ZEQ2 : Interactive Anime Experience

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Ya the newest project for a DBZ game it`s getting serious.Here`s some pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X46j5l7aJFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHUIpGHJz4
And even a vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPeVnBC-6ho
I think we should talk about good and bad things at it
The GOOD:
-it seems to keep the B3 detailed gameplay
-good graphics,not awesome,but good,still I think a Playstation 2 could`ve generated them
-it seems to have very good detailed cut-scenes
The BAD:
-the bars are like the ones of the old B2 and B1 which are very old-looking
-there is a similarity with that SuperDBZ game which was just...bad to say the least
-there is something that makes it look funny,might be that bright graphic system
I think this is all we can say at the moment.Feel free to complete me

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Well, they surely improved the graphics a lil bit, judging from the gameplay movie at least.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Ravven wrote : Well, they surely improved the graphics a lil bit, judging from the gameplay movie at least.

Yes that`s true but there`s something about the aspect that makes it look worst than BT2(not that BT2 was a bad game)maybe the brightness

Thursday, December 27, 2007

don't show witty clips with pictures
http://www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/dbz_burstlimit/ here you can see all the pics

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Thanks for adding that link acira.I only knew those youtube links

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Okay, I take back my words.

Don't get me wrong, they did improve graphics, but not so much to call it a milestone or something.

Before you'll start reading this, keep in mind that I'm a 3d artist myself.

I can see that they improved a lil character models. But let me evaluate this.
I really like the facial traits they did this time, like fully animateable mouth. However, while I can say that the face looks great and it has a really nice polyflow, I can't say the same thing about the rest of body! You simply don't model nice head and zippy body, no 3d artist would do that! :/

Certainly the textures of character skins were improved, but they still are not what I would like to see for a DBZ... On some screens they are stretched and it looks weird (That's why we are developing textureless approach). I guess that in some point it's because animations are not so great... Clipping and other rig errors are easily to spot.

In addition to that, for the possiblities of Xbox360 and Playstation 3, it makes me laugh to make so, relatively speaking, low poly models and skins! I think it would be okay for Playstation 2, tho.


Ahh... Also, look at the splash, boom, hit or what ever effect it is on the screen with Goku and Vegeta (he's flying backwards, possibly from the hit). COME ON! They are using powerful Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 hardware and they still use so low class SPIRITES?! :Q UNBELIEVABLE!

P.S. I gotta go back to work, but when I get home I'll show you some screens.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Ravven wrote : Okay, I take back my words.

Don't get me wrong, they did improve graphics, but not so much to call it a milestone or something.

Before you'll start reading this, keep in mind that I'm a 3d artist myself.

I can see that they improved a lil character models. But let me evaluate this.
I really like the facial traits they did this time, like fully animateable mouth. However, while I can say that the face looks great and it has a really nice polyflow, I can't say the same thing about the rest of body! You simply don't model nice head and zippy body, no 3d artist would do that! :/

Certainly the textures of character skins were improved, but they still are not what I would like to see for a DBZ... On some screens they are stretched and it looks weird (That's why we are developing textureless approach). I guess that in some point it's because animations are not so great... Clipping and other rig errors are easily to spot.

In addition to that, for the possiblities of Xbox360 and Playstation 3, it makes me laugh to make so, relatively speaking, low poly models and skins! I think it would be okay for Playstation 2, tho.


Ahh... Also, look at the splash, boom, hit or what ever effect it is on the screen with Goku and Vegeta (he's flying backwards, possibly from the hit). COME ON! They are using powerful Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 hardware and they still use so low class SPIRITES?! :Q UNBELIEVABLE!

P.S. I gotta go back to work, but when I get home I'll show you some screens.

I totally agree with everything you said.You actually said things that I noticed but couldn`t put my finger on them because unlike you I`m not a graphics specialist.

Let`s look at the second snapshot from acira`s link
1.Sprites as you said are old-looking
2.Bars are just as old-looking as the sprites and skins
3.That damage indicator(that thing that shows you how much damage you dealt)is took straight out of Budokai2
4.Ridiculos yellow SSJ glow
These ppl should learn something about DBZ and about not slacking around and using B3 sprites graphics and other stuff.It`ll be a dissapointing game

Thursday, December 27, 2007

http://www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/dbz_burstlimit/blog_pic/blog_pic_02.jpg
http://www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/dbz_burstlimit/img/news_bn1.jpg
more pics

About the game It looks good don't be so harsh it's the first game por Playstation 3/xbox360 and it's still in progress...I expect good OST all DBZ games have good sound track.One more thing I red that the game will be till the end of the Cell games.I hope that there will be less characters but better fighting sistem and individual fighting styles.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

acira wrote :
About the game It looks good don't be so harsh it's the first game por Playstation 3/xbox360 and it's still in progress...I expect good OST all DBZ games have good sound track.One more thing I red that the game will be till the end of the Cell games.I hope that there will be less characters but better fighting sistem and individual fighting styles.

This is true but I`m not judging the game as the first next-gen DBZ game but as a game for a next-gen console and it`s pretty dissapointing in more than just one aspect.BUT cutscenes look gr8 so there isn`t a all bad project.Still slacking around has won again and models look very similar to the ones in the other Budokai games.We`ll have to wait and see how the project turns out

Friday, December 28, 2007

Pretty old news already. Still.. Nothing much to see really.
Looks like a Budokai 3 clone. But not much to say about the game because so little is released.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Exactly it looks very much like the other Budokai`s as I said in one of my posts.And lazyness has won again(as I said in another post)and they decided not to work so hard and just take stuff from the other Budokai`s.BUT the cutscenes look very good

Monday, December 31, 2007

Wow motion blur!*sarcasm*
Unless they add in some 1/2/3 on 1/2/3 battles I'm not impressed really. Fighting androids in the future as Gohan just does not feel the same when you fight one at a time. Aside from that, the quality of the anime is only so high that from Budokai Tenkaichi you really can't make that many improvements.