Spector explains disparity between Disney Epic Mickey concept shots and reality

Regardless of good/bad art decisions.... the game design does sound epic.

It's like the spawn of Red Faction and Okami. You can delete and draw terrain in real-time. That's gotta be worth something to you people!

I'd sooner pay $50 for a Poster of this rad art
http://www.joystiq.com/photos/epic-mickey-concept-art/2174600/

than I'd buy this game. >:

It's more than that, Warren. Sure, we're disappointed that the concept art seems completely unrelated to these screenshots... but that's only part of the problem.

The problem is that these stills are unbelievably ugly, regardless of what they're showing us. Even if the environments were mundane and traditional, they could still look nice, couldn't they? Why did Kingdom Hearts on the PS2 -- less powerful than the Wii by any measure -- look so much better than this? These shots are riddled with low-poly environments, and hastily plastered with flat textures. I literally laughed out-loud when I saw the pixellated flower flat-painted on the green turf. The characters are modeled better, but are textured to look like cheap plastic toys. No game in 2009 should look like this, much less a high-profile collaboration from Warren Spector and Disney.

Could I just buy the epic concept art?

forget all that and direct your attention to this: http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=26784

this is my hero. i would absolutely LOVE to see what Warren Spector can do with Mario, Zelda or heck maybe even Starfox! come on Nintendo!! if not this GEN then do this next GEN! ahhhh who the fuck am i kidding. with the way Nintendo's operating this GEN, if they don't change they act, this will never see the light of day. *sigh* wish things would be just like the NES/SNES days.

This is going to sound selfish and unrealistic, but I don't care. Just start Over, seriously Just start over now, you see that the net and the base has exploded. You have shown the concept art and nobody realistically wants the same quality. It isn't possible, no system out there ever has concept art truly match the game.

I think sam fish said it best in last post, they look at the price of what it would take to create this game and; then what the artist create and they either go yay or nay. Because if you just go crazy and let an artist create some insane world, when you try to match it with money, the game cost will be astronomical so there must be a middle ground, I get that. That being said, this isn't some unknown character, on an unknown system. This is Mickey Mouse, and it is on the Wii the system that sits in the most houses compared to all next generation home consoles. They can make their money back if they put real resource into this game.

I am not a graphics whore, but if they skimp on this part of the game the look the feel of the game, I can't trust that the play mechanics is going to save it because what is their incentive to stay true. He needs to go back to Disney tell them to give him the resources to make something Iconic, I guarantee he wouldn't regret it. People will not reject something great, through marketing alone seeing their Wii offer them something so different and new, people that own a wii and are looking for something other than wii fit will embrace it.

But on the other hand if he is just going to give up and take what he gets because it isn't a PS360, then he is missing an opportunity to stand out on a platform that really doesn't have any AAA games. And before I get flamed I like the wii I do, but when you look at games LIke Borderlands, Uncharted 2, Arkham Asylum, there is more than just graphics that makes those games great.

This is the man that helped make Thief, and Deus Ex back then the graphics were not the greatest but he made those games iconic. He has to be able to do better than this.

Why can't they just take that concept art and turn it into a graphic novel :(

The problem is not graphic engines, resolutions or system capabilities. The problem is unsatisfied expectations. The "leaked" concept art had an attitude that is no longer present. It shows us a view on Micky's world that has never been seen. It was new and exciting. These screen shots just look ... Disney.

No real problem with that had we not gotten our hopes up on the concept art world. As it stands now, I have zero interest in this game.

But I wold love to play Warren's original vision.

How can you seriously go from those concepts to something that looks sub-par to the original kingdom hearts? I think it would've looked great cell-shaded or with hand drawn graphics like Muramasa or something. As it stands it looks like the game equivalent of plain oatmeal: boring.

That's really too bad, some of that concept art is some of the most 'epic' I've seen coming from Disney for years. I guess a lot of creativity is going to waste over there because the corporation wants to play it safe.

Oh well, another shovelware title to forget about. The epicness apparently wasn't meant to be from the get go.

They should just scrap the game and make a movie. Seriously.