Game News First work in progress screenshot of Wasteland 2 revealed

[Brother None]

Minimal efforts with textures and details is what I am seeing.

Do you understand what "alpha" means? Possibly retarded, indeed.

Brother None do you know if it will be possible for characters to take cover behind those debris?

Dunno.

Though it's worth noting F:Tactics is among the inspirations for this game's combat system, along with the likes of Jagged Alliance and Silent Storm, of course. The presence of ladders and cover makes me speculate they might well be used. Just speculation, though.

Probably like shit without at least a hidden grid.

Who knows. Personally I strongly prefer visual grids in my TB games. Worth a topic on WL2 forums, perhaps.

 

[dibens]

Alright you "graphics too cartoonyylolo" popamole fucks! GTFO of this thread!!!

GAMEPLAY MOTHERFUCKER! GAMEPLAY!!

 

[FeelTheRads]

Alright you "graphics too cartoonyylolo"l popamole fucks! GTFO of this thread!!!

GAMEPLAY MOTHERFUCKER! GAMEPLAY!!

OK.

From that screenshot I can tell about the gameplay that.... you'll have several people in your party. Good?

Now can we get back to what that screenshot shows, which is graphics?

 

[dibens]

Alright you "graphics too cartoonyylolo"l popamole fucks! GTFO of this thread!!!

GAMEPLAY MOTHERFUCKER! GAMEPLAY!!

OK.

From that screenshot I can tell about the gameplay that.... you'll have several people in your party. Good?

Now can we get back to what that screenshot shows, which is graphics?

Graphics are shit, of course. Too much color. IS this some kind of WoW clone lololo?

 

[Captain Shrek]

Minimal efforts with textures and details is what I am seeing.

Do you understand what "alpha" means? Possibly retarded, indeed.

Brother None do you know if it will be possible for characters to take cover behind those debris?

Dunno.

Though it's worth noting F:Tactics is among the inspirations for this game's combat system, along with the likes of Jagged Alliance and Silent Storm, of course. The presence of ladders and cover makes me speculate they might well be used. Just speculation, though.

Probably like shit without at least a hidden grid.

Who knows. Personally I strongly prefer visual grids in my TB games. Worth a topic on WL2 forums, perhaps.

Look. Honestly I want to see this game as successful as possible of course. But if there are concerns they are best addressed before it is too late.

 

[Jaesun]

Looks awesome.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Wierd, looks like shit on my monitor but great on my iPad . Must be the higher resolution.

 

[Gwendo]

It looks like a TellTale game, zoomed out. Or even the new XCom that will be released this year. A somewhat "cartoony" style, with saturated colours and, ffs, a green river with green fumes.

I guess that a decent colour filter could fix this, though. Nothing to worry.

 

[Tolknaz]

Needs more cowbell better graphics

Captain Shrek? Captain Dumbfuck more like. Did you honestly expect this game to have as much detail as say something like Fallout 3 and still be a party based game, with a top down view?

 

[sgc_meltdown]

Another take. This time I left the colors alone and just messed around with luminosity and lighting.

With that I think the main cause of complaints are having color spots that overtake texture visibility and clarity, which gives the colors the feel of a lighting overlay and not as part of the textures.

The textures exemplify this with their current lack of detail. Remember that I say this not because I want more detailed textures, but that's how these factors are working against each other.

take this screenshot from the sherwood game for example:

Because of the strong and crisp scene detailing the presentation doesn't get lost or overpowered in the equally strong colors. Balance. The result: Very pretty stuff.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Leaving aside Tactics which I guess is too "grim dark" for the "colors = art and original" crowd, here's a low-poly game which has color and doesn't make your eyes burst into flames:

An "artist" knows where and how to use colors. And honestly, the palette is fine in that image without the maxed out saturation.

 

[VonVentrue]

the whole "desaturation needed, not dark or gritty enough" attitude on display here is simply ludicruous, to say the least.

"hurr colors that means it's art"

Of course. And once again we learn that there's only two options: that or grim dark. There can't be anything in between.
And then the same fucktards laugh at World Of Warcraft or Facebook games for being overly colored.

You certainly seem to be keen on using hyperboles as foundations for your arguments...

"Hurr durr it's not gray, brown and gritty, so it's enough to draw comparisons to WoW's art style!"

See? Posting nonsensical bullshit is fun!

 

[FeelTheRads]

You certainly seem to be keen on using hyperboles as foundations for your arguments...

"Hurr durr it's not gray, brown and gritty, so it's enough to draw comparisons to WoW's art style!"

