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[Grildon Tundy]

Question in the title. Been playing Dead Space remake and while I think it looks great, the facial animation and lip-synching is really lacking. I can't lip read, but it made me wonder: are some facial animations good enough to lip-read?

 

[ComputerBlue]

Maybe LA Noire. This is going to be a tough one though, because they’re generally terrible and not even in sync.

 

[Vick]

L.A. Noire is still the best imo, and yet not there for lip-read anyway.
At times Part II got close:

As the "Please, stop.." should be obvious, but in general still not there for most of it to me.
And it's not a jab at the game because facial animations are often sick:

Just a testament to how damn hard good and believable lip sync is. Plenty of CG stuff look awful in this regard for instance.