Sega announced earlier today that it would bring Sega Saturn great Guardian Heroes to Xbox Live Arcade. Awesome, right? Everyone loves a Treasure game! Not awesome? First screen shots of the XBLA port of Guardian Heroes.
The game's "all-new graphics and visual effects" are vicious on the eyes, probably explaining why the news went out with just a press release and concept art. Sega's filtering the Saturn game's sprite-based graphics for something that's less blocky, but ultimately less attractive.
Now, the silver lining. According to Sega reps commenting on the official Sega blog, that graphical filter is completely optional. Hopefully that means we can play Guardian Heroes with properly scaled sprites if we choose to do so. Sega says we'll hear more about filtering options "this month."
Still, if you find nothing wrong with the look of this Guardian Heroes port, carry on through the gallery above.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
... and all that excitement died immediately when I saw the horrible screenshots that have been released.
Just awful. This game deserves a proper HD-remake, instead of this kinda cheap lazy cash-in.
I still dont get how sega and snk can't muster to properly understand and use filters that have been around since the early days of snes and arcade emulation .
Out of the dozen of 2d filters of existence , those two always pick the worst .
I don't think it looks to bad. I remember the sprites being all blocky especially in the back plane and wasn't there alot of slowdown as well?. IIf it comes to PSN I'll pick it up if the gameplay is improved a little bit.
OK? its only a filter other than that it looks fine to me, no need to get crazy over it.
Graphic's whores! GH is one of the best beat em ups ever made and you're worried about some sprites?! You can turn the filter off.
This whole thread is what's wrong with gaming today.