Sor5 should go back to sprites

[Sweeper]

More like the quality of king of fighters 13

[Thermal Lance]

I don't know. I do admit the I didn't like the artstyle at first but it kinda grew on me over time.

But I sure would love to have a "retro look" toggle like some remasters/remake have. For nostalgia sake.

[doink]

Old games actually weren't intended to look pixelated. They were meant to be played on CRT TVs which displayed a more soft (and blurry) image. I still wonder why modern developers don't take this into account.

[Doc Rossow]

Gotta' disagree. I think the artist for SoR4 absolutely crushed it. My friend and I are totally into the art and are sitting here hoping that SoR5 follows in the same visual style.

Besides, there are lots of sprite games. SoR4 current graphics are amazing. Just my 2 cents.

[CalicoJack]

i prefer the look/artstyle of SoR1+2.
and the music =]

[Zhong Xina]

i thought sor4 also used sprites? i think th problem is the art style.

i agree sor5 should use king of fighters 13 quality sprites or art style. sor4 art style has those thick black lines on all characters and looks more like a kids cartoon, more fitting in a TMNT game than streets of rage.

[|iG| Vertigo]

SoR4 art is indeed still sprites, just with many times more resolution and frames of animation than in the original games, and a real-time (but still 2D) lighting engine.

[Titan]

Considering the sprite work for KOF13 was so expensive it almost made SNK bankrupt on it's own, I doubt you'll see a smaller company like this trying to deliver that kind of presentation in any game.

[Sweeper]

Originally posted by Titan:

Considering the sprite work for KOF13 was so expensive it almost made SNK bankrupt on it's own, I doubt you'll see a smaller company like this trying to deliver that kind of presentation in any game.

Snk went bankrupt almost because of a whole different reason. The slap of the abandonment of arcades was hard

Also snk consoles were always for rich people and still is. I mean a 32 bits console in early nineties. Imagine that.

You choose neo geo cd. Is good music and bad loading times
You choose vanille neogeo you get midi sound but fast loading times

Neo geo had succes and the console had the longest support a console could get.

Perhaps the only mistake they made is that they kept supporting their console.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Julaybib:

Originally posted by Titan:

Considering the sprite work for KOF13 was so expensive it almost made SNK bankrupt on it's own, I doubt you'll see a smaller company like this trying to deliver that kind of presentation in any game.

Snk went bankrupt almost because of a whole different reason. The slap of the abandonment of arcades was hard

Also snk consoles were always for rich people and still is. I mean a 32 bits console in early nineties. Imagine that.

You choose neo geo cd. Is good music and bad loading times
You choose vanille neogeo you get midi sound but fast loading times

Neo geo had succes and the console had the longest support a console could get.

Perhaps the only mistake they made is that they kept supporting their console.

I fail to see why you're bringing up the Neo Geo when KOF 13 released many, many years after the Neo Geo stopped being a thing.

It's a well known fact that KOF 13 almost bankrupt SNK when it came out.

[MrBananaGrabber]

No

[Sweeper]

Originally posted by Titan:

Originally posted by Julaybib:

Snk went bankrupt almost because of a whole different reason. The slap of the abandonment of arcades was hard

Also snk consoles were always for rich people and still is. I mean a 32 bits console in early nineties. Imagine that.

You choose neo geo cd. Is good music and bad loading times
You choose vanille neogeo you get midi sound but fast loading times

Neo geo had succes and the console had the longest support a console could get.

Perhaps the only mistake they made is that they kept supporting their console.

I fail to see why you're bringing up the Neo Geo when KOF 13 released many, many years after the Neo Geo stopped being a thing.

It's a well known fact that KOF 13 almost bankrupt SNK when it came out.

I don't speak nonsense nor do you.

Honestly the arcade hitted sega and snk pretty damn hard. Just like the Dreamcast was the nail in the corfin even tho it was succesfull but sold zt a loss. Plus the shenmue and the over expensive naomi 2 customised board.

Likewise snk had a hard blow in the transition and had to borrow their license tonsomeone else.
The neo geo console is the most honest and the longest supported console. If u check how long snk was making games for it for the long abandoned console by people who got older.

Kof13 was the nail in the coffin. Much tech and only lil sales.

You arent wrong.

But im glad snk is back. And cool thing is that snk has 4 capcom characters coming gornkof 15. So heres me hoping gor snk vs capcom 3.

On topic.
People can call sor4 what they want. Yeah it isnt a macromedia flash game.
But it looks good. But also looks like it.

Sprites in the vain of kof 13 is awesome. Im kot speaking about how much that costs. That is out of my knowledge. And it may be cheaper today i dunno

[OFuturoPolímata]

No. This style is very good!

I'll be honest here: this is when I HATE nostalgia! All the job was well done, bue here appear people which refuse evolution just because "miss the old times".

Squares are understandable for old games, and even gives them charm. But now we can have the best of the cartoon art and we will just throw it away for no reason?

[tiguilherman]

No it shouldnt. Please look forward, not back. Enough with the throwback, retro-homage bs all the effin time already.

[Sweeper]

Originally posted by tiguilherman:

No it shouldnt. Please look forward, not back. Enough with the throwback, retro-homage bs all the effin time already.

Take it easy. Sprites look good man. I mean gg strive and rev arent exactly old. And they are not sprites but they managed to make it look like it.

Btw
No point being frustrated.
I mean this friendly

[Malcolm]

It should be computer generated sprites but not pixellated, just high resolution.
The current artwork looks like it's concept art.