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midrange on 16 June 2015
curl-6 said:
midrange said:

That E3 showing made it clear that Nintendo is going full power and spreading themselves thin to produce decent games for this year. The graphical and computational problems with games like star fox, devil's third, and project cars, three years into the consoles life, shows how it is the hardware that is slowing developers down, not so much the concepts.

The very fact that we had bayonetta 2, smash bros, and mario kart 8 at really good visual performance only speaks about the ability of the developers of those games (especially smash bros), not so much about the ability of the console.

Actually, none of the developers of those games are known for their technical prowess. They obviously speak to the console's abilities since that is what the games run on.

I did not mean to say they were the most technically impressive developers (naughty dog seems to take that title), I meant that their great looking games stem from the fact that the developers had a lot more adaptive capabilities (and big budgets) rather than the wii u hardware being impressive. The wii u hardware would have been great for 2010, it was manageable in 2012, but in 2015 I would hesitate to call it capable when a lot of indie/crowdfunded developers are making games that surpass the scope of most wii u games on other consoles(no man's sky is great example).



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Lonely_Dolphin on 16 June 2015
think-man said:
Graphics look fine, game looks boring as hell


You have that backwards?



curl-6 on 16 June 2015
midrange said:
curl-6 said:

Actually, none of the developers of those games are known for their technical prowess. They obviously speak to the console's abilities since that is what the games run on.

I did not mean to say they were the most technically impressive developers (naughty dog seems to take that title), I meant that their great looking games stem from the fact that the developers had a lot more adaptive capabilities (and big budgets) rather than the wii u hardware being impressive. The wii u hardware would have been great for 2010, it was manageable in 2012, but in 2015 I would hesitate to call it capable when a lot of indie/crowdfunded developers are making games that surpass the scope of most wii u games on other consoles(no man's sky is great example).

Oh I completely agree it's not a graphically powerful console by today's standards, I just objected to Starfox Zero being a good measuring stick for its full capabilities, as I'd argue most Wii U games look better.



midrange on 16 June 2015
curl-6 said:
midrange said:

I did not mean to say they were the most technically impressive developers (naughty dog seems to take that title), I meant that their great looking games stem from the fact that the developers had a lot more adaptive capabilities (and big budgets) rather than the wii u hardware being impressive. The wii u hardware would have been great for 2010, it was manageable in 2012, but in 2015 I would hesitate to call it capable when a lot of indie/crowdfunded developers are making games that surpass the scope of most wii u games on other consoles(no man's sky is great example).

Oh I completely agree it's not a graphically powerful console by today's standards, I just objected to Starfox Zero being a good measuring stick for its full capabilities, as I'd argue most Wii U games look better.

You're right on that, it was just me getting carried away and being pissed at star fox's poor graphics



HollyGamer on 17 June 2015
OttoniBastos said:
The only problem i see is the textures.

Yeah definitely the texture is really bland 



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Cloudman on 17 June 2015

I thought the game looked pretty good, but that's just me.



 

              

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Cobretti2 on 17 June 2015
the_dengle said:

Sheesh, it doesn't look that bad. This is what happens when a company has realistic expectations for a game. What, did you expect it to get some kind of huge AAA budget? The kind of budget that makes publishers say they're disappointed or not yet breaking even with millions of sales? It's Star Fox. On Nintendo's worst-selling console since the Virtual Boy. It has to be profitable with under 1 million sales.


Not every game needs to be profitable. Sometimes you need to take risks and grow your franchises beyond a N64 HD game. 



 

 

generic-user-1 on 17 June 2015
HollyGamer said:
OttoniBastos said:
The only problem i see is the textures.

Yeah definitely the texture is really bland 

well thats totaly normal for a beta...



Frogger on 17 June 2015

This is what you guys wanted. I'm going to play the shit out of what is essentially the death of Star Fox.

Fucking reboot of a reboot. Classic.



Rustuv on 17 June 2015

It is like people have forgotten what gamecube games even look like that people keep making that comparison. It does not look that bad at all.



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