Anyone else think the backgrounds could use some work?

After playing for quite some time, I've always thought that a lot of the planet backgrounds lack a little detail. They look ridiculously simple compared to the rest of the game, and I was wondering if anyone else thought so too.

I don't mean to be too critical, but it seems like there could be a lot more effort put into making some things look nicer. Now I understand why some things are less detailed that they could be (like character sprites, as there are a lot of those and they all need to be animated) but for something like a background that is basically a scrolling, non-animated picture I don't see why they could be worked on a little bit more.

I know it's beta, and nothing is final, but I haven't heard much discussion about the way backgrounds look. This makes me think that they may not be changed eventually.

 

I actually thought the same a while ago, but there are some backgrounds that I really do like too!
Though, I'm hoping some of them can get revamped a little bit

 

I really like them, there is a charm to them. Everyone thinks differently though.

 

Exactly, agreed!

 

I agree. I also think there needs to be a layer or 2 more to improve the parallax effect and fill in some of the emptiness in the foreground. The forests in particular could use a layer that is behind the trees to make them feel more like forests.

 

Aye, there are a lot of backgrounds that look very impressive
I particularly like the desert background with the large pyramid structures
not to mention the parallax effect on certain moon/grasslands biomes, now that's impressive

however some of them look like flat MS paint drawings :/

I haven't seen it in-game yet, but I hope they change the "rainbow aurora" to the colours that actually make it up.

 

The floating-brains background looks a bit off. I agree that the quality is variable.

 

yeah, they can do a bit more within the confines of the art style.

 

Some of the "mountainous" backgrounds don't fit with the rest of the art style. They seem like they were concept art that were kept in.

There's also an issue with the tentacle background where it literally does not connect to the rest of the planet's background at the base. It's basically a large "hole" in the world. Kind of like in 3D games where sometimes there's spots where you can see through to the underside of the terrain where nothing exists.

 

I imagine some of the backgrouds are still placeholders and will improve over time.

 

Wouldn't mind some extras in the background. A bird alien flying here and there. Volcano going off. Etc.

 

Could have some more random elements and static elements. Moons also need their backgrounds made prettier and put "higher" so you can "see" them.

 

For the most part, I'm really not focusing on the background, so they seem to be fine to me. However, I did notice yesterday when I was in a deep canyon that the background was just a blank brown screen. I guess I went below the area where the graphics were drawn.

Other than that, it has been pretty low on my concern scale.