Do you like what you've seen so far from Wii U's visuals?

I said a few months ago that I doubted that Nintendo would ever produce a game for the system that looks as good as the upper tier PS3 games releasing this year. They did nothing to prove me wrong today. People hyping X and Mario Kart are largely basing it off of the crappy video and filling in the blanks from there.

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The reason Wii U can compete now is because

A. Devs haven't had enough time with the new boxes

B. We've reached the point of diminishing returns as far as visual fidelity goes
 
What are these recent PC games? I read this often. The best looking PC games are upgraded 360/PS3 console ports. I've gamed on PC exclusively the last 4 years. Where are these games outside of Crysis 3 maxed out to oblivion? Nothing on PC looks better than The Division or The Order.

Obviously Crysis. Metro Last Light, Tomb Raider (TressFX actually makes a difference), Far Cry 3, even Bioshock Infinite. Any of those games run with high settings or maxed out look cleaner and sharper than a lot of what's being shown for PS4 and Xbone. I was especially impressed by Last Light in 3D. It had a sense of scale I've not seen before, characters felt realistically sized where most games tend to look small.

Again, you ignore what I brought up and what I've seen others bring up. Almost nothing that's been shown so far is legit. There's always some special condition like "equivalent hardware" or "in-engine" never straight up gameplay on the actual hardware. Excuse me if after years and years of bullshots and bogus target renders I don't buy guys standing on stage with controllers as proof it's real.
 
I said a few months ago that I doubted that Nintendo would ever produce a game for the system that looks as good as the upper tier PS3 games releasing this year. They did nothing to prove me wrong today. People hyping X and Mario Kart are largely basing it off of the crappy video and filling in the blanks from there.

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^^^The harsh truth.

By the way, I forgot about The Witcher 3. Open-world RPG that looks a gen ahead of X.
 
also, watch the dev direct on the eshop for smash bros.

That game has such a unique look to it. The characters come to life, almost clay like.

Ive yet to see any hd dev go for/achieve that look. Its really great looking.

Id like to see it @60fps.
 
I said a few months ago that I doubted that Nintendo would ever produce a game for the system that looks as good as the upper tier PS3 games releasing this year. They did nothing to prove me wrong today. People hyping X and Mario Kart are largely basing it off of the crappy video and filling in the blanks from there.


That image is horribly compressed, at least try to make an effort if you're going to bash Nintendo.

Here's a screen from Galaxy 2


If they can achieve this on the Wii, the Wii U is going to have some great looking games
 
X looks great. Xenoblade looked amazing for being on the Wii, so I have high hopes for X.

Honestly though, it will be hard to judge any of these until we see them in full resolution. YouTube videos don't really show off IQ problems...if any of these are running at 720p with little AA, it could greatly impact the visual quality.
Nintendo actually confirmed that ssb and WWHD are going to be 1080p
 
That's incredible. Like what kind of open world... AC or fully open like GTA? Either one would be insane.
Only thing we really know is that were getting large HD towns and cities to explore in addition to a large overworld traversable by walking, cars, mechs and airships.
 
Thank you for that.

Yes, thanks for that. I'll be going to Best Buy tomorrow to try some of these games out. I'm gonna type up how they were when I come home...it'll 100% unbiased, swear to god lol. I hope the lines aren't long, can't stand waiting in lines due to anxiety.
 
Indeed.

Bayonetta
X
Mario Kart 8

All look good and using shitty screens to judge MK8 when off screen videos look a lot better doesn't help show you have an honest opinion.
 
Indeed.

Bayonetta
X
Mario Kart 8

All look good and using shitty screens to judge MK8 when off screen videos look a lot better doesn't help show you have an honest opinion.

Do you realize what you just said? You said direct feed screens are dishonest compared to off-screen videos. Did everyone forget how misleading off-screen vids (and screens) are? I seriously thought this was common knowledge, especially here. There's also direct feed video, by the way.
 
Indeed.

Bayonetta
X
Mario Kart 8

All look good and using shitty screens to judge MK8 when off screen videos look a lot better doesn't help show you have an honest opinion.

off screen vids always look better than how the game will actually look in person

that said, I still think the games look good enough. Can't say I've seen anything that couldn't be done on current gen hardware.
 
Good catch as I didn't pay attention to that and focused on other details. The thing is we haven't seen the Xbox One version unless it was shown recently and I missed it. We've seen PC and PS4, and PS4's demos have the Dualshock context buttons. I don't see that being the Xbox One version.

Just following up on this. After further checking that clip in the 3rd party reel apparently comes from a PS4 demo released a month ago. Parts of it didn't look as good as what had been shown during other PS4 demos.
 
Wii U had more 60 frames-per-second titles than PS4 or Xbox One. I'm surprised the Nintendo Direct Video compressed the reels down to 30.

Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 8, and Zelda WW HD all 60 frames. Bayonetta 2 looked amazing. Super detailed and 60 frames without a hitch. Also, Smash Bros. was 60.

