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New Streets of Rage 4 screenshots. Looks like signature Streets of Rage.
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MrTroubleMaker
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Looks good
Rei dos Vermes
Member
Looks awesome! I'm definitely buying one of those new Genesis/Saturn controllers for this game!
StreetsofBeige
Member
Axel with that 12 ft wingspan. lol. His chest looks wider than the length of his legs.
iconmaster
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SlaughterX
Banned
Info/pics? I'd definitely buy a Saturn pad, even though I feel like I should be able to use the USB Saturn pads I already own.
As for the game... I dunno, waiting for reviews.
Vow of Silence
Banned
Add me to the list of people who don’t like the graphical style. Looks like a flash game.
Kazza
Member
I really feel sorry for Ben Fiquet (the animator/artist at Lizardcube). He is a bona fide artist who studied fine arts and animation, and he still gets people saying how his creations looks like flash games. Come on, this is some nice animation:
He also did the graphics for the Dragon Traps remake, which looked absolutely gorgeous:
While looking on his website, I also discovered some concept art for a potential Kid Chameleon remake. I think it looks really good:
The SoR4 characters already look like they blend in with the backgrounds much better than in the previous trailer, and I'm confident that this will look great once it's finished.
He also did the graphics for the Dragon Traps remake, which looked absolutely gorgeous:
While looking on his website, I also discovered some concept art for a potential Kid Chameleon remake. I think it looks really good:
The SoR4 characters already look like they blend in with the backgrounds much better than in the previous trailer, and I'm confident that this will look great once it's finished.
radewagon
Member
And yet it does look like Flash. I don't know why, but it does.
That said, I loved Wonder Boy's look and I am very much impressed with what I'm seeing from SOR4.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
I do not think it is an issue with the artist not being able to draw or anything of course, the outlines, shapes in general, are just too perfect and precisely cut as if it was using vector graphics tools (which would also help make it more resolution independent if it were) to draw it all. Look at the Kid Chameleon screenshot comparisons posted above for an example...
Kazza
Member
Maybe I'm reading too much into it when people say it looks like a flash game, but I always get the feeling that it is meant in a derogatory way. I'm a big pixel art fan myself (I even backed this kickstarter, in part because of its gorgeous NeoGeo-like pixel graphics), and initially wasn't too keen on the presentation, but I've gown to appreciate it, especially now that the characters seem to mesh with the background much better than before.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but I just feel sorry for the guy, who probably spends a lot of time and effort painstakingly drawing and animating the graphics, only for them to be dismissed as reminiscent of a cheap mobile game.
Cheap internet browser game.* And I would definitely feel for that person if they weren't working a paying job on a classic IP.
It takes a lot more talent to make a good game out of only 16-bits,almost a lost art. They went the quick and easy route of a modern engine.
Kazza
Member
Just read these from earlier in the thread. I had a long period of quite a few years where I didn't play any games, so seem to have missed the whole "cheap 2D flash game" phenomenon. Maybe that's why I don't have the same negative reaction as some folks.
The first two 2D games I played after my long absence from gaming were Rayman Origins and Muramusa: The Demon Blade
I was absolutely blown away by both. Does anyone consider these to be cheap/flash looking? I think they look amazing!
Fat Frog
I advertised for Google Stadia
This Kid Chameleon works very well, even better than the original game whose graphics were very bland, generic.I really feel sorry for Ben Fiquet (the animator/artist at Lizardcube). He is a bona fide artist who studied fine arts and animation, and he still gets people saying how his creations looks like flash games. Come on, this is some nice animation:
He also did the graphics for the Dragon Traps remake, which looked absolutely gorgeous:
While looking on his website, I also discovered some concept art for a potential Kid Chameleon remake. I think it looks really good:
The SoR4 characters already look like they blend in with the backgrounds much better than in the previous trailer, and I'm confident that this will look great once it's finished.
But i'm still not a big fan of the new style for SOR4. (Needs more details, animations, i don't know. Like many said, it feels a little cheap). Not saying the original Streets of Rage were magnificent like Golden Axe RODA, but it worked.
This concept art get me hyped for a Lizardcube KC, Pulseman, or Alex Kid though.
Kazza
Member
Since they will have already created a beat'em up engine with SoR4, I would like to see them try their hand at a new Alien Storm game. While Golden Axe is the more well known game, I feel that a Golden Axe game with the SoR4 graphical style would attract the same criticism as SoR4, whereas Alien Storm had a more cartoony presentation to begin with, and so would be more suited to Lizardcube's style.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Blaze looks rad AF.
