetted realism way too hard at the expense of the characters, Joel mainly. Everyone else looks pretty much ace.
Yeah man, I'm not seeing this drastic difference you are. Looks like older Joel with a different hair parting lol.
 

Escaflow

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Oct 29, 2017
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There's nothing to fix there, he looks fine as a 60 years old man
 

Flon

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Oct 27, 2017
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I think his eyes got smaller and he's put on a bit of weight. I think he looks a lot better and far more realistic.

It actually makes the original look really uncanny when you focus on the eyes.