Now that I have seen it on my own screen (32" HDTV), I can safely say that this game easily surpasses Super Mario Galaxy as Wii graphics king.
I shouldn't be so surprised - images and videos have been circulating the web for some time now, and Capcom has recently started talking very favourably and proudly of their new Wii efforts. 
 

"  It's still a Wii game, it's still fixed at 640x480 "

Oh, I was expecting good graphics :P

Apparently this game made a Capcom executive retract his statement about RE5 not being possible on Wii.
 
But I'd rather have a better game have these graphics than RE5 or Extraction.

It still looks like crap though.
 
*runs away*

I really was expecting someone to say "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?".
 
It does look pretty good. Perhaps developers have realized how to push the Wii to it's limits.

I'm really going to miss those blocky, angular 'stylized' graphics you guys loved for so long.

" I'm really going to miss those blocky, angular 'stylized' graphics you guys loved for so long. "

"I'm really going to miss those blocky, angular 'stylized' graphics you guys loved for so long."

Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii.

It actually looks very nice, just a shame I can't bring myself to pay full price for an on-rails shooter even though I love the genre.

Stop flaming, HandsomeDead. There were never really Wii graphics threads in this forum and none of "us" mentioned loving low poly graphics. Great things can be done with them, and Darkside Chronicles is a shining example on good graphics that do not safe a mediocre game.
 
Graphics are not an issue when I play Wii, and I will continue to advocate putting the least amount of developer ressources into the graphics department. I opened this thread because I was hugely surprised with what they pulled off technically.

" Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii. "

" @Bucketdeth said:

" Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii. "

Why did you sell it? "

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii. "

Why did you sell it? "

The only person who liked it was my girlfriend. "

" @Bucketdeth said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii. "

Why did you sell it? "

The only person who liked it was my girlfriend. "

Did you sell it her? "

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii. "

Why did you sell it? "

The only person who liked it was my girlfriend. "

Did you sell it her? "

Nope, I sold it to someone else and then bought her a 360 with Viva Pinata, she probably doesn't know what a Wii is now. "

" @Bucketdeth said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii. "

Why did you sell it? "

The only person who liked it was my girlfriend. "

Did you sell it her? "

Nope, I sold it to someone else and then bought her a 360 with Viva Pinata, she probably doesn't know what a Wii is now. "

Hopefully she doesn't know what you think of her after you typed that.....even I think that's underestimating how casuals think. "

That game has zombie breast jiggle.

I'm at ign right now looking though the screens fullsize, some of the screens are unimpressive imo and it's at 1280px × 719px resolution? Then again i'm not expecting perfect graphics on the wii, however I know there were really good graphics on nintendo consoles for resident evil zero and resident evil 1 remake.

" That game has zombie breast jiggle. "

I'm at ign right now looking though the screens fullsize, some of the screens are unimpressive imo and it's at 1280px × 719px resolution? Then again i'm not expecting perfect graphics on the wii, however I know there were really good graphics on nintendo consoles for resident evil zero and resident evil 1 remake.

Those graphics look worthy of a low budget game for a 360 or PS3. I think I've seen games the PS3/360 with worse graphics than this!

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @Bucketdeth said:

" Looks nice to me, I remember seeing Super Mario Galaxy and thinking it looked superb, but thats before I sold my Wii. "

Why did you sell it? "

The only person who liked it was my girlfriend. "

Did you sell it her? "

Nope, I sold it to someone else and then bought her a 360 with Viva Pinata, she probably doesn't know what a Wii is now. "

Hopefully she doesn't know what you think of her after you typed that.....even I think that's underestimating how casuals think. "

She probably doesn't even know how to plug the 360 in, I just get her to cook and clean while she watches me play games. "

Looks pretty damn good.

"Those graphics look worthy of a low budget game for a 360 or PS3. I think I've seen games the PS3/360 with worse graphics than this"

looks good... for a Wii game... meaning if you have been paying attention to the advancements in computer technology at all, that game looks poor.

" looks good... for a Wii game... meaning if you have been paying attention to the advancements in computer technology at all, that game looks poor. "

For a Wii game it looks very impressive.  I love the first one and I might ask for this game for Christmas.

" @DOUBLESHOCK said:

" looks good... for a Wii game... meaning if you have been paying attention to the advancements in computer technology at all, that game looks poor. "

Not really. If you have any knowledge of what you can do with said computer technology, this is not bad at all. It's good-looking to boot as well. "

" That game has zombie breast jiggle. "

" (like some awful fruit baskets in the South America first level that are better off removed) "

Doesnt look all that great to me...I think Galaxy still overall looks like the best game visually.

" @Willy105 said:

" @DOUBLESHOCK said:

" looks good... for a Wii game... meaning if you have been paying attention to the advancements in computer technology at all, that game looks poor. "

Not really. If you have any knowledge of what you can do with said computer technology, this is not bad at all. It's good-looking to boot as well. "

yeah that's why I said it looks good for a Wii game, but to me it's like, why work with such awful and lacking computer tech in the first place.  I think the real point here is that... I really shouldn't post in Wii topics anymore because I am admittedly a hater of all that nintendo stands for nowadays.  "

It's a rail shooter, isn't it? Those generally look better because of all the stuff you can clip out. Still nice graphics for the Wii...

