ZywyPL
Banned
I'm still utterly bewildered at how some people think this looks bad
The game overall looks great, animations are absolutely top-notch, but the low-res textures are killing the entire presentation.
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Metroid Dread Overview Trailer
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The game overall looks great, animations are absolutely top-notch, but the low-res textures are killing the entire presentation.
Which part?
Cutty Flam
Banned
Who's gonna create the Metroid Dread |OT|
Only asking because there was no Skyward Sword |OT|
Someone said it was kinda sad that SS didn't have an |OT| but personally I found that kind of amusing if not completely hilarious whenever it crossed my mind lol
Only asking because there was no Skyward Sword |OT|
Someone said it was kinda sad that SS didn't have an |OT| but personally I found that kind of amusing if not completely hilarious whenever it crossed my mind lol
Andyliini
Member
I have a title for the OT, but I'm not sure yet if I can do it.
Cutty Flam
Banned
No worries, was only curious because I've seen some pretty hardcore Metroid fans out there on the web
Figured someone was already deep in the works with one even as early as now. I'm not the one for Metroid Dread's |OT| tbh, I wouldn't be able to do it any justice
Sean Mirrsen
Banned
The only thing I find even remotely objectionable about Dread's artstyle is the use of those weird glow shaders for highlights. They are way too intense, and look extremely out of place on large monsters, and even on Samus herself. A more subtle, uniform change in lightness across the whole mesh would have been preferable I think, maybe combined with a more intense glow tracing the visible outline of the monster/character/object.
gradient
Resident Cheap Arse
Don't you bring that evil in here!
CGiRanger
Banned
We're down to a second person shooter or second person adventure now, lol
tommib
Member
Metroid Dread looks like it could be the real deal
When you've been waiting some 15 years for a game, I think it's probably fair to express a little bit of trepidation go…
www.eurogamer.net
“For returning fans like myself who still play through Super Metroid once a year, the most heartening thing after two hours with Metroid Dread is how it retains and restores so much of the magic of the series. It's a respectful retread, but also one that's bold enough to throw in smart new ideas of its own, adding an extra layer of tension, horror and atmosphere that feels simply electric. Right now it looks like this has every chance of living up to Metroid's legacy, which would really be no mean feat at all.”
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CGiRanger
Banned
Metroid Dread: The Final Preview - IGN
In our final Metroid Dread preview, we try out the grand finale to the Metroid saga on Nintendo Switch OLED and discuss how it compares to previous games in the series.
Well, damnit, as if I didn't need the OLED enough.... have to really pray to find one on launch day I guess since Pre-Orders never reopened
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IGN Preview.
If we didn't have Hollow Knight and the Ori games, that show us an incredible Metroid style game with beautiful graphics and amazing art style this would be OK, but that's not the gaming world we live in. People SHOULD EXPECT AAA PRODCUTION VALUES from a FULL RETAIL PRICED Nintendo game. The aforementioned games weren't even FULL RETAIL PRICED and had incredible style.
Everything myself and others were saying about the shitty art style is all true.
Again IGN is the most generous especially towards Nintendo, when even they feel the need to be honest about a games lack of visual quality, it's really something awful.
YIKES! Such dumb design choices that don't make any sense.
They want it to be a short game...
2:40 mark
Talks about how you NEED to use the fucking awful parry melee move in the game, which was the worst part of the 3DS game, because the timing window sucked. They omitted this line from their text preview. Another red flag.
This is all reading like a 7/10, the fact that IGN is being honest in a preview should open a few eyes.
The reason I've been so critical about this title is that it fully pisses me off. I bought a Switch FOR METROID PRIME 4, I want a new Metroid experience that's GOOD. Nintendo has seemingly delivered a less than stellar Metroid game from some D-tier studio. I want to play Nintendo games, I really do, but fuck Nintendo is making it so god damned hard for me to justify the $80 CND on so many of their titles. My Switch is gathering dust, if it wasn't for my g/fs love of Pokemon and Animal Crossing the thing would be covered in serious dust, or sitting in a carrying case completely forgotten.
