https://www.ausgamers.com/news/read/3037871
https://www.ausgamers.com/videos/view.php/57885
Absolutely nothing new.
Screengrabs, but some of this looks fucking awful and retarded. Especially the hair on that girl. Jeez it’s XXI century, WTH
Not to mention that this stuff is month-old. I’ve seen all of it in games tm.
I think people doing cel shaded games should spend more time on the quality of the outlines themselves. I want strokes that go over the edge of a contour, or colors that don’t quite meet the outline. I want the outline to rapidly change and give everything a REAL hand drawn look. The hell level in the first darkness had something kinda like this toward the end, but it was to show that the shadows were moving. A shader like this could totally be re purposed to be bad ass outlines.
Shit, maybe even a motion blur effect that smears the geometry of an object instead of being a post processing effect.
God damn it, no one’s done cel shading right yet and no one seems to want to.
So far this game looks more like “comic book” than “THE FUCKING DARKNESS”. In their attempt to bring the style to it’s roots, they failed to take into account that the darkness had a look that emphasized line thickness and minimalistic shading. What they’ve got here is HURR DURR OUTLINES.
The game should look like this:
what they’ve got is this:
Everything just seems so lost stylistically.
Also the heads themselves look like SHIT.
What happened to the bad ass tooth-filled carnivorous eels? These look like Balrog cocks.
Comic book tie in will be distributed in May. What’s funny, the cover looks more coherent with the first game than any screenshot we’ve been shown so far.
They’ve still got time to change.
I seriously doubt they will.
Too bad there’s no way the devs can see output from the fans.
Oh well, it’s not like the visual style is the ONLY important thing. There’s still the matter of storyline… which has already been proven to be truncated… but the combat doesn’t look too bad from the word of mouth we’ve had so far…
ffs.
There is new screenie on teh internetz…
And it’s old.
I dunno, this looks half decent. Blood is retarded.
Oh and comics
https://uk.comics.ign.com/articles/116/1164702p1.html
https://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut-teaser-the-darkness/713524
Kirk Acevedo not doing the voice of Jackie… 
Well, fuck this then.
And what is the fucking point of the teaser? To show how dumbed down it will be?
EDIT: But is this really Nolan North? Sure does not sound like the Jackie from the first game.
Maybe it’s just the teaser, I dunno.
But really, compare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmR3hYzjr1U
EDIT2: Nolan did do young Jackie and Nino in the first game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdoFlXcuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hki01qL6DQ
+Box Art
EDIT3: More info coming:
https://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?107346-The-Darkness-II-is-Coming-October-4-new-trailer!
Maybe Kirk was busy with Fringe?
idk.
But ofc, they could not wait.
Well, there goes another victim of franchise milking.
Don’t care about consistency, don’t care about nothing.
First that cel-shading fanservice, then… oh well.
I don’t think anyone with common sense can say with honestly that they do.
It looks like they fucked it up real bad.
Is it me, or does that Sheldon Carter guy look like a complete pretentious dork?
It has been bugging me ever since I saw the first interview.
All I hope for is that Paul Jenkins doesn’t fuck up with the writing.
Yeah, he’s all they got atm.
I still hate those fucking heads.
Meet the main bad guy(apparaz) btw:
Any hope left?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnIlMkxiYk4
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0C2CyOWbOg&feature=related
put together.
You know, that may have actually brought back a little hope for some reason…Still, most is gone.
He looks like a knock-off hitler
i don’t get it, wasn’t the main focus on the personal struggle between jackie and the darkness?
Why do we need extra creepy supernatural shit? A guy who knows about darkness and want it for himself?
The story could expand on the ‘light in the drakness’ speech Antony Estacado couldn’t finish in the first game?
I can understand why there’s a more traditional external antagonist this time. I mean, yes, the first game had you battling with “yourself” through most of the game with your villain uncle in the sidelines most of the time, but I think it may be redundant to go through that whole arc again.
Plus it would be interesting to see The Darkness’ reaction to something actually (maybe) being able to harm it.
We’ll see.
Mah, I don’t hate North.
But that was pretty funny.
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