Why do cell shaded games age better than most other games?

>>382264295
Same reason low poly ages better. Any attempt at photo-realism looks like shit the second something better is developed.

>>382264505
What photo realistic game from the early to mid 00s still holds up graphically?

>>382264869
NFS underground?

>>382265190
does Crysis or F.E.A.R. count?

>>382264869
my point is that attempts at making games look real instead of stylized makes them age faster

look at the first crysis. It was amazing at the time, now it's meh

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>>382264295

because it's more artsy and stimulates inner creativity and imagination unlike photorealism that just grates by striving to be something it cannot

a painter could replicate what a photo does but all it would do is show the technical prowess of the painter, there would be no inherit emotion to it, that's why impressionism was born, to drive out emotions and communicate to others in a visual language that would not be able to be described with words

I'm a bit biased towards impressionism though since it's my favourite

>>382264505
>>382264295
not arguing because i agree but Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is a game that aged wonderfully simply because it had good lighting and sound

i'd agree that games going for their own style rather than realism win out in general

>>382264295
WiiU version was not cell shaded though, it was just cartoony. Any game that isn't trying to be realistic and instead has a style of it's own will age much, much nicer than anything that tries to be realistic.

>>382265851
>tfw no game with Van Gogh inspired art direction

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>>382265851
This, exactly.

Slightly unrelated, I love the Van Gogh inspired mario levels on NSMBU

>>382264295
Most cell shaded games look like shit though. It's always about the same 3 games being shown when people talk about how timeless cell shading is, in first place by far meme waker. If a game is well done graphically it is well done and that's the end of the story.

There are games with realistic graphics like RE4 or REmake that look unbelievably good for the time they got released.

>>382266402
Be snarkier please

>>382266534
There is no need to be polite for questions that got asked for 10+ years and always receive the same answers on a place that is heavily biased against realistic graphic directions. I can't even remember the last time this thread got made without meme waker in the OP.

>>382266220
Skyward Sword

>>382264295
Stylised graphics have nothing to age against, and so they age extremely well

>>382266402
Most 'cel shaded' games aren't actually cel-shaded. Wind Waker was (but WWHD removed an awful lot of it)
But yeah there are plenty of art styles that look beautiful without simply 'muh cel-shading'
the 'realistic-looking' Silent Hill 3 somehow manages to have human faces that look just as good as some of the best looking games today.

>>382265371
No, they don't look good today
F.E.A.R has good lighting but that's it

>>382264295
They don't...
This is a remake ya dumb fuck and it looks out dated compared to newer cellshaded games.

Because they're stylistic as fuck.

I can name some that are still holds up. JSR, Killer 7, and Auto Modellista to name some.

>>382264869
Half-Life 2.

>>382267196
The bloom is excessive at times but otherwise I think HD did a good job updating the game and making it look better.

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>>382264869
I don't know about "holds up", but Mafia has great face animations for 2002.

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>>382265851
>Doesn't appreciate the level of skill of classical renaissance art

>>382267030
Most people on /v/ automatically think of the most generic and most boring flavor of the week realistic graphics game when talking about realistic graphics but there is much more to it. The devs can make the general composition and mood of realistic graphics just as timeless as you can in any other art style.

>>382264869
Star wars 3

>>382264295
>Why do cell shaded games age better than most other games?

They rely on style rather than an attempt to make the game look as realistic as possible. Realism is fairly objective, while the artistic taste regarding the style is subjective. So the objective is going to be perceived as worse, because it is.

>>382267636
>that neck
>that left arm
renaissance is shit, art started with impressionism

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>>382267387
>>382267196
The bloom is bad but the real shitty deal is the removal of the cel-shading and the fucked up color balance.

Emulating the original is better than WWHD because of that.

>>382264869
Re4

>>382264295
I hope that OP image isn't supposed to be an example of "aging well" because that game looks like garbage.

style > graphics

I think that's why I prefer N64 games over PS1. A lot of PS1 games didn't get shit right in the clean design department. I fucking love pre-rendered backgrounds though, what happened to them?

A good artstyle can be timeless

>>382264295
Realism is the best art direction. Only because you guys love to meme and to pretend that realistic graphics equal realistic settings as well doesn't make it true.

FFX, Shadow of Colossus, DMC3, Ninja Gaiden Black, Metroid Prime and tons of other shit looks really good even today and those are all realistic graphic directions.

>>382265851
I don't think I've ever looked at this painting properly. I always thought the thing on the left was a tall castle.

>>382268810
Then why did all of those get remastered?

>>382268810
Literally none of those games have realistic graphic directions.

What the fuck?

>>382269554
Because 480i is shit

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>>382269554
>Ninja Gaiden Black
>Remastered
I fucking wish, also the remaster of Final Fantasy X looks worse than the PS2 version.

>>382264295
Pic unrelated? Wind Wanker looks like dogshit and remains the worst Zelda game of all time.

>>382265851
Okay, but how does this picture envoke his or my own emotions? Half of his works are just pictures of flowers or some shit. Maybe I'm missing your point but I don't "get" how his work drives out and communicates his emotions.

>>382269667
Fuck I knew it was the huge retards like you that limit realistic graphics on literally just the military shooters and a couple of other boring genres so that's how the realistic graphics are bad meme is born. Those games provide realistic lighting and realistic textures. Realistic graphics doesn't mean that you can't give the game an art direction, retard.

>>382269445
Yep, same here, it's pretty common i think.

>>382267908
fuck you that seashell is 10/10