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New "The Last of Us" Trailer
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sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
Great trailer but the longer we go without gameplay videos, the more likely it is that this isnt coming this year. Hoping they do a big E3 blowout and announce a 2012 release.
JetBlackPanda
Member
WAT?
shinobi602
Member
Well I highly doubt it will look worse than Uncharted 2 or 3. They always improve upon something.
In that regard, I'm ready to be blown away.
never played Infamous 2?
shinobi602
Member
Doesn't look that amazing really. Still looks good, don't get me wrong.
Oh I'm sure that it will look better than the latest Uncharted games, we just don't know to which degree.
RustyNails
Member
It begins.
InFamous 2 looks fantastic imo when compared with other open games on consoles
ND has these immense high-poly models/faces and environments for those last few pre-rendered screenshots. I can't help but imagine what it would be like if it looked like that while playing.
What kind of hardware would it require to use assets like that in actual real-time gameplay? Would such a thing even be feasible for next-gen in any way? Next-generation high-end PC's?
What kind of hardware would it require to use assets like that in actual real-time gameplay? Would such a thing even be feasible for next-gen in any way? Next-generation high-end PC's?
shinobi602
Member
Yes
inFamous 2 definitely throws around a lot of detail for a sandbox game.
It can't match the detail of linear action games on consoles, of course, but it's far more detailed than most other sandbox games out there.
REMEMBER CITADEL
Banned
It looks good, but it's far from the best looking games on any platform (well, Wii obviously excluded), and even among open world games it has competition from the likes of Just Cause 2, Skyrim and RDR.
Speaking of The Last of Us, I really don't like the color palette, but I'm interested to see what they do with the gameplay.
Metroid-Squadron
Banned
I could imagine that it starts off rather colorful but gets darker towards the end; similar to UC 1
Metalmurphy
Member
Doesn't make a lot of sense, if they are pre-rendered wouldn't just 1 machine have the same result?
Well, I guess they can render it faster that way.
Perfect lol
Erebus
Member
Still, judging from the Uncharted games, the actual gameplay graphics won't be all that different.
It's pretty soundly better-looking than all 3 of those games. Not only in the usual categories, but also destructibility and physics. I played Just Cause and Skyrim on PC.
No, they said they want it to be colorful.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
If they're really serious about tone and atmosphere, there will be darker parts as well.
R_thanatos
Member
Just saw the trailer ...
Good stuff ..This game needs to open or close sony E3 conf or else ...
Good stuff ..This game needs to open or close sony E3 conf or else ...
I dont get why darkness equals more atmosphere really.
shinobi602
Member
Agreed.
When my friend got pulled over for a DUI I was sitting in the backseat (long story, our other friend got into a fight and we were trying to get him to safety and just drove from one parking lot to another) and he just kept saying "Not good..."
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but their games are always remarkably close to what the cutscenes look like. It's usually the lighting that takes a light hit, and that's basically it.
In fact in UC2 and 3 they had object based motion blur in gameplay that was not present in cutscenes. The models and textures are basically identical, it's just that you don't often have chance to see characters upclose. However, if you turn the camera towards the character and manage to push it closer because there's a wall behind the camera, you'll see how detailed Drake's model is in gameplay, especially in UC3.
*edit* sorry, I see now that you meant screenshots. Those screens are scenes from the game and cutscene, so you'll get to see the detail looking like that in game, but not with that level of AA. They are supersampled a lot.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Maybe not more atmosphere, but more bleakness and fear. There have to be parts that take place at night, or in dark interiors. How could there not be?
Maybe they cleaned it up for the trailer. Maybe she says "fuck cunt shit fuck shit" in the real game.
For UC2 and UC3 ND used the same models for gameplay and cutscenes
TheJollyCorner
Member
SolidSnakex
Member
All ND said is that they don't want the game to have the usual look that you think of when you hear about a post-apocalyptic setting. That doesn't mean that they won't have scenes that are darker than others. The Uncharted games are very colorful in general, but there are still some areas that are dark.
I dont agree with that.
I am sure the game will have those areas but you dont need darkness to show fear or bleakness.
