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The Last of Us trailer + preorder goodies + boxart + multiplayer confirmed
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Many games have done this, from FPP to racing games already.
Canis lupus
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May the 7th can't come soon enough.
Great article with some new footage:
http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/12/the-last-of-us-acting-out-the-end-of-the-world/
Edit: As Cameron below me pointed out there are some spoilers related to the story.
http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/12/the-last-of-us-acting-out-the-end-of-the-world/
Edit: As Cameron below me pointed out there are some spoilers related to the story.
Nice.
For those sensitive to spoilers, since it talks about Tess and Ellie, there are some minor story stuff in the article and video (part of was already shown in the VGA trailer).
Never heard of Annie Wersching 'til today. From that brief mocap session clip, she seems like a decent actress. Doesn't come off as simply reading lines or overacted.
TheBioLover
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Naughty Dog's performance capture really is amazing.
I appreciate they do their facial animations by hand.
Just for curiosity's sake...I wonder what would ND's cut-scenes look like if they actually rendered them in real-time.
That picture above is really beyond the PS3. I think with each game they release they give less fucks about making the cut-scene visuals look on par with the gameplay.Stallion Free
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I wonder if Joel will get to use a bow too since it's the second year of the bow next year.
Aren't some cutscenes in U2 or U3 in real time?? I may be wrong (I am always wrong lol).
Just for curiosity's sake...I wonder what would ND's cut-scenes look like if they actually rendered them in real-time.
They aren't really proper, full-blown cut-scenes like the regular ones, and even then every single element is downgraded, even the facial animation isn't as good.
SolidSnakex
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VG247 needs to upload those images in 720p and post the full art for Tess.
Just for curiosity's sake...I wonder what would ND's cut-scenes look like if they actually rendered them in real-time.
It's rendered in realtime on the PS3, that's all I really care. CG always bugged the hell out of me, this is the perfect balance. You get the fantastic quality of CG, but rendered in realtime, I'm not sure I see an issue here.
Yeah, I never had any issue transitioning from cutscene to gameplay it may not be a 1:1 parity but it isn't far from it.
I think the game that handles this better is GoW.
Isn't the point that they're actually not? It's why you can't see custom models in cutscenes, in Uncharted 2.
I mean i don't care that much beacuse in Uncharted the transiotion is fairly elegant (although you do notice it), but i hope they didn't over did it, here.
Rendered realtime with 8 ps3.
BAM! Thank you for confirming what I always knew.
Rendered realtime with 8 ps3.
IIRC, ND said that they use in-game assets that are then embellished via better AA, DoF, shadows and above all, lighting (added sources). So while everything is in-engine it's not real time.
Uncharted 3's cut-scene models also have four times the texture resolution.
Rendered realtime with 8 ps3.
They should make it possible to play the game with 8 PS3s
Really!
Heck then I must commend ND for their in-game version that looks so very similar. I think the gap between cutscene character detail and playable character detail was the least in the U3.
...well you rarely if ever see those character models up-close during gameplay.
Umm.. yes, well I do that by taking the character to a wall and turning the camera around to get up close
That would be a HUGE download. Exclusives typically come close to, or in some instances, actually fill a BD.
AranhaHunter
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It's been asked A LOT in the blog. Arne mentioned that they are looking into it.
Have they said anything about an app on vita though? It would be awesome if you could play on a dual screen and the vita would act as the bag, since the game doesn't pause when you are using your bag anyways. The problem is I don't know if it would be comfortable + lack of R2/L2.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Just for curiosity's sake...I wonder what would ND's cut-scenes look like if they actually rendered them in real-time.
YEAR OF THE BOW.
I'm loving the arrow resurgence. I'm gonna buy a bow.
Callibretto
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who here thinks Ellie will be playable at some point of the game?
I do because
in the final scene of the trailer you see Ellie pointing a gun at a red-eyed (possibly infected) Joel which might mean that you play the last chapters as Ellie, I don't think Naughty Dog would be so naive as to put an "Ellie kills an infected Joe" kinda ending, they would develop the story further than that
Stallion Free
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They confirmed that that was a ridiculous assumption from those scenes I thought.
Pai Pai Master
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She wasn't pointing the gun at Joel. The shot before was of Joel, the shot after was of Ellie, but it's clear they were from difference scenes.
dummydecoy
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Same! Does this game have a quick save option? It'd be nice to save before executing a plan.
Yes can can use a bow, his inventory had a slot for arrows.
Stallion Free
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Excellent. That pretty much guarantees customizing arrow tips.
It feels so strange to watch a trailer without being inundated by sound effects.
BBBBrRRRr Brrrrrrrrrr!
jediyoshi
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Pretty convinced this website layout was plucked out of the 90's.
Lord Error
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There were scenes in UC3 where they used "cutscene quality" rendering during the game itself. I remember there were few, but one near the very end of the game where you're holding by one hand is what I can come up with on top of my head.
You're right about facial animation though, that's never been as good in realtime cutscenes.
I'm convinced they render all this stuff using their engine on PS3, image quality is still the same, the question is just at what framerate and how much memory each cutscene uses up. The most I've seen of them demonstrating this stuff running in real time is a report on IGN that said they had an interactive flythrough that first trailer of UC2.
need it in 720p please
WeAreStarStuff
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Dammit! me too
I miss my Fatty; she died two years ago. My Slim just isn't the same.
Someone should post the in game up close shots of Drake in the marketplace from the Uncharted 3 tech article that was posted a long time ago, the difference is a lot less than you'd think and till destroys virtually every other game.
WeAreStarStuff
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The_Hitcher89
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Just for curiosity's sake...I wonder what would ND's cut-scenes look like if they actually rendered them in real-time.
Probably missing something obvious, but why should they?
Their cutscenes look great to me, and the real time stuff is almost peerless on console. Its not like the difference is so large that its distracting when it switches between them, to me at least.