First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:45 pm

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So, a few days Capcom Mobile put up a small trailer of AA4 for mobile on their YouTube channel. Except... the video is now set to unlisted. And it looks like there's good reason for that.

You'll probably notice that the video is running at a pretty abysmal framerate. Before the torches and pitchforks come out, it's worth noting that this poor framerate seems to be an artifact of the video, not of the game - watch the transitions between disparate scenes (like from Eldoon to the Gavinners' dressing room) and you'll see those are choppy as well. It seems like this video was rendered at a lower FPS than it was supposed to be, which may be part of the reason it's unlisted.

Still, it gets us another look at the game's visuals. Here's hoping this is a video issue after all and the next official footage drop is running smoother!

Thanks to @hoso_boso on Twitter for the heads-up.

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Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:01 pm

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To me the trailer is a disappointment. Not because of the game or the framerate issues. It's the trailer itself that is weak. Remember the original AJ trailer? That one had style. It made you feel excited about a new chapter in the story. It had planning and direction. This? Not even the required promo stuff at the end.

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Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:53 pm

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This is clearly he preview video they'll put at the game's app store page. It lasts exactly 30 seconds which is the max.
Then again, why produce such a low quality video that is supposed to grab people's attentipn and make them buy the game?

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:18 am

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Was looking forwards to seeing HD Phoenix... The one part he's in has a low FPS.

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 5:46 am

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It's a weird collage of footage. Maybe that's why they unlisted it so quickly? To make a better one because the people they asked probably didn't do a good enough job?

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Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:45 am

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The music was good,as always. The characters look alright,except Phoenix.

I think the problem with an AJ port is that the outlines are too obvious. There's no crispness,or subtlety with everything being over outlined.

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Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:29 am

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OMG guys...

Is this what I think it is? Let's compare it with this from the HD trilogy...

They gave the Judge an updated set of HD sprites!

Here's hoping that Lawyer Phoenix gets updated sprites too...

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:47 am

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Yeah he does look a lot smoother here thank god.

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:18 am

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Southern Corn wrote:

The music was good,as always. The characters look alright,except Phoenix.

I think the problem with an AJ port is that the outlines are too obvious. There's no crispness,or subtlety with everything being over outlined.

The outlines seem okay to me though. On the other hand I feel like they were more far too obvious in the HD Trilogy.

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Mon Nov 21, 2016 5:15 pm

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I don't mind the outlines too much. The biggest problem for me is the shading (and the outlines only help amplify this problem). It really looks like a flash game from 2006

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 5:24 pm

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At least unlike the trilogy port,everything isn't overly drawn to the point where it looks nothing like how it did originally. The 3DS port,while fixing the typos,don't really remove this,and that's why I'm not really planning to get these 'remastered' versions of the games.

The only one which I thought to be good was the DD iOS port IMO.

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:22 pm

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Release date confirmed! December 1st for iOS, December 8 for Android: https://twitter.com/capcommobile/status ... 3706988544

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:46 pm

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The music choice is weird. The cross examination theme? That's not exactly my first choice for something to promote the game.

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Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Tue Nov 22, 2016 12:26 am

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It looks like they have all their frames intact, at least!

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Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:59 am

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I mean,that theme's my jam,so I'm fine with it.

Re: First footage of AA4HD - with an asterisk

Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:28 pm

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judge looks way better!

Let's hope the diarrhea tone borders aren't in the actual game. Lot's of people complained on the app store when Capcom suddenly decided to "improve" GS123 by adding brown textured borders. What's wrong with black borders that don't distract from the game???