Fighter graphics and art style discussion
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Xiaoyu looks really nice (and actually Asian this time) in the new trailer 
Don't worry. The Tekken channel will have it uploaded really soon
I didn't find any HQ versions of the other trailers either. For this one for example:
Not even on sites like Gamersyde (www.gamersyde.com), where I usually find trailers of all sorts of games in high quality. They have all the DOA5 Last Round trailers in HQ...
d3v
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TvC was made that way because of 1) the Wii's limitations and 2) the fact that Tatsunoko's properties were cartoons.That would be a weird, shortsighted reason... You should give a game the perfectly fitting art style, that it deserves and not look at other game series of the same company, to determine a common, known style. No gaming company does that. Not even Capcom. Viewtiful Joe for example also uses an anime/cell shading style. Or the game Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Here, Chun Li in anime/cell shaded style:
Most of the concept art d3v showcased here are also anime style. There must be another reason...
Also, SF is a more mainstream property and, admittedly, cel-shading isn't really for everybody.
More importantly, Capcom (alongside SNK) is know for having its own signature style. Aside from the RE series, most of Capcom's classic series all fall under the same signature style. It's part of what makes Capcom games what they are.
Yeah, that's what I figured too. The average gamer doesn't seem to appreciate cel-shaded games too much, as we saw in the past. Some even consider them cheap or as bad graphics. It's a shame, they can be amazing from an artistic kind of view (Zelda:Wind Waker, Killer 7, Okami...)
How could Okami come to my mind just now? Also a beautifully cel-shaded Capcom game:
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It's a lot less grotesque and more stylistically pleasing they both look beautiful, almost god-likeThe cavemen proportions are still there, It's just the faces, that they made more attractive.
they are a bit too goofy looking in SF4 imo especially with the cartoony faces.
If anything, Guilty Gear did the 2.5D thing correctly. The models are 3D, but it still looks like a true current gen 2D fighter with HD sprites. As for the look of Street Fighter V, the game is still in early development and a lot can change between now and then. I will say that the models look more polished than SF4, which is already a vast improvement. One of the main reasons I never got into the SF4 series is because the aesthetic turned me off.
David Gregg
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Tekken 7: A lot of the stages look fantastic and the characters look "good enough" (a lot of their models remain the same but you can see an improvement in the skin, hair, outfits, etc...) Some of the characters don't look as good as I thought they would on current gen but if you compare their models to TTT2 or TR it's like night and day.
SF5: SF will be SF I guess. I was never a fan of the way their characters looked post SF3 but the series stays true to it's cartoonish models and their exaggerated limbs and I can respect them for wanting to stick to it. Like other games being released you can notice the improvements in skin and clothes textures more than anything even though their "looks" remain more or less the same. The stage shown in the trailer looks decent but I can't go off one stage I'll have to wait to see more.
GGXrd: I don't know...people are praising the "3D on 2D" aesthetic but I'm not really seeing the game as that good looking (and the majority of stages don't stand out to me). I'm not a fan of cartoon 2D fighters though so that might be why. I do eventually want to try the game out though since everyone talks so highly of it.
SF5: SF will be SF I guess.
I was never a fan of the way their characters looked post SF3 but the series stays true to it's cartoonish models and their exaggerated limbs and I can respect them for wanting to stick to it. Like other games being released you can notice the improvements in skin and clothes textures more than anything even though their "looks" remain more or less the same. The stage shown in the trailer looks decent but I can't go off one stage I'll have to wait to see more.GGXrd: I don't know...people are praising the "3D on 2D" aesthetic but I'm not really seeing the game as that good looking (and the majority of stages don't stand out to me). I'm not a fan of cartoon 2D fighters though so that might be why. I do eventually want to try the game out though since everyone talks so highly of it.
Blazeblue still has the best stages from a design perspective
im trying to find the others but the DLC stages keep poppining up in the search
I'm looking forward to the HQ tekken vids. I never liked leo because she looked manly and somewhat unattractive in TTT2, but now she looks so cute....i almost want to kiss her, but i can't really handle the fact that she still dresses like a man But yeah anyway, the graphics are really doing well...i wonder if they'll implement sweating and dirt physics like they mimicked from DOA in TTT2?
But yeah anyway, the graphics are really doing well...i wonder if they'll implement sweating and dirt physics like they mimicked from DOA in TTT2?It doesn't happen in all stages, but if you fight in certain stages with a slightly darker lighting, you'll notice shiny sweat marks that dont appear in other stages....well maybe except for the fountain stage, because you get visibly wet.Dirt yes, but I never noticed the fighters sweating in TTT2... I always have the dirt off in DOA5. The muddy textures (no pun intended
And yeah, the mud and dirt textures need work in the next DOA game. It looks so pixelated and glitchy...
Hmm...sure your not imagining this?
@Kodachi, look, I found a great gif, that shows, just how big of a style change SFV is from SFIV:
Ryu looks so much better!
Thrilled to see the other characters now.
David Gregg
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I know SSB is on Wii U which despite being a current gen console most consider it as last gen due to the hardware but as a 2D fighter it doesn't look too shabby.