Yuke's abandoning ship must have really fucked up the development of this game. 2K19 was a good looking game.....what the hell happened?
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WWE 2K20 first footage and cover stars revealed and no one noticed?
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This is such a weird thing. Wrestling games hit a peak in terms of graphics in like the early PS3/360 era, and for some reason it just nosedived somewhere around 2009 and they never bothered making it decent again.
Well there's tradeoffs for making it better in other areas. They have better animation now than they did back in the 'those look super real' days, more open areas, more item interaction...
TNA Impact for me is the high point of wrestling graphics, but it really suffered in the animation department - not so much in the animations which were generally ok, but they had issues getting the characters to 'mesh' so they would do things like change camera angles to hide the way they'd move characters around to make aerial moves hit, for example. Edit - this video at the 1:20 mark or so, when Styles goes off the rope it switches angles to hide the mismatch.
I guess that's making it a more realistic wrestling sim, in a way...
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I played last year's game. The animations still looked really stiff for a current gen game and the game even had loading screens (pretty long ones even on Pro) each time you went to backstage or came back to ringside. Not to mention how bad the character models looked.
All in all, it really didn't feel like a PS4 game at all. I legit thought I was playing a PS3 game.
You deserve a better game.
Better animations? They looked stiff and lifeless in that 2K20 trailer.
Reminder, this is how the series looked 13 years ago.
I dunno if they stopped facial/body scanning them because they look very cartoony compared to the old wrestling models from 13 years ago like you posted. Maybe it was an aesthetic choice to match the fidelity of the created wrestlers and the legends.
It felt like everything went downhill when they started motion capturing the animations. The moves/entrances/animations in general looked much better when they were hand animated back in the day.
*puts brown hair on the default female CAW*
"Welp, my work here is done."
They don't seem to get that there is also a market for this kinda game, WWE 2k games are awful for Kids or casuals to play, they're too sim like, I've tried and the only way I can do it with my kids is to turn pins off (cause the kickout system sucks), turn off subs and just be KO only
These games are AAA and have a huge budget? Besides that theres no reason for them to look worse and worse
It's also why NBA 2K got worse and worse through each installment.
This is appealing. The stage reminds me of something out of wcw nitro for n64. Game had some weird ass unlockables.
It doesn't have a huge budget. Yuke's quit because they couldn't get funding to try new things and make the series better.
Yuke's quit and are giving minimal support. Apparently 2k couldn't even get the engine running until August according to CM Pulse and they are rushing the game out the door. The playtest the YouTubers and the like usually have at Summerslam is now happening 2 weeks before release.
This one will be one for the ages. Even more broken than normal.
yoooo wtf
Taken from DenkOp's twitter
It's indeed Mortal Kombat-esque
but lol at the normal dude ref
Interesting. I thought 2K was giving more money for these. I guess this makes a bit more sense now.
Yeah its a screen from gameplay. It's one of the original stages made this year.
WWE 2k games have this issue where they look like shit to waste $60 for it, and by the time than they get cheap enough to consider a purchase, the next game is already coming.
Also, doesn't have the casual appeal of FIFA where even if you think that is too much money for the same game over and over again, at least there you could buy the game to have something to play with your casual friends
Also, doesn't have the casual appeal of FIFA where even if you think that is too much money for the same game over and over again, at least there you could buy the game to have something to play with your casual friends
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to this day i wonder who thought making wwe games more like sports sims was a good idea considering wrestling is nothing like a typical sports sim
I just wait for them until Black Friday. The last couple of years all the stores have had them for $30-$35
Is that model problem... or an animation/lip problem? I'm curious what the unrigged version looks like.
it's an *everything* problem since that looks NOTHING like The Rock
The problem is its not a good sim. It tries to wade the line between sim and game to its failure, because Vince would never let a product break kayfabe. A game where you manage a wresting company for real would be killer. Gm mode 10 years ago got close.
Its the whos line is it anyway of stimulation games.
"Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway?, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. "
Stopped playing these games ages ago, but 2 years ago i felt an urge to play due to nostalgia so i bought 2k17 to see how far these games have advanced since the ps2 days.
Well....
What the fuck did they do the gameplay? Counter, counter, counter, tapping, counter, counter, tapping, where is the fun in that?...... and about the graphics some wrestlers look great, other ps2 quality and i am not even joking, and the animation is still the same from the ps2 games, really???
My dream wwe game is a game developed by the tekken team using the same tekken gameplay, king marduk armor king are more enjoyable wrestlers to play than anything yukes came up with.
Well....
What the fuck did they do the gameplay? Counter, counter, counter, tapping, counter, counter, tapping, where is the fun in that?...... and about the graphics some wrestlers look great, other ps2 quality and i am not even joking, and the animation is still the same from the ps2 games, really???
My dream wwe game is a game developed by the tekken team using the same tekken gameplay, king marduk armor king are more enjoyable wrestlers to play than anything yukes came up with.
Devs did an interview yesterday and basically confirmed that there are no new core gameplay enhancements other than reworked controls. I wouldn't pay $10 for this game on launch.
I guess there's always TEW 2016 (2020 coming soon) for sim needs, although I could see it being an issue if you wanted like, gameplay visuals
