Farcry Wii

sonic · Sep 2006

Farcry for the Wii looks like shite.

What's the deal with that arm texture? Looks like HL1 revisited.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/733/733951p1.html

Slainean · Sep 2006

Judging from the arm, Jack Carver is a burn victim.

KeyserSoze · Sep 2006

What the fuck? I didn't realize the main character of Far Cry is a mummified corpse.

ironbearxl · Sep 2006

N64?

aniceto · Sep 2006

"While on the island he becomes a victim of scientific experimentation and since then he possesses feral powers."

maybe that explains it?

Neo_God · Sep 2006

God...that is all kinds of ugly!

And yeah. I've seen this game played on the xbox. And his "feral transformation" really just looks like someone upped the intensity of his normal map.

eld · Sep 2006

I'm not going anywhere near anything ubisoft for wii, not even red steel.

SHEPEIRO · Sep 2006

that doesnt look good, this is the sort of thing that wii could do without...

... lazy ports that is.

rayman rabbits, looks interesting, even if it does make me shudder to say that.

eld · Sep 2006

They did change rayman completely though, from this awesome dead-rising'ish rabbit-slaying game to some sort of minigame-game.

because, oh minigames are SOO awesome for wii, noo?

HonkyPunch · Sep 2006

Wait, really?
It's not rayman anymore?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Joao Sapiro · Sep 2006

yup, looks like crap.

Joshua Stubbles · Sep 2006

Wii games looking like crap? No way!!........

TURD:

TURD:

SUPER TURD:

I think the environment's texture budget was like 32KB on that last one...lol

The only decent looking games they have so far as Zelda, Mario Galaxy and Rayman. Yeah yeah, it's all about the "wand", not the graphics. Keep right on saying that, if it makes you feel better. It took 5 years for me to give World War 2 Online a try, because I thought it looked god awful. The visuals were painful enough to the eyes to where I was just like "iew, screw this". But I gave it a try in January and have been hooked ever since. Same principal here. If the games don't at least look on par with other games, a lot of people won't be willing to give them a shot, even if the control scheme kicks ass. I'm looking forward to Zelda, Mario and Rayman. I'm also looking forward to the rumored "mature" games coming to Wii, such as Grand Theft Auto. I can only hope that they can pick up the graphical level on their games. Otherwise a lot of games won't be given a chance.

eld · Sep 2006

It's all about the artist actually

we'll see horrible looking games on 360, and we'll see lovely games on Wii.

SHEPEIRO · Sep 2006

well yeah they dont look as good still, but moving alot of the examples youve given look pretty sweet. metroid esp has style and colour, and alot of screen effects that kind of look crap when still but bring the game world alive when moving.

call me stooooooopid but i like the look style of the sport games. its like theyre taking the Wii with the graphics, if they can sell alot of that with those graphics it will be a big fingers up to the other consoles manufactures ideas of next-gen.

sonic · Sep 2006

Polycount should make a DVD for developers titled, "How to Not Make a Turd for the Wii... By Polycount".

ironbearxl · Sep 2006

Does the Wii support normal mapping? I know the press said it was more powerful than xbox:

SHEPEIRO · Sep 2006

i thought it did, maybe rushed port is to blame

Nostradamus · Sep 2006

while a frantic fanboy of nintendo, I truly must say that farcry looks like a pile of turd poop... but I also know that wii can do so much better... en GC could -.-

Mark Dygert · Sep 2006

And Far Cry on the PC looks better than the 360, who cares.

I have a 360 if I want "next gen under kill" (bloom effect + shitty spec maps does not = great game) I'll go play it. I will be buying the Wii because it will have interesting games that will more than likely be fun for a month or two.
I'm buying a Wii not because it beats the 360 or PS3 at what they do but because it is different. I don't want to rebuy Nintendo's clone of a 360, I want Nintendo to keep doing what it does best inovate and make fun games.

Just because the sandbox is now bigger it doesn't mean the sand castles will always be better.

Fuse · Sep 2006

wow vassago, give me a break. the wii hardware is far inferior to that of x360 and ps3 ... besides wiisports are quick easy fun little games that take advantage of Mii and demonstrate the different functionalities of the controller ...

