How Does This Game Have Good Graphics?

[Atoli]

[...]..because they contained too much 'brown'.

Well it really is a trend right now to throw in a lot of 'brown' to make things look more 'realistic'.
But if I look out of the window I see everything but brown.
I think it's just a lazy approach and I'm happy SE is not going this way with FFXIV.

[Dragon]

Well it really is a trend right now to throw in a lot of 'brown' to make things look more 'realistic'.
But if I look out of the window I see everything but brown.
I think it's just a lazy approach and I'm happy SE is not going this way with FFXIV.

Point is, the author bashed a game for being "too brown" and yet praised Katamari/SotC/whatever for their limited palettes in a video that's supposed to be about the differences between aesthetics and graphics.

It's not even close to being a lazy approach, palettes are there to build certain kinds of atmosphere. Games about war should always have certain palettes, just like kiddy games should have a certain kind of palette. A lazy approach would be using a universal palette for everything, something that those people bashing GoW for "being too brown" or what have you want.