In fact Mario even got past this problem as early as Galaxy, Galaxy 1 and 2 both look nearly as good as SMO(just the texture and lighting work is lacking in comparison) if you run it in high res and they did it without cel shading.Ĭolor pallet is more important then anything if you want your game to age well aesthetically. Those games still look amazing and will age well without being cel shaded. Naughty Dog and Rockstar in particular made very colorful and stylized games in Uncharted 4 and GTAV that contrast to their previous work on TLOU and GTAIV which where slightly stylized but not nearly to the same level. In fact multiple gaming studios have gotten past the 'you have to cel shade to make your game look stylized' meme. It does for the characters, enemies and animals but doesn't for the world itself.Īlso you really shouldn't take amateurs fiddling with emulation settings as comparisons to a finalized product from a premier dev studio. Loz breath of the wild has horrible graphics if you turn off the cel shading.BoTW doesn't even use full cel shading.

Absolutely stunning effects and crystal clear visual fidelity.īut I thought cel shading wasn’t graphics. Borderlands really has to push itself with the visual effects to make it truly stand out against it's predecessors in its own series. That said, we've really reached a limit with how nice we can make things like celshading, etc. Granted, Twilight Princess is my all-time favorite Zelda game, but before their HD Re-released Windwaker's toonshaded art style honestly did age better than Twilight Prindcess'. Look at the original Windaker versus the original Twilight Princess. However, when you go for something with a little bit more creative style over photorealism, your game automatically ages much better. And as such, anything that goes for photorealism needs to absolutely push its graphics to the maximum, or else it runs the risk of falling into the uncanny valley. While things can look great in the moment with our current graphics technology, as soon as something is better, we see the downfalls of the previous technology. ANYTHING- that goes for photorealism in its art style runs the risk of not aging very well.

Borderlands without cel shading