MrCunningham
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Well yeah, at least Ryo doesn't look like a character model from The Sim's anymore...
The model in the trailer does look closer to the original design, with a few more tweaks it could be there.
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Shenmue III The 1st Teaser | PS4
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Well yeah, at least Ryo doesn't look like a character model from The Sim's anymore...
The model in the trailer does look closer to the original design, with a few more tweaks it could be there.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Faces look funny, but I don't really care. Can't wait.
TheGameshark
Member
lol zero facial animation
Polygonal_Sprite
Member
Terrible character models and animation. The definition of the word 'jank'.
Pretty Environments.
Pretty Environments.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
I'm not expecting AAA or hell even a great game. If it's just more of the shenmue story I'm happy, that's all I need.
zeopower6
Member
Yep. I think development is going smoothly with improvements slowly coming in. Faces next though!
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
All the people commenting on this game that clearly have no clue what they're talking about and have no interest in the game...stop.
CuckFupertino
Banned
Holy shit I thought the main character was wearing a mask. That's his face?!
Oh god, the dead eyes...
Oh god, the dead eyes...
This has me wondering. If Yu Suzuki could do all this being a leading pioneer of 3D based motion graphics for video games back in the 90s, what could he do with a blank check? I also wonder what the top directors of today could come up with while given the constraints he is working with to pull off a groundbreaking, free roaming, & living breathing action RPG.
Danjin44
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I might be alone on this but I kind of wish they wouldn't go so hyper realistic with this games. The character models look very stylize even more than Final Fantasy games.
I mean this guy looks very cartoony to me.
I wouldn't mind they would go for with this type graphic style.
Its not really super realistic but at same time its not quite cell shaded like Gravity Rush and Ni no Kuni.
I mean this guy looks very cartoony to me.
I wouldn't mind they would go for with this type graphic style.
Its not really super realistic but at same time its not quite cell shaded like Gravity Rush and Ni no Kuni.
I wouldn't mind they would go for with this type graphic style.
Its not really super realistic but at same time its not quite cell shaded like Gravity Rush and Ni no Kuni.
NAAAAAAAH!
zeopower6
Member
I think a lot of people would be against that kind of shift. Also some people do look like that guy in real life.
Let me translate his words of wisdom. " I see ya'll talking smack about my faces. Better not catch yo fools in a dark alley. I don't just make fighting games, I whoop as fo livin peeps. Keeping it r.e.a.l (reactive eyes action fo life)
JK
Yeah. Poor guy, the logo has gotten lambasted pretty hard since last week so I hope he's not taking it too personally.
The update doesn't make him sound too attached to it though ("but let me know what you think!"), so maybe it'll just be a quick and painless return to the cursive next month.
Jack The Nipper
Banned
Aren't there fans that do good work these days that can help them out. Seems thier art direction needs help in textures and well. Looks worse than amateur or small studios work on pc.. So who is doing this work on shenmue.
LordOcidax
Member
From the Mass Effect Andromeda gameplay reveal... and this is just 1 page from the thread.
Bioware animation
Some things will never change.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Guys, I still can't believe it...so many memories of Shenmue and Shenmue II (the GOAT) are flooding back to me. Shenmue III looks so beyond my expectations...someone hold me.
yiiiikes. Not looking good. I was under the impression that they were getting a bigger budget after the kickstarter thing? Was that not true?
To all the people saying "well it's still over a year out!" sow me a game that looked THIS rough 1+ year out and turned it around significantly. Hell e3 2015 was the reveal of horizon and it looked amazing. Another excuse people keep making is that this isn't a AAA studio or w.e... yeah a AAA studio with a year time can do a lot more than a small studio can. Either this is going to underwhelm, or it's going to be delayed even further.
To all the people saying "well it's still over a year out!" sow me a game that looked THIS rough 1+ year out and turned it around significantly. Hell e3 2015 was the reveal of horizon and it looked amazing. Another excuse people keep making is that this isn't a AAA studio or w.e... yeah a AAA studio with a year time can do a lot more than a small studio can. Either this is going to underwhelm, or it's going to be delayed even further.
Danjin44
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Really!!? They way his muscles are and his face is looks like he just came out of Street Fighter. I don't know, If they polish this game more it might end looking really good but right now the character models looking really weird to me.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Comparing this to Horizon? LOL.
And the game is only going to dissapoint people who weren't Shenmue fans to begin with. People really need some perspective when it comes to this game. : /
Dreamwriter
Member
What exactly do you think is going to take them over a year to fix? I mean, the worst thing is the fact that the faces arent animating. They havent animated the faces yet a year before release, oh no! Its a disaster, the game will suck!
