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Kubricks

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My wife and I love Katamari Damacy, in fact this is one of the very few games that we enjoyed just as much. We were just talking about it last night saying it would be great if it is ever playable on Switch.
Then Nintendo answered right away the next day LOL.

I must admit though the frame rate looks a bit crap, what happenned there?

He seems pretty cool with it:



Also, he tweeted something about "going through his old files for a secret project," which many assumed was this so I guess he's cool with it.

It's always a good game!
 

ara

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Oct 26, 2017
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Just the original? Ever so slightly disappointed, but I'll take it. For once I can actually agree that it seems like a good fit for the Switch. Time to dust mine off!
 

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This doesn't seem like a great "remaster" though, other than the control changes for Switch use. It doesn't seem like they've gone back and redone the original art assets at all at higher quality, just up-rezzed the models.
i think most people just wanted it to be an uprezzed version of the game and not for bamco to change anything about it

I'd like a port of Katamari Forever eventually since it's my favorite, but at least that one was 1080p on the PS3.
who says this won't be 1080p?

US Price is finally up, $30 USD
lol @ all these people freaking out over 40$
 

MrGab

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Why recent titles in this series has been mediocre?

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Tizoc

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I've not gotten around to playing the previous Katamari games, but I am really looking forward to playing this :D
 

Jawbreaker

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i think most people just wanted it to be an uprezzed version of the game and not for bamco to change anything about it


who says this won't be 1080p?


lol @ all these people freaking out over 40$

I was saying that at least Katamari Forever is 1080p on PS3, so it's not in dire need of a remaster, though I'd like one eventually. I wasn't speaking about this particular remaster of the first title.
 

eyeball_kid

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i think most people just wanted it to be an uprezzed version of the game and not for bamco to change anything about it

Uprezzing PS2 graphics to 1080p or 4k doesn't work too well unless you upres the source art. I think most of us wanted clean graphics at a high resolution that can last for a while.

Why recent titles in this series has been mediocre?

Because the creator, Keita Takahashi, was only involved with the first two games. Bamco did the rest on their own after Takahashi left.
 

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Why recent titles in this series has been mediocre?

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the creator, keita takahashi left after the second game and wasn't involved with any of the other games. that's why the dip in quality happened.

Uprezzing PS2 graphics to 1080p or 4k doesn't work too well unless you upres the source art. I think most of us wanted clean graphics at a high resolution that can last for a while.
i guess i love the game's original style too much, cuz i don't want bamco to fuck with it in any way. i said it in the thread about the trademark (that lead to this) too, if there's a remaster, i hope it's just higher resolution and nothing else changes.
 
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mopinks

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Oct 27, 2017
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the newer ones aren't as good, but they're still good

I haven't played the Vita one though so for all I know that one's garbage
 

Hope

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What a fuck you to the Sony community #gjNamco

But at least they do something with it.
 

MrGab

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Uprezzing PS2 graphics to 1080p or 4k doesn't work too well unless you upres the source art. I think most of us wanted clean graphics at a high resolution that can last for a while.



Because the creator, Keita Takahashi, was only involved with the first two games. Bamco did the rest on their own after Takahashi left.

the creator, keita takahashi left after the second game and wasn't involved with any of the other games. that's why the dip in quality happened.


i guess i love the game's original style too much, cuz i don't want bamco to fuck with it in anyway. i said it in the thread about the trademark (that lead to this) too, if there's a remaster, i hope it's just higher resolution and nothing else changes.

They weren't, they were just more of a good thing.

They just became derivative.

But what is bad about these games after the second game? Content, gameplay, or some other thing?
 

eso76

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This doesn't seem like a great "remaster" though, other than the control changes for Switch use. It doesn't seem like they've gone back and redone the original art assets at all at higher quality, just up-rezzed the models.

Yeah, but tbh the assets should have stayed the same anyway. Katamari low poly models and unfiltered textures are so iconic changing them would have been sacrilegious.

Now though, a little AO and slight changes to lighting wouldnt have hurt.
 

Nzyme32

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Would be awesome if they use Steam Input for this, so both trackpads could be used to roll with mouse style accuracy. Doubt it though...
 

Hope

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Yeah. I mean, that shoe was never on the other foot with all the console games bar Beautiful Katamari?

I guess if you want it you'll need a switch or PC. You probably have one or the either.

This isnt common in this day and age. Everyone expect every third party game on every platform but its okay if Big N moneyhats the shit out of the industry.
 

ArchAngel

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A shame they didn't use Katamari Forever. For me it's the best game in the series with the best track:



Still love the singleplayer of the first game because of the nonsense scenes of the family. Day 1
 

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This isnt common in this day and age. Everyone expect every third party game on every platform but its okay if Big N moneyhats the shit out of the industry.
LMAO
nintendo moneyhats shit? they do it way less than the other two. and if they did money hat this, they wouldn't have wanted it to be released on smash release day. this weird decision is on bamco.
people are getting way too salty over this, and are gonna feel stupid when it does come on their preferred system as well.
 

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This isnt common in this day and age. Everyone expect every third party game on every platform but its okay if Big N moneyhats the shit out of the industry.
Nah. Your mistake is assuming that Namco sat down with Nintendo and had a small envelope pushed over to them on the basis of exclusivity just to piss off a little group of people who identify as "Sony fans"

Just let it go. You've got a PC or a Switch so you're set already.
 

cid85

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Someone there doesn't have any business sense. Skipping it from a console with a user base of 90 million loll
 

MatrixMan.exe

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I'm actually very surprised this isn't coming to PS4. Wonder what happened there.

Also, Katamari Forever was not mediocre. What? Lol
 

Hope

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Nah. Your mistake is assuming that Namco sat down with Nintendo and had a small envelope pushed over to them on the basis of exclusivity just to piss off a little group of people who identify as "Sony fans"

Just let it go. You've got a PC or a Switch so you're set already.

Yea i let it go. Maybe it bombs heavily than its hopefully the last time we see exclusive like this. Well I hope so at least.
 

Theodran

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I know a lot of people may be disappointed with it only being a port of the first Katamari Damacy game, but this will be the first time forever that it is available in Europe, so yay!
 

Oregano

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It's amazing that a thread with this many pages of platform whining and port begging has gone completely unchecked.
 

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Uprezzing PS2 graphics to 1080p or 4k doesn't work too well unless you upres the source art. I think most of us wanted clean graphics at a high resolution that can last for a while.
The Katamari games are extremely stylized with deliberately angular and mostly flat-shaded objects, it's aged better than most games from that era.
 

eyeball_kid

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Yeah, but tbh the assets should have stayed the same anyway. Katamari low poly models and unfiltered textures are so iconic changing them would have been sacrilegious.

Now though, a little AO and slight changes to lighting wouldnt have hurt.

I wouldn't necessarily advocate for changing the models. But I think the textures need cleaning up for HD. Not changing the style, but higher resolution so there's no blurriness from upscaling.

Also, Keita does seem interested in touching stuff up for a Katamari HD remaster...

 

dude

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Oct 25, 2017
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Buying it on both platforms because goddamn I need more Katamari. I played We Love Katamari so much in high school.
 

Igor

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Why not remastering the best game in the series, We Love Katamari? Bit bummed but I might get it. Newer games missed the magic.