Torrance, CA
Quoted from Phetishboy:Have you ever looked at some of the modern Sterns close up? The graphics (including much of the text) are pixelated, blurry, fuzzy, etc. Blame it on the resolution of the files they worked with or blame it on the printer, your choice, but they're obviously doing something wrong.
It's the printing. Now the files might be low rez crap too, it's obviously impossible to tell with such horrible printing quality, but I doubt it. All of those assets exist in nice high rez formats. The Tron LE I saw had all the print quality of a '50s comic book ad, it was pretty shameful. I'm sure it's all about cutting costs. Still sad.
Disney is notoriously difficult to work with when it comes to IP, and if you stop and think for a moment Stern's worked with them a lot. X-Men, Avengers, Iron Man, Spider-Man, PotC, Tron ... all Disney properties (I guess even IJ is now too!). It would hardly surprise me to find that they were forced to use official photography for all of the assets. I agree though, it's a giant turn off, and frankly makes the games look cheap.
