Buddy Mcpuddy
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I'd rather they had Andromeda level facial animations if it meant that in game the characters didn't look like stilted stop motion animation rejects.
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Kotaku: "Injustice 2's Facial Animation Is So Good It's Uncanny"
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Dirk Benedict
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You must destroy this before the stroke of midnight or forever be cursed.
Those proportions.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Why are the facial animations so good, but the attack animations are bad?
Dark Ninja
Member
Im still waiting for EVO to bring in those big extra Street Fighter V sales or any game.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
NetherRealm in general really stepped up their game with this one.
It's freaking gorgeous.
It's freaking gorgeous.
visiblemode
Member
Looks ok. Based on the title I was expecting to get blown away.
Different people worked on it.
Facial mocap clearly had a big push for this dev cycle.
Well they were ok with their current combat animation solution.
I'm sure there are a lot of people at NRS that fully know the animations need a complete overhaul.
And from the outside looking in, if I had to guess as to why the animation is still like this, I would say it's probably because of some random stubborn upper management at NRS that is in charge because of seniority rather then talent.
Not some silly homage excuse.
And I don't think anything will just change unless there is a big enough backlash against it.
That's why the netcode and faces got fixed.
LordKasual
Banned
The facial animation in this game is really fucking good
no, like REALLY fucking good
The eyes can use some work, but the other subtitles in the face are being nailed here.
no, like REALLY fucking good
The eyes can use some work, but the other subtitles in the face are being nailed here.
Son Of Sparda
Member
I need to buy this game.
sono
Member
SoulUnison
Banned
I seriously laughed at that statement since I'd already paused the video after the punching to think to myself "Was it really necessary to keep punching him in the face 5 times after he was already unconscious?"
freethoughtbubble
Member
Calling it now, next NRS game is going to completely revamp their in-game animations. This studio is advancing by leaps and bounds with each new release. Hugely impressive facial work on display here.
What? You don't like Timmy Turner as Harley Quinn?
Rock Howard
Member
Are the cutscenes rendered in real-time like in MK X? If yes, I am highly impressed!
Looks cool, but I still think that L.A. Noire is better. Maybe it's a acting thing, but who am I to tell?
LordKasual
Banned
Injustice 1 design was an abomination
wha...
NRS has made huge steps forward with this game. Not just from Injustice 1 and MKX but from the start of the development of the game itself. We all saw the evolution of their female faces over the past year.
My hope is that they take their improvements to facial animation to MK11 and with that, make a real effort to truly improve the battle animations.
My hope is that they take their improvements to facial animation to MK11 and with that, make a real effort to truly improve the battle animations.
The good ole sales argument
Yes, the NRS games are more appealing to casual players and sell more, obviously. That's not what we were discussing though.
Mr. Nice_Guy
Member
I love Capcom fighters to death, but they really need to take a lot of pages out of NRS's book if they want to sell good numbers again. These aren't even the hard lessons to learn. Mechanically they make incredible fighters most of the time, just double down on the SP content.
I agree, the games need more content for people who aren't looking to go to/watch EVO every year.
Looks cool, but I still think that L.A. Noire is better. Maybe it's a acting thing, but who am I to tell?
You haven't played LA Noire in a while, have you? 90% of the faces look absolutely bizarre and hilariously bad
unreal.
I like that gravity actually effects the hair when hanging upside down in this gif. I've seen too many times stiff hair refusing to bend.
Looks cool, but I still think that L.A. Noire is better. Maybe it's a acting thing, but who am I to tell?
LA Noire has a similar problem to Injustice 2. The head feels disconnected from the body and that's basically because it was.
Meanwhile in the other camp...
Yeah, fuck this cinematic look. Go back to the comic shaded look of UMvC3.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Chun Li's face fjsnffkckckMeanwhile in the other camp...
Honestly, we probably arent at this point yet, but if any genre was going to be the first to build a full human anatomy model with all 200+ bones and all 600 muscles with full physics based movement on each muscle. It would probably be a 2.5D fighting game.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Meanwhile in the other camp...
Is this a phone game?
Gunslinger
Member
Meanwhile in the other camp...
wow this look so pathetic compared to IJ2. I get the feeling MVCI is a super low budget and given capcoms recent record financially for fighting games and their effort for recent fgs I don't have a lot of confidence in MVCI .
Garrett Hawke
Member
A lot of people don't even see an issue with it so I don't know why reviewers would either. Especially as the presentation of intros, supers etc is good.
It's the only thing holding them back imo. Everything else about their packages are killer
People don't actually care that much.
Unspeakable Evil
Member
If WB ever release a DC CG movie I hope they look like this.
Why yes it is.
Galactic Specter
Member
Given the strides they've taken to improve the online and character models, I feel they can and will do the same for the in-game animations.
MKX was a big improvement from MK9, hopefully MK11 will be even bigger.
Astral Dog
Member
They look creepy imo 😦
I bet they will too. Everything people complained about in the previous games they made, they made significant improvements on it in the next game.
Stolen from the IJ2 main thread
Holy shit. Not even in the same realm.
I'd hope so, one of those is on the Xbox 360.
It's not that. These look as if they were done by two different artist. One that understands proportions, and one that doesn't.
So was Dead or Alive 5.
generation gap didn't help some other game
The faces do indeed look amazing 90% of time. Some of them can look a bit jarring. Kara's and Catwoman's jumped out at me. Superman's looks a bit Lawnmower man CGI sometimes.
I think the inconsistent voice acting from some of the cast makes it stand it a little more than it should.
It's ridiculous how much of a quality jump in design and faces there's been between injustice 1 and this.
I think the inconsistent voice acting from some of the cast makes it stand it a little more than it should.
It's ridiculous how much of a quality jump in design and faces there's been between injustice 1 and this.