Before I take anyone's opinion into consideration, find me an HDish 2d fighter that looks all right.
It was going to look ugly as ****.
Now here me out before you go all Flame Mammoth on my ass.
MK looked good in the arcade days, because the graphics were shitty.
Its hard to explain but unnaturally fast animations with HD realistic looking people just look wrong.
Before I take anyone's opinion into consideration, find me an HDish 2d fighter that looks all right.
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It was going to look ugly as ****.
MK looked good in the arcade days, because the graphics were shitty.
Its hard to explain but unnaturally fast animations with HD realistic looking people just look wrong.
With digitized actors
Was hoping I didn't need to clarify.
everyone is missing the point. all digitized or digitally captured mk needs is a few more frames of motion, and some slicker computer generated effects. that's it. a game like that would be revolutionary all over again. plus, like i've said, it would cost 10 times less to produce than mk9 or 10 or 11 or whatever and it would generate the same , or more, revenue.
what's annoying is that the game makers ,who are the only game makers to have ever made a successful digitized fighting game, refuse to even discuss the prospect of such and endeavor. and the only thing ed has discussed publicly came via tweet; to paraphrase "have you ever played street fighter the movie game?". really? he expects everyone to believe that if they tackled mkhd that it would resemble sf the movie game? did he forget the fact that none of his mk games have ever looked like sf the movie game? not even mk1. alan noon's blog about making that game said over and over that they didn't have the slightest idea how midway made those mk games look as good as they did, and aside from a few of the making of videos, and the daniel pesina videos, no one has ever talked, in detail, about constructing mk1-umk3.
does it really matter? no. mk9 made money, the trash 3d games made money, and mk10 will make money, but there's no substitute for those live actors. seriously, watching the daniel pesina mk1 video was like finding video of michaelangelo painting the sistine chapel. lol. yes, it's an exaggeration, but it was a magical surprise. we all knew how it was done, but seeing it in person, unedited, and unscripted was such a treat; it really brought back the mesmerizing feeling those games evoked in me as a kid. which is really what this is all about. mk has never looked like mk since 1996.
One day more will be said about this project, but it's not too interesting really. What bbblp said is probably dead on, the quality was likely never there. It's a nice idea but as that leaked concept art shows it didn't look quite right. There is more reasons behind why it was troubled but quality is the best answer to go with.
I'm glad we're still getting the arcade games emulated for all consoles, it's a nice thing to have and hope a lot of major issues with the prior releases are taken care of.
It was going to look ugly as ****.
Now here me out before you go all Flame Mammoth on my ass.
digitized actors - ugly?.... Omg...
Really, these plastic dolls look better??
Except no one compared those two.
HD remakes of sprites in MK1-UMK3 would look shitty. I'm sorry, but it would.
The early MKs are old and the graphics are dated.. but does that means it's bad? No, it doesn't.
I am so tired of seeing "HD" remakes. All of your favorite movies and games will be changed to HD, then 3D, then whatever the "new" fad is. Then the whole point of those forms of entertainment will have lost their value altogether.
I am so tired of seeing "HD" remakes. All of your favorite movies and games will be changed to HD, then 3D, then whatever the "new" fad is. Then the whole point of those forms of entertainment will have lost their value altogether.
I'm sorry, but... how is it possible? You say new digitized actors would look shitty. Why? Even old ones were good for that time, they were just perfect, as we know, MK1 was created only by 5 persons! Sorry again, I just can't believe that Boon with all his NRS studio, with WB and hundreds talented freelancers (just look MK9 credits) could NOT make them look perfect for tomorrow. Anyway... whatever comes out, I'm sure, it would look much better than these plastic-like cartoony dolls we see in MKDA-MKA. OK, MK9 models are much better, but still not absolutely alive-looking.
Look at Kitana's or Sindel's hair. Do you believe it's real hair?..
I work with 3D graphics and I know the following: to create a near-photorealistic model is not so hard for the real 3D master (i'm sure they have real masters!). But rendering it in real-time needs something much more powerful than PS3. Maybe, in future, with PS4 or PS5 this will be possible, but for today it is just IMPOSSIBLE to make 3D models in games absolutely life-like. That's why actors are better, anyway.
What "whole point" of entertainment are you referring to? When it comes to games, then it's true that a remake could never be exactly the same as the original. It is literally remade because the original assets are low quality. When it comes to movies though, that's simply not true, because movies are just restored to a higher quality version. 35mm can reach a resolution well past HD, so they're not being pushed to a format where they don't belong in, but to a format that's closer to their original presentation.
A game that's authentically remade in HD can be like a restored movie; it just depends on how much attention is given to matching the original assets as closely as possible. That takes time and money and so it ultimately depends on the budget of the project.
As for 3D conversion, IMO the only 3D movies that should be released are the ones that were actually shot in 3D. Remade games in 3D, however, I don't have a problem with. There's no conversion going on, it's natively developed for 3D.
The way I see it, all remakes are fine, as long as the original versions remain available. If they do then there's no reason to complain, if you prefer the original then you can always turn to it instead.
You have your opinion and and I have mine.