Is Wind Waker the best visual Nintendo game ever?

[SantaC]

Wow I cannot believe this game is infact almost 9 years old (released december 2002 in Japan)

It triumphs everything Nintendo has ever released visually. It makes me wonder why they did abandon this pretty amazing 3D engine? (built in Maya btw)


Here are some screens of it running on dolphin with 8X AF and 4X SSAA. (It can go even higher but it lowers the fps dramatically).


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



It's hard to remember that Nintendo was once in the frontlines in terms of graphics. They have really gone backwards last few years.

[magus]

is link hannibal lecter if you play it on an emulator?

was there a mask item and i don't remember it?

[SantaC]

is link hannibal lecter if you play it on an emulator?

was there a mask item and i don't remember it?

yeah you can get a mask (hero's charm) that will show the enemys hp...I didn't remember it either until I stumbled onto it, lol.

[Great Rumbler]

Super Mario Galaxy

[archie4208]

Yoshi's Island

It even includes a good game with its visual style. 

[Herr Mafflard]

Well, I don't think Nintendo's lost anything in terms of art talent, which means if you put most of their core titles through an emulator they end up looking great. It's just that a change of strategy this gen for Nintendo means they are really lagging in terms of hardware that will do any justice to their art assets.

Super Mario Galaxy

exactly!

[OptimoPeach]

It even includes a good game with its visual style. 

Babysitting

[Enl]

I've actually began playing this again a couple weeks ago on Dolphin right after I built my new PC. Playing it in widescreen, AF 16X, AA 8X(QL16) really makes this feel like a new game. I'm pretty amazed on how well it holds up for the most part visually. It's quite a nice visual contast to the other game I've been playing (The Witcher). Tried testing out Twilight Princess as well but that didn't look nearly as good at all (always thought that game looked pretty dull though).

[Van Cruncheon]

shame that after about five hours in it became about as fun as a serial dickpunchng

[Raban]

shame that after about five hours in it became about as fun as a serial dickpunchng

Bingo.

[Yeti]

shame that after about five hours in it became about as fun as a serial dickpunchng

Five hours in, are you insane?!?! It sucked right from the start.

[Maximus]

It triumphs everything Nintendo has ever released visually. It makes me wonder why they did abandon this pretty amazing 3D engine? (built in Maya btw)

You cant build a 3d engine with a DCC tool, you integrate the DCC tool into your engine to import the models you create. So they would have used Maya models for characters and props, the engine would have done everything else (lighting, possibly the effects, sound, controls etc.)
Maybe that's what you meant though.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

How hard is it to configure Dolphin? I would like to play some Gamecube games again with a superior xbox 360 controller. Is there compatibility probs?

[duckman2000]

Yeah, sure was a pretty game, bogged down by another god damned triforce shard hunt. Awesome enemy designs, too.

[Oblivion]

I hate the fact that WW looks better than Skyward Sword.

Super Mario Galaxy

SantaC annihilated.

[dicklaurent]

anyone got a download link for the latest dolphin version?

[Positive Touch]

dolphin-emulator.com

[dicklaurent]

oh ok. thought there was some bullshit where it isn't downloadable from the main site anymore, so didn't check. hehe. maybe that's pcsx2

[Shaka Khan]

A few questions:
- Is Dolphin as demanding as PCSX2?
- What kind of inputs does it support?
- How good is the compatibility?

[Positive Touch]

dunno bout 2 &3, but i does seem to run better than pcsx2.  i have no problems running gc games at smooth framerates.

[SantaC]

A few questions:
- Is Dolphin as demanding as PCSX2?
- What kind of inputs does it support?
- How good is the compatibility?

dolphin is as demanding as PCSX2 yes

360 controller and wiimotes

Compatibility gets better everyday...

[Sho Nuff]

I gave up on it after some nonsense with getting 5 shards of 5 maps or something (playing the Japanese one). Up till that point I was kinda having fun though

[dicklaurent]

yeah, that's pretty much where everyone stopped.

[magus]

i actualy finished the game but i'll be damned if i remember anything about it

[T-Short]

I finished it. fished out all the treasuremaps as well. OCD gaming :arr

game suffered from a lack of dungeons, and nothing really looked as inspiring as the first dungeon. the fire and ice islands were superlame. was worth getting to the endgame just to get to the marionette form of the final boss though, that was nice. also very anticlimactic walk up the dried out hyrule to the ubiquitous boss revisiting battle. almost as bad as the volcano in SMS, huahua

[dicklaurent]

lack of a second town more like. town is the best part!

[T-Short]

town is a-ok

[magus]

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it was a very annoying side-quest especialy since it had a lot of missable but i like it a lot when they make you collect figurine in a game (see super smash bros)

[tiesto]

Didn't really care for the game too much, there were a few good dungeons though, but sailing was so boring, and the treasure hunt sucked (although it didn't take as long as I expected). Also I'm alone in this but I hate the character design of this game (I also hate TP's character design, many of the NPCs look like downies).

Gamecube had the worst of the Nintendo franchises though. Say what you want about Wii, but Wii Mario >>> GC Mario, Wii Zelda >>> GC Zelda.

[Diunx]

Yeah I hate how link looks, a lot of people seemed to think that the negative reactions were towards the cel shade graphics but it was actually about link looking awful.

[brob]

I really like Wind Waker. Thought the sailing was fun, I enjoyed digging around the sea for treasure and the lack of dungeons didn't really bother me all that much. Then again I don't particularly care for the other Zelda games outside of Link's Awakening so maybe it's lacking something fans of the series expected.