As for Horizon, lets see, a game with a $47 million budget, seen by many as the most graphically impressive game to date, versus Shenmue III, a game with a $6 million budget. Hmm, I wonder why Shenmue doesnt look as good?
Neoleo2143
Member
I think it's just the facial animation needs work (all the work, in fact, it's not bad, it's nonexistent), the other body movements look pretty decent. The environment and music are gorgeous. As a work in progress, I like what I see, but I haven't really seen what made Shenmue, Shenmue to me quite yet.
Trust me, any AAA studio has parts of their game that look like this pre-release, you just don't see them because of smoke and mirrors marketing horseshit like vertical slices where parts of a game are pushed to near-final states for press conferences.
For better or worse, YSnet showed us Shenmue III warts and all. It'd be commendable if it wasn't also a weird marketing move.
These were less than a year, but:
MotorStorm
Perfect Dark Zero (remember wallguy?)
Bringing up shit like Horizon is silly, as its reveal actually looks better in various ways than the final game.
Chezzymann
Member
Animation is really bad. Like someones first animation test bad. Graphics look great though.
RustyNails
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I just had to capture this
ronaldthump
Member
it doesnt look very good. how is it trolling pointing out facts.
Shadow2222
Member
This thread is so bizarre lol, as everything looks great besides the faces which haven't even been animated yet.
ronaldthump
Member
still dont get why all the characters have that hovering light that illuminates their faces. looks so bad.
And you've missed the point entirely. If GG had 50 Million and a super team put togethe with a years time, they could create a masterpiece. Now knock that budget down to nothing and cut the team down dramatically.
Again just like above, you've missed my point. I don't expect it to look like horizon, not even a little. The point is that I keep hearing "oh it's over a year out! It's just an early build! It's a WIP!" I'm sorry but 1 year time is not enough for a dramatic turn around from a small team with a tiny budget.
Right I get that, they pick out the best parts. I guess it's possible they skipped all the good parts? Sure the environments look fine. The character models are hideous and the animations are meh. It's a mess. Sorry that hurts the fans so much, but I think we need to start being a bit realistic about what a small team and 5 million dollar budget can do with a little over a year of dev time left.
I'll give you motorstorm, but even that didn't look quite this bad. PDZ was a mess as well... neither of those games turned out great, but if it ends up like that? I'll be cool with that. Those particular teams were huge and had massive budgets to help turn their fortunes around. Something these guys won't have.
edit- also no te reveal doesn't look better than the final game.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Yep.
The fact that it even looks this good already with its small budget is a bloody miracle. It's extremely impressive all things considered.
AHHHHH I'M SO HYPED!
zeopower6
Member
Well, the point you are hearing is kind of because the video literally states:
Basically it was made to show you characters and the world and it did that, didn't it? It is kind of bad IMO that they put it out without actually doing much (or any) facial animation but other aspects look great to me.
As a real fan this looks great to me because I can sense the experience it will provide which is wholly unique to the series. Why are so many here obsessed with comparing the graphics to titles with 10x+ the budget? If it matters that much to you then stick to playing those games.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I just realized my phone auto corrected unfinished to finished in my last post lol.
It can't be a fact when it's subjective. For an indie title that is unfinished, I think it's an exaggeration to say the game looks as bad as some here are claiming. Especially when you start jumping to conclusions on it flopping.
PDZ may not have turned out great (MotorStorm did, I'll fight you), but it was graphically easily in league with other Xbox 360 launch titles, whilst the furore around wallguy was that the game looked worse than Halo CE based on that shot.
There's also The Order 1886, which whilst not a mess graphically... well, this comparison says it all.
I don't want to get into a long drawn out argument surrounding Horizon, because at the end of the day I'll agree that it's probably the best looking game out right now... but whilst the overall effect of the graphics in the retail game stack up well with the reveal, there are various areas it looked better at the time, in terms of Aloy's interactions with foliage, shadow detail, and even her hair and outfit looked more consistent, with less identifiable seams than the retail game.
play Hellblade
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
That trailer looks like a solid $39.99 WIP title.
Or Uncharted TLL or even Yakuza 0. Facial animation and acting in the cinematic scenes is top notch. Or Injustice 2.
Or Uncharted TLL or even Yakuza 0. Facial animation and acting in the cinematic scenes is top notch. Or Injustice 2.
zeopower6
Member
That makes a lot of sense. People really gotta look at this post. Thanks for the insight, Guru! I kinda figured it was not recent but honestly I don't think it was a good idea to put it out on the scale that they did because it's mostly a lot of idiots who will nitpick at every single imperfection for WIP. :/
Lumpy Onion
Member
I don't like the faces. A shame since one of the things that impressed me the most about Shenmue was the faces.