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Nintendo Wii's best looking games
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JimboJones
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One of the main benefits from component cables I have found is that the cursor feels much less laggy, feels much more sharp and responsive.
iamaustrian
Member
Sagitario said:
yes, it is.
great action-adventure
maybe not 50 bucks great, so rent first or watch some youtube reviews
I have a walkthrough if you're interested http://www.youtube.com/user/0pposableThumbs#grid/user/4B466F2AA2F5A154Sagitario said:
Probably not worth 50 but I thought the game was fun and it had decent length( a bit on the easy side though) If you can find it cheap I'd say pick it up or at the very least give it a rent.
minus_273 said:so i just finished this game..
sure it looks pretty but i couldnt sit through that game, plays like ASS. if it played like an actual final fantasy and not just some stupid ooh lets throw things about and shoot at stuff i would like it.
poor combat system let the game down
jediyoshi - Where did you get such beautiful shots? Those look fantastic. Dolphin?
Again, that's no fault of the Wii.
It does not. It is lacking effects which made the game look particularly unique. It's OK to prefer the simplified look of the Wii version, but its loss of certain effects is not really a matter of debate.MYE said:
Again, that's no fault of the Wii.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
It's Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles.Kolgar said:
Not that. The black lines were much more active in the PS2 version. Brushing past them literally made them briefly spill out into the textured area. It made the painted edges appear very alive. There were large pools of black ink that interacted with the rest of the image on PS2, but these become solid, static areas on the Wii (almost as if they are simply a part of the texture). The picture is just much less dynamic.
What made it look better to you on the Wii then? I'm seriously not understanding this point of view.
_Alkaline_
Member
The PS2 version does look a bit better but honestly the difference is nothing to write home about. In fact sometimes the PS2 versions looks washed out, Okami abused bloom a bit too much for its own good.
Wii version also has shorter loading times which is a godsend.
Wii version also has shorter loading times which is a godsend.
brain_stew
Member
Rafaelcsa said:
Ths situation couldn't be anymore different.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Which is the pinnacle of fail.dark10x said:
TAS
Member
I have my Wii connected via component on my old 32" Panasonic tube television. It looks 10x better than when I had it connected to my HDTV. The games are much more vibrant and crisp. You have to realize that the Wii was made for SD televisions and thus should be played on them for maximum effect. If you have an old tube with component inputs lying around give it a shot and I guarantee you won't go back. 
TAS said:I have my Wii connected via component on my old 32" Panasonic tube television. It looks 10x better than when I had it connected to my HDTV. The games are more vibrant and crisp. You have to realize that the Wii was made for SD televisions and thus should be played on them for maximum effect. If you have an old tube with component inputs lying around give it a shot and I guarantee you won't go back.
My thoughts exactly. I used an old 32" Sony Trinitron 480p / 1080i tube television with component cables. It looked so much better than on my 26" 720p LCD HDTV.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
The colors looked way more blown-out on the Wii version without the paper filter. It comes down to whether you prefer that look or not.dark10x said:
I know I was lazy and chose old shots of SMG but I'm not going to bother hunting down the best pics. One thing I wanted to say is that I absolutely LOVED the partly interactive, party passive intro from the original SMG with the town at night. The parts where the battleships are smashing the town and Mario is in the scene, have a pre-rendered CG-ish look to it, and I love it all. I really disliked the 2D-ish intro in SMG2 in comparison. Yeah it had its charm with the parallax scrolling and Bowser at the castle but it was shit compared to the original's intro. Anyway, I love SMG much more than SMG2 overall. I think it's the most fantastic product Nintendo has EVER created in terms of visuals, gameplay, music, joy, awe, and sheer delight.
Somewhat off-topic: Please understand that I was never a Nintendo fan or a Nintendo gamer in my life. I never owned a single Nintendo product until the SNES and Pilotwings in August 1991. I never owned a Nintendo handheld until I got the original fat DS in 2006. I have always, always been a SEGA fan, especially of their arcade games of the 1980s and 1990s. I'm not a fan of Sonic The Hedgehog though. I'm more a fan of their arcade games and the original 8/16-bit Phantasy Star RPG series (not PSO/PSU at all). I have always been most in love with SEGA's highend arcade games, from the Super-Scaler era (Hang-On, OutRun, AfterBurner, ThunderBlade, Galaxy Force) to the MODEL 2 era (Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter2, Sega Rally, Virtual On, Dead or Alive etc) to the MODEL 3 era (VF3, Scud Race, Sega Rally 2, Daytona USA 2, VOOT).
Super Mario Galaxy combines the high-end look of SEGA's arcade games with lots of geometry, perfect color and rock-solid 60fps framerate WITH Nintendo's deep imagination, artwork and gameplay. The graphics blow my mind even 3 years later, and even in the face of the HD consoles and massively powerful high-end PC cards.
