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Concept Artwork For "Epic Mickey"
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Viewtiful Joe
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soldat7 said:
Nice!
Nunchucks, remotes, sensor bars, component cables... I feel the Wii love!
Huevos de Oro
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Wow. Such amazing concept art. Hopefully the developer team is allowed to see this through completion, because this looks outstanding. The way many iconic characters and places in the Disney universe are being handled in these remarkable pieces of art is nothing short of breathtaking. Looking forward to more info about this game.
SuperAndroid17
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whos making this?
Last disney game I played was...mickey mania. That game was full of awsome
Last disney game I played was...mickey mania. That game was full of awsome
AceBandage
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SuperAndroid17 said:whos making this?
Last disney game I played was...mickey mania. That game was full of awsome
Warren Spector (Deus Ex, Thief) and his Junction Point team.
AceBandage
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Vinci said:
What? Do you want to raise a society of pussies?
SirPenguin
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Shiggy said:
Hoo boy..."Soon....soon" indeed!
Really? I admit that I would have appreciated more inclusion of classic disney songs, particularly during the Lion King level, but I imagine that was due to some sort of legal issue with the musician, and their budget couldn't afford it or something. I think they gave all of the characters from each Disney universe fair play as well.Scribble said:
As for something as subjective as "charm and soul," Goldfarmer would seemingly argue that this is not what a Disney game should be about.
AceBandage
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Vinci said:
Well, they do own the studio, and I guess they just said "Hey, Warren, make a Mickey game. Go crazy."
beelzebozo
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firex said:
yeah, i mean, my statement obviously came from my unique perspective or whatever, but i've been more satisfied with shooter/rpg hybrids that are a bit less impenetrable in recent years (BIOSHOCK, FALLOUT 3 come to mind). i tried SYSTEM SHOCK 2 and had a similar reaction to it, which is a real shame, since i was extremely into the settings of both DEUS EX and SS2.
Cat in the Hat
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Too lateAceBandage said:What? Do you want to raise a society of pussies?
beelzebozo
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HK-47 said:
yes, and because the games are not that fun to me.
dukerayburn
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I can't believe we wasted so many pages arguing with that user who thought this should be PC only. Yikes, still? That ship has sailed, and then it sunk, because the Venn diagram of people who would buy a Disney license game and the people who are willing to deal with the drudgery of building and installing drivers on a gaming PC couldn't look more like two distinct spheres.
This looks phenomenal. Imaginative, daring, completely surprising. The concept art (currently) on this page shows that the giant paint thinner bottle is to scale, since the scaffolding is made of pencils. And the "sky" above the spire castle in the second piece of art reveals light coming in through the corner of a box, so this world is miniaturized.
As for the bickering about the Wii, that little box does wonderful things under the right developers. No More Heroes, Mad World, Red Steel 2, these are all Wii games that look breathtaking. And if there is a WiiHD down the road, these games will probably be able to be upscaled there. Remember the HD Galaxy pics from a while back at 720p? Epic Mickey could eventually be given the same treatment from a later Wii console.
Oh, and as for why this is darker than Fantasia, this is treasured Disney IP, usually considered to be sacrosanct, being twisted and contorted and destroyed and paint thinned and on and on. It's incredibly dark because they're risking all the good will earned by their theme parks, characters, rides, on and on, with these (frankly) nightmarish visions. It's incredibly exciting.
This looks phenomenal. Imaginative, daring, completely surprising. The concept art (currently) on this page shows that the giant paint thinner bottle is to scale, since the scaffolding is made of pencils. And the "sky" above the spire castle in the second piece of art reveals light coming in through the corner of a box, so this world is miniaturized.
As for the bickering about the Wii, that little box does wonderful things under the right developers. No More Heroes, Mad World, Red Steel 2, these are all Wii games that look breathtaking. And if there is a WiiHD down the road, these games will probably be able to be upscaled there. Remember the HD Galaxy pics from a while back at 720p? Epic Mickey could eventually be given the same treatment from a later Wii console.
Oh, and as for why this is darker than Fantasia, this is treasured Disney IP, usually considered to be sacrosanct, being twisted and contorted and destroyed and paint thinned and on and on. It's incredibly dark because they're risking all the good will earned by their theme parks, characters, rides, on and on, with these (frankly) nightmarish visions. It's incredibly exciting.
VGChampion
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This looks amazing. This will be my most wanted game if it is still coming. I gotta say, Wii and PC would be the two best consoles for this game. After playing some of the better games on the Wii, I'm slowly not wanting to go back to regular controllers.
Father_Brain
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Can someone please repost the rest of the art from Post #109? Hosting it on Photobucket wasn't the best idea, apparently.
SmashBrosAwesome
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Can someone rehost the concept art that was on post #109? Or at least give their original source? Missed them the first time around.
Anyways, this is definitely a title I'll keep an eye on...
edit: beaten by a minute
Anyways, this is definitely a title I'll keep an eye on...
edit: beaten by a minute
Sho_Nuff82
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Kingdom Hearts killer right here.
The concept art looks very interesting. I'd love to see more.
I have no doubt this can work on the Wii, but they're definitely taking a risky direction, and while a dark tone in Disney isn't exactly without precedent, this is pretty extreme. I'm not fully sold that they'll pull it off yet.
While dark, dystopian steampunk can work to some degree here, it can't be the entire project. I can imagine this being really, really cool if done right, but a lot depends on how Mickey is handled. If this becomes just another adolescent power fantasy, they're grossly misusing the property.
I have no doubt this can work on the Wii, but they're definitely taking a risky direction, and while a dark tone in Disney isn't exactly without precedent, this is pretty extreme. I'm not fully sold that they'll pull it off yet.
While dark, dystopian steampunk can work to some degree here, it can't be the entire project. I can imagine this being really, really cool if done right, but a lot depends on how Mickey is handled. If this becomes just another adolescent power fantasy, they're grossly misusing the property.
More Fun To Compute
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The concept art reminds me of this.
sonicmj1 said:
That's my fear as well, but in the end we don't know anything about the game, so we'll see. I don't understand why some people are saying that they'll have to buy a Wii for this game and that it looks great. Not a single screenshot has been released so far. No info about the gameplay either. A bit too soon to call it a day 1 purchase, isn't it?
Hero of Legend
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That art above reminds of this:
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
dukerayburn
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Here's the concept artist's site, at least for the character and environment concepts. The stuff before the edit in the Kotaku article wasn't by him, but he did the Landing one.
There's a cloaked figure in the additional concept art on the developer site that could match up with the (very terrifying) cloaked figure in the Character section. And that character has a toon glove atop his staff, so he's almost certainly part of the world.
There's a cloaked figure in the additional concept art on the developer site that could match up with the (very terrifying) cloaked figure in the Character section. And that character has a toon glove atop his staff, so he's almost certainly part of the world.
SirPenguin
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dukerayburn said:
Walt Disney himself?!
â Narayan
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Seriously.ismaboof said:
I think it's quite clear that this project is so unashamedly epic that to put it on any of our filthy current-gen consoles would be a waste. In fact, the game's design is so gloriously mind-blowing that to even consider putting it on a PC would be a sin against the game's true worth. In fact, these designs are far too epic to be a game at all! Rather, they shall be screened onto sky scrapers from the sky in the highest of high-definitions! This will be no game nor movie, but an event crafted by those Gods up on Mount Olympus! It shall last forty days and forty nights. People shall die! Angels will weep! It will be epic.
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