Is it actually 16-bit? The background looks a lot less grainy than I’d expect.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The headline seems a bit overly snarky and dismissive of a small studio dealing with the kind of licensing problems that just come with big properties. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened in a game.
It sounds like without the image rights, there would be any closeup cutscenes of Arnold’s face, but given that the game play is a 16ish bit throwback aesthetic, it actually doesn’t seem as distracting as it sounds.
I mean, this looks fine to me:
Maybe they aren’t allowed to do an accurate Arnie voice impression, but if all the character audio is crunched up to feel more retro, that might not be a problem either.
fluxion@lemmy.world 4 days ago
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s why I called it “16ish”. It isn’t but it is trying get those nostalgia neurons firing. Point is, the aesthetic is intentionally not photo realistic, so missing out on Arnold’s face isn’t the biggest problem in the world.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I was going to say, after reading the article, I was surprised to see that in the video.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 days ago
What if instead of Arnie they used Hasselhoff?
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 days ago
If you want to know about crap licenses to movies, there was a 8bit game for Blade Runner, but the developers couldn’t obtain the rights to do it. However, they were able to gain the rights to another part of the film.
The box art for the Blade Runner game states in rather small text on the cover, “video game interpretation of the film score”. Yes, they got the rights to the soundtrack!
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Similar to the 1997 point-n-click Blade Runner game. The rights to all the aspects of that movie were such a mess that the developers decided not to use any footage or audio from the game because they honestly couldn’t figure out who owned what, and made it follow a new main character which was an obvious “Not-Deckard” who was chasing replicants in a similar but ever so changed variation on the plot of the movie.