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Everything about Jump Force's presentation is hilarious, not just the plastic art style (spoilers)
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1) This hasn't stopped other 2D->3D conversions before.
2) The fact that traditional 2D animation runs at 24fps has nothing to do with this. This point is completely irrelevant.
3) Aiming to have a coherent art style doesn't mean you beat every character with an ugly stick.
I don't think the points you mentioned have much bearing on things at all. End of the day they chose an ugly art style and ran with it.
There are plenty of games that are 3D but use an anime art style (Guilty Gear/DBFZ probably the most famous and well executed, but there are many others). Many of them are also incredibly well animated and able to capture the feel of their source material.
End of the day they decided to go all-in with a polarizing look for their game. The rest of the jank just looks like the result of a product that is being rushed to market.
The only reason the game seems to be so crude and unpolished is poor management. There are no technical reasons for it to be this way.
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Oddly enough, MVCI can be good looking sometimes. I think is the characters that came from UMVC3 that look the worst. Others, like Ultron or Captain Marvel, look absolutely amazing
You do realize a lot of the big franchises have had other 3D fighting games that look MUCH better, right? One Piece has, Naruto, DBZ, Jojo, etc. As for #3, explain how Smash Bros managed to create a cohesive art style, in a game that has characters ranging from Toon Link to Solid Snake.
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Japanese animation doesn't run at 24Fps. Maybe 12 at best and even then it's by design even cheaper. Guilty Gear and DBZF are actually both 2D game using 3D meshes , you fell straight into my trap little one
I agree. I'm having the time of my life with how bad this game is. Like male voice option 2... my dude is losing his shit like Bakugo while completely straight faced lmao
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It's a 3vs3 game with a shared health bar, which makes zero sense to me. What's the point of making a game 3 vs 3 if they share a health bar? It just becomes "change style" instead of "change character" doesn't it?
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No. It was years of effort by a veteran group dedicated to doing right by the license with the budget to do so that maximized a gap in the market to their advantage.
Believe me. Making the stuff ASW did took a lot of effort and is no fluke.
It makes sense in a way but reeks of lack of balancing time being the major deciding factor to choose to do this.
3 life bars for 3 characters can easily run into either timer scams or just ridiculously long matches that drone on. To push excitement you need to heavily balance damage output vs max health vs healing rates vs resource gain vs timer speed. That takes work. Beta builds of mvc3 and sf x tekken (which only had 2 characters not 3) took wild swings between too much damage and too little between builds trying to find the sweet spot.
The cheap solution is one life bar shared for all 3 characters. Easier to plan around but feels very lazy and reeks of lack of time or budget needed for a more rewarding method of seperate life bars to be implemented.
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Imagine if they just did that but expanded to Jump. Not gonna happen, but just imagine.
I'm not sure yet. The game forces you through like 20 min of unskippable text with bad presentation before you can do anything. It's like Toei pacing came to life.
By fluke I mean Namco would never approve a game of that quality again.
Good lord it's even worse than before.
I always hated the "realistic" look of Jump Force from the get-go - it just doesn't fit any of the characters, and I don't see the "action figure" angle, either. It's even worse than MvCI, and that's saying something, considering how trash that game's presentation was. Also, poor Trunks got hit with an ugly stick, geez. And the cutscenes look cheap as hell.
I mean, you don't need DBFZ-level cel shading to make it look good, just look at the teaser for that new Dragon Ball RPG project.
I always hated the "realistic" look of Jump Force from the get-go - it just doesn't fit any of the characters, and I don't see the "action figure" angle, either. It's even worse than MvCI, and that's saying something, considering how trash that game's presentation was. Also, poor Trunks got hit with an ugly stick, geez. And the cutscenes look cheap as hell.
I mean, you don't need DBFZ-level cel shading to make it look good, just look at the teaser for that new Dragon Ball RPG project.
Trunks looks better than almost all of the other DB characters honestly. His hair is harder to fuck up in 3D and he's got jacked pecs
Lol! Okay this I agree with. Especially as a Kamen Rider fan.
Its pretty bad. If its a bubble, then the rest of the world just has bad artistic taste then I guess.
One day we'll get our bomb-ass One Piece Arcsys fighter.
One day.
That is freaking HILARIOUS! WOW! I was okay with the look of the game. The various super moves looked fine to me but that's something else. The Frieza Poochi animation gave me a chuckle too.
It's funnier if you look at Luffy in the background, who is animating normally.
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Most people don't know what framerate, shaders, or whatever are. This means enthusiasts are a lot more sensitive to it.
That being said, the Sanji tweet above, you can see in the comments that it's not just ERA that thinks it looks like a cheaply made mess. Same with the vegeta ass cube tweet.
I see we've reached that most recent Beserk anime level of quality animation.
Honestly the only characters that the style does fit for is Jotaro and Dio. But that's because in comparison to the other characters they were already more realistic.
Also that shirt on the avatar is terrible, it looks like the panel was badly copied and pasted on the shirt.
Damn was really excited for the game, but everything I'm seeing from the story mode, amount of load times and disappointing roster, makes me glad I'm not getting the game day one. Might get it when it's cheaper since I do enjoy the combat, but this is really disappointing.
Well. Uh. Hm. It gives proper respect to Kaguya as the real big bad of Naruto rather than Meh-dara I guess. And before anyone @s me, watch her backstory episodes in the anime. IDGAF if they're "not canon", makes her make a lot more sense than Madara.
But yeah this game looks jankier than Xenoverse which is saying a lot.
But yeah this game looks jankier than Xenoverse which is saying a lot.
Of all the times Vegeta's jobbed, this must be the worst