See? Posting nonsensical bullshit is fun!

I'm sorry, you're right. Your "desaturation needed, not dark or gritty enough" jab was much more level headed. Because if I don't like that I obviously want "piss filter" and "grim dark".

 

[Twinkle]

Looks surprisingly good, especially considering such an early stage of development. Oversaturation is definitely a problem, not because "too cartoony", but due to it taking away details. They have more than enough time to tweak overall palette, though.

have as much detail as say something like Fallout 3

3D Failouts are some of the ugliest shit I laid my eyes upon. Keep that crap away from Wasteland.

 

[Outlander]

There's no point in complaining about other people's complaints. Some will like it, some will not, big fucking surprise.

For me the art looks a tad too cartoonish and the colors a over saturated, but anyway I'm more interested in how it will play.

 

[Gwendo]

Ignore some "artifacts" due to poor amateurish photoshop editing, but I would prefer to play with this color palette:

 

[Tolknaz]

3D Failouts are some of the ugliest shit I laid my eyes upon. Keep that crap away from Wasteland.

I was talking about the amount of detail, not aesthetics, since that was what cpt. obvious was complaining about. As for aesthetics, NO Fallouts should be taken as a direct inspiration for the graphics in my opinion. The graphics in the original were obviously too sparse to convey this, but did anyone actually read any of the text descriptions etc? I always got more of a comic book, over the top vibe from this game. Fallouts were much more serious.

 

[Stabwound]

The original shot looks too cartoony, but some of the altered ones look pretty damn good.

I think this is going in the right direction other than the color palette itself, which isn't hard for them to change.

 

[Radisshu]

Let me be the first.........



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LOOKS LIKE TOTAL SHIT, i can't believe you tards are fapping over this cartoon-flash-80's kiddie show shit. Can't believe Fargo would botch this one so bad.

Colors bitch, colors. Since when the fuckin wasteland shines like dog balls on the sun?





I WANT TO SEE APOLOGISTS DEFENDING W2 BECAUSE THEY HAVE FAITH AND SPEND JEWGOLDZ ON FARGO . THE TRUTH IS YOU WILL GET FACEBOOK INTEGRATED INTO THE RANGER-COMM AND SHINY WASTELAND WITH PG 3 RATING OLOLOLOLO. YOU WILL ALL WAKE UP IN 2 MONTHS WITH A FAT COCK IN YOUR MOUTH AND A SIGN OVER YOUR HEAD 'LOOSERS'.


BUTTHURT MUST FLOW.

It's Wasteland, you stupid fucker, not Fallout.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

With that I think the main cause of complaints are having color spots that overtake texture visibility and clarity, which gives the colors the feel of a lighting overlay and not as part of the textures.

The textures exemplify this with their current lack of detail. Remember that I say this not because I want more detailed textures, but that's how these factors are working against each other.

take this screenshot from the sherwood game for example:

Because of the strong and crisp scene detailing the presentation doesn't get lost or overpowered in the equally strong colors. Balance. The result: Very pretty stuff.

Pretty much exactly what I was about to say.

It still looks decent, but there's room for improvement, especially in regards to color saturation.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I wish FTR's balls would just drop already, this brattish confrontational attitude abut everything and everyone is annoying as hell

This does not compute. Are they specifically targeting iOS first and PC second, With this setup it sure looks that way. Minimal efforts with textures and details is what I am seeing.

Looks fine for a barebones "this is the feel we're going for" first screen, I think. Filling the screen with little things would be more impressive, but eye candy shouldn't be a priority at this stage.

 

[HumanTotemPole]

I must confess I'm not a huge fan of the 'bright' look either but as others have already said the proof of the pudding will be in how Wasteland 2 plays.

As a vaguely-related aside, the game that nailed the future wasteland look for me? None other than:

Still an all-time favorite. I wish they'd stick it on GOG.

[Edit: And approximately 30 seconds later the Wasteland 2 look is beginning to grow on me on further perusal of the screenshot.]

 

[ghostdog]

With some desaturation it will look ok. We knew from the start that this wasn't going to be 2D ( ) and given the small amount of development time, I don't think anybody was expecting anything special visually.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Conclusion of this thread: the codex will never be satisfied with anything that is not pixel art.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^I've seen pixel art dismissed by some dexers as Hipster Shit (tm), so not even that is safe. Maybe old pixel art.

 

[mbpopolano24]

Characters are too small... looks like shit.... I am asking for a refund....