Paprium: The Official Thread Mk 2

[cowboyscowboys]

The game looks great. Can't please them all keep up the good work Watermelon.

[EPSYLON EAGLE]

We have to see all that in motion & when the neons are off ^^

This a good point.

But that guy with the "cyber visor" looks awful IMO. That's poor/mediocre-at-best pixel art and fuck who says otherwise.

Finally, I don't think it's all WM's fault. I remember that they were struggling to find pixel artists to work on the game.
However, I guess the ones they could find had some pretty low standards for art direction and color choices.

I agree with most of your points, despite not find the pixel art of poor quality, or that guy with the glasses a bad character, if you think about, the another male character seems totally anachronistic, imagine a guy dressed as a kickboxer 20th century, fighting in post-apocalypse game on the 21st century.
Actually i do not think it at all important, Skate in Streets of Rage 2 is a poorly character, but not really decreases the overall quality of the game.

[synapse]

I guess we all here thought a cangaroo and a cyber-FuManchu were all right in a contemporary setting, right? ¬¬

[cowboyscowboys]

Skate in Streets of Rage 2 is a great character. He was their for the kids which were a good majority of the install base. I thought he was by far the coolest character as a youngster and I am sure I'm not alone on this.

[Assman]

For instance we saw only screenshots with few sprites&ennemies simultaneously on screen.
I hope it won't be another "Final Fight 3" : big colored sprites but slowdown animation (especially in 2P mode).

I was kinda worried about that too, but then I looked at this image that EPSYLON EAGLE posted again:

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In that shot you have 5 characters, a presumed item container, and whatever they consider a "bike". I think we should be fine.

[loempiavreter]

Regarding the "If my little pony was cyberpunk..." comment

Mother of all the visual side of cyberpunk, The Long Tomorrow by Moebius (the comic that influenced Blade Runner in it's visual look).





Not exactly neon, but oooh color! Not everything needs to be Grimdark get out of your goth/metalhead cybertrollcave. It's cyberPUNK, not cyberGRIMDARK.

Or cyberpunk sega saturn gem, cyber doll:




Sega Mega CD Cyberpunk game Illusion City


Any of Brendan McCarthy's work (He also did character designs for cyberpunk 3d-animation series Reboot, resulting in people's skin being green, blue, pink or purple.. because you know color is the way to go)




Paul Pope's Heavy Liquid




Neuromancer anyone?? Can't get more cyberpunk then Gibson's classic cyebrpunk novel




movie concept art

Don't mistake poofy Star Wars science fiction-like crap for cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is color.

[Kamahl]

Don't mistake poofy Star Wars science fiction-like crap for cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is color.

Damn right.

[Barman]

Transmetropolitan shows a very "colored" version of a cyberpunk universe:



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People whining about pinkish hues need to grow up, or get more acquainted with the Cyberpunk genre, which goes way beyond Blade Runner (as awesome as it is).

[Pyron]

Regarding the "If my little pony was cyberpunk..." comment

Mother of all the visual side of cyberpunk, The Long Tomorrow by Moebius (the comic that influenced Blade Runner in it's visual look).

Calm down, you have to understand that the stories in comics in the 70's had this style of colorization not by artistic choice but by technology limitations of the time and cost.
Another point that Blade Runner is not the only reference on the subject.

The Cyberpunk theme is the result of the works of Isaac Asimov's Foundation 1951



and Frank Herbert's Dune 1965.

[loempiavreter]

Blade Runner is very neon-ish, don't know which movie you guys watched. Sure wasn't Blade Runner.







The pictures of Isaac Asimov's Foundation (great stuff i didn't know him... funnily enough I had a lecture which featured him today, but I didn't pay attention... now I do! those pictures look rad) look totally in tone of what I posted so... yeah.

I have a hard time callign Dune Cyberpunk, since it's Space Opera... But the cancelled movie version of Jodrowsky looks colorful at least! (had moebius as character designer)

And british cartoon artist Chris Foss doing the space ships


Dunno maybe it's a euro thing.

[matteus]

my response to the haters

[loempiavreter]

But back to some wise words someone said in this topic.. It's a beat'em up. Please do arcade standards of enemy grunts on screen. They promised it in this video:

[Barone]

lol at the butthurt level of some fanboys here.

Rage on, guys.

[Pyron]

People still do not understand that there may be many neons and lights, since used correctly. A living example of this is below, it is colorful cyber-punk and the best is well done!

[loempiavreter]

lol at the butthurt level of some fanboys here.

Rage on, guys.

I'm butthurt about your defination of cyberpunk... Couldn't care less what you think about the game. Cyberpunk is my crack.

Some more examples fom your favorite console:

Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller





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