Jagtastic....
or is it...????
WTF.....?????
bullshot (n): portmanteau of screenshot and bullshit. A fabricated (or more often, modified or "polished" ) screenshot used by a company to create hype for a video game.
No surprise here. Guess Konami's polishing up their screenshots for their newly announced fighter for Wii, Castlevania Judgment. I think it's very interesting how Nintendo seems to be the _ONLY_ company making Wii graphics that match pixel-for-pixel with promotional materials.
Now, it's not too easy to tell from the screenshots I posted here from http://www.ign.com , but the top screenshot is MUCH jaggier than the one below it. Note the softer colors as well. They made the mistake of including real shots along with the packaged bullshots of both Alucard and Maria... see the links above.This isn't new. Square-Enix is a horrible offender as well, as the screenshots prior to release of Dragon Quest Swords showed a polished, interesting, interactive take on an RPG. Instead we got a sparse, jaggy spinoff game that looks MUCH WORSE than DQVIII on the PS2. Considering the Wii's power is much greater than the PS2, there really isn't any excuse for this. And the trend of bad graphics on Square-Enix games on the Wii continues with Chocobo's Dungeon. Although better than DQSwords, the game still manages to lack polish to the point of being close to DS in terms of quality. And with Crystal Bearers cancelled (no doubt to pump resources into the cheap kingdom-sim "My Life as a King" on WiiWare, it seems that they've all but given up hope in the console.) My guess is TOSE is at fault here (as usual)... I doubt SE does any development internally on these spinoff games.
I just hope that third parties eventually realize that we're onto the little "switcheroos" they pull on us, and I've resorted to keeping my experience with third-party Wii games relegated to rentals from Gamefly, rather than purchases. I've been screwed over too many times. When will there be a non-Nintendo game for Wii that will impress me? *sigh*...
1 comment:
You start expecting a higher level of graphics for the Wii in comparison to the other next gen consoles, and you will only get that level of polish from your Nintendo branded games. And also remember that a large screen DLP will make 480p games look like crap, when they look great on smaller a CRT. It's all what the developers were working with when they developed the game's graphic for.
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