Yooka-Laylee's 64-Bit Tonic First Look( Update: New video)

Serious question: why would anyone want this?

Looks less 64-bit, and more like a blurry PS2 game.

sthef360 said:

Looks less 64-but, and more like a blurry PS2 game.

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With bloom

That doesn't look like a 64 game

sthef360 said:

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This

sthef360 said:

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The models need to be way blockier.

Ah yes, overuse of Bloom lighting. That famous N64 look.

Is it supposed to replicate the look of an N64 game, or? Looks like shit.

I'm confused about this. It just looks like a blurry screenshot of the game...is that what they're going for?

Robin64 said:

Playtonic have just updated their website with the first image of the upcoming "64-bit mode" update for Yooka-Laylee.

What do you reckon?

Source: https://www.playtonicgames.com/bits-and-pieces/

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I felt really bad because I could not tell the difference for a good minute :(

Am I missing something besides nostalgia glasses?

Looks like a PS2 game and a bad one at that

sthef360 said:

Looks less 64-bit, and more like a blurry PS2 game.

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Exactly.

Looks like they just put the PC version on an ultra-low preset.

I'm confused. What is this?

Oh boy, they need to let go way more to make this 64-bit...

Kinda sad they don't know how N64 games really looked like.

Carthago Delenda Est said:

Serious question: why would anyone want this?

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It was a kickstarter stretch goal

Needs to also be 15 frames a second

This just looks like they took a PC version and bumped down the resolution/textures.

Isn't that just how the game would look in low graphics settings?

Seems like they just scaled back some variables.
They would need to change much more than that for it to look like an N64 game.
Everything needs to be much more lowpoly, maybe change the renderer resolution down, maybe half the framerate and change the post processing.
As others said, why that bloom?

Yea they definitely got to work on this banjo or sm64 don't look like this

Took a year to make this, eh?

It just looks like they downgraded their LOD, AF and general texture detail

They just set the PC settings to low?

Wouldn't they basically need to re-make the entirety of the game's assets to make this work? Seems like a goal that was a little too ambitious.

No N64 game looked like that. Why even bother if they aren't going to do it right?

What N64/PS1 game had curves that good?

Aww ... that's too colorful, vibrant and detailed to be a N64 look. Not authentic at all ... I'm disappointed because I was actually excited about this feature.

Not enough fog. Entire back drop needs to be covered in thick, grey fog.

Took me a minute to realise I wasn't just looking at a low-quality image of the normal game. Needs to be made much more in-line with how N64 games looked.

Karspankey said:

Wouldn't they basically need to re-make the entirety of the game's assets to make this work? Seems like a goal that was a little too ambitious.

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yes. this needed new models for everything

this...this aint even close

I agree that this looks like PS2.

Needs lower textures, blockier models and landscape, fog and low fps (but we can't judge that in a screenshot). Also, no bloom.

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Looks less 64-bit, and more like a blurry PS2 game.

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First thing I thought of. Not sure if this is worth dedicating time to.

YK was close to a really good game. I think they could nail it in a sequel.

I appreciate the thought, but it doesn't look quite right.

To be honest, I actually just thought this tonic was going to affect the player and nothing else

I was wondering why such a simple thing as an alt costume was taking so long lol

There's no way this was ever going to work without redoing the geometry of the entire game.

That awful blur AA is absolutely on-spec for the N64 aesthetic, at least.

Looks like Kameo

I wonder if it will run at 15fps.

Uh.

They should probably release a video of this because that screen shot looks nothing like an N64 game more like an image that was edited to look blurry.

That just looks like they turned down the settings and cranked up the vaseline.

Models and textures would need to be redone completely to do this properly.

At least maybe my pc will be able to run the game :p.

Anyway, hopefully by work in progress they mean they're still remaking the assets.

Ugh. This just looks wrong. It looks like a defective game where LOD has stopped working. Playtonic continues to disappoint...

I don't get it, they have worked on N64 games, they should see this does not invoke the aestehtics of an N64 game. Definitely much closer to PS2. Shame, I would have liked a low poly N64-style second playthrough of Yooka. To me this looks like lower res textures applied to the same models.

I actually really loved Yooka Laylee, and I was looking forward to replaying the game with this filter and all the new updates that have been added since launch. But uh... this looks awful, this isn't an Nintendo 64 game, it's a blurry version of the game set to "low settings". It doesn't even look like they tried replicating a 64 game.

collige said:

Looks like Kameo

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That looks hideous, but not N64-hideous.