When you search "Metroid Dread preview" on google, you can see that Nintendo has google buried the previews by having their Youtube videos of the snippets pushing real previews off the first page. If you're not aware, companies can and do pay for this google manipulation.
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Metroid Dread |OT| Simply dreadful
When IGN starts dropping truth bombs in a preview there's a red flag for you.
If we didn't have Hollow Knight and the Ori games, that show us an incredible Metroid style game with beautiful graphics and amazing art style this would be OK, but that's not the gaming world we live in. People SHOULD EXPECT AAA PRODCUTION VALUES from a FULL RETAIL PRICED Nintendo game. The aforementioned games weren't even FULL RETAIL PRICED and had incredible style.
Everything myself and others were saying about the shitty art style is all true.
Again IGN is the most generous especially towards Nintendo, when even they feel the need to be honest about a games lack of visual quality, it's really something awful.
YIKES! Such dumb design choices that don't make any sense.
They want it to be a short game...
2:40 mark
Talks about how you NEED to use the fucking awful parry melee move in the game, which was the worst part of the 3DS game, because the timing window sucked. They omitted this line from their text preview. Another red flag.
Shoehorned stealth, everything here reads like a developer that didn't deserve to touch such an important part of the Metroid series.
This is all reading like a 7/10, the fact that IGN is being honest in a preview should open a few eyes.
The reason I've been so critical about this title is that it fully pisses me off. I bought a Switch FOR METROID PRIME 4, I want a new Metroid experience that's GOOD. Nintendo has seemingly delivered a less than stellar Metroid game from some D-tier studio. I want to play Nintendo games, I really do, but fuck Nintendo is making it so god damned hard for me to justify the $80 CND on so many of their titles. My Switch is gathering dust, if it wasn't for my g/fs love of Pokemon and Animal Crossing the thing would be covered in serious dust, or sitting in a carrying case completely forgotten.
When you search "Metroid Dread preview" on google, you can see that Nintendo has google buried the previews by having their Youtube videos of the snippets pushing real previews off the first page. If you're not aware, companies can and do pay for this google manipulation.
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Metroid Dread |OT| Simply dreadful
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
tommib
Member
Metacritic 90 incoming. You’ll eat those words.
SantaC
Member
From the same developer that killed castlevania
the parry window sucked in the 3DS game? it was forgiving as fuck, I could do it in my sleep and I'm a permanently exhausted college student, full time job, dad of a newborn, lol. My reflexes suck.
A padded Nintendo 90 won't fix the awful art style that indie Metroid games have surpassed years ago.
Eating words? Sounds like a good diet though.
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
tell where Metroid Dread hurt you
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
first you ramble about how this look like a uprezed 3DS game. you got proven wrong.
now it's the art style that is the problem, something incredibly subjective to begin with.
and finally I should listen to fucking IGN out of all odds, or better said your cherry picked quotes from IGN.
SantaC
Member
Cant stand the developer. Wish Retro Studios made it.
I am going to boycott the game.
tommib
Member
It’s cherry picked because the actual review counteracts all the “issues”. He omits the sentences that follow. I would love to know what drives someone to be so negative towards an unreleased game to the point they reassemble a preview to their bias.
NomadicAsiatic
Member
Random question how can I use different types of reactions to posts? I’m on mobile btw
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Hold press on the like button
NomadicAsiatic
Member
Thanks!
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
I'll buy two, don't worry :^)
Cutty Flam
Banned
Man you cry a lot. Why not just give the game a chance and stop deluding yourself. What a ridiculous post lmao. Imagine reading an IGN review…
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
The non-bolded part is the actual previewers view, the other part is bullshit that they have to say to keep nintendo happy, you won't get previews in the future if you go too strong.
If you don't understand industry spin by now then...
I can't believe you don't see the issue in paying full price from a company that typically has AAA quality and this product lacks that.
This game isn't within Nintendo's typical product quality. I don't know what the hell is happening at Nintendo, but they need to change.
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
Nintendo bad, Nintendo bad, IGN writes their true criticism in riddles in order to make bad Nintendo happy, the game is no "true" AAA experience so it will be bad bla bla bla
we get it.
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
OsirisBlack
Banned
Already got my steel book reserved and will buy a regular copy day one will NEVER open steelbook
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
I hope you are right dude.
