I don't think people should look at these as early builds. What we're seeing here isn't, for example, original DMC game/DMC4 port for Wii, as in the actual game that would have been made. These are likely just prototypes made for when pitching the project to the publisher. If I'm not mistaken, most or all of the work we see here would have been scrapped for the actual project development. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Red Fly Wii prototypes (Star Wars, Batman: AA, DMC, Dig Dug)
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yep, it's all just glued together stuff for a prototype. an actual final game would have had assets made for Wii and optimized.
ZSaberLink
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The Batman prototype looked remarkably good... and pretty far along as well to be honest.
Forsaken82
Member
Odds are one of these prototypes became the starting point for Mushroom Men, and it wouldn't surprise me if their DMC prototype (at least the melee combat) was used for their Force Unleased 2 port.
All of the combat stuff is copy pasted from DMC4, outside of the enemies which are based on ones from DMC1. I doubt there's anything there outside of maybe code and some pipeline stuff they could have reused for FU2. Unless that's what you meant.
Stormblessed
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I guess publishers ran the numbers and decided it wasn't worth it. Maybe concerned about the need for classic controllers - can't see DMC working with a WiiMote, at least not as-is. Batman definitely looked like Batman, which is cool.
Dude, it's a prototype that took a few weeks of work. All the DMCs were in this level of polish at some point, Capcom just didn't let you see them.
I wonder if Red Fly are still working with Versus Evil? This page has had the same message on it for at least two years now.
MisterHero
Super Member
Batman already looks better without the gross art direction of the actual release. 
BumblebeeCody
Member
Yo that Batman and DMC is actually quite impressive.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Batman looks amazing
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I would have totally played devil may cry on wii
And you guys are worried about switch.
What... does this have to do with the Switch?
I don't think any of these were greenlit. Just test pitches.
{insert code here}
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DMC looked awful. Batman and Star Wars looked okay and with more time and polish probably could've been great.
Sebastiano
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Not bad at all, specially Batman, it could have been a little spin of, maybe Batman capturing the Joker just before the events of Arkham Asylum.
Claude Augario
Member
Batman looked on point.
DMC not so much.
DMC not so much.
I havent played it in a few years and I remember a few sections where the camera felt a little wonky, but its one of my favorite platformers from that gen. Really fun Rayman 2 style platforming mixed with cool telekinetic powers and it has an amazing sense of atmosphere and scale. The soundtrack is really good too, no other game sounds quite like it.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Wow, we almost had a new Dig Dug!
Oh man, Batman looks super impressive for a prototype, I'd have killed for such a port back in the day (although I guess I'm grateful I ended up playing the PS3 version).
Dig Dug looks interesting... Not digging that design, but everything else looked neat.
DMC looks super sad.
Still, these are very impressive for being just prototypes.
Dig Dug looks interesting... Not digging that design, but everything else looked neat.
DMC looks super sad.
Still, these are very impressive for being just prototypes.
I gotta spell it out?
-Wii had no modern shader tech like the 360 and ps3 did.
Nintendo switch does. (actually even newer than ps4 and xbox one. gcn 1.0 is old)
-There was a much larger gap in raw performance between wii and 360/ps3 than there will be between switch and xboxone/ps4.
SallyIsNow
Banned
Batman looking on par with SpiderMan on PS1
Astral Dog
Member
I always wanted to see how DMC would look on a Wii
honestly,would be fun to see how it compares to 3
What I get from the Batman footage, as said it's test prototype footage, is that I could have easily seen it going for a style that looked like the Batman: The Animated Series and it would have worked. While the other versions continued to be what we got in the end.
I have a hard time the could have screwed up the Star Wars game. People were waiting something like this since past Nintendo systems had Star Wars games for years. The audience was there for that game especially. In fact all of these looked like they could have turned out well and the Wii need more games like these.
I have a hard time the could have screwed up the Star Wars game. People were waiting something like this since past Nintendo systems had Star Wars games for years. The audience was there for that game especially. In fact all of these looked like they could have turned out well and the Wii need more games like these.
Green Yoshi
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Another Star Wars game, that never made it (although it was ready to ship, but the management of LucasArts was strange).:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=911591
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=911591
I saw the Batman video and minus a few bugs it's very close to the real thing. About what I imagine a PS2 Batman AA would look like, just need to up the visuals and animations to increase polish.
DMC on the other hand looks way off base, needs to bd overhauled. I like the music used though.
DMC on the other hand looks way off base, needs to bd overhauled. I like the music used though.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
I just wanted to say again how much I liked that Dig Dug footage. Really disappointed it didn't become a full game. We need more different games like that. With some polish, it probably would've been really good.
Spiderman PS1 was amazing, so I'm impressed
So what's your point in relation to this thread?
They might have been kept private until now
Diablohead
Member
impressed with batman, it already had the arkham feel to its combat and takedowns by the looks of it.
If Ghostbusters or Force Unleashed were any indication, it would have needed to have been rebuilt from scratch, reusing only concepts and audio.
That DMC Wii clip has:
1. DMC4 UI assets.
2. DMC4 art style Dante.
3. Agnus' shakespeare-esque theme playing in the background.
4. An incredibly similar layout to the DMC4 castle entrance.
Wouldn't surprise me if they were pitching some sort of Dante DMC4 side-story. Granted, the enemies looks like the marionettes from 1, but, y'know.
That Batman looks pretty decent too. Both of those don't look bad if they really were just a few weeks of prototyping.
1. DMC4 UI assets.
2. DMC4 art style Dante.
3. Agnus' shakespeare-esque theme playing in the background.
4. An incredibly similar layout to the DMC4 castle entrance.
Wouldn't surprise me if they were pitching some sort of Dante DMC4 side-story. Granted, the enemies looks like the marionettes from 1, but, y'know.
That Batman looks pretty decent too. Both of those don't look bad if they really were just a few weeks of prototyping.
SoundPulse
Banned
I got really excited when I saw X-Wing vs TIE Fighter 2, but then it looked more like Rogue Squadron.
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