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I dunno which is the first boss. Is it the zombosquidosaur thing?

I'm pretty sure they could do a game with comparable visuals without it being a rail shooter. I mean, a lot of it is in cramped environments, halls, corridors, sewers, rooms, so even if you were in control of the camera you couldn't put many things in view, if anything turning around would make you face walls or whatever else, making it less things in view to mess with the frame rate. Sure, the game couldn't revolve around corridors alone but if it was some kind of mansion like RE1 you could make a big part of it in small cramped areas and give the impression of more freedom not by open areas but by having many passageways and doors (dividing the areas like in the old RE games, though not with annoying loading screens but by a near instant fade out/in and appearance in the other side, serving only to separate what the game renders for each scene), etc.

I would say they could do the camera old school giving you a preset view of your surroundings but most would hate that so it could be first person with the gun only showing during reloads as in this rail shooter for even less polygons on screen (different crosshair per gun, and an icon on screen, to make sure you always know what's equipped). Perhaps they could have a few less enemies, but more powerful (maybe similar to Dead Space: Extraction, where it's harder to dispose of each enemy than simply shooting wherever as fast as you can), so that you never feel like running through an area, triggering all the enemies, then accidentally going to a graphics-intensive part of the area with all the enemies on your tail making the frame rate plummet, but instead feel every encounter is an immediate threat you should dispose of right away and not risk giving it back up by moving further ahead where more enemies will become aware of your presence and make things even harder.

Things like that give controlled player movement without making it on rails. Take off a few intensive effects depending on the area (it seems every wall in Darkside Chronicles is a little shiny/reflective, which is cool but wouldn't be necessary for every location), and it seems possible to me. Hell, you could even add some "fake" outdoor/open scenes that are still cramped in practice, being various alleys or yards or whatever else (add different types/amount of enemies too), see how Valve creates levels for their games like Half-Life 2 for an example of how to fake say, a city environment, yet still guide the player along a path no different to a corridor, without many more polygons in view. All that's left is for CAPCOM to want to make the effort. Perhaps porting the Framework engine is a sign. Or, it will lead to more CTYD shit.

I think you are vastly underestimating just how much needs to be sacrificed if you give the player even limited control of the camera, but as we're both not developers, I will not comment on the rest.
 
Sadly, Capcom has had the only video that showed the greenhouse and the later stages of the game removed from youtube, those looked spectacular, much more impressive than the police station / sewer videos that flood the platform. But I have uploaded this one, showing the game's use of normal mapping. What is seen here is placed all over the environments, enemies and player characters you see:
 

Nope, I didn't underestimate anything, especially considering that many of the DSC environments appear to be fully modelled to accomodate the camera's "natural" (yeah I know) motion and how often characters move back to previously visited areas from other paths and angles. I've been involved with development enough to grasp the basics, I used to model a little then gave that up to focus on writing but I still have an interest in such things, I've conversed heavily with people who are now professional modelers or level designers (granted, most of the discussions revolved around particular aspects of design and particular engines like gldsrc, source, ue, torque, and others, but still) so I stand by what I said. Yeah, looks cool.

It doesn't matter How Good it looks "For a Wii game" (That phrase should be burned alive) it still looks like shit everything on the Wii will always look like terrible unless its 2D or Super stylized people need to stop making excuses for the system its horribly underpowered and most of the time it looks worse than the damn Gamecube, Presentation IS important people it does matter.  The game can be a ton of fun whatever but just because shit smells like roses doesn't mean it stops looking like shit.

" It doesn't matter How Good it looks "For a Wii game" (That phrase should be burned alive) it still looks like shit everything on the Wii will always look like terrible unless its 2D or Super stylized people need to stop making excuses for the system its horribly underpowered and most of the time it looks worse than the damn Gamecube, Presentation IS important people it does matter.  The game can be a ton of fun whatever but just because shit smells like roses doesn't mean it stops looking like shit. "

 Pretty nice graphics, but artistically it is kind of boring.
My pick for best graphics on the Wii still goes to Super Paper Mario, the game was beautifully unique and simple. 

Evilsbane, I feel "this looks fantastic!" moments on the Wii just like I do on the 360, on DS or on my mobile phone, whether it is technically or artistically impressive or both. How can you not judge how good a game looks by the system that it's on?
 
In fact, I felt more graphics-whorey and more impressed visually by the Darkside Chronicles than I felt with Batman: AA, which I'm also playing at the moment. Sure, Batman looks better, but it did not make me say "Holy crap, look at that." 
 
RE:DC did.
 
Super Mario Galaxy is impressive technically and artistically. I was more taken in and more entertained by that game's visuals than by many HD titles I played.

Hm, as I have now reached the part that I wanted to show, I have tried filming it with my own bad cam, off-screen. The result is, well, fairly unusable, but what the heck. Its really a shame the direct stream of that part was deleted off youtube.
 

Well, my pick goes to Sonic and the Black Knight.