SteelAttack said:

I'm a tad disappointed by the aesthetic approach the game shows in the first direct-feed batch of screens. It's in a stark contrast with the eerie, darker tone showed by the first images of concept art that got me going the minute I saw them.

Of course, it can be argued that concept art is precisely the way the dev team and designers have to know how far can they push the envelope on the game they're making, and that it would have been naive to expect the same approach or content in the actual product.

Still, a lot of the "wow" factor that kicked in the minute I saw the first leaked concept art is gone now while I browse these screens. Placeholder textures (hopefully) aside, the art direction and color palette are no different from any two-bit platformer, and besides the animation, there's not much more I am looking forward to in regards to upcoming information on this game.

Yeah Spector said that basically Disney wouldn't allow the steampunk if you read the stuff I've posted.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176700

Warren Spector Addresses Disparity Between Epic Mickey Concept Art And Screenshots

Concept art is usually always better than in game and it got uber hype because of it. Unless it was a 2-D Muramasa type game I donk think it could match that either way. It does seem like Disney has sanitized the look.

However if the game looks like this:

With this animation:

I think it could end up looking good considering that it launches in late 2010.

I dont think you should dismiss it on its looks, if you check out the Eurogamer preview I posted above, it sounds like it has some nifty mechanics.

You'll want to watch this NOW before Disney have it taken down like they did with the other video.

http://wii.gamingmedia.de/downloads,id3200,event_disney_micky_epic_pressekonferenz.html

Wow, the animation is incredible actually.

phantom_leo said:

Watched. I don't think I can want this game more than I already do.

I think that's the  best animation I've seen in any game, period. I dont like the idea of linear sectioned off levels though. I want it to be an adventure game.

Yodariquo said:

gamingeek said:

phantom_leo said:

Watched. I don't think I can want this game more than I already do.

I think that's the  best animation I've seen in any game, period. I dont like the idea of linear sectioned off levels though. I want it to be an adventure game.

Well, no, because you didn't see the animation in a game -- you saw concept animation without a setting.

Huzzah!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/disney-epic-mickey-preview

He shows videos of Mickey's in-game model composited onto classic cartoons, aping the elastic, expressive, somehow graceful stretching and scampering of the original drawings with amazing faithfulness. It's there in the in-game footage we see, too, and is already easily the best cartoon animation in any non-Nintendo game of recent years.

Yodariquo said:

gamingeek said:

Yodariquo said:

gamingeek said:

phantom_leo said:

Watched. I don't think I can want this game more than I already do.

I think that's the  best animation I've seen in any game, period. I dont like the idea of linear sectioned off levels though. I want it to be an adventure game.

Well, no, because you didn't see the animation in a game -- you saw concept animation without a setting.

Huzzah!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/disney-epic-mickey-preview

He shows videos of Mickey's in-game model composited onto classic cartoons, aping the elastic, expressive, somehow graceful stretching and scampering of the original drawings with amazing faithfulness. It's there in the in-game footage we see, too, and is already easily the best cartoon animation in any non-Nintendo game of recent years.

You still haven't seen it

"You truly are annoying"

That's one of the funniest bits from a Prince Valiant episode.

gamingeek said:

The only thing that slightly bothers me is that there only seems to be platforming in the 2D sections. The rest of it looks like an adventure game?

Yup.

Warren Spector said:

It's funny -- a lot of people on my team thought for a long time that we were making a platform game too, and I was sitting back like, "Heh heh heh. I will spring this on them soon." [Epic Mickey] isn't actually a platform game. It is in fact a game designed to confound marketing people, just like Deus Ex was a game designed to confound marketing people. We won Best RPG, Best Story, Best Action, Best Stealth, Best Shooter with Deus Ex, and similarly, this game is a mashup of action/adventure, inspired by the Zelda games that I absolutely adore, platforming inspired by the Mario games that I absolutely adore, and roleplaying games like Deus Ex and other games that I've worked on. It's really a combination of all things. And to some extent, how you choose to interact with the world can determine how much of each of those games it feels like. But really, for me, it's much more of an action/adventure, and the game is really starting to feel like those classic action/adventure games that I've played and love so much.

link

gamingeek said:

The only thing that slightly bothers me is that there only seems to be platforming in the 2D sections. The rest of it looks like an adventure game?

What? I thought you were the person disappointed that DK Country was 2D with no adventuring?