JoshF escribió:BlazBlue looks great for dot art. This game looks great for 3D renders.
I'm not sure whether or not you're implying there that both games are aiming for different visual styles and therefore, they aren't really comparable, but if you are, I think you're missing the point. I want to believe you aren't since you already said you couldn't tell they were polygons at first, but then it seems like you can't tell which one looks better, which comes off a little surprising.
Since it's 3D, it has some added benefits. The models can be used for cinematics, you can zoom in and out without pixelization, alternate costumes could be easily produced, and you would have continuity with asymetric designs (e.g. Sagat's eyepatch and scar would not flip). All of these issues could be solved with dot art if you had a Disney-sized animation staff or didn't need to worry about return on investment, but Arc System Works isn't anywhere close to having those kinds of resources.
You call those "issues"? You can zoom-in without "pixelization" on a sprite too by way of the same graphic filters you apply on a 3-D model and its textures (can't see how that's a good thing, though), but are "cinematics", alternate costumes and proper asymetry that important now? So much as to prefer them over accurate colors, absence of blurriness, measured outlines, controlled shapes, fine details, visual precision and, to sum it up, a natural way in every respect of doing 2-D animation?
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I'm also glad I'll soon be able to play a side-view fighting game that is more advanced than Street Fighter that doesn't predominantly feature emaciated little girls, and presumably won't have excessive combos that interrupt the fighting with Beatmania minigames, like MVC3. It's definitely one of my most anticipated games now.
I don't see how you'll get all that with Xrd better than with BB or P4U series, but to each his own. I myself, even if I could ignore the fact that making a 2-D fighting game with real-time graphics is a conceptual abomination and therefore, a step back no matter what, just can't tolerate the ugly re-designs and character art they're showing for this. Good thing I was never really into the series, I guess.
