Thread 723308083

Anyone else feel like modern 3D anime games look too plastic and fake?

Something about them is too clean for me to buy into the characters as people made of flesh, but with older anime games there's enough ambiguity to replicate the effect anime has in 2D

i wish more new games tried emulating the styles old games used even if they did it out of necessity, they had something good and giving it up instead of perfecting it is dumb

>>723308083 (OP)
A stylized anime game looks fake?
O RLY?! HOW COULD THIS BE?! HOW IS THAT SO? I THOUGHT IT WOULD LOOK REALISTIC HURP DE DURP
Jesus fucking Christ, every post I read today is more retarded than the previous one.

>>723308083 (OP)
Art directions that are stylized are just more interesting to look at and engage with, jrpg or no. The kotor games and the aurora engine look bette than those gross soulshit Star Wars games for example

>>723308083 (OP)
Some DQ monsters are a bit too goofy for my tastes but in some places DQ11 had a nice feel to it. I think it would work better if they upped the contrast and stylized the textures just a bit more.

>>723309345
True, great observation anon

>>723308083 (OP)
>too plastic and fake
That's every game now.

>>723308083 (OP)
You picked the wrong game to make your case. The original release of DQ11 looks fantastic.

>>723308083 (OP)
Yeah I wish the 3ds version was translated

I wish we had got the 3DS version in the West, too. I prefer the pixel art style to the modern one. It's also strange how the 3DS has been hacked for so long, but no one seems to want to fan translate that game into english

>>723309692
For some reason, we always seem to end up with wider, uglier text boxes and strange fonts in the West. By contrast, the Japanese version looks so much better

>>723311736
>>723311804
after playing through dqx, i have to come to dislike 11 even more than I already did.

>>723312432
Did you play the offline version or regular?

>>723308083 (OP)
No
DQ11 looks really good

>>723308083 (OP)
I don't know about "too plastic and fake", but I agree that I prefer the older look with the painted textures instead of pretending PBR shading looks good.

>>723308083 (OP)
>Anyone else feel like modern 3D-
Yes. Lighting and shading haven't looked good since somewhere around 2010.

>>723308083 (OP)
>Anyone else feel like
No, fuck off.

>>723308083 (OP)
The problem with modern graphics overall is the dynamic lighting, everyone looked better when it was all baked, even "retro" indies make the mistake of using dynamic lighting, we have to go back

>>723308083 (OP)
>Anyone else feel like modern 3D anime games look too plastic and fake?
Yes, but I actually like how DQ11 looks - I count it as one of the exceptions.

>>723311550
Dragon Quest games have so much dialogue I'm not surprised no one wants to bother. The fan translation scene has also died down a lot in recent years. Gen Z absolutely does not care to upset the system like that, not without getting paid for it at least.

>>723308481
>mentally stunted third world child misunderstands basic conversation, has melty
Sad.

>>723308083 (OP)
Just use cell shading. Arcsys and Cyberconnect 2 make 3d modern anime games and they look great

>>723316942
I wonder if there's still some stigma about cel shading looking cheap or less impressive, it's the only way I can explain we ending up with garbage looking stuff like jump force

>>723316340
Dynamic lighting is not the issue, F.E.A.R has both baked lighting and dynamic lighting and it's one of the best lit games of all time. The problem is shitty Global Illumination making everything look washed the fuck out.

>>723315717
I still find it funny that they chose these bizarre models whose style has nothing to do with Akira Toriyama's to represent the characters in the cutscenes. What's the idea here? Isn't Akira Toriyama's style worthy of high-budget cutscenes or something?

>>723308083 (OP)
Blame Unreal Engine

This is actually why I love the direction DQ7 is taking. They actually look like creepy little Rankin Bass dolls. They look like SOMETHING now. Not this weird awkward look like someone extruded a lumpy plastic model from flat cel shaded hand drawn art.

Warriors (DQIII)
https://files.catbox.moe/h8sp0q.jpeg
https://files.catbox.moe/aiy6vo.jpeg
https://files.catbox.moe/v45yxy.jpeg
https://files.catbox.moe/9u2bpu.jpeg

>>723318794
I agree, some parts are still a bit iffy (like the rounded mouth skin) but it's a huge improvement over what's usually done in 3D anime games

>>723317091
If there is any stigma left, I imagine it’s confined to boardrooms. No players take issue with this stuff anymore, it seems.

>>723308083 (OP)
yeah 100%. I wanted to play the 3ds version of DQ11 but waiting for a translation. I refuse to play the pc version, too ugly

>>723319008
Nah there's still an air of "budget" or otherwise an air of some caveat-like exception to it. Like the only games that really break into mainstream with that look are Gacha Impact shit. Mainstream single player games with cel shading are indie or JapSlop like Trials of Mana which sell like shit.

>>723308481
Kek

>>723319073
Your loss. It actually looks better than the OG if you mod it right.

>>723309692
this looks like how I fantasized games as a child
>>723311736
this looks like dogshit

I think they are just too smooth looking, they look like my ass after a fresh shave.

>>723319728
Is this more in line with your childhood fantasies

>>723318891
Women (female) cannot have male genitals

>>723319817
Why do you shave your ass

>>723321653
He doesn't. I shave it for him.