Wii sports is not supposed to be a fully fledged sports game or anything of that sort ...

I think Red Steel looks decent, and metroid looks pretty damn nice .... I really dont see what you are getting at here ..

Farcry does look turdish though ...

I think re4 looked absolutely fantastic on the GC, it's all about the art direction and optimal use of system's hardware. You dont neccesarily need to use highrez textures, crazy normal maps and super bloom to make a presentation impressive.

doc rob · Sep 2006

This is one of the Ubi Far Cry games. I think everything after the original Crytec PC game has been made by Ubi. The recent Far Cry: Instincts: Predator demo on the 360 was a giant turd. It looked pretty similar to those Wii shots. Even worse was that none of the gameplay was anything like the orignal game. They're working on Far Cry 2 now for consoles so I'm sure it will be just as shitty.

b1ll · Sep 2006

Lol, you people complain so much its incredible.

Games, WHAAA

Joshua Stubbles · Sep 2006

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You dont neccesarily need to use highrez textures, crazy normal maps and super bloom to make a presentation impressive.

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You're absolutely right, but if a game looks like crap it will turn a lot of people away. You cannot deny that. I still feel it was abad choice for them to not support HD resolutions as well.

Mark Dygert · Sep 2006

I think its cool that they are willing to cater to the "next gen" crowd by porting titles, especially when its not thier focus. Nintendo is pretty clear they are going in another direction than what Sony and Microsoft are doing. I say stick to comparing apples to apples.

Ninjas · Sep 2006

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I still feel it was abad choice for them to not support HD resolutions as well.

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They are.

KDR_11k · Sep 2006

I like how you specifically picked screenshots that show pretty uninteresting game situations.

sonic · Sep 2006

Haha, this topic derailed quickly. I think a ton of the Wii games look great, and I love the style of Red Steel. I was just pointing out how shitty Far Cry looked

SouL · Sep 2006

I wouldn't blame the tech, but the artist's who are convinced they need powerful tech to make good looking art.

oXYnary · Sep 2006

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I wouldn't blame the tech, but the artist's who are convinced they need powerful tech to make good looking art.

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BAM!

Neo_God · Sep 2006

No, you can't blame the want to use power tech either. You can only blame the artist's inability to produce quality artwork. I doubt these screen shots would have looked better had they decided to go "old school" and not use the new technology.

HonkyPunch · Sep 2006

I mean, it's good that nintendo is going for fun games, but dammit, they have to make them look good or hardly anyone is going to buy the fucking system. Sad world, but still, it's pretty much true.

vahl · Sep 2006

Not sure about that...most the non player people I know are talking more about the wii than any other system, just because it's simple, fun and cheap.
Man...even my dad told me that this system was cool !!!! He never played a single game !!!

Steve Schulze · Sep 2006

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I wouldn't blame the tech, but the artist's who are convinced they need powerful tech to make good looking art.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, damn spoilt brats. Give me 100 polys and a few 32*32 textures and I'll rock your fucking world.

acc · Sep 2006

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I wouldn't blame the tech, but the artist's who are convinced they need powerful tech to make good looking art.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, damn spoilt brats. Give me 100 polys and a few 32*32 textures and I'll rock your fucking world.

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FarCry was based on the concept that they could use new tech to put a bazillion trees on an island with lots of fancy shaders and water and that sort of stuff.

And it worked. FarCry looks quite nice. Yes it has flaws, but outside of artistic boards like this few people notice.

With FarCry Wii they are trying to put out the game on a system that doesn't have the tech to do what the entire game was based on in the first place.

The problem isn't that they're using tech to make up for lack of artistic ability. The problem is they are trying to use tech that isn't there. And that is quite obviously stupid.

Will still sell, though. Just have to put a nice high-res picture on the box.

hawken · Sep 2006

Wii certaintly supports normal mapping

Pedro Amorim · Sep 2006

dont know why . but somehow the wii doesnt looks next gen to me. $:\$
looks like a gamecube version2

Joseph Silverman · Sep 2006

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The problem isn't that they're using tech to make up for lack of artistic ability. The problem is they are trying to use tech that isn't there. And that is quite obviously stupid.

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The wii definitely beats the first xbox, which did it just fine.

Farcry Wii

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