pier solar hd

[CrackTiger]

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It looks like parts of backgrounds which used sprites before are being left with the low res graphics and are being blurred in places. Even if they have specifically stated that this is how the final HD version will be, I really don't believe that they will ship it without updating the sprites first.

[Arkhan Asylum]

They probably will, and they'll come up with some goofy term for the style.



 High Retronition graphics!

[PCEngineHell]

Original:

Kickstarter suped up edition:

[OldRover]

I wouldn't say Pier Solar "blows". It's a lot more professionally done than Mysterious Song which seems very amateur in comparison. I got bored with that one and stopped playing a few hours in. I'm certainly not saying Pier Solar is the greatest thing ever designed. It has lots of little design flaws in there. It's just not as bad as some of the people who program their own games here would have you believe. Those are the ones who piss and moan about Pier Solar the most. Put your money where your mouths are. Design something that blows it away. So far I've only seen simple arcade-like games and an old, very basic RPG which isn't special at all.

It's good to know that I can take all of this with a grain of salt and know that you're talking out of your ass just to get a reaction. Everyone knows that if you haven't cleared Mysterious Song within a few hours, you suck at life and should just kill yourself. Furthermore, I wasn't judging Pier Solar personally, just collecting all of the opinions thus far into a conclusive list and drawing a conclusion based on that.

[Gillian Seed]

I agree with Joe actually. That combination of HD backgrounds and 16-bit sprites looks really nice, but I do feel like the backgrounds could look much better. Those trees in particular are bothering me.

Also did they ever say anything about fixing the balance of exp? or did they play the "someone beat the game without leveling up once" card again.

[HercTNT]

The quality of the graphics or sound for that matter have never really been in question. Its the gameplay. Level design and balance leave alot to be desired. there is no question that making and releasing a game as watermelon did is a major undertaking and takes skill. Kudo's to them for seeing it through. However its not a free game. Criticizing a free game is low brow considering, well, its free. Pier Solar is not free and thus will draw criticism from those who paid for it. Thats how it works.

[Arkhan Asylum]

I agree with Joe actually. That combination of HD backgrounds and 16-bit sprites looks really nice, but I do feel like the backgrounds could look much better. Those trees in particular are bothering me.

I think he was being sarcastic...

[Gillian Seed]

If he was I agree with his sarcasm then. I like crisp chunky sprites.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Crisp chunky sprites look goofy on top of high res backdrops.   It also looks lazy.

[PukeSter]

Crisp chunky sprites look goofy on top of high res backdrops.   It also looks lazy.

QFT

[OldRover]

Here's the new hi-def Mysterious Song:

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Cool, eh?

[turboswimbz]

Rove that just made me pee mah pants! 

[Psycho Punch]

1920x1080 pixels of pure awesomeness.

[Gillian Seed]

Crisp chunky sprites look goofy on top of high res backdrops.   It also looks lazy.

I'd rather it to super smoothed out sprites that don't stick out too well from the background personally.

[esteban]

Here's the new hi-def Mysterious Song...

Hilarious!!!

[Joe Redifer]

I LOL'd.

[geise]

   Did you use KPT Bryce for the backgrounds?

[Arkhan Asylum]

Crisp chunky sprites look goofy on top of high res backdrops.   It also looks lazy.

I'd rather it to super smoothed out sprites that don't stick out too well from the background personally.

If they can't do super high def hand drawn sprites that contrast the background, they have no business doing an HD game, then.

[OldRover]

nah geise, it's just a photo I found on google image search. I had to edit the humans out of it though.

No seriously... MS hi-def will look something more like this:





and I'm not content to just porting the same old game with new graphics... the game itself is about 20x bigger than the original... new story aspects, WAY larger world map, new towns, new items, new monsters, new magic spells... you name it and I've probably added it.