MikeRox said:
foxtail said:
MikeRox said:
Being in the land of PAL, you also get the added joy of 480p as opposed to 480i :)
Though weren't the textures slightly less crisp on the Wii ports of Prime 1 and 2?
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According to the developers they shouldn't be, here's are few quotes from them on some improvements for Prime 1&2:
“We’ve gone in and surgically repaired textures with higher resolution versions.” – Mike Wikan, Senior Designer
“The biggest impact is that player’s see more of the art and intricate design that we put into the levels.” – Mike Wikan, Senior Designer
“Just a tremendous upgrade as far as the fluidity of the controls, the HUD’s a little bit different,the reticule is different as it relates to how you target your enemies now, lock-on’s a little bit different.” –Michael Kelbaugh, Executive Producer/President & CEO
“There were some parts where it was a bit slow…” – Risa Tabata, Assistant Producer
“…And where before you would have to wait for doors to open, the wait time is a lot shorter.” – Kensuke Tanabe, Producer
“We looked at a few of the bosses and made small refinements to those encounters.” – Mike Wikan, Senior Designer
source
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http://kotaku.com/5354254/metroid-prime-trilogy-version-looks-worse-than-the-originals
There were quite a few articles kicking around when it first released stating it looked worse, but I never really noticed myself.
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The textures were mostly improved with the Trilogy. What the kotaku article with the overblown title was referring to was the missing charge beam effects for the arm cannon in Prime 1, and a missing water effect in prime 1.
The charging arm cannon effect was removed in part because they couldn't properly sync the sprite overlay graphic with the free movements and vibrations of the new aiming arm cannon. It was also made more difficult to line up with the new wider aspect ratio. The water effect just might have been removed because they didn't find the white refraction visually appealing, who knows for sure but Retro on that one..
But the Trilogy does improve the lighting, textures and now supports wide screen. So it did do a lot of things better in the end.
