Explain SOUL/soulless in one picture/webm/gif.
2d examples are welcome too.
(SOUL is Not a meme)
Soul/Soulless
Cooper Richardson
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Jace Brown
The DS version looks terrible from what I've seen of it on Zig Forums.
Asher Jackson
64 has 90s cg art and is thus the automatic winner
Adam Sanchez
Newest example
compare the environmental lightning between the versions
Carter Flores
If you really knew why some games have "soul" in them, you'd never want to play them ever again...
Robert Reyes
Ooooow, what have they done?
Landon Hill
I'm noticing a trend of Nintendo having issues with lighting on Switch sequels and ports.
>bayo 2
>smash ult
>now xenoblade
Caleb White
What do you mean?
Robert Watson
Christian Cooper
Well like op said, soul is not a meme
can't say anymore without them finding me
Charles Perry
Friend area in a 2005 GBA/DS mystery dungeon game
vs
Friend area in a 2020 Switch mystery dungeon game
Thomas Rodriguez
Right looks like it came out of a supply chain.
Luis Torres
>(SOUL is Not a meme)
Well a random faggot on the internet said it so I guess it must be true
Logan Butler
>can't say anymore without them finding me
Now you're stressing me out. Stay safe, and disable geolocalization on your phone.
Josiah Sanders
Parker Morris
The comes from the imprint of the designer onto the creation. You see the designers style and design idiosyncrasies come through in the art. Traced as it may be CWC's art has more soul than some modern nintendo games which all try to keep the same style from game to game. No character is ever off model, not enemy has deviated from their core design laid out in NSMB
Jacob Gray
>90's CG = SOUL
>no 90's CG = SOULLESS
Oliver Sanders
it has a lot of graphical quality but the actual artstyle is worse to me
that seems to be a recurring pattern now, nintendo seems to be shifting from charming visuals to just flash looking ones but they still lack the actual hardware to make it worthwhile
Jeremiah Butler
Modern SOUL exists, though. It's just rarer.
Kayden Lee
It was a trade off. The rest of the game manages to be pretty loyal in terms of passion. But I do agree, I miss the friend areas
Aaron James
Left has more soul than right. Right is just trying to copy what has already been done in a very lazy way.
Jonathan Kelly
IT'S 90s NOT 90's! HOLY SHIT WHEN WILL PEOPLE STOP MAKING THIS MISTAKE?!
Luke Rogers
Left looks like something the game can't render
Right looks the same as actual gameplay
Julian Adams
how does smash ultimate have issues with lightning?
Luis Nelson
I really hope the blue ray has the kino original design
Mason Perez
Soulless
Nathan Hernandez
Runescape 3 vs 2 is the most striking example I can think of. If you shove off the microtransactions, it's not an inherently bad game in of itself if you don't mind grindy MMOs, but when comparing the two games together, RS3 is like a fucking goblin who tore off the face of RS2 and wears the skin as a mask pretending to be Runescape.
Bonus soul/soulless OST below, though I'll admit some of the newer tracks that aren't remakes of the old songs can be pretty good if they aren't one of the 800 ominous latin chant songs. RS3s song remakes love adding LE EPIC DRUMS to everything and fucking with the tempo regardless of how it effects the atmosphere of the area. My example below is the most striking example I can think of in regards to the OST not matching the atmosphere.
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Oliver Barnes
Cameron Bennett
What? Left looked so horrendous that they had to redo every scene with the new one before release!
Gabriel Anderson
Name a more iconic duo than Square Enix and phone ports ported to PC.
John Campbell
What really bothers me is the fact that people are actually okay with these ports and don't mind playing them
Ayden Cooper
Zoomer here, can vouch for these nostalgia fags that the art style/look on the left has way more character and is more memorable
Jordan Hall
Music is a good indicator as well.
I don't have obvious examples in mind right now but I remember a few games where tracks were murdered in their remakes.
Jeremiah Brown
Thanks for your input. (a respectable zoomer, a rare sight)
A fallacious counterargument that often comes back is the "rose-tinted glasses".
Kevin Butler
based
Camden Davis
soul is when a dev cares about the product they're making and you can tell when partaking in said product. It is directly opposite to safe, sanitized, or publisher/marketing-pushed products.
Isaac Gray
So I assume they didn't port over the vertex lighting, since new engine uses a different system? Because Wii version light looks suspiciously like Vertex colors used to simulate a light system.
Damn.