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DMeisterJ on 26 August 2008
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LordTheNightKnight said:
DMeisterJ said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
DMeisterJ said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Wow, Chop Till You Drop makes Hitman 2 look like garbage. How many Hitman games were there? Who greenlighted a sequel? Or a movie? Looks like fucking garbage.

I'd rather take on 15 zombies than 100 zombies and 4 cops if the zombies are just going to stand still and not even swipe at you.

*applause*

Well done Rubang.

Yes, rationalization is something we should applaud.

No, Capcom doesn't get a free pass.  If the video makes the game look like crap, they shouldn't release the video.  The game should be judged based on every piece of material they release on it... because that's why it's released in the first place.

Games should be compared and weighed based on their competition and if Capcom can't even appear to compete with an old PS2 game they deserve to be laughed at.

If anything, I'd like to see Capcom release their own comparison video showing all those zombies they promised.  It would be a great PR move on their part and ease everyone's unrest.

Exactly.

The whole point of releasing screenshots is to judge a game, so to not judge a game because it's "pre-alpha" is dumb.

 

 

I think you mean to not expect judging the game is dumb. But as someone pointed out, if they hadn't shown the video, there would be accusations of vaporware. It's expecting a perfect early build that is dumb.

But we have seen some early builds that look like crap and then we eat our words later. The early shots for The Conduit looked bland. Or take the damn Dogz videos. The first looked slightly better than that godawful Farcry port, but now it has full shading, mapping, and lighting. On a casual game.

And we've seen early builds of games that look beautiful (too many to mention) so what's your point?

There is a double standard, but it's easily beaten.  Announce a game when you have some good footage of the game to show.  You can announce a game a eight months or a year before it launches and have something to show from it, again, this applies to many games. There are so many games that get announced, and are accompanied by screenshots or videos that look tons better than this game, not in terms of graphics but in terms of effort.  This game looks like no effort is being put into it.  Why should we give this game a free pass?  What about every other game that releases screenshots?  Should we not judge them?  If other companies know how to announce a game and release good looking screenshots, why do we let Capcom off the hook?