What Game Had the Best Art Style of Last-gen?

I felt like making a thread so here's a thread.

Here's my answer:

Team Fortress 2.

Rayman Legends

Dust: An Elysian Tale

Bastion

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Trine

Trine 2

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Just a few I can think of.

While not too original, I still felt SMG2 took the Mario style to its limits.

IDK, there were a ton of beautiful games. Skyrim, Journey, Bioshock Infinite, Trine, Mass Effect, Fez and a bunch of others

Art? I don't have a good notion of what constitutes art. But, my favorite here. I also love aviation art. That makes art in architecture and aviation. I may add more as I see fit. Add Far Cry 3.

In terms of art design, the games that impressed me the most last gen are actually Wii games, in HD, on Dolphin...

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

@Jag85: Skyward Sword is my choice as well.

El Shaddai

@Jag85 said:

In terms of art design, the games that impressed me the most last gen are actually Wii games, in HD, on Dolphin...

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Dammmmmmmmnnnn Skyward Sword looks amazing on Dolphin. I will unfortunately be playing it in standard def on Wii U. :(

If I was made of money, I would get a better PC, but at this point that would just mean less games for me to buy. :/

Dark Souls, Hotline Miami, The Witcher 2, BioShock Infinite, and Assassin's Creed II are my favorites.

And, for what it is, Modern Warfare 2 had some pretty excellent art design. People deride most recent shooters as being all grey and brown, and for the most part that's true, but MW2 did a lot to subvert that. Take a look at the oil rig level or the airplane scrapyard for instance - those are pretty damn striking as far as military shooters go.

Super Mario Galaxy

My big 5:

Sonic Generations

Vanquish

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Super Mario Galaxy 2

@Renegade_Fury: And none of your images are showing. At least not for me.

They're showing fine for me. I even switched browsers just to make sure.

For the not-so-obvious "artsy fartsy" answer:

Concur on the Mirror's Edge, Rayman, and Uncharted sentiment (refer to images above).

Other candidates:

Journey
Sound Shapes
Batman: Arkham City
Bioshock Infinite
Guild Wars 2
Spec Ops: The Line

@good_sk8er7 said:

@Jag85 said:

In terms of art design, the games that impressed me the most last gen are actually Wii games, in HD, on Dolphin...

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Dammmmmmmmnnnn Skyward Sword looks amazing on Dolphin. I will unfortunately be playing it in standard def on Wii U. :(

If I was made of money, I would get a better PC, but at this point that would just mean less games for me to buy. :/

Sucks that the Wii U can't upscale the native resolution of Wii games... Yet another bad decision from Nintendo.

But these days, building a PC which can run Dolphin at that quality probably won't cost more than a Wii U.

The Darkness. Looked awesome and matched the game perfectly.

I'd have to go with

Skyward Sword is a gorgeous game.

The Puppeteer, Lost Odyssey, Eternal Sonata, Uncharted,TLOU, Mas Effect, Bioshock. Skyrim, Dragons Crown are a few I think stand out.

I'd have to go with Puppeteer too. Still haven't finished it but I'm getting there. Getting to a new level just excites me so much because they all look incredible.

I'd have to say some of the top game for me are

-Donkey Kong Country Returns

-Skyward Sword

-Darksiders

-Ratchet and Clank a Crack in Time

-Rayman Legends

Gallery

• Rayman Origins/Legends
• Dragon's Crown
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition
• Starhawk

Ni No Kuni

Super Mario Galaxy

Rayman Legends

The Puppeteer

Arkham City

DMC

Ni No Kuni

Bioshock Infinite. DarkSiders 2

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2

Prince of Persia 2008

Braid

Journey

Skyward Sword

Xenoblade Chronicles

Valkyria Chronicles

Final Fantasy XIII

Batman: Arkham City

Hmm,

Borderlands 2:

Mirror's Edge:

Patapon 2:

FF13

Uncharted

Alan Wake

Ni No kuni

@Jag85: maybe but I already have a Wii U. I do use dolphin for gamecube games. I can run Wind Water at 2x resolution and modest AA. I just don't know if that'd be enough for Wii games

Yeah not sure what was going on when I typed that, but I can see them now.

@Jag85: I dunno how it looked on Dolphin, but on Wii everything that was more than 15 feet away was one big blur. I could certainly appreciate what they were going for, it just looked fugly.

I certainly agree with Patapon and Mirror's Edge. I would say, same with Mirror's Edge, that Brothers: a tale of two sons had an amazing art style. Everything looked good & clean. They were also both on UE 3.

Artistically? Sure but it looks fucking disgusting with the Wii hooked up to any decent sized HDTV.

Wii U HDMI upscaling helps a lot.

Red Steel 2 and MadWorld really deserve a mention.

You can't beat this

Witcher 2 and Infinite.

Yep, Rayman.

In that case, just give it a try. Just put in the Skyward Sword disc and see how it runs in Dolphin. And if it runs a bit slow, then you could just lower the AA and increase the native resolution.

I have a Wii, but don't play on it anymore, now that I can just play them on Dolphin with better graphics. The only use I have for the Wii is that sensor bar, for which I need to turn on the Wii for it to work.

Borderlands

Dead Rising 3

Tomb Raider

GTA V