What is the most beautiful game artstyle wise you ever played?

>>382555745
Not sure about beautiful but Dragon Quest 8, SMT Nocturne, and Bloodborne are my favorites in terms of art direction.

>>382555745
Bloodborne has a espectacular aura but these are better:

>Gravity rush 2 Vendecentre
>TW3 Toussant
>MSG V Mother base at night
>Some Nier Automata sections
>FF XIII frozen lake

>/v/ will claim Persona 5 has better artstyle than Horizon

>>382555745
The witness and rime have wonderful artstyles.

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>>382557118
But it does

>>382557118
Never, P5 doesn't have any moment of beauty like those when you simply stop doing shit and start staring at the sunset of Horizon

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Skyward Sword. Easily one of the best out there, especially in motion. It was like a moving impressionist painting.

It's just a shame the game wasn't as great. It had quite a few great ideas, the bosses, and actual dungeons namely. But a bad overworld, a terrible companion, and lack of new areas.

If they got rid of the companion, slew of tip stones, and had more dungeons/things to do in the sky it would have easily been one of the top 3 Zeldas.

>>382557472
Aloy truly saved western games

>>382555745
ori

>>382557118
It does. Are you a moron?

>>382557118
Horizon has an artstyle?

watchdogs 2 sense of comfiness as you traverse the city at foot, but then you remember the game is shit

>>382558259
>watchdogs 2 sense of comfiness
have you ever played Mafia 1? that is what I call comfiness

>>382557118
>contemporary western games
>artstyle
you what

Eleum Loyce counts?

>>382555745
Journey

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>>382558425
Ok let's forget about Horizon Best Girl
Let's talk about cyberpunk, my favorite setting

>>382557537
I really like SS aesthetically and I liked flying around initially, before I realized there were only like five little islands to explore. The game had potential.

Abzû is fucking gorgeous and any game made by That Game Company

>>382559017
They could have moved the development to Wii U, launched as a WiiU launch game and it would be considered better than TP

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>>382557471
>realism
>an art style
LMAOOOO

>>382555745
Half Life 2. I don't know if most "beautiful" but most interesting. Antonov is truly the GOAT in art direction.

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>>382559283

Journey is probably my choice as well, though The Last Night will probably overtake it

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Darkest Dungeon

>>382559586
>you'll never eat pizza in a cold day in Chicago with your cute asian gf
why live?

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>>382559586
Maybe in another life, anon.

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>>382555745
This is the most aesthetically beautiful game ever made. You literally cannot prove me wrong
Somehow the fuckers at Telltale made the neo-noire atmosphere really work in a colorful world

>>382557118
You're fucking blind aren't you?

>>382558805
you should play Sleeping Dogs if you like that setting

Okami HD.

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>This derailing into waifu faggotry
But i really wanted to talk about video game artstyles

>>382561519
I played on PS3 in 2012 but I'm afraid if playing again and disliking it
I don't want to ruin my memory because I have a distant memory of enjoying the game

>The Witness
>Abzü
>Firewatch
>Ghost Trick
>Skullgirls, more animation-wise I guess though
Just off the top of my head from recently played and old favorites.

alice: madness returns was pretty artkino, the dollhouse was a literal 10/10 home run for me in that regard

>>382561810
>Skullgirls
That's the ultimate level of degeneracy those french artists are not even talented

>>382561771
>pretending threads with game pics don't have waifu and boipucci garbage

>>382561810
>Firewatch
kys
I've never been so angry after finishing a game as with that pretentious artsy piece of shit.

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>>382561645
>>382561771
I feel you, I wanted a real thread too.

My answer may have to go to BoFIV, though wind waker looks great still too.

>>382562110
We're just talking about art style my dude; it was a pretty game if nothing else.

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Rayman Origins

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>>382555745
I have a soft spot for Quake

Cavestory, JSR and Bioshock are pretty hot

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>>382555745
Am i cheating? i'm cheating aren't i?
Old arcade games should be disqualified since they're all fucking gorgeous

>>382562558
The backgrounds in both Origins and Legends is got tier

>>382562653
Is it too expensive to make a game like Metal Slug? why not a single indie/AAA studio has ever tried to make a good artstyle like that?

>>382562653
>all

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>>382562798
Hell yeah man, gorgeous

>>382562896
It's troll right? this look garbage
Rayman Origins and Legends are very average looking games

>>382563000
Show something better then, champ

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>>382562558
Origins is great, all around a great game. I remember beimg dissapointed in legend's artstyle, it made everything look so plasticy.
>>382562653
SNK art is just cheating anon.

I honestly feel capcom was on thier level though, stuff like Third Strike and BoFIV is some ofvthe best pixel art in the media.

>>382563000
this >>382563080
it looks good bro

>>382563181
Whoops was meant for this guy >>382563000

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Ori looks pretty astounding

also dat music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byzWyQOwvBw

>>382563191
>I remember beimg dissapointed in legend's artstyle, it made everything look so plasticy.
Are you me? I had the same thoughts.
I prefer Origins to Legends

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>>382563080
Link to a 10240 × 5760 picture
http://cdn.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/94/94871.jpg

>>382563384
...what? I literally can't tell the difference art wise. Doesn't help that they both look so good it's impossible to tell the difference between screenshots and concept art.

>>382555745
I like artstyle like WoW or LoL, it looks good and runs on every PC

I wish more devs used this artstyle instead of "realistic" artstyle that just look like a big pile of vomit

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>>382563648
Pic related, an example
Left side: Origins, right ride: Legends

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there is only one word to describe Rayman Origins and Legends when it comes to artstyle: grotesque

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>>382558805
There's something about neon aesthetics that really draw me in. Like it's really beautiful especially during rainy quiet nights.

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Starbound is a fucking shitty game, but it's pretty as fuck sometimes.

>>382562774
I'd argue that Zoe2 took alot of lessons learned from both zoe1 and mgs2 and went wild

also a ton of shit happens on screen with the ps2 keeping up a decent framerate most of the time, excluding When vic viper does that one attack and that large scale battle near the end of the game

>>382563884
that pic is pretty nice

>>382563889
comfy as fuck

>>382563384
I was surprised it wasn't a more popular opinion. I don't hate the legend's artstyle but it's a step back in my opinion.
>>382563806
This shows it well. Globox looks so shiny in the right version. In the left version he looks like a true animated cartoon.

Vanillaware

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>>382555745
Ori and The Blind Forest really quakes my nuts everytime I happen to see it in motion, so I guess it would have to be that

Honorable mentions go to Okami and Alien Isolation, although I'm not sure if the latter could be called "beautiful", but it definitely had me oggling the visuals

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>>382562894
To be fair that was the case back in the day.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs may not look like much today, but back then there was no game in a home console that looked remotely like this

>>382563806
Huh. I never noticed that. I guess I prefer Origins' style as well then, at least as far as this particular thing is concerned.

>>382563837
Bah. But I've been playing Odin Sphere Leifdrasir recently and that's still ridiculously pretty. Pooka cafe and restaurants are the comfiest.

sup janny :^)

>>382565515
on a side note they degenerated in the spiritual sequel Dragon's Crown
the game is ugly everywhere, from the character models to backgrounds

>>382566213
I always felt like I should have played more of that. I had a real soft spot... well, and a hard spot, for the amazon.

>>382566350

I played 25h+ and I hated it
Call me crazy for trying so hard to enjoy the game but overall the artstyle is bad and the game itself is nothing like Odin Sphere

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>>382555745
Darkest Dungeon or Don't Starve

>>382561305
season 2 never?

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Ori and the Blind Forest
Basically all of Vanillaware games. THE FUCKING FOOD