Has nothing to do with the animator but I do not like this art style for Streets of Rage but it does actually look cool for Kid Chameleon. But, why does all this company's games look the same?I really feel sorry for Ben Fiquet (the animator/artist at Lizardcube). He is a bona fide artist who studied fine arts and animation, and he still gets people saying how his creations looks like flash games. Come on, this is some nice animation:
He also did the graphics for the Dragon Traps remake, which looked absolutely gorgeous:
While looking on his website, I also discovered some concept art for a potential Kid Chameleon remake. I think it looks really good:
The SoR4 characters already look like they blend in with the backgrounds much better than in the previous trailer, and I'm confident that this will look great once it's finished.
zenspider
Member
Just read these from earlier in the thread. I had a long period of quite a few years where I didn't play any games, so seem to have missed the whole "cheap 2D flash game" phenomenon. Maybe that's why I don't have the same negative reaction as some folks.
The first two 2D games I played after my long absence from gaming were Rayman Origins and Muramusa: The Demon Blade
I was absolutely blown away by both. Does anyone consider these to be cheap/flash looking? I think they look amazing!
The UbiArt can trigger the reaction for me - what it really comes down to is sprite rotation without pixel artifacts (ala 16-bit consoles) or new blit animations - just literally rotating a sprite cleanly in a 'segmented' animation. Hard to see in the gif, but Rayman's feet just sort of move in space - the pixels don't change. There looks like there's some sort of blur effect in post, but it can just look like high-busget Flash animation with a video process on it to me.
Vanillaware has beautiful animations and deformations operating on all thier 3D "sprites", so it never looks reminiscent of the Flash/Director web look.
Anyone who thinks Vanillaware games look cheap doesn't deserve eyes.
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1 artist with 1 style. Kid Chameleon pic looks like a newgrounds game too. It just doesn't look right for a Streets of Rage remake.
Kazza
Member
New interview with tssznews. Some interesting titbits:
The has been speculation on whether or not they would add RPG elements in order to add more depth to the gameplay, but it seems they are sticking to arcade style gameplay:
With regards to the the art style:
The has been speculation on whether or not they would add RPG elements in order to add more depth to the gameplay, but it seems they are sticking to arcade style gameplay:
With regards to the the art style:
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molasar
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No information was released about it yet. Hopefully he still has what it takes to make great music.
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Strider Highwind
Member
Its on Switch right? I wanna play this in my office lol
Kazza
Member
FYI, I saw the publisher state a little while back on Twitter that they won't be showing anything new during E3, so that footage is all we're likely to get for a while.
Also, would anyone like to take a guess on a release date? I would say around spring of 2020. The gameplay mechanics seem to all be there in working order, but we've haven't seen anything past the first level. I wonder how much level design work has been done already. I'm tempted to avoid looking at any footage past level 1 to keep everything a surprise.
Also, would anyone like to take a guess on a release date? I would say around spring of 2020. The gameplay mechanics seem to all be there in working order, but we've haven't seen anything past the first level. I wonder how much level design work has been done already. I'm tempted to avoid looking at any footage past level 1 to keep everything a surprise.
At least you could kind of buy a kid wearing skates on the street, but carrying around a guitar is just bizarre and dumb. What is this, Guilty Gear?
Wonko_C
Member
it's a video game series where one of the characters was 60 year old scientist who turned himself into a bad-ass cyborg. Not the usual thing you see on the streets.
Ristifer
Member
:/
You literally punch phone booths to get chicken health power-ups. A guitar isn't really breaking the realism wall here.
No, that's just one of the reasons that SOR3 was a step down. Everything about it was too weird from the characters to the music. You can kind of get away with enemies/bosses as bizarre freaks, but old dude cyborgs was stupid in SOR3 just like this character is stupid now.
Her design is obviously inspired by her father & brother
Wonko_C
Member
SOR 3 is still canon, so it already set the precedent to making crazy things in the sequel, wheter you like it or not.
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Deleted member 738976
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While the lack of Blaze is upsetting the other characters and Axel (Jr. in this case) don't look like shit. I'd rather have 4 good looking characters to play as instead of only 1 (maybe 2 if the last guy doesn't look like ass).
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alabtrosMyster
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I think they are overdoing the shading on the sprites, they don't stand out as much as they did in the old games. Also, the punches don't seem to land very hard, almost as if the characters punched in the air.
It's not like there's any real need to have a beat 'em up cinematic universe. You can do basically anything and no one will care as long as it "feels" right. People don't even like older/fatter Axel even though it's more world building if time actually passed between the games. The point is that SOR3 was obviously the wrong direction.
One week after release and people will only care about SOR2 again. Painfully obvious.
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