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God I cannot wait to play this game, 2 months after it released as I will be busy at work until then.



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Something about the games graphics urks me, perhaps a feel like it was a really low res game remastered with an attempt at keeping the geometry and shapes intact. I can't put my finger on it but it looks very poorly compared to what the system is capable of with some of those third party games. Having third party games look the best on your console gives a feel that it isn't a premium product and I don't mean more realistic I mean more clean and more quality.

After seeing side by sides of Sonics new Kart game and Mario Kart World as well as comparing to CTR reignited aswell as ps3 comparisons with Metroid and now having a closer look at this without focusing on the destruction and more on the visuals it's clear that Nintendos first parry are limiting themselves and not attempting whatsoever to showcase the hardware or give the impression of a premium product. They are not spending the money under the new umbrella they have that they don't need to spend the money "Graphics aren't important, gameplay is" and now they are charging more than the most premium of prices, not only that but nothing in these games present as detailed as is the case with Astrobot and by detailed I mean what asobo done with all 300 bots down to the finest animations and have it all working on screen in one go which makes up ten times over for the graphical cap, not that it's a bad looking game, it's very clean but I see no attempt from Nintendo with these games to follow and they're games now feel bleak and empty in a way I can't describe but I've seen echoed by many people. The closest they came was Mario Oddessy but that was no where close to the detail I'm talking about in Astrobot, a 69,99 euro game that hasn't been out six months but already got a decent sale and as Nintendo would see it lost it's value.

What I'm getting at is I just don't see the value in Nintenfo games anymore, they can up the price but the quality has been going down steadily and it FEELS like they have gotten very lazy on first party titles. They've gone and turned Zelda into a barren wasteland with some really cool puzzles (and now dynamic and emergent pyshics) but barren and lifeless non the less and low res, it feels lifeless and now they're doing it to Kario Kart, yes it looks as close to CTR as you can get but that game is genre leading because of those mechanics in tight knit well designed tracks.

At 85 euro here, Nintendo are now charging the most for products that aren't limited by hardware but self limited that feel so far behind the competition that they feel very much inferior no matter how punchy the sound effects are, even the UI on the console feels like it's a knock off imitation of what it should be and they says that's cause the Switch was rushed, well the Switch 2 isn't rushed and they have all the money now. Only Netflix are worse for investing money and effort in themselves for the profit they are making and the charge to the user. Mobile games for console prices in this economy, ridiculous. 

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Hang on, Pauline might be in this?



LegitHyperbole said:

Something about the games graphics urks me, perhaps a feel like it was a really low res game remastered with an attempt at keeping the geometry and shapes intact. I can't put my finger on it but it looks very poorly compared to what the system is capable of with some of those third party games. Having third party games look the best on your console gives a feel that it isn't a premium product and I don't mean more realistic I mean more clean and more quality.


Huge open world areas with destructive landscape. Thats only scratching some minutes of what Nintendo showed us in this game and doesnt cross your mind why this game doesnt look as shiney as those AAA modern games where the gameplay interactions are as deep as a kindergarden coloring book?

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CaptainExplosion said:

Hang on, Pauline might be in this?

Supposedly she's

Spoiler!


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BasilZero said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Hang on, Pauline might be in this?

Supposedly she's

Spoiler!

I don't buy the idea that she might be a younger Pauline, because Cranky Kong is in this game, and he's the original Donkey Kong. He even acknowledges the events of the original Donkey Kong.



160rmf said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Something about the games graphics urks me, perhaps a feel like it was a really low res game remastered with an attempt at keeping the geometry and shapes intact. I can't put my finger on it but it looks very poorly compared to what the system is capable of with some of those third party games. Having third party games look the best on your console gives a feel that it isn't a premium product and I don't mean more realistic I mean more clean and more quality.


Huge open world areas with destructive landscape. Thats only scratching some minutes of what Nintendo showed us in this game and doesnt cross your mind why this game doesnt look as shiney as those AAA modern games where the gameplay interactions are as deep as a kindergarden coloring book?

What are you talking about, Astro bot has loads of simulation and dynamic gameplay. 



LegitHyperbole said:
160rmf said:

Huge open world areas with destructive landscape. Thats only scratching some minutes of what Nintendo showed us in this game and doesnt cross your mind why this game doesnt look as shiney as those AAA modern games where the gameplay interactions are as deep as a kindergarden coloring book?

What are you talking about, Astro bot has loads of simulation and dynamic gameplay. 

Pretty sure he was aiming more at the usual AAA Sony's affair. 

Also, Astro Bot is not a open sandbox game you know. It does have sometimes expansive level and nice interactions and physics with it's environments but the scope is kept to the structure of a 3D Mario World or Kirby-esque game. 

Much more can be achieved that way.



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Mar1217 said:
LegitHyperbole said:

What are you talking about, Astro bot has loads of simulation and dynamic gameplay. 

Pretty sure he was aiming more at the usual AAA Sony's affair. 

Also, Astro Bot is not a open sandbox game you know. It does have sometimes expansive level and nice interactions and physics with it's environments but the scope is kept to the structure of a 3D Mario World or Kirby-esque game. 

Much more can be achieved that way.

300 individual bots ordering themselves dynamically by whoever takes the spot first, to create a giant ladder to the final level, not impressive at all...



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