for all the people saying it looks like a mobile game, the mobile Marvel game doesn't look on the same level at all
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 announced exclusively for Nintendo Switch (Team Ninja developed, Nintendo published)
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I think it's because the character designs are the same as or similar to the mobile games (and MvCI). MUA3 has better art direction though. And the mobile games are way worse looking.
I would actually say, Cell Shaded graphics are the best for video games, as they actually focus mostly on enhancing the already existing gameplay and aren't being used to hide bad gameplay. Also, Cell Shaded graphics age a ton better than realistic art styles.
All in all, Cell Shaded graphics focus on the game aspect of video games, while realistic graphics focus on the video part. I am here mostly for the game part, not the video part.
That's the nostalgia talking, the original game had cel shading too and the new game looks much better and cleaner from an art perspective even if on the more streamlined style
This is what the original game looked like
Please remember most of the game you are zoomed out watching the character in action with tons of explosions and particle effects going on
Edit sorry that's the ps2 version(which I grew up with) here's the 360 version
However that still doesn't look as good as the new game which is a major improvement
Oh i just noticed Scarlet Witch, now that's interesting how she plays because in the UA games her moves were all given to Doctor Strange and buffed incredibly, so interested to see how they make the two more unique
They'll could be NPCs at the least like they were in the original but I wouldn't rule out them being playable
I'm fucked if it does. Provided they are of decent quality - wouldn't bother with Infinity like stuff.
So on top of Wolverine and going off pre embargo games and general comic popularity here's a likely list note outside of the giant avengers lineup, most lineups traditionally are 4-6 characters(which the gotg follow)
- Jean Grey
- Storm
- Cyclops
- X-23
- Deadpool
- Colossus
- Iceman
Well it looks like the fantastic four game ban is over( thanks for pointing this out to me Neoxon
(Silver Surfer was tied to that ban)
Which bodes we'll for at least the fantastic four and silver surfer gettin in if only as unlockable characters on a roster this big. Question is did this happen early enough in development that doom made the cut
(Silver Surfer was tied to that ban)
Which bodes we'll for at least the fantastic four and silver surfer gettin in if only as unlockable characters on a roster this big. Question is did this happen early enough in development that doom made the cut
As far as I'm concerned, Nintendo won the Game Awards when it comes to game announcements. I was screaming while watching the teaser announcement. Better than an eventual announcement of the Squenix Avengers game to me.
Rewatching the trailer there's quite a few character teases. Biggest ones are Hand Ninja teasing Daredevil(if not marvel knights, but whenever the hand show up daredevil almost always show up), xmansion at standard X-men team. Oh and Ultimo is a huge tease since I'd you know anything about him it's that he's not a robot but more akin to a golem and is always summoned and controlled by magic users with the original and most common one being the Mandarin
Cost practically nothing? This will hopefully have a lengthy campaign + tons of playable characters & varied cast of villains & enemies they have to design, model, voice & animate. That doesn't come cheap, even if the graphics aren't top class.
Compared to the cost of a common western game, it's definitely on the lower side.
You know why you won't get any deep cut X-Men? Because it's an Ultimate Alliance game and not a flippin X-Men Legends game. Like seriously, how is this even something worth mentioning? Ultimate Alliance 1 didn't have any deep cut X-Men either, what was the conspiracy on that?
I think it'll be Logan, Cyke, Psylocke, Jean and Iceman. MAYBE Gambit, Rogue and Colossus. Five X-Men in a MUA game is more than enough.
Deadpool isn't (really) an X-Man, I would consider him nearly a lock regardless of the X-Men characters we get.
His current comic affiliation last I checked is avengers(card carrying even).... then again so was Moon Knight so
Being serious, with the popularity of the characters, it is normal that the X-Men do not have as much proportion of characters as in old games.
7 or 8 seems like a good number. Formerly nobody knew the Guardians of the Galaxy and now they are superpopular, times change.
Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine and Cyclops I would say they are the indispensable ones.
7 or 8 seems like a good number. Formerly nobody knew the Guardians of the Galaxy and now they are superpopular, times change.
Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine and Cyclops I would say they are the indispensable ones.
Hopefully Nintendo's saving the mutant deep cuts for X-Men Legends 3 in 2020.
While yes probably around 7-8 would make sense for a MUA, I can also probably name around 30 X-Men who're more popular than the two confirmed Inhumans. Despite Ike's best efforts.
Original marvel ultimate alliance only had 5 actually and x mania was still on going (Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Deadpool and Iceman)
To be fair, when MUA1 came out, the X-Men had an entire series worth of games for themselves, MUA1 was "what if the X-Men legends games had other marvel characters?".
I do not doubt it with Crystal but Lockjaw is incredibly popular thanks mostly to his appearances on Ms. Marvel
I'm well aware it's not an X-Men game, but a lot has changed since the first game. The X-Men haven't been in a major game for almost at least more than 5 years. This is for all intense and purposes their big comeback. Nothing is written in stone that Ultimate Alliance can't have a large selection of X-Men to choose. Also Calm yourself. You sound like an X-Men hater.
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I'd love Lockjaw to have assist from the other pet avengers like Lockheed, Furball and Frog Thor.
Even comics side the X-Books still dominate in sales along with Spidey and Star Wars. People massively overestimate the X-Men's "decline" but then that was the corporate plan for awhile.
In comics I do not doubt it, but nowadays comics are unfortunately only a very small part of superheroes.
Comics are the only place Lockjaw garnered any real popularity though, so I thought that's what we were talking about.
This looks bad, like a cheap mobile game. At least mua 2 tried something new with a realistic art style, but this looks like a shovelware movie tie in game. NT are good devs, i'd be willing to bet that they didn't have a ton of time/budget with this one
Realistic art style is the worst for superhero games and we have very recent Marvel vs Capcom to witness it
Psylocke is going through some weird physical changes at Marvel Comics. I don't expect her to make any appearances until Marvel can market her as non-Asian.
This is Team Ninja of Koei Tecmo not Ninja Theory. Also the art style is clean which is very important for this type of games which has tons of characters and explosions on screen from a zoomed out perspective
MVCI was a mess visually for lots of reasons. In some ways this game's art reminds me a bit of MVC3 though.
The character models were never going to be hyper-detailed - MUA is more about lasers and explosions in all directions than it is about graphical horsepower. The important thing needs to be frame rate - if it chugs, it's going to feel awful to play.
Psylocke is definitely white again.
Having to write this feels dirty, what a weird character
I'm not a comic reader so just about everything I knew about Marvel or DC pre movies was from the 90's cartoons which means *gasp* I actually would have preferred more X-Men in MUA1. My response to you had nothing to do with my preferences and everything to do with you saying something completely nonsensical. FYI it's "all intents and purposes"
1) I don't think going realistic would have been a smart choice on Switch as it would immediately look dated compared to realistic looking games on PS4-XB1. This way the game will age better and it could guarantee better performance.
2) NT already used this art style with FEW on Switch, and it's clearly something Marvel likes.
3) MUA 1, the original cell shaded version looked and aged much better than the realistic one made by Vicarious imho. I personally like this artstyle.
In the end with those type of games it all comes down to the gameplay, this is not the Spider-man type of game where you just need to show how beautiful it looks, and then the gameplay is strictly linear.
I already said I'm not expecting a deep cut X-Men character in a game that typically features deep cuts. It could happen but I'm not betting on it. It's not nonsensical given the context of the recent absence of X-Men games.