Guh? Is that confirmed?

And do we have any idea on the resolution?
 
Looks like clean current gen games with some better effects here and there.

Indeed.

Bayonetta
X
Mario Kart 8

All look good and using shitty screens to judge MK8 when off screen videos look a lot better doesn't help show you have an honest opinion.

Off...screen.... videos.... Bwahaha
 
You guys talking about off-screen videos, didn't you know that they are the best way to judge a games visuals?

Uh, off screen video is always more similar to what you see when you're playing on your own TV.

Forget the direct feed shots, those are "compressed to hell and back". A low res video of a television screen is a FAR more accurate representation of how a game actually looks!
 
Thank you for that.

Yes, thanks for that. I'll be going to Best Buy tomorrow to try some of these games out. I'm gonna type up how they were when I come home...it'll 100% unbiased, swear to god lol. I hope the lines aren't long, can't stand waiting in lines due to anxiety.

No problem. I doubt you'll run into lines Heavy. When I went to check it out today there were only a couple people there.

Friggin Platinum. Bayo 2 and Wonderful 101 look like a fucking blast to play. It's like they made a pact with the devil to always get my money without fail.
 
Yeah, some of you trying to pretend that anything-- ANYTHING was signicantly better-looking than X sound like you have a bullshit fanboy agenda. Nintendo pissed me off almost irreversibly this show but FFXV and one or two other PS4 looks only slightly, if that, better than X. X was fucking jaw-dropping.
 
What's with the 3D World hate? The game looks stunning.

No it doesn't. It looks about as good as NSMBU, which is appropriate, cause it's taking its artistic sensibilities more from that game than the SMG games.
 
Yeah, some of you trying to pretend that anything-- ANYTHING was signicantly better-looking than X sound like you have a bullshit fanboy agenda. Nintendo pissed me off almost irreversibly this show but FFXV and one or two other PS4 looks only slightly, if that, better than X. X was fucking jaw-dropping.
FF XV looks significantly better than X.
 
They all have amazing artstyles so it makes up for the weaker hardware AND they run at 60 fps so no complaints here!
 
Yeah, some of you trying to pretend that anything-- ANYTHING was signicantly better-looking than X sound like you have a bullshit fanboy agenda. Nintendo pissed me off almost irreversibly this show but FFXV and one or two other PS4 looks only slightly, if that, better than X. X was fucking jaw-dropping.

lol, no
 
No it doesn't. It looks about as good as NSMBU, which is appropriate, cause it's taking its artistic sensibilities more from that game than the SMG games.

It looks better than nsmbu, watch the vid off the eshop. If you cant see how great it looks, then i feel privileged.
 
No it doesn't. It looks about as good as NSMBU, which is appropriate, cause it's taking its artistic sensibilities more from that game than the SMG games.

Yeah I was kinda dissapointed they weren't as ambitious as in Mario Galaxy. Still it looks clean and colorful, like Nintendoland and I'm OK with that.
 
I thought Smash had some sort of motion blur applied on the characters but now I'm watching the developer direct videos and it's gone :(
 
Yea I think it's looking great! Nice and colorful. Played Mario Kart 8 today and cannot wait for it!
Also Wind Waker up close and on the GamePad looks fantastic!
 
What's with the 3D World hate? The game looks stunning.

Remember when Nintendo announced there was going to be a new 3D Mario game at E3?

Remember the game you imagined when they said that?

Compare the game you had in your head to this one.

Notice how the one you imagined was a continuation of Mario 64/Sunshine/Galaxy with a great new Gamepad-centric twist and stunning HD graphics?

Notice how the one we're actually getting is Super Mario 3D Land HD?

AND THIS IS WHY.
 
Crazy that people will spend so much time arguing over opinions. People think lots of things look better than others. It's like arguing over whether girl X looks better than girl Y. Everyone has their own tastes.

I thought that X beat out just about everything I saw yesterday. I just love the style of that game and the lighting. Some people will agree and others won't. That said, lots of stuff looked great all around.
 
I am impressed by Visuals. since I haven't yet seen a Nintendo franchise in HD. If games have Better graphics then 360 and ps3 run at 1080P and 60FPS I am happy.

Not sure what the comparable GPU is for the xbox 360 and ps3 but I believe I read that Wii U is as powerful as a Radeon 4000 series

Then you got Xbox one and PS4 in Radeon 7000 Series

I was impressed going from XBOX and PS2 to 360 and PS3
so why wouldn't i Be impressed going from Wii to Wii U. SD to HD is a bigger difference then 1080P to 1080P
 
Graphics looked great, but other than Mario Kart (surprisingly), where were the cool gameplay ideas? Everything looked exactly the same as the previous games in their respective series.
 
After I calmed down and and watched some more videos the Mario game does look very nice graphically. It's not the kind of game I wanted at all but it does look nice. Mario kart is absurd.
 
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