• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Monster Hunter 4 TGS 2012 trailer

M

Man God

Non-Canon Member
Negative twenty compelling textures, will be lucky to sell 800k, should have been on a system with three sticks, no ad-hoc online play.
 
A

Alrus

Member
The only truly awful textures are the vines one during the monkey fight. The rest of the game is actually quite beautiful imo, I love the colors.
 
V

vagabondarts

Member
xxbrothawizxx63 said:
I'm really confused about how I feel it looks graphically....

On one hand, the game has a draw distance that is unparalleled on 3DS all while having some of the best shader usage, brilliant colors, and beautiful animation (cloth, hunter movements, monster movements, etc.), but on the other side of this are the HORRENDOUS textures that nearly ruin the entire presentation for me

(I mean jeez,some of the textures really do look like nearly N64).
.
Click to expand...

I don't understand. You probably thought Xenoblade was ugly too, right? Overall aesthetics are more important than hi resolution textures. In an online game I would rather the framerate hold up well during matches as well.

Anyway, here's a visual reminder of what you're comparing the textures in this game with:

ITrei.jpg

DFJO3.jpg


Technically, this shouldn't even be an example since it's obviously emulated. Even still:
Z21f0.jpg
 
Zenaku

Zenaku

Member
Watching the trailer again...Am I imagining things? The form, and the way they move...is the blue Bow hunter female? I haven't gotten all the armour in 3G, but I can only recall one helm that completely covers the face, and it's always disappointed me that the male hunters have such cool ones.
 
E

eighty(one)

Member
Forever said:
The screens on that site look really nice.
world_img_04.jpg
Click to expand...

This pic reminds me of the path between the Encampment and Gran Soren, in Dragon's Dogma. Looking at it, I imagine my pawn and his "keep an eye to the shadows, master, goblins may await in ambush"; while harpies encirle the treetops littering the path ahead....

I want this game - solely - for rekindling the Dragons Dogma feelings....
 
F

fates

Member
surprised (or not, really...) to see a lot of complaints about the visuals. MH has always prospered on handhelds so the graphics are obviously not up to what the consoles will put out. Regardless, I think the MH games have always looked pretty good for their hardware.

In any event, this, like MH3G, willl likely look amazing on the screen. I sure hope that self-shadowing carries because that's what really wowed me with 3G.
 
N

Neiteio

Member
Can someone extract the background image of the black dragon seen at the top of the page here? He loads on a separate later from the here that's superimposed over him...
 
H

Hiltz

Member
Holy crap, that black monster is badass. It's like something out of Demons Souls. MH4 also appears to have the freakiest looking monster, that monkey thing with the kooky face.
 
N

Neiteio

Member
Hiltz said:
Holy crap, that black monster is badass. It's like something out of Demons Souls. MH4 also appears to have the freakiest looking monster, that monkey thing with the kooky face.
Click to expand...
I know, that's why I'm trying to get somebody to extract its picture from the website's World page, lol.
 
K

Kazerei

Banned
Neiteio said:
One more -- Can anyone extract the individual monsters, and the background pic of the plains, separately from this page?
Click to expand...

The content is all on one layer, and split into six images

http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_01.jpg
http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_02.jpg
http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_03.jpg
http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_04.jpg
http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_05.jpg
http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_06.jpg
 
V

Vaati

Banned
I wonder how accessible it'll be. I tried playing MHFU but it was too much of a pain to learn how to play, especially with the controls, to put much time into it.
 
A

Amir0x

Banned
man Capcom is eternally finding ways to keep from making a ground-up HD Monster Hunter engine game, I was hoping with Wii U they'd finally hop that direction. I forgot they announced this for 3DS before

*sigh* I guess I want still :/

edit: yikes at sharpened visuals :<
 
N

Nekki

Member
Amir0x said:
man Capcom is eternally finding ways to keep from making a ground-up HD Monster Hunter engine game, I was hoping with Wii U they'd finally hop that direction. I forgot they announced this for 3DS before

*sigh* I guess I want still :/

edit: yikes at sharpened visuals :<
Click to expand...

I know what you mean, but in my opinion if a game is fun that's all that matters. MH's graphics are just good enough. Sure i enjoy great graphics, but that doesn't make or break a game for me.

(/trash anecdote) Recently i've been playing X-Com: Ufo Defense and i'm having more fun with that game than with a lot of current-gen games (/trash anecdote)
 
U

udivision

Member
Amir0x said:
man Capcom is eternally finding ways to keep from making a ground-up HD Monster Hunter engine game, I was hoping with Wii U they'd finally hop that direction. I forgot they announced this for 3DS before

*sigh* I guess I want still :/

edit: yikes at sharpened visuals :<
Click to expand...

