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Only an inpotent blames the tool - or however that saying goes.

that's soooo silly

So true to use a shot from Abiotic Factor that is just a mundane 90s office but that just oozes colour and personality and charm.

It pissess me off that most other games don’t look as crisp as it does

oh hey I know that third one

Unreal Engine btw

More importantly realism is a universal standard. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, if you know how to do realism you can work on anything realistic, there's no standard for stylized art (& there shouldn’t be)

When people complain about "photorealism" this is always repeating in my mind

I sort of like the remake's stylized realism art style, saw roots of it in Infinite, issue is they ditched all the "alien" or interesting art direction in favor of something plain.

this has been a repeated issue since after halo 2. They just went around the long way to finish the job to erase anything that isn't this quasi-realism greebled mil-scifi look. But maybe halo 1 was the outlier and the actual intended shape of the series is what the remake displays.

ya ever notice the crew guys in halo are exactly the same as the civilians in oni

343i has always headed that way, way more mil-tech sci-fi. remember that one guy saying the new suit design should look like an F-15?

The game the Oni people made after Oni *and* the game that was broadly meant to be a successor to the Marathon series. Which, y'know, that's an FPS trilogy that had sprites that looked very hand drawn and almost like they were maybe supposed to look comic book-ish or something like that. So.

I think it's interesting to look at how many games have a more realistic bend in their stylization and get mistaken for full on realism. I often think of Metroid Prime when thinking of that phenomenon myself... and that the remaster seemingly *understood* that with its visual updates to my surprise

i think there's a whole lot of room to do something modern and interesting with halo visually but you gotta be interested in it. realism is attractive because you can do it "right". you can be correct. nobody can say you didn't do what you meant to do. just ideally you wouldn't have meant to do that

I will never stop being exhausted by people who have no idea what an engine does or is responsible for