A new Mario Strikers game would be amazing.
A Punch-Out!! Wii remaster is also not off the table (and I'm kinda surprised it hasn't happened yet considering how well it'd work with the Joy-Cons).
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Luigis Mansion 3 is the closest a game has gotten to Pixar
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A Punch-Out!! Wii remaster is also not off the table (and I'm kinda surprised it hasn't happened yet considering how well it'd work with the Joy-Cons).
Playing this one right now and I agree it's gorgeous to look at. Really fun and fluid. Off topic, but it makes me wish Nintendo would produce an Old-school-ish adventure game of some kind. I've never played a LM game before and it gives me some Maniac Mansion vibes in a way.
Well you say that. Nintendo actually have two of type of games coming up. First one is a remake of Famicom Detective Club games. Originally slated for 2020 release but was delayed. And a new collab with Koei Tecmo. (don't remember the name on top of my head) releasing soon iirc.
Although those two are still a Japan-only release.
That's one of my dream releases, actually. The Wii game felt really short but intense, so I'd love a remaster that added a new championship/mode with at least 4 new challengers + doc louie's training.
They made the Hamtaro games, right? And there was Another Code/Hotel Dusk on the DS/Wii era too. The most recent one I can think of is Detective Pikachu, but Japan was getting a Detective Club remake.
These kind of games were much more common 10 years ago :/
That picture is hilarious and awesome, but that's literally based on Pixar lol
Tbh from a visual perspective I don't get the hype about astrobot. It's obviously low budget and it shows. Controls are cool though. Although tbh with the motion stuff doesn't feel much different than anything nintendo has been doing for ages. Triggers are kind of cool I guess but honestly they aren't much different than an analog trigger with some rumble added. Kind of don't see the hype really with the dual sense tbh. It's a gryo controller with a nice trigger function but it isn't revolutionary or anything.
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Finished it in October! Couldn't agree more. I was openly laughing out loud at some of Luigi's animations, and couldn't believe how good they looked.
Awesome game.
Awesome game.
Honestly, some of the stuff Toys for Bob is doing with Spyro and Crash feels the closest to playing a 3d animated movie.
He got them from A to B, hes good in my book
would you trust this man
My 6 yr old and 4 yr old absolutely adore this game. Such a fun and cute piece of entertainment.
I definitely felt similar playing the game: it's a really good approximation of that feel, while still just being a damn good video game. People hung up over raw graphical fidelity itt are missing the point. What OP is describing is how the game's art style, level design, environment and character detail combine with its animation quality to give the feel of playing through an animated movie in the style of Pixar.
It's a very old, almost pre-internet age thing. Before release, marketing for either original Xbox or PS2, can't remember which, said that the level of graphics on the console was now Pixar-quality and they couldn't imagine it ever getting any better. So even still, ironically or unironically I dunno, people are still making this comparison.
Honestly, games surpassed Toystory a long time ago, Toy Story 1 looks like shit IMO
The very prominent low-res door lock texture in the foreground kind of nullifies this point for me, but otherwise it does look great.
Honestly, games surpassed Toystory a long time ago, Toy Story 1 looks like shit IMO
Honestly, games surpassed Toystory a long time ago, Toy Story 1 looks like shit IMO
Toy Story 4 is the new metric
Honestly, games surpassed Toystory a long time ago, Toy Story 1 looks like shit IMO
The OP said Pixar, not just Toy Story. Games can't compete with modern Pixar films. The density, texture sizes, shaders shadows, refractions, etc can't be done in real time
Well then its a moving goalpost thats impossible to hit lol
Prerendered will always look better because its rendered into multiple passes and then composited and edited in post
Pretty much. There may be a day where there is a closer parity to real time, but not at this point
I can't speak to the graphical fidelity or animation quality but I believe only 2 games have come close to capturing the magic Pixar display in their movies. Gravity Rush but mainly Ni No Kuni. Ratchet obviously looks the best out of all of these but is lacking that little bit extra.
It is beautiful and a lot of fun but the controls let it down a bit. Ori and the Will of the Wisps on XSX is the most beautiful game I've ever seen.
The irony is that there are things going on in Toy Story 1 that makes game devs green with envy. That level of fidelity even in Toy Story 1 isn't possible in real time. That's why KH3 is so impressive for what they did.
Honestly, games surpassed Toystory a long time ago, Toy Story 1 looks like shit IMO
Nah that's more Dreamworks than Pixar.
I agree with the OP, Pixar has a very distinct style and LM3 cracks it.
There is nothing going on in toy story 1 that makes anyone green with envy. The materials are basic and the lighting is incredibly bad. Hell, the reason why they chose toys as characters was because it was so hard to get elbows and other joints to deform properly. In modern games or even games for the last decade we've had elbows deform 10 time better than Toy Story ever could.
So you are saying games can render better than Toy Story 1 in real time? Simple yes or no will suffice.
I don't know how to break this to you, but Toy Story 1 still has better and more complex lighting than any modern game does. You can even see it in the shadows in that shot from it above. The complexity of the models has been surpassed, but prerendering allows things to happen that are decades away in realtime work, and that's obvious even in TS1. It's really dumb to continually compare realtime game graphics to Pixar films. Apples and oranges.
It's a good looking game for sure, and I agree that it has a style more reminiscent of Pixar than anything else I can think of at the moment. Them jaggies tho.
I just wish I actually enjoyed the game and could appreciate these apsects more. I played in co-op with a housemate and we kept remarking at how utterly boring it was. Felt like we were just going through the motions tbh. And we played for about 6 hours over a few play sessions to see if it got better so idk.
I just wish I actually enjoyed the game and could appreciate these apsects more. I played in co-op with a housemate and we kept remarking at how utterly boring it was. Felt like we were just going through the motions tbh. And we played for about 6 hours over a few play sessions to see if it got better so idk.
Never thought of it that way, but yea I can see Ratchet doing the dreamworks smirk and everything lmao