silvergunner said:
Star Fox Zero's graphics are unacceptable in this day and age unless you still consider the Playstation 2 to be high spec. There are a lot of last generation PS3 games that ran at 60fps with Graphics that blow away Star Fox Zero - Ratchet and Clank and Wipeout HD for example. The performance hit thats supposedly due to running on twin screens at once isn't really the problem here. Although the game does run at 1920x1080 on the main display, the gamepad manages 854x480, a much smaller screen size. In addition the smaller screen simply clips part of the already-rendered main scene from the main display and adds a few HUD elements to it, with little theoretical performance hit. From what i've seen, Nintendo have basically rushed Star Fox Zero when it comes to graphics, partially as they needed an AAA title fast and partially because getting graphics with actual detail would mean using a lot of tricks to execute on the Wii-U's hardware. I've said and proven before that the Wii-U's processor is an antiquated G3 from 1997 (Its an overclocked Wii CPU, which was an overclocked Gamecube CPU, which was a cut down PowerPC 750 (G3)), and the OS is so bloated it uses half the available memory (1gb of the 2gb free). At the end of the day, as per normal Nintendo fans will be paying £40/$60 for a game that's got less than 2 hours gameplay and is as deep and technically adequate as a £10 PS2 bargain bin game. |
I dont think Star Fox Zeros graphics are unacceptable in this day and I dont consider PS2 to be high spec. I dont know any PS2 game that runs in 720p/60Fps.
Game runs at 720p not 1080p and certainly two screens with 60fps effects on performance, but Nintendo managed to have locked 60 Fps. Gamepad doesnt show only whats on main screen, because when TV shows ship with gamepad you can look left, right, up or down from ship or main screen. On gamepad you have completely different perspective than on TV, gamepad act like turret on plane and on TV you see just a plane from and third perspective.
In Star Fox Zero graphic certainly wasn't priority, priority was new experience with gamepad and that game feel and works great (60 Fps), but doesnt mean that graphics was rushed. Its also proven that even with that hardware Wii U can run beautiful graphics, Pikmin 3, Zelda WW HD, Mario 3D World, Mario Kart, Bayonetta 2, Zelda U..
Less than 2 hours of gameplay, relly!? When exactly Nintendo released game with "less than 2 hours gameplay and is as deep and technically adequate as a £10 PS2 bargain bin game.gameplay"!?
