• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    You shouldn’t need leaps in hardware to render a highly stylized cell shaded video game in the year 2025.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, but it’s not just a toon shader/cel shaded shader.

      I’ve seen footage, this game has full (highly stylized) PBR and all sorts of fancy lighting along with the cell shaded look. Reducing it all to “cell shading” isn’t the whole story.

      Hi-Fi Rush is much closer to classic Borderlands than BL4 is.

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        3 months ago

        Right, I’ve seen the footage too, and I don’t think I’d recognize it as a Borderlands game if the name wasn’t included in the ads. I’m struggling to understand why they chose to go that route, rather than sticking to the beloved, iconic, performant art style of the other games in the series.