Mega Man 9 coming to all consoles: Trailer at IGN

[Mise]

Kurakasa said:

Mise said:

By underlining (I'd like to say proving, but that remains to be seen) the statement that high-budget graphics are completely redundant if the gameplay is solid.

 

 

Ok. So how does it do that? Like there hasn't been a game just like that before.. by sales? By fanboys saying it rulez?

By being a core franchise and having a retro-styled audiovisual look (and gameplay) at the same time.

And there are several other games that have done this - Wii Sports being probably the best example - but MM9 can't be handwaved away with the same "casual crap" blanket statemet that has been applied to almost every game with minimalist graphic style, since Megaman is one of the oldest active game franchices. If Capcom, one of the industry giants, is producing a game like MM9, it's setting an example to other big game publishers - If the game is great, it doesn't matter how it looks like.

I'm personally biased against the "graphics first, everything else second, colors last" - mindset that seems to be the industry standard, so one can take my opinions with a heap of salt. But IMO it's a really ballsy move for Inafune and his team to make something that's essentially an enhanced NES game in an age where graphics are the king, people try to make games into movies and making a game can bankrupt a small country.

I'm not expecting MM9 to sell gangbusters, but it doesn't have to. Just by existing it's doing something that almost every other gaming company wouldn't even dream of, and that's awesome IMO.

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