I'm pretty sure it doesn't gradiate. I'm assuming they are trying to get a handpainted look in the sense of 2d animated films. Where moving objects such as characters are more simply drawn, as they need to be drawn by hand every frame. To make their characters and moving object seem 2d they use cel shading. Whereas the…
Well, yeah, but not every team needs to be the size of the Assassins Creed team or Diablos, BF3s or CoDs. You could still make great games like Journey on a high end console and make it look good, you don't have to utilize every ounce of computing power to make a realistic type of game. I don't get the obsession publishers…