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[harz-marz]

Tony Hawks Pro Shader

 

[Yaari]

Not a month and a half before the game was released...

Yeah but I just ment to say, in terms of interesting development twists.

 

[-MD-]

I just care about how the game plays, if it's anything like THPS2 I'm there.

Not for $60 though lol.

 

[NickatNite]

Yikees

Didn't the first Borderlands go cellshaded late in development like this? Either way screw this game.

Yeah but It was over a year away from release, if I'm remembering correctly.

 

[Sephzilla]

Tony Hawks Pro Shader

 

[Kriken]

While I'm generally gameplay>graphics, it doesn't help when the developers change their style to make it look worse

My sides

 

[Elija2]

Wow, it's like they heard people criticizing the graphics and were like "Shit, we gotta do something but we don't have time! Quick, put some cel-shading on those models! Yeah, that'll do."

Honestly though, I don't mind those last two screenshots, but in the first one they really do look like cardboard cut-outs. I kinda wanna see it in motion because it's weirding me out.

 

[Visualante2]

Players will spend 90% of their time looking at the back of characters anyway. It does make the game look like a bit of a corporate vessel when more effort has been put into texturing a pair of shoes than a face.

 

[Bunta]

I don't see the point of the cel shader

Holy shit this is perfect.

 

[Burger_Baron]

There's been a marked upgrade in the graphics, as seen in the images above.

 

[Gaz_RB]

That top screen shot is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

 

[FlyinJ]

 

[Adam_Roman]

I get the game looks bad, but can we stop with the "PS2 game" comments? Go look at Underground 2 and tell me that looks graphically similar to this.

 

[KDash31987]

I just care about how the game plays, if it's anything like THPS2 I'm there.

Not for $60 though lol.

If it plays anywhere near as good as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, I'd be willing to pay more than $60 for it.

But I'm not counting on that. I am hoping it does play well, though. Impressions so far seem to have been good. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD felt really off, though...

 

[Sidewinder]

Damn, what a mess. I'd have loved to get a new solid THPS game ;(

 

[E_Darkness]

Make Platinum do a Tony Hawk game.

 

[SerTapTap]

Is that even cel shading? It just looks...fucked up. Like they scanned in images of real people and threw a blur filter on it

 

[Liamario]

"Our textures looks like shit, so let's draw a black outline around the characters. Cell shading!"

You literally took the words right out of my mouth. There's nothing more that I can add.

 

[CosmicQueso]

At one point, Tony Hawk was one of the most valuable properties in gaming if not all of entertainment.

Think about that.

And then look at this.

Christ.

 

[strafer]

Why doesn't Tony say something; he can't seriously be okay with this.

Protect your name bruh

 

[Handy Fake]

This is possibly my favourite thing ever.


The next screenshot release is going to have a robotic sidekick and a dragon in it.

 

[Stevey]

Lol, looks atrocious.

 

[Nordicus]

What the FUCK hahahahah did they actually just surround all their models with black outlines and call it cell shading?

Thank you, someone else said it.

This is cel-shading on realistic models. Look at prince's arms

 

[spats]

This doesn't look right.

 

[Akronis]

holy shit lol

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Why doesn't Tony say something; he can't seriously be okay with this.

Protect your name bruh

He doesn't care as long as he's picking up royalty cheque's.

 

[antitrop]

I get the game looks bad, but can we stop with the "PS2 game" comments? Go look at Underground 2 and tell me that looks graphically similar to this.

At least the PS2 games had coherent aesthetics.

 

[Jachaos]

Looks better. Still, this game is not what I wanted out of a THPS5.

 

[Darth Smurf X]

looking at those screens like

On the plus side, I see some new material for avatar bets around here.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

Bahaha what is this
they look like cut outs from a racing game crowd

 

[CountAntonius]

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Adding a black outline to the characters doesn't make it cel shaded.

 

[barneystuta83]

Such a real shame.

 

[jbttwin]

Fugly.

 

[antitrop]

I'm in tears

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Well it's not April 1st so I have to assume these are real.

 

[Euron]

Developers put a lot of work in their games so I hate to say that a game looks terrible, horrible, or an outright abomination...but holy shit that's the only way to describe this. I blame Activison 100% for this though. Robomondo obviously has neither the resources nor time to make even a passable looking Tony Hawk game, let alone THPS5.

 

[HueyFreeman]

Damn

 

[Broken Joystick]

looking at those screens like

That's Steve Burns from VideoGamer.com

 

[AgentLampshade]

"Hey guys! Internet says our art style is bland! What should we do!?"

"Put a fucking stroke on it!"

 

[TheSlySoul]

I get the game looks bad, but can we stop with the "PS2 game" comments? Go look at Underground 2 and tell me that looks graphically similar to this.

This is early PS3, it looks worse.

 

[Conkerkid11]

Did they just go back and somehow manage to make it look worse?

If this is their response to the criticism they've been receiving, this is a strong indicator of just how confident they are in what they have developed so far when they're willing to try and change something like this just like that.

 

[Frecklestein]

I don't see the point of the cel shader

 

[IndieJones]

This is probably nostalgia talking, but I think it looks way worse than even Project 8.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 |OT| You Got Me Runnin'

 

[VyechnayaSlava]

DS Flashbacks

 

[harz-marz]

/dead

 

[Data West]

They couldn't even get a HD port right. I have no idea why anyone looks at this game and says 'wait until it's out'. You can say whatever about the graphics, but this developer has made the simplest 'recreation' of Tony Hawk in HD and they completely fucked it up.

 

[Novocaine]

I mean it's possible this could look okay depending on the way that the game animates. But I doubt it. The stills look like total fucking shit.

 

[Mass Effect]

These replies though...

they have me cracking up lol