• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Ubisoft's new bullshot practice: pretending an old game looked worse than it did

Status
Not open for further replies.
S

Salsa

Member
as spotted by Knurek, thought it deserved its own thread

this is how they're saying heroes of might and magic III looked to make the HD improvement seem that much more significant

447969210.jpg


uhhh what

edit: how the original HOMM3 really looked like

fJ3KR6M.jpg


REFeWGF.jpg


72741950a024adc63eceeu6uuh.jpg
 
is the title that confusing? everyone does bullshots, but rather than making the newer game look better than what it ends up looking, the "new" refers to making the older game look worse
 
Smellycat said:
New? lol

http://revolutionmedia.ign.com/revolution/image/article/704/704040/e3-red-steel-screens-20060501034051480.jpg[/MG][/QUOTE]

So many and long discussions about the Wii being on par with the PS3 and Xbox 360 (just not HD!) based on the Red Bull bullshots.

Good memories.
Click to expand...
 
I think he's talking about a new way of bullshot ting where they make the original look worse than what it really was.

They did blow the pixel up. That always makes things look worse, but I don't think they did it on purpose. Maybe they did.
 
The fake-old pixel art looks better than the actual old screenshot you posted. Also looks better than the "new" style.
 
SalsaShark said:
is the title that confusing? everyone does bullshots, but rather than making the newer game look better than what it ends up looking, the "new" refers to making the older game look worse
Click to expand...
you didnt provide a comparison when people like me didnt know what M&M3 looked like
 
Are there really no false advertisement laws or court rulings that might give grounds to a lawsuit? This is taking an old existing product and falsely changing it.
 
SalsaShark said:
is the title that confusing? everyone does bullshots, but rather than making the newer game look better than what it ends up looking, the "new" refers to making the older game look worse
Click to expand...

It took me a moment to see what you were saying, perhaps "new/updated bullshot techique" would've been a better title
 
SalsaShark said:
new in the sense that making older versions look worse seems to be the way to go now



REFeWGF.jpg
Click to expand...
Accounting for the amount of compression artifacting here, this would suggest that the new version is actually exactly the same as the original.

Edit:

Here's a screenshot from GOG:

72741950a024adc63eceeu6uuh.jpg
 
TheMoon said:
The fake-old pixel art looks better than the actual old screenshot you posted. Also looks better than the "new" style.
Click to expand...

Aside from the piss-yellow outline ingame, no it most certainly does not. It wasn't designed for that res and thus looks completely terrible.
 
Those HOMM sprites must have been from the DOS prototype they were working on...
Also I love how the Red Steel shot even features fake, nonsensical aliasing.
 
I don't know if it's possible with HoMM engine (2D sprites), but I'd like to see the final version, especially whether the "HD" actually means higher resolution pseudo-3D models for modern screens.

I thought the video looked weird, though.
 
So you're saying that they faked it by creating whole new pixel art for the characters/enemies that made them look worse than they actually did?

Not familiar with the game at all but could it have had a low quality setting on the original that made them look different or perhaps a different version entirely?
 
At this point I can't be surprised by this stuff anymore. It's scummy, but sadly I've grown to expect things like this.
 
I got to give them bonus points for creativity.

Actually, scratch that.They'd be better of putting that creativity into their games.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Your best new game you've found? Doesn't matter if old release or new
2
63
74
Ainem Enamas replied
  • Locked
Somehow older gamers have become worse than the older people who were always trying to demonize games when we were children 😭
29
352
T4keD0wN replied
  • Poll
Would Nintendo games have done better on PC than Sony games did?
2
68
804
FoxMcChief replied
Skull and Bones, Ubisoft's first AAAA game, is $3 on Steam
News  2
56
502
Deficit replied
Ubisoft is testing generative AI in Far Cry 7 for R&D and “it looks like shit”
Rumor Game Dev 
30
521
Gambit2483 replied
Top Bottom