First screens of Adventure Island: The Beginning

That's like saying Victorian art should have only been made in the 1600s, what an ignorant little post.

It doesn't matter what the game looks like, it's up to the creators to pick the art style of the game, this includes making it 8-bit.

For this game, I'm going to note that the picture isn't doing the game justice. It probably looks better in motion.

Agreed with Hardy.
If graphics were your problem, then obviously the Wii's quite inferior.
Afterall, the graphics are "pre-current gen".
And obviously, Odin Sphere must be an awful game because they didn't do 3D.

8-bit can be wherever the hell it wants to be. And you don't have to like it.

@ Hardy - Agreed that it's up to the developers to determine the art direction of their own games.

My comment was simply directed at Fletcher's comment that he wishes they had gone the Mega Man 9 route. I simply disagree. What makes his **opinion** any more or less "ignorant" than mine? People are entitled to have their own opinions and preferences, no?

I simply don't like my games looking and sounding just like the games I played almost 25 years ago. I like all the bells and whistles that improvements in technology bring. Even though I have fond memories of playing Combat, Adventure and Air & Sea Battle, etc., I would certainly not like to go back to Atari 2600 era graphics and sounds.

@ SoshiKitai - Who said anything about 3D? The Wii is perfectly capable of generating aesthetically pleasing graphics in 2D or 3D. And you're right, I don't have to like 8-bit graphics.

Two limiting factors here:

1. The size limit on WiiWare games.

2. 3D graphics.

I'm 100% positive if this game were kept 2D (like all the games you just mentioned), it would look phenominal, probably close to Super Paper Mario. Unfortunately, when you go to 3D, you have to draw 6 sides vs 1 side in 2D. The memory usage skyrockets, so everything can't look like a full Wii game. Take that new FPS that's gonna be on WiiWare. It looks like a PS1 gen game, but that's the best they could do with the memory limitations.

@BlueBomber Turbo - except that Lost Winds--one of the first WiiWare games--is also rendered in 3D and, yet, still somehow manages to not look like poo, unlike this title from a very seasoned developer.

Adventure Island does not suck.... Its a nice game, that gives you a challenge.
Iv beat them all when I was a kid... Had good times, nothing sucked about that..