Lagspike_exe
Member
I want to see their PS4 effort if they can pull off this sort of visuals with a hampered G70.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
They do it like that so that they can render things as quickly as possible, but their cutscenes allegedly do run in realtime on a normal hardware. I remember when UC2 was being announced, some of IGN people reported they saw the train cutscene running on PS3, being paused, camera manipulated etc. The thing is, what they can't run in real time easily are stuff like crossfades between two completely different scenes (even though they did this during gameplay in UC3, in one particularly awesome moment
), and they can't load game data ahead while the fully realtime cutscene is running either, so it makes sense to do what they do, to make flow of the game as seamless as possible. When there's no limitations like this, some of the cutscenes in games, especially in UC3, were fully realtime. You could tell how lighting gets some boost when it happens too.I haven't played it myself, but I've seen it at a friends house and plenty of footage online. Looks great for a sandbox game but doesn't look any better than other top-tier sandbox games such as RDR or maybe even Just Cause 2 IMO.
Keep in mind I'm not bashing or downplaying anything, just putting things into perspective.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Please, please don't do this. She's quite clearly meant to be like 13, 14. I really hope you're joking.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I have the 115MB trailer in best quality available. If anyone wants it, just tell me what's a good place to upload it to. It's in MP4 format, so you can see it on PS3 as well.
Probably even younger with a new redesign.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
Mediafire is the best place. It supports download manager and resume feature and doesn't delete the link. If you want it on PS3, upload it to Dropbox, PS3 recently got support for it.
I disagree, I have played all three of those games extensively on consoles and IMO inFamous 2 is a much better looking and running game. RDR has great artistic direction which makes it look really amazing at times and I have seen JC2 on PC as well and it looks incredible but infamous 2 is the better than both on consoles except for some weird effects for some of the powers.
I really like the art style of the characters. Detailed and crisp, but with an illustrated quality.
Like the difference between Drew Struzan's art for the Indiana Jones posters and a photo of Harrison Ford.
The illustrated quality stops the creepy uncanny valley effect for me. Uncharted worked similarly well. It negates the mannequin dead face look (the faces in Heavy Rain and Crysis for example weirded me out).
Like the difference between Drew Struzan's art for the Indiana Jones posters and a photo of Harrison Ford.
The illustrated quality stops the creepy uncanny valley effect for me. Uncharted worked similarly well. It negates the mannequin dead face look (the faces in Heavy Rain and Crysis for example weirded me out).
SMH.
I can understand this with JC2, but not RDR. That game is amazing on multiple levels of art and tech.
Now did you play JC2 extensively on consoles or just see someone play it on PC? Sorry if I'm not understanding you correctly.
Edit:
Kinda wish I didn't say anything in the first place as I knew: A) people would strongly disagree and B) it's off topic.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Their characters are becoming more and more 'real' looking with every next game though. The illustrative aspect you're correctly pointing to is being slightly scaled back because their animation becomes more detailed and believable. I think it works like that - the simpler the animation, the more stylized characters need to be to avoid the creepiness factor.
SunhiLegend
Member
Just downloaded the HD trailer. Detail is insane, cutscene was so smooth, looked 60fps at times.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Here's the highest quality MP4 of the trailer: http://www.mediafire.com/?kufdebn111x661x
I've removed the PLAYSTAYSHN! sting from the end, that kind of stinks up the mood of the whole thing. I've done this without re-encoding btw. You still get the original quality that it was encoded to by Sony.
I've removed the PLAYSTAYSHN! sting from the end, that kind of stinks up the mood of the whole thing. I've done this without re-encoding btw. You still get the original quality that it was encoded to by Sony.
It's 30FPS with motion blur, which was lacking from UC cutscenes.
HawksWinStanley
Member
Just downloaded the HD trailer. Detail is insane, cutscene was so smooth, looked 60fps at times.
Did they just pull Drake's character model, age him up and throw a beard on him? The face looks exactly the same. Same brow, sunken eyes, and nose.
I have watched the trailer so many time now and still blows my mind how beautiful the game looks. Regardless of how powerful next gen consoles will be, I can't wait to see Naughty Gods work their magic again.
Thanks, now I can't unsee it.
Don'tBeWeird
Member
I don't see it.
dat sexual tension