Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/Next-Gen?

Janet Merai	Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/Next-... « on: June 19, 2010, 11:31:00 am »
Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 159	I have been thinking about the questions people have asked long ago and other such stuff like that and have been thinking, especially after E3's Zelda showings made me feel out-dated. Should I ditch the retro limited Nintendo 64 Polygons and textures and make it next-generation? This means other low-end users may not be able to play it if I did so... and I do like the retro feel but now that Nintendo is re-making Ocarina of Time for the 3DS it makes me feel silly to do it when they are updating OoT. I really want to switch to next-gen high resolution but those screen-shots kind of made me not want to (the screenshots of the supposed Unicorn Fountain) What are your ideas, thoughts and opinions? Logged
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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2010, 12:00:43 pm »

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I think you're biting off more than you can chew if you go to modern...

I kind of have to reiterate what I said in the last thread; you're not really planning this project well enough to ever complete it. Don't concern yourself with the models yet, just get your dev stuff down first. Come up with a proper prototype, and then worry about this stuff. Models are interchangeable. Not really a concern you should be having at this point in your development.

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Zaeranos	Re: Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/N... « Reply #2 on: June 19, 2010, 01:40:47 pm »
Reputation: +9/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 3725	Once again, I have to agree with Mammy. Get your gameplay elements going and only later worry about the resources. Also making high polygon models takes longer to create and also to load when testing. BTW: the classic OOT style does not look bad either. And like Mammy said, you can always change the models (even if it would make development longer). Logged

Martijn dh	Re: Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/N... « Reply #3 on: June 19, 2010, 05:16:04 pm »
Reputation: +16/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 1633	Why not talk about improved graphics once you have a game to improve? And you have to remember, the graphics we use will always be outdated. By the time we finish a fangame there will already be something new on the horizon from nintendo etc. There is one thing more importent than graphics anyway and that is the combination of everything else. Logged
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Zhello N.A.D.I.	Re: Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/N... « Reply #4 on: June 19, 2010, 05:17:41 pm »
L'homme avec beaucoup de noms. Reputation: +6/-1 Offline Gender: Posts: 925	lol you can use TP models? Well you can think about changing the graphics when you imprve your game, like what marjin dh said. Logged
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Mirby Drifter	Re: Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/N... « Reply #5 on: June 19, 2010, 06:20:49 pm »
To bomb or not to bomb... Reputation: +6/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 4162	I'd say stick with the retro style. Not only because of the points mentioned previously, but also because it will save you a lot of time and effort. Plus, accessibility is always a good thing. It's why some people here with Macs use Unity, so anyone can play them. The accessibility is a definite must; if you go with something next-gen, then that accessibility is lost. And that's a very bad thing. Logged
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Sinkin Team Dekunutz	Re: Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/N... « Reply #6 on: June 20, 2010, 11:39:20 am »
Idk Reputation: +5/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 564	I'd say go both. Mainly because of what Nintendo does right now. Logged

Downsider	Re: Should I drop the Retro idea and go Modern/N... « Reply #7 on: July 03, 2010, 09:37:38 pm »
Oh. Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Posts: 579	I think you should start working on it after three years of procrastination and total changes to everything about the project every five minutes. Logged
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