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Preview Underworld Ascendant Update #34: Vertical Slice Screenshots
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Aenra
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/throws a rose and humbly calls it a day. Not here to argue. Really
(Exci calls me a retard about twice a week, lol, we still 'talk' just fine. I only mind when people switch my words into something else. Can't have a discussion like that.)
Max Heap
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I like it.
I also like that it's colorful.
I only played UU for the first time recently and I think it really fits that style well.
UU was never all that gritty. Perhaps UU2 was, with its realistic faces and characters - but UU1 never seemed like it tried to deliver a super realistic visual rendition. It seemed a lot like early D&D illustrations.
You had marble floor tiles and goofy monsters and a lot of pretty diverse, colorful textures. In fact every floor had a very clear, recognizable color scheme. So from a visual perspective I'm absolutely down with what I see here tbh.
Maybe break up the blue & orange a bit. Bring in some more distinguishable color schemes and I have basically nothing to complain about.
I also like that it's colorful.
I only played UU for the first time recently and I think it really fits that style well.
UU was never all that gritty. Perhaps UU2 was, with its realistic faces and characters - but UU1 never seemed like it tried to deliver a super realistic visual rendition. It seemed a lot like early D&D illustrations.
You had marble floor tiles and goofy monsters and a lot of pretty diverse, colorful textures. In fact every floor had a very clear, recognizable color scheme. So from a visual perspective I'm absolutely down with what I see here tbh.
Maybe break up the blue & orange a bit. Bring in some more distinguishable color schemes and I have basically nothing to complain about.
Aenra
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UU1 was like.. revelation to me. First time ever a monster was actually coming towards me! It, UU2, they're the ones that hooked me. Ever since, first person was the way to go. Sadly, excluding 4 more games, that just never happened. Been waiting for a fifth since 2002, lol
I'm gonna be so butthurt with this one.. just no fucking way they'll come close, i just know it
I'm gonna be so butthurt with this one.. just no fucking way they'll come close, i just know it
Excidium II
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UUW doesn't look like fucking play-doh, shut the fuck up. I like how the tryhards suddenly turned this entirely about the color palette because it's the only argument they can make.
Excidium II
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It's hard to name an old game that doesn't look better. This grafic style is more reminiscent of modern 3D mobile games.
Jésus fucking Christ, this forum...
Excidium II
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You have fanmade quake maps that give more underworld feeling than this.
Even the original Quake has more UU feeling than this (except the guns, of course)
Max Heap
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Obviously it didn't.
Equivalently it had some goofy as fuck enemy designs though.
That also includes the gazers, the goblins or the zombies.
Don't act as if these were super serious and gritty.
There is an entire area based around a pacman easteregg, filled with blue ghosts for christ's sake.
You can argue that Otherside must improve the roughness of their surfaces, but design wise the visuals seem a-ok to me.
Excidium II
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Not an argument.
Max Heap
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You are pretty dramatic over something as miniscule as shifted smoothness values in Unity's PBR materials.
Either way, you'll have a hard time finding that "crisp" style, that you seem to crave so much, on a game with handpainted textures using normal mapping.
On the other hand you'll have a hard time finding normal mapping and most other lighting related shenanigans in those old crisp games (unless you use some kind of mod like the graphics overhaul for Quake 2 - which is technologically impressive but aesthetically looks like garbage)
So... I don't fuckin know.
Who gives a shit man...
Either way, you'll have a hard time finding that "crisp" style, that you seem to crave so much, on a game with handpainted textures using normal mapping.
On the other hand you'll have a hard time finding normal mapping and most other lighting related shenanigans in those old crisp games (unless you use some kind of mod like the graphics overhaul for Quake 2 - which is technologically impressive but aesthetically looks like garbage)
So... I don't fuckin know.
Who gives a shit man...
Black
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Dude, what
I funded this, and I can tell you, with each passing update the taste becomes more bitter. Slow updates, with no substance aside from constantly trying to prove themselves in the graphics department. I couldn't give less of a fuck about the justification of their art direction. Show us something else, already.
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It looks very mediocre. Whoever made this tried his best to make something inspired but failed because he lacked experience. Also, going for a stylized look was a huge and terrible milkshake.
Also, ban Excidium II.
Also, ban Excidium II.
cherry blossom
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Some of the details in the art direction reminds me of Oblivion/Skyrim but I still like the look of it. It does capture some of that tabletop miniatures / clay / early fantasy look for me. I am just worried that their emphasis on game systems might follow a limited and repetitive pattern like those of Ubisoft games.
Aenra
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I thought you'd appreciate the joke? I do know you love it deep down
Don't send the mudcrabs on me, i'll do better, honest.
hello friend
Arcane
huh
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico
Arcane
Speaking strictly about the visuals, I don't necessarily dislike how this looks.
Well, how the scenario looks, actually. I'm fully expecting these lizardmen (and everything else) to have dreadful animations, going by these woody models lifted directly from 2004.
When it comes to mechanics, all we have is dozen of previous blogs stressing the game will entirely rely on dynamic systems... Which is a great pitch, assuming they'll be able to deliver on that.
Well, how the scenario looks, actually. I'm fully expecting these lizardmen (and everything else) to have dreadful animations, going by these woody models lifted directly from 2004.
When it comes to mechanics, all we have is dozen of previous blogs stressing the game will entirely rely on dynamic systems... Which is a great pitch, assuming they'll be able to deliver on that.
Excidium II
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(they won't)
Aenra
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