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"Graphics?"

Does anybody think that the Graphics in specifically new Nintendo games are a bit of a mixed bag at the moment? I mean Killer 7 looks the d's b's as does Resident Evil 4. But Notable new and old Nintendo franchises Geist and in particular Star Fox look a bit naff.

I mean Geist could do with a bit of polish but Star Fox could do with a complete overhaul...

What's the chances of them getting better? After all developers establish graphics early on to get the hype machine going. If we can get games as good looking as Resident Evil 4, Star Wars: Rogue squadron 3 and F Zero GX we should really see some snazzy graphics in Star Fox and to some extent Geist.

Thoughts?

Unbeliever wrote:
> I've never even heard of Geist - what's it about?
Check these pages out:
http://shooters.ngenres.com/editorials/43.html

http://shooters.ngenres.com/previews/110.html

http://shooters.ngenres.com/screens/110/index.html

the first two are previews the last one are sreenshots.

I hope this helps:)

Well considering there is only one game setting the precedent. It's hardly a really unoriginal concept is it? If I had a ridiculous amount of money I would have pre-ordered it already.

It's very similar to Messiah on paper but the form in which it plays is different.

Cyclone wrote:
> I know, but other games copy ideas and turn out to be amazing.

Yeah, I'm not criticising the use of other's ideas. Rare were always masters of that.

I know, but other games copy ideas and turn out to be amazing.

Cyclone wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Is it me or does Geist work off the same premise as Messiah?
>
> It does seems similar.
>
> Yeah, but so do most FPS games with each other. Or RPGs, RTS etc..

Yeah but it's the whole possession of people thing...

Hedfix wrote:
> Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Is it me or does Geist work off the same premise as Messiah?
>
> It does seems similar.

Yeah, but so do most FPS games with each other. Or RPGs, RTS etc..

Maverick42 wrote:
> I'm sure I heard somewhere that Nintendo were telling the development
> teams to get the gameplay right first, and work on the graphics later.
> It's a nice tactic when you want to make great games, but not so good
> when you want to generate hype early in production.

I don't know. those who know their games will get excited about gameplay coming first. Fanboys/Casual gamers won't though, but stuff them.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Is it me or does Geist work off the same premise as Messiah?

It does seems similar.

Yeah surly if they want to grab the public's attention they build a nice graphics engine first.

Star-fox multiplayer looks like Lylat Wars multiplayer... truly it does. And both are the big games scheduled for next year.