I know GAF isn't just one person so this isn't directed at you, but if the mentality that "Everything needs to be AAA (and have a AAA budget)" is being blamed for some of the downfall of the gaming industry, how come we won't let companies practice smarter budgeting? A galaxy-esque NSMB and Pokemon MMO make no financial sense, and maybe it's better to leave well enough alone. It's not always the case, but sometimes ramping up a game's budget with no expectation of increased return isn't a good idea. And sometimes, it can be.

Metalmurphy said:
Is that the Wii U version? Finally a good looking MH game?
Click to expand...
No. There is no Wii U version announced, and that is what we call, a render.
 
M

Metalmurphy

Member
udivision said:
I know GAF isn't just one person so this isn't directed at you, but if the mentality that "Everything needs to be AAA (and have a AAA budget)" is being blamed for some of the downfall of the gaming industry, how come we won't let companies practice smarter budgeting? A galaxy-esque NSMB and Pokemon MMO make no financial sense, and maybe it's better to leave well enough alone. It's not always the case, but sometimes ramping up a game's budget with no expectation of increased return isn't a good idea. And sometimes, it can be.
Click to expand...
But it could be somewhere in the middle. A series that's been going on for 8 year, been on 6+ platforms and barely changed since the PS2 days is kinda of inexcusable.


udivision said:
Obviously. Ignore the 3DS in the top right corner, though.
Click to expand...
I did, cause that's obviously not the 3DS version...
 
A

AdventureRacing

Member
udivision said:
I know GAF isn't just one person so this isn't directed at you, but if the mentality that "Everything needs to be AAA (and have a AAA budget)" is being blamed for some of the downfall of the gaming industry, how come we won't let companies practice smarter budgeting? A galaxy-esque NSMB and Pokemon MMO make no financial sense, and maybe it's better to leave well enough alone. It's not always the case, but sometimes ramping up a game's budget with no expectation of increased return isn't a good idea. And sometimes, it can be.
Click to expand...

Well i can't speak for anyone else but for me personally it's because this is a game that i think would look fucking amazing on a HD console. I don't need every game to be 'AAA' and have huge budgets and amazing graphics. However in a game about fighting huge monsters i think it's pretty appropriate.

This isn't meant as port begging or anything just explaining my feelins on the subject.
 
E

EVIL

Member
Metalmurphy said:
Is that the Wii U version? Finally a good looking MH game?
Click to expand...

oh god I'd wish!

edit: looking again at that render.. Its using game like assets (normal mapped detail for example) if you would build promotion material, you wouldnt normal map those since that takes allot more extra work then simply pose your highresolution sculpted mesh. So it actually could be an ingame version for a more powerfull system then the 3DS.
Same goes for the Characters in those monsterhunter 4 scans we saw a couple of weeks back. much higher resolution meshes with normal maps ready to be used ingame on a more powerfull system.
http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_03.jpg
http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/4/images/world_05.jpg
Click to expand...
for example

could also explain the strange sharpening in the 3ds version, since maybe these assets where optimized sharply from around 10.000 triangles to 2000 with much lower rez textures
 
K

Kyoufu

Member
Watching those videos and seeing the player use the dpad to control the camera made me cringe. Wouldn't be so bad if it was above the analogue and not below. Definitely getting the Frankenstick XL for this.
 
F

Father_Brain

Banned
Man, there is a massive gulf in this game's visual quality between how it looks on a small screen and on a larger one, especially when compared to other MTF-powered 3DS titles like RE:R and EX Troopers. I guess that's a consequence of the larger, more open environments.

It'll look fine as is at 400x240, but I hope that Capcom at least ups the texture resolution for the inevitable HD version.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

  • Locked
Monster Hunter World has world has sold over 23M copies, MH Rise 13 Million. Monster Hunter Now Reaches 10 million downloads.
Sales-Age 2
54
3K
John Bilbo replied
Tune in to the first Dune: Awakening Direct on March 4, 18:00 CET/12:00 ET!
News
3
560
March Climber replied
Monster Hunter: World shipments and digital sales top 25 million | New record-high set for single-title sales in the series' 20th anniversary year
Sales-Age
21
1K
LavitzSlambert replied
Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat gets launch trailer
Trailer
19
2K
Toots replied
DF Direct Weekly #108: Unrecord's 'Realism' Explained, Horizon Burning Shores Hands-On
1
604
22:22:22 replied
Top Bottom