sacrificengineer
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It will be great to see real diversity at launch. Sony is doing everything right as for now.
I think one thing needs mentioning about the franchise is while the visual upgrade from 1 to 2 was significant, one thing that I completely overlooked was that SP devoted quite a large amount of time doing in-engine cutscenes (besides the comic book styled ones). And my goodness, they not only look fantastic but their lip sync animations are at par with what ND does. I do not know if they hand animate it like ND but the results are spectacular.
I restarted playing the game since yesterday from the beginning since 2011.
No wonder when the protagonists says, "You're not in control" it looks so dark realistic.
They may be using ND's performance capture studio. I'd be kind of torn on the loss of comic style cutscenes. I thought the art was great and suited inFamous quite well but a good in engine cutscene can be great and nowhere near as jarring to move into from gameplay.
Indeedy. Although i still hope for some nice new ip-sIt will be great to see real diversity at launch. Sony is doing everything right as for now.
They may be using ND's performance capture studio. I'd be kind of torn on the loss of comic style cutscenes. I thought the art was great and suited inFamous quite well but a good in engine cutscene can be great and nowhere near as jarring to move into from gameplay.
But ND does their faces by hand D:
True but the studio was set up to be used by several of Sony's studios so I'm sure they have the capabilities for facial capture. ND is also pretty close with SP so they may have given them some animation tips.
This thread needs the god damn picture of the protagonist, Delsin Rowe (a strange name making me wonder if it is an anagram...)
I love how the characters' lips (especially Cole's) purses and flexes. I do not know if they do it by hand because even as a pure facial capture, I have seen less than perfect results (a la Halo 4, except Cortana). ND's hand animated faces were a revelation to me and unfortunately I do not know if anyone from SP is either a member here or if they do AMA (ask me anything) sessions because I would definitely love to know how they went from inF1 which, frankly, can't hold a candle to the second one in that regard.
Here's a clip from Uncharted 3 (spoilers, ye've warned).
And now one from inF2 (same warning applies ye be warned).
And the same applies with Second Son.
The lack of dead eyes coupled with impeccable facial animation and lip sync. It looks normal, natural.
I can safely say that I have never been less worried about SP's technical adeptness as much I am worried about the story and characters. I want to face antagonists who are not cardboard cut-outs, rather multi-faceted broken, fallen, demented characters with a bit of history. Let it be more like inFAMOUS 1.
Two good things are that they the plot they've chosen to exploit (akin to 4400, Heroes, Being Human in certain ways) is intriguing and the main character doesn't suffer from genre trope, aka, amnesia and is rather an obnoxious individual (given his belief in himself to be destined for something huge), who more often than not would be portrayed as a villain in other games.
They'll come. SSM (Stig's team) is rumored to be working on a shooter for a while, MM is working on something, Guerrilla has a team that has been working on a new IP (rumored to be a Fantasy WRPG) for a while, and Ready at Dawn is also rumored to be working on a new PS4 exclusive IP. If there's one thing Sony never had a shortage of this gen, it was new 1st/2nd party IPs and with 3rd party exclusives becoming practically nonexistent, I don't see that trend changing.Indeedy. Although i still hope for some nice new ip-s
well they can't just poop a game in 10 months.
SSM fucked up,they should've focused on making a game for PS4 (and make it fresh and new) like the other studio instead of that horrible God of War: Ascension(that killed the series in UK and most likely will bomb in the US too)now SSM will most likely be missing PS4 first two years thank to that bad decision from Shu Yoshida,it's almost the same mistake as GOW2 on PS2 instead of PS3 but at least GOW2 was pretty good unlike GOWA.
Are the Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed gamers really going to shell out $400 to play a prettier version of those same games? Especially if PS4 launches in November and those games are already out in their current gen form and possibly on Durango too. To me that sounds like a recipe for a Wii U like reception.
I'm pretty sure COD can be considered a system seller. Whether it's on a previous console or not, it sells 20+ million every year. I'd imagine a lot of people would want to get the best version of COD if they can afford it.
well they can't just poop a game in 10 months.
SSM fucked up,they should've focused on making a game for PS4 (and make it fresh and new) like the other studio instead of that horrible God of War: Ascension(that killed the series in UK and most likely will bomb in the US too)now SSM will most likely be missing PS4 first two years thank to that bad decision from Shu Yoshida,it's almost the same mistake as GOW2 on PS2 instead of PS3 but at least GOW2 was pretty good unlike GOWA.
Are you Peter Moore or John Richt? So it won't sell 5 millions like GOW3 so it killed the series?
The EA mentality is spreading, I also liked how you brushed over the fact that is the second best selling GOW game ever in the UK.
This thread needs the god damn picture of the protagonist, Delsin Rowe (a strange name making me wonder if it is an anagram...)
Senile Word.
Best one I could come up with lol
slow diner
there are 2 letter e's
I just hope the final boss fight isnt a QTE
I'm pretty sure COD can be considered a system seller. Whether it's on a previous console or not, it sells 20+ million every year. I'd imagine a lot of people would want to get the best version of COD if they can afford it.
I'm pretty sure COD can be considered a system seller. Whether it's on a previous console or not, it sells 20+ million every year. I'd imagine a lot of people would want to get the best version of COD if they can afford it.
You talking about the New Super Mario Bros. series?
I know a game in a franchise that sold 20+ (30+?) million last generation but is not really a system seller on the 1st console of the 8th generation.
Volumetric smokeSo what kind of movement can we expect with this smoke...
Quite confusing.
Shadow Fall and Second Son could be looked at as new IP's in a way.
As aforementioned, I finally restarted playing inF2 and while I know that there are parodies of games as movie names. I wasn't expecting to come across something like this (LFMAO):
Hopefully, SS will have parodies of other pop culture related things as well.
Sucker Punch tweet said:First staff meeting after SS reveal. Time to see what kind of "fun" is coming your way. Want to be a fly on the wall?
I hope the game includes all of these meetings as a behind the scenes video. Their probably talking about their next public reveal/demo.
Well be back in the coming weeks with more details, but until then youll find us at @suckerpunchprod, #SecondSon, and www.facebook.com/infamous.
I know I'm going to get blasted, but I feel like they can't get the character designs right in this series. The game play is fun, but the characters seem awkward. This new second son type seems like they aren't trying to improve their character deigns either.
They got it right with that redesigned Cole from inFAMOUS 2.
I'm in the camp that liked their first attempt on the character for the second game. I'm still very interested though in what they come up with.
Cole MacDrake was nothing special.
Cole MacDrake was nothing special.
Ugh! Both versions of Cole were dull but I still enjoyed the story of inFamous enough to give a damn about the change. I still see a generic looking bloke with both designs but I guess if you give a character hair it makes him more appealing. Funnily enough we haven't seen Deslin's head yet which is definitely a good call by SP, I wonder if it's for story reasons or they're still gouging response to get him right the first time instead of having their pants down for the sequel again.
We haven't?