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"Mighty No.9" First in-engine footage (rough/placeholder, 7 days of development)
- Thread starter Akai__
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7 days in looking like cookie-cutter UE3 is no big deal. The 30fps thing is a more legit concern, but what Unity-powered games run at 60fps on 360/PS3 and look like what this game aims to look like?
Storm Chamber
Banned
Not bad for 7 days
LOL
Capcom is properly too busy trying to save its sinking ship to deal with Mighty No 9, beside the backlash against Capcom would be huge if that happens.
MEsoJD
Banned
I must have been high when I first saw this game, I was assuming it was literally going to look like this lol.
Sadly I thought the same thing. :/
SteveWinwood
Member
shhh facts r hard
GayForMaster
Banned
It looks so fucking good!
I feel like the biggest crowd-funded projects should only show off something that is a good approximation of the final product. If they don't have it, they should either wait until they do (like Star Citizen) or don't show anything. Most people just don't understand prototypes.
SteveWinwood
Member
To show that you're team is actually competent and knows what they're doing. To encourage thoughts like 'man if they can shit out this in 7 days just think of what a year will do!'
Will that/does that actually work? I don't know, probably not. But I feel that's what they're trying for when they do that.
To my knowledge, this is what the only Unity game of this style on 360/PS3 looks like:
I believe it's also 30 fps.
What's impressive about this? 7 days to make something that looks exactly like Mega Man. How many games have there been in the series? I'm not saying the finished product will be bad, but it seems kind of pointless for the devs to post a video like this. I dont think anyone is doubting Inafune's ability to create another Mega Man.
StickSoldier
Member
Where's the target screenshot?
BoosterDuck
Banned
Confirmed 300fps for PC's. I just hope Unreal doesn't make everything look shiny like most Unreal games.
Look up, it's on this page.
It wouldn't be if people knew how to read.
donkey show
Member
The shot that has been flying around in this thread and on the first page like he said? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9
It looks...well, how it looks. It's test footage. Undoubtedly the final game won't resemble this and hopefully it's more than a Mega Man clone. 
I hope they budgeted the 3DS and Vita stuff properly because those two will need the game to be redone from the ground up, especially the 3DS version. Heck, I wonder if Vita will even be around in 2015. Actually, I don't really have to wonder.
I hope they budgeted the 3DS and Vita stuff properly because those two will need the game to be redone from the ground up, especially the 3DS version. Heck, I wonder if Vita will even be around in 2015. Actually, I don't really have to wonder.
Did you back this game? I don't see why anyone would complain about a developer giving visual confirmation that their crowdfunded game is being worked on and that they're doing their best to meet expectations set by concept art and target renders.
Seven days for this? Considering it's just 2D, it should be done by now!
BELIEVE
crooked spin
Member
Glad they went with polygons, I'm personally really tired of retro pixelart de-makes of classic games.
Stone Ocean
Member
Looks pretty good for a 7 day demo, not sure what people were expecting.
I just wish it looked more like X and less like Classic.
I just wish it looked more like X and less like Classic.
rockmanjoe
Member
Wow, if this is what they did in 7 days I can't wait to see what they can do with proper dev time!
Isn't this supposed to be a Mega Man game in everything but name? I thought Mega Man wanted a new game! Make up your minds =p.
These kind of super early looks into the process are great for backers but once they're in the public eye it can easily get twisted into something it isn't meant to be, despite disclaimers. I'd almost rather they hold off and document a lot of these milestones for later on because of that, as interesting as it is to see as its happening.
8-4 has talked quite a bit on the Kickstarter podcast about the balance the team is looking to strike between classic Mega Man and new gameplay ideas. They seem to have a pretty good handle on what's important to keep (structure, tight gameplay) and where they can innovate. It won't be a straight up clone.
Because that isn't a small feat in of itself. Making something look and play like a Mega Man game is hard. It already looks more like a proper Mega Man game than Mega Man X7 did. Even Mega Man X8 was a bit more clunky than that. The series hasn't had a good track-record when it comes to games with 3D graphics.
It is all placeholder assets, but the basic physics and speed all look pretty good. It already looks about as good as Mega Man Powered Up visually, as well, even with placeholders.
Basically, this video is proof that they can pull off the Mega Man style gameplay in the Unreal Engine.
Senor Kami
Banned
What ground could they stand on? Nobody owns the concept of 2D platformers or games with robots in them. Just like how DC can't sue anyone that makes a comic about crime fighting aliens or rich people that fight crime.
Inafune is doing it right, unlike those fan projects that moronically use real IP and then act shocked when a cease and desist hits them. He's made something that is clearly and obviously a spiritual successor to Megaman but is different enough to not infringe on copyrights.
This is godlike. When I was a kid, this is what I imagined the future of sprite games would look like: a playable cartoon. Kinda funny that all of the hand-drawn stuff fails miserably at it despite being created in a way that should make it look that way by default but the ones with 3D models are killing it.
Too much lazy anime tactics like only animating certain parts, practically never animating at the same frame rate that the game runs in, and a complete refusal to animate alternate camera angles kills it.
It's a bit more obvious here:
It's largely a lot of texturing and shading work, and then using a camera that look straight at the characters.
Holy crap that looks beautiful. What game is it???
Devilgunman
Member
It's a KS game and it is devs' responsibility to keep updating info for its backers. It has been only 7 days in development and they already have something to show and it looks very promising.
Tidesofblood
Member
Thats a good looking not megaman megaman game
Explosions look so f'ing good.Title says it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXDiQrgI6M
Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9/posts/613681
Looks great to me.
In case anyone missed this before, this was never a sprite game:
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Reminds me of Powered Up.
Just_myles
Member
It's just a placeholder stuff. Often when you have staff that can mock something up in this manner and amount of time it will look rough. It is intended to be a road map, and it's a part of the game development process. Come on guys, we should know better to judge this. We're lucky to even see this. Non-backers especially.
Dirk Benedict
Member
I must have been high when I first saw this game, I was assuming it was literally going to look like this lol.
Plenty of time till 2015.