That IGN preview got me worried.
metroid can’t be an OKAY game
It needs to surpass bloodstained
I'm really excited to play it, replaying Zero Mission at 240p on a CRT in prep.
For everyone saying it looks bad though, I actually totally agree - if you compare it to any current gen game it looks very underwhealming. There is so just so much insane detail in Rift Apart and CyberPunk (and any other modern title really) where Dread kinda just has flashiness with modern lighting but the polygonal detail and texture fidelity looks like 360-era ngl.
I'm cool with it though, you have to know what you signed up for. Ever since the Wii, you just assume you won't have the latest and greatest in graphics. But I don't think it's trying to blow tits off with it's graphical prowess.
Looks like what it's going for is nice art style, smooth looking, non-aliased models and a steady 60 frames a second. That's probably why the detail, when you scrutinize it, is so lacking. I think it's going to have the F-Zero X / GX, (or Hollowknight - more relateably genre-wise) effect where experiencing it in motion completely eclipses seeing still frames of it. To be honest, if it came out looking twice as good but was at 30 fps, I would have preferred a smoother experience with fewer bells and whistles.
It's hard to play Samus Returns now since it's so incredibly jagged and kind of a slideshow at times, at least Dread will be a clear "generational leap" from that in terms of experience. Switch Pro can't come soon enough though... hoping Prime 4 will shoot for tits-off-graphics and be a launch title.
Now hoping the game itself doesn't suck. Don't have an OLED to experience it but I have a late model Panasonic plasma that should do the trick.
For everyone saying it looks bad though, I actually totally agree - if you compare it to any current gen game it looks very underwhealming. There is so just so much insane detail in Rift Apart and CyberPunk (and any other modern title really) where Dread kinda just has flashiness with modern lighting but the polygonal detail and texture fidelity looks like 360-era ngl.
I'm cool with it though, you have to know what you signed up for. Ever since the Wii, you just assume you won't have the latest and greatest in graphics. But I don't think it's trying to blow tits off with it's graphical prowess.
Looks like what it's going for is nice art style, smooth looking, non-aliased models and a steady 60 frames a second. That's probably why the detail, when you scrutinize it, is so lacking. I think it's going to have the F-Zero X / GX, (or Hollowknight - more relateably genre-wise) effect where experiencing it in motion completely eclipses seeing still frames of it. To be honest, if it came out looking twice as good but was at 30 fps, I would have preferred a smoother experience with fewer bells and whistles.
It's hard to play Samus Returns now since it's so incredibly jagged and kind of a slideshow at times, at least Dread will be a clear "generational leap" from that in terms of experience. Switch Pro can't come soon enough though... hoping Prime 4 will shoot for tits-off-graphics and be a launch title.
Now hoping the game itself doesn't suck. Don't have an OLED to experience it but I have a late model Panasonic plasma that should do the trick.
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Ceadeus
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Looks like it will surpass Bloodstained's framerate that's for sure.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
You should try playing it outside of a potato
Ceadeus
Gold Member
Ohh now I remember! It's been years since I've watched this movie. I would have never guess the reference haha
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Imagine coming to a thread about a game you don't care about, so you can try to convince some internet strangers to not buy it based on some IGN (of all places) shitty preview. Holy shit.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
They do reek of post 2006 gamefaqs flamebait posts so it really isn't surprising.
PaddyOCanager
Member
I just played and beat my first Metroid game (Super Metroid) last week in preparation for this game. It was truly amazing and I regret not having experienced it back in the day. I've played almost all the classic franchises in my time, but missed out on Metroid entirely (including the Prime series). I knew the moment the title screen hit that Super Metroid was special, and I played until like 3 am before I even realized what time it was.
I'm praying that this game will be as good or better than Super Metroid.
I'm praying that this game will be as good or better than Super Metroid.
Synless
Member
No way in hell it will be better, it will be damn good though.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Don't skip on Prime. I've only played the first one, but that one is amazing.
PaddyOCanager
Member
What blew me away was how well it still holds up. When I go back to visit classic titles I usually adjust my expectations due to age.....but outside of a few minor complaints the game is timeless.