Can you freaking, freaking just imagine what EAD Tokyo could do with a Nintendo console that's say, 100x stronger than Wii, outputting in 1080p with 4xAA (or 720p with 8x AA for those sets that lack native 1080p), again 60fps, and possibly even 3D.
I forgot to mention that the original SMG also has, kind of, a Pixar-ish look to it. Even though technically, SMG and Wii are thousands & thousands of times weaker / below Pixar CG. Yet still, I clearly remember someone here on GAF saying that SMG has that look because of the solid 60fps framerate and more importantly, the LIGHTING.
So with a machine at least 100x the power of Wii (and don't think that's not possible for Nintendo in 2012, the AMD/ATI Radeon 4870 card (using a single RV770 GPU) from 2008 is just that, 100x more powerful than Hollywood in terms of floating point performance--Hollywood: 12 GFLOPs vs RV770: 1200 GFLOPS (1.2 TFLOPs)... Just think what EAD Tokyo could do.
/mini rant
Somewhat off-topic: Please understand that I was never a Nintendo fan or a Nintendo gamer in my life. I never owned a single Nintendo product until the SNES and Pilotwings in August 1991. I never owned a Nintendo handheld until I got the original fat DS in 2006. I have always, always been a SEGA fan, especially of their arcade games of the 1980s and 1990s. I'm not a fan of Sonic The Hedgehog though. I'm more a fan of their arcade games and the original 8/16-bit Phantasy Star RPG series (not PSO/PSU at all). I have always been most in love with SEGA's highend arcade games, from the Super-Scaler era (Hang-On, OutRun, AfterBurner, ThunderBlade, Galaxy Force) to the MODEL 2 era (Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter2, Sega Rally, Virtual On, Dead or Alive etc) to the MODEL 3 era (VF3, Scud Race, Sega Rally 2, Daytona USA 2, VOOT).
Super Mario Galaxy combines the high-end look of SEGA's arcade games with lots of geometry, perfect color and rock-solid 60fps framerate WITH Nintendo's deep imagination, artwork and gameplay. The graphics blow my mind even 3 years later, and even in the face of the HD consoles and massively powerful high-end PC cards.
Can you freaking, freaking just imagine what EAD Tokyo could do with a Nintendo console that's say, 100x stronger than Wii, outputting in 1080p with 4xAA (or 720p with 8x AA for those sets that lack native 1080p), again 60fps, and possibly even 3D.
I forgot to mention that the original SMG also has, kind of, a Pixar-ish look to it. Even though technically, SMG and Wii are thousands & thousands of times weaker / below Pixar CG. Yet still, I clearly remember someone here on GAF saying that SMG has that look because of the solid 60fps framerate and more importantly, the LIGHTING.
So with a machine at least 100x the power of Wii (and don't think that's not possible for Nintendo in 2012, the AMD/ATI Radeon 4870 card (using a single RV770 GPU) from 2008 is just that, 100x more powerful than Hollywood in terms of floating point performance--Hollywood: 12 GFLOPs vs RV770: 1200 GFLOPS (1.2 TFLOPs)... Just think what EAD Tokyo could do.
/mini rant
insin said:
Thanks. That's really weird, in the Wiki link they said that the new publisher obtained licensing rights from New Line, but it doesn't seem like it's using any art assets from the New Line films. The characters and enemies look like they were designed from scratch instead of adapted from the movies.
Chopper Dave
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Yay for Crystal Bearer pics. I had a blast with the camera feature myself...
All shots captured during gameplay. I have so many of these stored on my wii.
All shots captured during gameplay. I have so many of these stored on my wii.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Gorgeous game that could have been so much more is what he's getting at.Celine said:
crazy monkey
Banned
I would have played this game but i could not kill the first dragon. The top part i was not able to hit it for two 3 hour session of play. I just could not play any more.ivysaur12 said:
I enjoyed Crystal Bearer but it's in game camera was a real pain at times. Then the difficulty ramps up for that final battle out of nowhere it seemed. Still beat it in the end and I have gone back a few times to mess around. I think next year I might go back and replay it for the story as I did enjoy it. It did look pretty but I still think Square Enix was really stupid about how they released it. A few days after Christmas instead of during November and December so those buying presents would actually buy it as a gift. Overall I agree it could have been so much more even with keeping with the direction they decided to go in.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King is a really nice looking game as well. That it's a WiiWare games makes it even better I think.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King is a really nice looking game as well. That it's a WiiWare games makes it even better I think.
JimboJones
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Progressive scan usually results in less processing than on interlaced? I'm guessing that whats going on?Mr_Brit said: