Diddy and Dixie have sleeves...Look at the downgrade DKC2 got. Rare is such a bunch of phonies.
I will admit that I am not a monkey expert and yet I am pretty sure that monkeys don't have sleeves. Are they are wearing monkey costumes?
WTF....
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Goldeneye (1997) promotional renders were quite something
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I will admit that I am not a monkey expert and yet I am pretty sure that monkeys don't have sleeves. Are they are wearing monkey costumes?
WTF....
Knew this looked familiar.I wish I looked as relaxed as Pierce Brosnan looks in these shots. Shit is just getting completely wrecked and he looks like he is reading the newspaper.
Yep.Look at the downgrade DKC2 got. Rare is such a bunch of phonies.
Rare did CG promo renders for a ton of games, 007 was no different. The OP clearly missed that.
Look at the downgrade DKC2 got. Rare is such a bunch of phonies.
Eugh, god I hate Rarewares Donkey Kong and the Kong designs. It's such a downgrade from Miyamotos designs :/
Yup. Bond should look slick as fuck driving a tank over your ass.That's exactly how he drove that tank in the movie though
Still disappointed that wide mouth Bond wasn't a gameplay feature.
I hate this meme.
me too it never looked like that to anyone back in the day
gimmie a break
Look at the downgrade DKC2 got. Rare is such a bunch of phonies.
Is it possible that one day, we get a Donkey Kong game with graphics like this?
They may have been just renders, but for kids like me we saw them in the mags and were wowed and thinking that's what the game was gonna look like.
CGI renders for games was super cool back in the mid-90's. It was a sort of a representation of "this is what's actually happening inside the game world if you were actually there". It was something to help your imagination bridge the gap between the primitive graphics you see on t.v. and what your imagination envisions is actually happening. Sort of like how when you played Star Fox for the SNES you see these blocky, choppy graphics but you have to imagine it's a grand space opera like you see in the Nintendo Power comics they had of the game. A CGI render helps bridge that gap between imagination and the limited technology of the time. Lots of N64 games and late SNES games did this.
When I played it I convinced myself the actual graphics were better.
My imagination back then was truly wild.
My imagination back then was truly wild.
I'd love to see someone make a game that looks like a mid-90s CG render. Like just going all in on that aesthetic.
Some of the renders matched to shots from the movie and its marketing (from the awesome GoldenEye: Decoded blog):
This thread makes me realize there might be an entire generation that doesn't know the word "bullshot."
These aren't "downgrades," they're bullshots.
These aren't "downgrades," they're bullshots.
If this didn't pop into your head and you were alive at the time, you have to hang your head in shame
Man Goldeneye's single player was so much fun
This is taking me back to when I was obsessed with the previews for Goldeneye
I got it day 1, I knew it was going to be special
I got it day 1, I knew it was going to be special
Ayup. It was not scummy in the sense they were not meant to fool people, but it was part of the promotional push around every game. All the major mags would have these renders on the splash pages, review pages, or as ads where more often than not, actual in-game screenshots are also shown.
This is taking me back to when I was obsessed with the previews for Goldeneye
I got it day 1, I knew it was going to be special
I got goldeneye for my birthday along with Star Fox 64. My mom was getting me Star Fox 64 in EB Games, and the dude was telling her about the rumble pack, and she was like "Do any other games use it?" and the guy told her about Goldeneye, so she picked it up along with SF64 so I wouldn't only have one game that supported it.
That was an awesome birthday.
We got Goldeneye together with Ocarina of Time, WCW vs NWO Revenge and a bunch of other games plus 4 controllers and the N64 itself for Christmas. I was almost like the "Nintendo 64" kid
I remember at least one of those shots too. They were legit used.
I hated that whole era because of what FMV did to "Bullshots" They were bad enough as seen here; But good lord when companies realized they could stuff all fmv in their ads they went nuts. It was misleading as hell.
Nothing trumps the target renders of the Mission Impossible game:
And what a blurry mess came out of it :(
And what a blurry mess came out of it :(
I always prefer the story of people meeting/exceeding crazy expectations, like Kojima and his crew being absolutely certain that MGS2 couldn't compete with the cinematic games of its era due to expertise in using offline rendering they lacked:
"In addition, we would not be able to compete with other companies when it comes to such visuals, when you consider the difference between them and us in terms of the know-how they have acquired as well as their financial investment toward it.
With Metal Gear Solid 2, we will not try to improve the quality of all the various areas of the game's visuals, but instead use the hardware's capabilities to implement certain features that were previously impossible. An example would be limiting the character models to 1,500 polygons and using the extra power obtained as a result to increase the number of simultaneous on-screen enemy soldiers to several hundred. Or, we could have dead bodies remain indefinitely. Whatever the case, we will use the machine's advanced capabilities to expand the game's mechanics. We will use the PlayStation 2's capabilities to strengthen Metal Gear as a game. Instead of building up its visuals, we will build up its world.
We will not pursue cinematic visuals! ↓
We will pursue a realistic world! ↓
We will use the hardware's capabilities to create a realistic reality! "
The Grand Game Plan is well worth reading http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/pluginfile.p...r Solid 2 Grand Game Plan.pdf?forcedownload=1
Of course MGS2 turned out to be a mind blowing visual extravaganza that still looks fucking incredible to this day let alone when it destroyed expectations at E3 all those years ago.
"In addition, we would not be able to compete with other companies when it comes to such visuals, when you consider the difference between them and us in terms of the know-how they have acquired as well as their financial investment toward it.
With Metal Gear Solid 2, we will not try to improve the quality of all the various areas of the game's visuals, but instead use the hardware's capabilities to implement certain features that were previously impossible. An example would be limiting the character models to 1,500 polygons and using the extra power obtained as a result to increase the number of simultaneous on-screen enemy soldiers to several hundred. Or, we could have dead bodies remain indefinitely. Whatever the case, we will use the machine's advanced capabilities to expand the game's mechanics. We will use the PlayStation 2's capabilities to strengthen Metal Gear as a game. Instead of building up its visuals, we will build up its world.
We will not pursue cinematic visuals! ↓
We will pursue a realistic world! ↓
We will use the hardware's capabilities to create a realistic reality! "
The Grand Game Plan is well worth reading http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/pluginfile.p...r Solid 2 Grand Game Plan.pdf?forcedownload=1
Of course MGS2 turned out to be a mind blowing visual extravaganza that still looks fucking incredible to this day let alone when it destroyed expectations at E3 all those years ago.
Anyone getting upset or confused with the promotional art renders better not look at the box art of every video game in existence (besides NES black boxes). The premise is exactly the same. They're designed to harness your imagination for potential.