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Metroid Prime 4 forrest environment teaser
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Astral Dog
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Some will laugh at Switch game but to me that section looked simply beautiful, i wonder how Retro got that running at 60fps on a Switch, or if they were showing the 'other' version, if not we can expect the Switch 2 to look a lot nicer
sleep inducing forest gifs. Long live Nintendo.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Forrest environment?!
Radical_3d
Member
This is Morrowind now. Feel old yet?
darrylgorn
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Apocryphon
Member
I can’t tell whether it looks better or worse than Halo 3’s opening level.
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
With how long MP4 was in development it might for the best to not try anything radically new, after all the last Prime (MP3) was released 17 years ago and the formula is still kinda fresh to most players.
But after MP4 maybe its time to let the Prime series lay down and start with something completely new like proper space exploration and semi open world planets, dunno something like that.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
It's 60 fps so easily better.
Paltheos
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Not the most impressive of reveals. As a guy who's played a ton of Metroid Prime, when I look at these game environments, what I'm looking at first and foremost is level topography. "Is this cliff too high to jump?" "How many doors are in the room?" "Are there any interfaces to my abilities?" etc.
What I see in that twitter post are a bunch of flat rooms and corridors with nothing but walls and cliffsides. There's nothing to spark my imagination for how I might actually explore the environment. As a trailer for a Metroid game, that's a catastrophic failure for building hype. It leaves me a bit concerned for what the actual game will look like. Hopefully Retro's PR team just sucks.
I think I'm pretty clear already but I want to indulge myself. For a good example of what to show off, think of the camera pan of Main Plaza in the Chozo Ruins of the first game that plays in game when you enter for the first time. The camera sweeps across the main entrance over the half-pipe and to the other side of the room, passing over the doorways on your left and the climbable rubble on your right and the overhead bridge. That sparks imagination. You could name dozens of rooms like that I'm sure (although the first one I thought of was Frozen Courtyard from Phendrana for its large, central platform surrounded on all sides by a moat and ice platforms you clearly have to raise somehow via the morph ball slots on the walls). Something, guys.
What I see in that twitter post are a bunch of flat rooms and corridors with nothing but walls and cliffsides. There's nothing to spark my imagination for how I might actually explore the environment. As a trailer for a Metroid game, that's a catastrophic failure for building hype. It leaves me a bit concerned for what the actual game will look like. Hopefully Retro's PR team just sucks.
I think I'm pretty clear already but I want to indulge myself. For a good example of what to show off, think of the camera pan of Main Plaza in the Chozo Ruins of the first game that plays in game when you enter for the first time. The camera sweeps across the main entrance over the half-pipe and to the other side of the room, passing over the doorways on your left and the climbable rubble on your right and the overhead bridge. That sparks imagination. You could name dozens of rooms like that I'm sure (although the first one I thought of was Frozen Courtyard from Phendrana for its large, central platform surrounded on all sides by a moat and ice platforms you clearly have to raise somehow via the morph ball slots on the walls). Something, guys.
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Little Mac
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Metroid Prime is my favorite game of all time. I’ll play Prime 4 for sure but I’m hoping for a Switch 2 reveal that showcases an enhanced version of the game. Regardless, the gameplay will be fucking amazing.
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Schmendrick
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This would have been a "Teaser" ...on PS3 ... Maybe.
2024 that's just
2024 that's just
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rodrigolfp
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Halo 4 is 30fps , so nope.
Hugare
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It running at double the framerate doesnt change how it looks. Not saying about performance.
Which is to be expected, since Switch is better than a 360 by quite a margin in some specs. RAM alone is 4GB vs 512MB.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
It changes how it looks in motion and how it plays.
Hugare
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I'm taking about presentation without taking into account how fluid the image is or not, 'mkay? It could be running at 120 FPS for all I care.
From screenshots, they look similar. That's my point. Halo 4 looking game at 60 FPS is expected from the hardware. Looks ok.
John Bilbo
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It looks like HDR footage without HDR.
Stafford
Member
Shit, that's exactly the right way to describe it. Washed out as hell.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Good thing we don't play screenshots plus power required to run 30 vs 60 fps is different too.
I'm taking about presentation without taking into account how fluid the image is or not, 'mkay? It could be running at 120 FPS for all I care.
From screenshots, they look similar. That's my point. Halo 4 looking game at 60 FPS is expected from the hardware. Looks ok.
Kataploom
Gold Member
It has way better rendering techniques and more complex texturing over all, not to mention it runs way better and in way better resolution
FalsettoVibe
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Game will be good but hard to deny that it's looking pretty dated.
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
Best looking part of the trailer.
Apocryphon
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Fluidity and frame pacing are important and absolutely contribute to the visual impact of games in motion, but we can’t not acknowledge that the art direction will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting in this game. It’s clear that hardware limitation are going to prohibit many advanced rendering techniques that are becoming commonplace this gen. I was hoping for a bigger visual leap, particularly in geometric complexity. I’ll be getting the game day 1 and we have only seen a single short trailer so far, but what was shown is little underwhelming to me.
Portugeezer
Gold Member
Looks good for a 60fps Switch game.
Sadly, I think the Switch 2 port will probably just be a simple upres.
Sadly, I think the Switch 2 port will probably just be a simple upres.
Robb
Gold Member
That’d be my guess as well. Improved fidelity, loading times, performance etc. The standard stuff.
Heimdall_Xtreme
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CryEngine must be jealous now.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Turns out it’s an intentionally desaturated and darkened video since it’s used as the background of a website.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Every Nintendo release is quality and I don’t think teaching people to upgrade everything is responsible, switch 2 could release tomorrow and I’d reject it.
Miyazaki’s Slave
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
And of those trees, they have no grass or leaves.
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
direct feed
looks goord but whys combat the same?
looks goord but whys combat the same?
existensmaximum
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Hey! That was cool in 1992 and for at least a dozen of us it still is, dammit!Mfer did you just actually type “NOT”…
