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Yooka-Laylee's 64-Bit Tonic First Look( Update: New video)
- Thread starter Robin64
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They would need to cut the bloom, remove the foliage completely (other than maybe bushes, but they have to be a static image that rotates or something), basically redo the models for everything to have a lower polygon count, and have some worse textures. This just looks like you turned down all of the settings and put bloom on max.
A homage to N64 platformers that missed what made those games great incorporates a mode that is a homage to the look of N64 games and misses what those games looked like.
Powerful metaphor for something.
Powerful metaphor for something.
Sure.
It doesn't look like an N64 game at all.
N64 games have aged possibly the worst among all generations of games, graphically, so this seems like an even worse decision.
Work in progress or not, the work they've chosen to show has elements that are just not synonymous with a Banjo-Kazooie-like game and just doesn't look... right.
It's not for me, but I had to see what they thought "N64 style graphics" looked like, since it feels like there is almost no nostalgia for the way those games looked.
However, I hope the Kickstarter backers enjoy!
Yeah, that looks nothing like an N64 game lol
And this still doesn't change much with the medicore core game and its bad level design, I'd been more interested if they were working in expansion/dlc for the game.
And this still doesn't change much with the medicore core game and its bad level design, I'd been more interested if they were working in expansion/dlc for the game.
This looks like low settings on PC, does not look like a N64 aesthetic at all. To do this for real would take a lot of effort, as it would require creating new assets from scratch. Who thought this was a smart idea?
There's a ton of nostalgia for those graphics. There are even blogs dedicated tomaking more of those graphics.
They are as appealing as retro graphics in the same way that 8-bit and 16-bit graphics are appealing as retro graphics; using limited visual information to convey something greater.
This however, looks nothing like visuals from the era. It's like half a decade removed at best.
with how long this was taking i was expecting a full redo visually, this just looks like they cranked everything super low and called it.
Yeah, this just looks like a terrible image quality reduction with bloom cranked up to a thousand.
Did they forget what N64 games looked like?
I'm not sure removing normal maps and alpha channels is gonna cut it... They've got to REALLY downgrade it...
I really want to impress upon people just how much work it would be to remove poly's from every model in the game...
Cause once you mess up that mesh you need to re unwrap it for texturing, Then assuming that they could just shrink all the textures to 128x128 or 64x32 or something... they could re texture the assets using the same textures... but it might not give the desired result due to all the modern processing that textures go through... AND... if you change the mesh you need to re-skin it to the joints and hope the rig doesnt break so that the animations can still carry through. And they'd have to do this for all the characters, levels ... world assets and anything you can see... and that's assuming that doesn't mess up the hit-boxes and collisions... if they have to remake those then ... you might as well make a new game.
I really want to impress upon people just how much work it would be to remove poly's from every model in the game...
Cause once you mess up that mesh you need to re unwrap it for texturing, Then assuming that they could just shrink all the textures to 128x128 or 64x32 or something... they could re texture the assets using the same textures... but it might not give the desired result due to all the modern processing that textures go through... AND... if you change the mesh you need to re-skin it to the joints and hope the rig doesnt break so that the animations can still carry through. And they'd have to do this for all the characters, levels ... world assets and anything you can see... and that's assuming that doesn't mess up the hit-boxes and collisions... if they have to remake those then ... you might as well make a new game.
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Redoing every asset in the game in this style would have cost a lot more than what they are probably willing to sink into a year+ old game that has sort of sunk out of relevancy.
*bad Skullgirls flashbacks*
Though I think this fan artist would be a lot smarter than that skullgirls fan
Just started this yesterday and boy what a disappointment. It has all the right ingredients but some how misses the mark completely. There's some highlights, like the music and the nostalgia factor but it seems to fail at everything else. Frustrating camera, bad level design, terrible aiming mechanics. There's potential for a good game but it's poorly designed. I don't know if it was a lack of money or what but it just felt outdated like they'd made the graphics HD but left everything else in the past. Such a shame. It just made me want to play Banjo Kazooie instead.
I know Playtonic has their hearts in the right place but man, they really struggle with this game.
Oh geez, i wonder why a game which banked on n64 platformer nostalgia to sell would allow fans to have n64 mock graphics mode.
Yeah, they're not delivering (yet) but it's still weird to go "who wants this?" when the game literally was funded on nostalgic value alone, it's absolutely clear who wants this.
I... don't get it. I don't understand what look they're trying to evoke. It just doesn't look like an N64 game at all.
What does people wanting 3D platformers have to do with a low graphics setting filter? I liked N64 3D platformers but I don't like games that purposely look like shit. I'm really not seeing your point?
They don't know what they played like either in my experience.
the appeal of a nostalgia filter for a game built on nostalgia is not that complicated even if you dont want it
Was there ever a game about noodles on N64? :PI fixed it a bit to make it more authentic to N64- ;)
