Rocket Knight

[bbobb]

On the note of this game, though - hearing the constant bitching about the graphics is getting so incredibly old. It was old back when people were bitching about the backgrounds of New Super Mario Bros DS, tiresome when people were comparing a single cropped screen shot of the new Earthworm Jim, and annoying now that they're pointing at this and yelling, "UNCLEAN!" Give it a rest.

I'm sorry, good for you that you don't mind fugliness, but I want my games like my women, insert obligatory hairy joke here they need to actually look good along with play well.

[Grave]

Yeah, pretty much. I think the backlash on TNL lately has been hilarious. Never seen people so proud to demonstrate that they have no taste or interest in aesthetics.

NSMB is still an eyesore. Seek out an optometrist today!

[Glass Joe]

Not that I care because game play reigns supreme but this does in fact look like shit. You would think that XBLA/PSN/WiiWare would be seeing a lot of these remakes done with nicer 2D graphics. I have nothing to base this off of but I guess it is more cost effective to make these games in shitty 2.5D instead of beautiful 2D.

[Grave]

Here's a crazy idea: they could try making them in good 2.5D!

[Bacon McShig]

Yeah, I can see original stuff coming out like shit, but they have two good-looking games they can use as reference here. Instead it appears they threw those in the dustbin and picked up Kya: Dark Lineage for guidance instead.

[Glass Joe]

good 2.5D!

Oxymoron

[Grave]

I don't know, Klonoa 2 is still really pretty!

[Hero]

oh yeah, it's ugly to be sure but at least we're not talking about a Rocket Knight remake - it's a real sequel! So as much as I want the graphics to be better, I think new game + under represented genre = a purchase as long as the gameplay is up to snuff.

But yeah, ugly as all hell.

[Fe 26]

the kim possible ps2 game was pretty slick too

[Hero]

oh, Klonoa on Wii is good! Also Bionic Commando: Rearmed (seriously, for what it wanted to accomplish it did a great job visually).