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curl-6 on 23 January 2014
Metroid33slayer said:
I think it looks prettier than pikmin 3 and sm3dworld to be perhaps the best looking game on wii u so far but I expect in the future games like Mariokart 8, Bayonetta 2, X and zelda U to push the console far more than DKTF.

I'd strongly disagree that this: (While pretty)

 

Looks better than the likes of these:



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F0X on 23 January 2014
curl-6 said:
Metroid33slayer said:
I think it looks prettier than pikmin 3 and sm3dworld to be perhaps the best looking game on wii u so far but I expect in the future games like Mariokart 8, Bayonetta 2, X and zelda U to push the console far more than DKTF.

I'd strongly disagree that this: (While pretty)

 

Looks better than the likes of these:


Maybe that's not the best Pikmin 3 shot, but I'm going to go with DKC on this one.

Trine 2 is probably the only Wii U game I can think of that has a rather large visual advantage over, well, just about anything else of the platform. Even then, it's not my favorite art style (Knytt Underground ftw), so I don't prefer it.



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curl-6 on 23 January 2014
F0X said:
curl-6 said:
Metroid33slayer said:
I think it looks prettier than pikmin 3 and sm3dworld to be perhaps the best looking game on wii u so far but I expect in the future games like Mariokart 8, Bayonetta 2, X and zelda U to push the console far more than DKTF.

I'd strongly disagree that this: (While pretty)

 

Looks better than the likes of these:


Maybe that's not the best Pikmin 3 shot, but I'm going to go with DKC on this one.

Trine 2 is probably the only Wii U game I can think of that has a rather large visual advantage over, well, just about anything else of the platform. Even then, it's not my favorite art style (Knytt Underground ftw), so I don't prefer it.

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zippy on 23 January 2014

How does that article relate to performance problems? it is sensible programming. There are no gamepad features so if off tv play isnt in use, and your playing on tv, the gamepad will go into screen saver mode. What a great idea, conserve the battery and i dont have to charge the gamepad as regularly when playing the game.



vkaraujo on 23 January 2014

In fact this is very useful. Gamepad battery is it main weakness.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 23 January 2014

Its just to save the battery? How does that push the wiiU to its limits?



                  

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DialgaMarine on 23 January 2014
Flanneryaug said:
Where does it say that the gamepad goes dark because of performance problems? The link says that it goes dark to save gamepad battery life. This game won't push the Wii U to the limits, but it will still look nice.

 It's pretty much implied. Why on earth would the developer not use the gamepad features if they weren't worried about it putting too much tax on the console? They probably couldn't have achieved 60 FPS with the Gamepad, which makes you wonder why the game isn't running 1080p. The game really doesn't look that good, graphically.





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DialgaMarine on 23 January 2014

 

curl-6 said:
Metroid33slayer said:
I think it looks prettier than pikmin 3 and sm3dworld to be perhaps the best looking game on wii u so far but I expect in the future games like Mariokart 8, Bayonetta 2, X and zelda U to push the console far more than DKTF.

I'd strongly disagree that this: (While pretty)

 

Looks better than the likes of these:

Wow. I didn't realize SM3DW actually looked that (even though it has that extremely close camera angle), but Pikmen 3 looks nowhere near as good as I though. What's that third image?



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Metroid33slayer on 23 January 2014
curl-6 said:
Metroid33slayer said:
I think it looks prettier than pikmin 3 and sm3dworld to be perhaps the best looking game on wii u so far but I expect in the future games like Mariokart 8, Bayonetta 2, X and zelda U to push the console far more than DKTF.

I'd strongly disagree that this: (While pretty)

 

Looks better than the likes of these:

Ive completed both pikmin3 and sm3dworld and its just my personal opinion that dk overall looks marginally better. Pikmin 3 looked a bit polygonal in places and some areas in  mario 3dworld like the snow stages looked a bit mario party-ish, you picked a screen shot of the rain soaked level which looks far better than most stages, the droplets of water and the rain effects look spectacular but most others stages don't look this good.



tripenfall on 23 January 2014

Not every game needs to use the gamepad, so why not power it down and save power? Mine sits in the charging cradle 24/7 unless I'm using it., but some people seem to let it run all the time when playing with other controllers. This game is going to be FUN..... And oooooh the fur!