Support NeoGAF

[Skilletor]

Why would you produce a sample art for the game that looked absolutely beautiful, and then proceed to make a game that looks absolutely nothing like it?

As said, Dragon's crown was made on a budget of 1 mil. For reason reason 4 times that much that wasnt enough to make an attractive looking product

Probably because most of it went to adding more content.

You know, because that's what the kickstarter listed and detailed.

 

[nowai]

Well, Vanillaware goes with something akin to flash animation for how their characters move, which probably drops costs a lot versus traditional sprite drawing, especially at that detail, and I'm not sure Mighty No. 9 would feel right with that sort of animation. But then Mighty No. 9 didn't really need a highly detailed, very smooth animation style either, so I guess it's just kind of a bum call to go full 3D versus following the example of Wayforward and AT LEAST do sprites on a 3D background or something.

Correct on Vanillaware.

A morphed and distorted static image is not remotely close to individually drawn frames on animation sprites.

Even 3D modeled animation like MN9 can be more laborious than a stretched and morphed static image.

 

[Draxal]

I still don't get the reaction this game's visuals get on GAF.

I think it looks good.

Couldn't say it better myself.

 

[Ishida]

You sound more angry and self centered than old.

Not really, just disappointed in the overreactions of people.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Probably because most of it went to adding more content.

You know, because that's what the kickstarter listed and detailed.

I'd rather they have gutted all that and made the actual game they advertised on the kickstarter page as it was being funded. Having voices or a TV show means nothing if your source material fails to impress

Correct on Vanillaware.

A morphed and distorted static image is not remotely close to individually drawn frames on animation sprites.

That's true, but they still have to animate the animations of them walking or doing attacks. That morphing effect is usually just for static states where the character is not moving. I don't think its unappealing in that instance

 

[synce]

The last thing I expected here is a graphics debate, but I guess that's what everything these days seems to devolve into. I don't care how this game looks, I want to see some Roll gameplay

 

[Skilletor]

I'd rather they have gutted all that and made the actual game they advertised on the kickstarter page as it was being funded. Having voices or a TV show means nothing if your source material fails to impress



That's true, but they still have to animate the animations of them walking or doing attacks. That morphing effect is usually just for static states where the character is not moving. I don't think its unappealing in that instance

I'm getting the game the game they advertised, the game I backed, with more bosses, more modes, and available on my platform of choice.

I don't know what kickstarter you saw.

 

[akachan ningen]

What did they spend all that money on? Beer and yakitori?

 

[Wereroku]

What did they spend all that money on? Beer and yakitori?

Additional bosses, a Call stage, and multiplayer modes among others. Here is a nice link showing everything they used the money towards.

 

[Ishida]

What did they spend all that money on? Beer and yakitori?

Do you think people work for free?

 

[vasametropolis]

UbiArt and this game would have been so good.

 

[exmachina64]

UbiArt and this game would have been so good.

UbiArt and a lot of ideas would have been good except, unless I missed something, Ubisoft has made sure no one outside the company will ever use it.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Could see the pictures just now! Well, I was expecting it to be worse by some comments. It is already much better then the latest screens.

It is still not awesome in terms of visuals, but I can easily live with that. The most important now is the gameplay and enemies design. It could receive some more polishing though.

 

[Zetta]

Seeing as I would be okay with an 8 bit Megaman game, this looks great. Can't wait to get my hands on this.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

So what I'm getting from this thread is that people who supposedly want a megaman game for the longest time, would suddenly not want a megaman game if it doesn't have good graphics?

And it's certainly not about the gameplay, as that had seemingly positive feedback.

 

[Bedlam]

Well, not great but at least it looks better than the previous screenshots.

Still, I wish I had backed Shovel Knight instead of this, for example.

 

[Purple Cheeto]

The Japanese Molyneux continues to not impress.

 

[Ishida]

The Japanese Molyneux continues to not impress.

What the hell?

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

It looks like a low budget production. Sorry.

Why is this your dealbreaker?

 

[nynt9]

So what I'm getting from this thread is that people who supposedly want a megaman game for the longest time, would suddenly not want a megaman game if it doesn't have good graphics?

And it's certainly not about the gameplay, as that had seemingly positive feedback.

You can want something overall but still be disappointed by how it turned out.

And there's some gameplay concerns too, as from videos and impressions it doesn't exactly play like mega man classic, more like a score attack game.

 

[nded]

What the hell?

Yeah, game appears to be delivering most of what was promised if not as pretty as some people would like.

 

[Ishida]

Yeah, game appears to be delivering most of what was promised if not as pretty as some people would like.

Exactly. The hyperbole here is reaching dumbfuck levels.

 

[Strike]

Kinda wished it used 2D sprites instead, but I can overlook that if it plays well.

 

[la_briola]

Didn't you know? Graphics are 90% of the whole game.

Since 2000.

I think they do something similar to this:

But sort of better.

This looks awful and all kind of wrong.

 

[liliththepale]

If Ishida just wants someone to say the gameplay looks bad, I can do that. It looks really boring.

 

[shaowebb]

Sadly, after seeing the combo based gameplay of dashing through enemies I feel kinda turned off on the game due to that combat gimmick. I'm happy with Gunvolt though and glad it will be getting a sequel. Honestly got pretty put off by Inafune's cartoon and second kickstarter and general behavior on the project. Hadn't even finished the game and suddenly asks for more money and then says he's doing an animated show for it? Bleh...not cool.

Meh...guess I just feel a bit worn out on this project since Inafune started behaving like he was still Capcom there for awhile. Kamiya said it best...Inafune is a businessman more than a creator.

 

[jholmes]

Man I have a lot of issues with the MN9 campaign but I can't agree with all you people badmouthing how the game looks. I like these screens a lot better than the last batch.