Yikes.
These renders could be completely fake, they could be part of a pitch from Factor 5 to Nintendo, or they could be an actual work in progress from a new Kid Icarus game, but no matter how you slice it, they're pretty hard to look at. The Wii can handle just about everything but realistic looking graphics, so to dump the perfectly acceptable Pit design from Super Smash Bros. Brawl in favor of this fugly Man Icarus would just be bad buisness.
If this is the direction that Nintendo wants to go with the next Kid Icarus title, I hope they wait for the Wii 2 before they put the game out. Turning Pit into a muscular man would still be a deformation of the Kid Icarus I grew up with, but at least it would be deformation presented in glorious high-defintion.
[via Gonintendo]
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12:00 PM on 02.01.2009
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If it is real...*BARF*.
*brick was shat*
The Brawl model looks alright, but i'm not sure they will go with it.
Internet trolling.
*This wild guess was taken entirely from the darkness of his armor and the pissed off look on his face.*
Please be fake...
Please be fake...
Please be fake...
Please be fake...
Please be fake...
Please be fake...
Pit looks like this:
KTHX
If it is they just should go back to the drawing board with it.
ANGST OVERLOAD!!!
Plus, The proportions on the character are WAY off as well. I simply can't believe that this would ever even come close to being real. When is the last time Nintendo renders were leaked anyway? Ummm... NEVER? Oh yeah.
I don't know, Resident Evil 4 looked pretty realistic on the GameCube, and it looks just as good on the Wii. You just need to know how to do realistic graphics correctly on the Wii.
I agree, though, I think the Pit model from Brawl would be ten times better. You know, so he's a kid.
However, the reason it looks real shitty is because it's a screen shot of a 3D program's view port. View ports use low quality real-time rendering to save memory. If this were rendered at a Wii standard it would look a lot better.
for the record, I do think that realistic graphics can be done on the Wii, but not quite as well as on the other guy's consoles.
second, to all you brainwashed HIGH DEFINITION creatures, have you ever played Final Fantasy XII(this means 12 if you didn't know)? it has some of the prettiest realistic graphics in a video game and it doesnt have fancy lighting, normal maps or HD output.
its not the hardware that makes the game, its the people behind it.
ooh and before you start calling me a nintendo fan boy ffxii came out to the ps2.
And I'm not just telling myself that. It's not real. It -can't- be real.
Condescension: Serious business -__-