Star Fox Zero director comments on the game’s visual style

[Goodnightmoon]

midrange said:

Goodnightmoon said:

The quality of a game is not define by graphics, you know? I don´t pay for graphics, to say that a game is money grab because it doen´t have top notch graphics is just stupid, Super Mario Maker and Splatoon are fantastic without any fancy graphics, in fact I think Star Fox Zero is more demanding than those games, are thouse money grab games? My ass. Some people in the industry still thinks that the 80% of the budget of game shouldn´t be only for graphics, as it happens nowadays with most of the games, but gamers are the stupidest people in this planet and their priorities are fucking lame.

Graphics don't make a game, but they do affect it. As does artstyle, music, story, characters, and gameplay. A game is the sum of its parts, and if you start removing graphics, then you end up with a less immersive game. Starfox was made with a ridiculously short time frame and the graphics show it. There is no reason to excuse it with "it's made to not look realistic." No one is even expecting starfox to have ps4 level graphics, but when people commonly compare to a gamecube game (2 generations ago!) then you can tell Nintendo is trying to rush a game for the sake of a release schedule and profit.

That´s what they said about Splatoon for months, a rushed game to fill the schedule, I have been hearing that shit day after day, and then the game came out, and it was freaking brilliant, people take conclusions out of their asses, the fact that they didn´t focus the development on graphics (like with Splatoon or Mario Maker) doesn´t mean that the game is being rushed and is not a proof of any lack of quality. And please, look the photo I posted above because that does not look a like a Game Cube game at all, that is a shitty and annoying hyperbole, this looks like a 2008 game on X360 but with a stable 60fps instead of struggling with 24, people says past gen games look better, but they only think on later games that were struggling to mantain a stable 30fps when this game is displaying a flawless 60fps in 2 screens, wich is way more demanding than it seems, specially for WiiU.