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Lost tears of Kain on 24 August 2007
Final-Fan said:
famousringo said:
naznatips said:
Lost tears of Kain said:
just so you all know, theres not a snowballs chance in hell wii will have better graphics, but this game is very good, very nice looking. 360 and ps3 will need to push to there limits if they really want to look better

It's true that the Wii will never have better graphics from a technical standpoint, but when it comes down to overall aesthetics, well that's all in the design.

Games like Okami and Odin Sphere aren't technically impressive at all. Yet many would argue that they surpass anything this generation still. Final Fantasy VII was an amazing technical achievement, but other than the cutscenes the game looked a hell-of-a-lot worse than Final Fantasy VI, a major artistic achievement. Super Paper Mario is an N64 game and still looks great today.

The goal for all Wii games should be just that. Use the Wii's capabilities to their fullest, and make art, rather than realism. I think Super Mario Galaxy is doing a great job of that, as is Metroid Prime 3 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Metroid Prime 3 has a disctinctly surreal look because of the amazingly creative use of bloom lighting. It really adds to the sci-fi environment perfectly. The game is also crisp and clean. There are little to no jaggies, and the textures are smooth and detailed. The game runs at a rock solid 60 FPS and delivers everything that could be asked of it.

Super Mario Galaxy is developing an amazingly unique style, especially through it's lighting effects. The colorful and gorgeous environments seem to transcend actual technical criticisms and land perfectly into a completely seperate artistic design. The luster of the game won't fade quickly with time, because it's not being built on technical prowess. It's not built on perfect physics effects or anything of the sort.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl has some of the most amazing levels of character detail I have ever seen in a game. That's not because the Wii can do anything that the 360 or PS3 cannot, but it's simply been given years of careful and dedicated design work to maximize it's appeal and performance.

Great looking games are built on style, not technology. So far Nintendo is showing that to be true. I just hope other developers making Wii games can learn to do this as well, so that we will no longer see crap like Crusin from Midway.


This post needs to be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Very well said.


QFT (But does that mean 'quoted for truth' or 'quite f^@&ing true'?  Both!)


agree well said, what i mean as well, games are not just realistic graphics etc, look at this, eternal sonota, okami, all beutiful games, but they are not that realistic etc.



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naznatips on 24 August 2007

Hah, I just realized I called Super Paper Mario a Nintendo 64 game. I meant Paper Mario, but it seems people got the point anyway lol.



Sqrl on 24 August 2007
Final-Fan said:

QFT (But does that mean 'quoted for truth' or 'quite f^@&ing true'? Both!)


 I have been on forums where it means "Quit f^@&ing typing/talking".  You can imagine my surprise at how abbrasive these forums were at first =P
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DonWii on 24 August 2007
dtewi said:
My only fear is that this game might be short.


6 Galaxies, 40 Levels, 120 Stars... If 20+ hours is short, There sure a lot of very very short games out in the market now a days.

On Topic: I am surprised that this thread has reached 2 pages and there is more foreshadowing of flaming than any actual sign of it occuring. I really think the thread set itself up to be flamed. Technically, not really. Visual aesthetic, hell yeah.



ballsonyourchin on 24 August 2007

I think there is no need to post in this thread the way that is normal for the Sony/wii fans to act with each other, the wii fans know the original article was wrong in saying it looks the same as the big boys. And they have said that, but if this thread was full of wii owners saying that they could out graphic the PS3/360 then it would be different.

The game does look fun, i just hope the wii owners notice that no Sony fans are bashing this thread and keep it down on the Sony threads. Like whats going on in the Killzone thread, i just hgope the whole forum is like that one day :)

Plus if Sony fans bash this its like the wii fans bashing Halo/GTA/killzone/FF on the other systems. Some games your just don't troll because each fan has their game of choice and the flaming would go out of control.

 I just watched some of the video's on GT,  think im going to be sick.  All the upside down play and crazy stuff with the planets made me dizzy :(



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soccerdrew17 on 25 August 2007
OriGin said:
This is a damn shot close.... my fucking god, the textures are beautiful!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24056.html

 please say ur joking and the internet sucks for sarcasm, cause that video was appalling.

 

i hope this game rocks, but it has no hype from me.  i simply dont like mario platformers, no idea why.  i love the platforming genre and i know that mario is like its main man, but i dont like mario games.  anyways, i hope this game rocks for the sake of platformers all over the world (pshyconauts will live on in our hearts). 



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Androo on 25 August 2007

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grandmaster192 on 26 August 2007

I'm sorry, but some people need to come back to reality. Saying that this game is as good graphicly as the best looking PS3/360 game is plain stupid. Mario Galaxy is, in my opinion, game of the year. Mario Galaxy is an amazing looking game that is sure to play as good as it looks. However, saying that the game is just as good graphicly as the best looking PS3/360 game is going overboard, which really takes away from the rest of the article. Games like Call of Duty 4, for example, look way better then this game. Also, there are quite a few other games that look better then this game; for instence Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid 4, Heavenly Sword, Killzone 2, Unreal Tornement, ect. Sure, Mario Galaxy looks great, but to say that it looks as good as the PS3/360's best efforts it insane.



omgwtfbbq on 26 August 2007
grandmaster192 said:
I'm sorry, but some people need to come back to reality. Saying that this game is as good graphicly as the best looking PS3/360 game is plain stupid. Mario Galaxy is, in my opinion, game of the year. Mario Galaxy is an amazing looking game that is sure to play as good as it looks. However, saying that the game is just as good graphicly as the best looking PS3/360 game is going overboard, which really takes away from the rest of the article. Games like Call of Duty 4, for example, look way better then this game. Also, there are quite a few other games that look better then this game; for instence Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid 4, Heavenly Sword, Killzone 2, Unreal Tornement, ect. Sure, Mario Galaxy looks great, but to say that it looks as good as the PS3/360's best efforts it insane.

Why?

There's more to a game than making realistic looking people. For instance, I thought Wind Waker looked much better than Twilight Princess, despite the latter being more realistic.

Art style is much more important than the number of polygons and I think that Mario Galaxy looks better than many Xbox360/PS3 games. 

 



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Bodhesatva on 26 August 2007
Legend11 said:
superchunk said:

2008 will begin wii only games and a wii-dominance. buahhahahhahaaha. [evil laugh]

I thought that's when PS3 domination begins? Ok we can't have all this domination happening all at once so I'll pencil you guys in for 3rd quarter 2008 for Wii third party game domination and PS3 for 4th quarter domination (unspecified what exactly they're going to dominate but I guess we'll find out).


And as this thread proves: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=6117&start=0#end

Microsoft will be pulling the strings the whole time. 



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