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[minus_273]

Ok, I just saw cloverfield and I couldnt help but notice a few things:
1. The movie is a FPS with out the shooting. The movement is from level to level and the entire movie is just one perspective where you rarely see the person behind the camera. There a a clear separation between levels ( scenes) and there are enemy encounters at the end of each level . In addition the script for this movie could easily have been a FPS like half life where you only know as much as gordon freeman and nothing more.

2. The monster is Sin from FFX with the head of one of the monsters from resistance. Granted the resistance monster is some kind of arachnid thing, when you look at both Cloverfield and resistance monster side by side they look VERY similar.

3. The monster had Sin Spawn which behaved in a similar way.

JJ Abrams said he got the idea for the movie while in Japan and saw the merchandise there. I wonder what other influences there are other than the obvious Godzilla.

 

[ethelred]

Huh?

 

[urk]

The cameraman's name is HUD. Heads Up Display, yo.

 

[Campster]

The concept of a first person narrative did exist before videogames. If it's borrowing any pop culture aesthetic, it's the YouTube homemade feel - along with heavy doses of 9/11 amateur video captures.

 

[Artadius]

Great thread, will read again.

 

[Brannon]

The cameraman is named Hud. HUD. A video game staple if ever there was one.

Earth Defense Force 2: Operation Cloverfield can't come soon enough (if I wish hard enough it will happen)!

EDIT: beaten? Why you...

 

[Zombie James]

NO, NO, NO. I will personally letterbomb anyone who tries to ruin Cloverfield by making a game out of it.

 

[Greatness Gone]

This thread is now about pokemon.

SO WHO ELSE LOVES MUDKIPZ?

 

[minus_273]

The cameraman's name is HUD. Heads Up Display, yo.

heh never picked of the Hud part.

 

[Orlics]

If any thread deserves the "wat" image...

 

[gregor7777]

fucking LOVE asparagus.

 

[Desi]

JJ Abrams said he got the idea for the movie while in Japan and saw the merchandise there. I wonder what other influences there are other than the obvious Godzilla.

There is a giant turtle like godzilla too.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

a "survival-adventure" first-person game in even a part of a massive city like New York would be really cool, actually.


then again, in the mainstream market if it's first-person and doesn't have LOL SHOOT EVERYTHING it would probably be bound for failure.

 

[Gigglepoo]

NO, NO, NO. I will personally letterbomb anyone who tries to ruin Cloverfield by making a game out of it.

Did you read the OP?

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

a "survival-adventure" first-person game in even a part of a massive city like New York would be really cool, actually.

Not a FPS, but Alone in the dark says hi.

Also, to the OP, the first description my brother gave me of the monster was "Something straight out of Resistance."

 

[The Elite]

Ok, I just saw cloverfield and I couldnt help but notice a few things:
1. The movie is a FPS with out the shooting. The movement is from level to level and the entire movie is just one perspective where you rarely see the person behind the camera. There a a clear separation between levels ( scenes) and there are enemy encounters at the end of each level . In addition the script for this movie could easily have been a FPS like half life where you only know as much as gordon freeman and nothing more.

2. The monster is Sin from FFX with the head of one of the monsters from resistance. Granted the resistance monster is some kind of arachnid thing, when you look at both Cloverfield and resistance monster side by side they look VERY similar.

3. The monster had Sin Spawn which behaved in a similar way.

JJ Abrams said he got the idea for the movie while in Japan and saw the merchandise there. I wonder what other influences there are other than the obvious Godzilla.

The monster is actually a creature from Avatar (animated).

Linked spoiler images:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/experimental-pt/2008-01-19_001217.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/experimental-pt/2008-01-19_000448.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/experimental-pt/2008-01-19_000231.jpg

 

[Jive Turkey]

I had a Cloverfield dream the other night...Except the monster was Martha Stewart...Dressed as Power Girl.

The dream was actually good (and scary!) which is more than I can say for the source material.

 

[Zombie James]

Did you read the OP?

HUD!

 

[Stitch]

There is a giant turtle like godzilla too.

you mean gamera

 

[twinturbo2]

you mean gamera

That looks so fake... :lol

 

[Gattsu25]

you mean gamera

Gamera rocks

You know...the Sin/Sinspawn comparison isn't half bad...

 

[Desi]

Alone in the dark says hi.

Well it is third person right? Though I say if they can make Disaster Report really ace it would be a plus.

you mean gamera

Yay I didn't want to say Kodama...would been totally wrong.

 

[minus_273]

The monster is actually a creature from Avatar (animated).

Linked spoiler images:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/experimental-pt/2008-01-19_001217.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/experimental-pt/2008-01-19_000448.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/experimental-pt/2008-01-19_000231.jpg

wow, thats really close to the real monster. Even the limb arrangement is the same.

 

[The Elite]

wow, thats really close to the real monster. Even the limb arrangement is the same.

When my friend sent me the images I was pretty shocked too. I can't find some pics of the actual monster to post for comparison but the resemblance is uncanny.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Well it is third person right? Though I say if they can make Disaster Report really ace it would be a plus.

Yea. Third-person. But takes places in NY's Central Park, which also has a significance with the movie

 

[urk]

I had a Cloverfield dream the other night...Except the monster was Martha Stewart...Dressed as Power Girl.

I bet her pubic lice were fucking terrifying.

 

[underfooter]

Thats funny you said it was Sin from FF, someone else who saw the movie said the exact same thing.

 

[bigmakstudios]

a "survival-adventure" first-person game in even a part of a massive city like New York would be really cool, actually.

I think Disaster: Day of Crisis is like that, but without the first person perspective (I think...really, we still don't know much of anything about it).

 

[Chris Michael]

You're forgetting the crawlers which are ripped straight off of Half-Life 2.

 

[The Interrobanger]

That looks so fake... :lol

:lol :lol :lol

No, really?

 

[TheJollyCorner]

When my friend sent me the images I was pretty shocked too. I can't find some pics of the actual monster to post for comparison but the resemblance is uncanny.

sketch that's pretty damn close to the Cloverfield monster:

http://i27.tinypic.com/15gec87.jpg

and one in color:

http://i25.tinypic.com/33lfq55.jpg

 

[Oldschoolgamer]

J.J. Abrams is a fan of Half life, but, the way cloverfield was filmed has been done before. It doesn't necessarily borrow from that.

 

[minus_273]

sketch that's pretty damn close to the Cloverfield monster:

http://i27.tinypic.com/15gec87.jpg

and one in color:

http://i25.tinypic.com/33lfq55.jpg

you can totally see the resistance head in those pics.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I bet her pubic lice were fucking terrifying.

It was the Power Girl "cleavage window" that freaked me out.

 

[Buttonbasher]

That thing is NOT Sin dude. :lol

 

[∀ Narayan]

NO, NO, NO. I will personally letterbomb anyone who tries to ruin Cloverfield by making a game out of it.

I don't think you can ruin Cloverfield more than it has ruined itself.

The movie was very mediocre.

 

[forgeforsaken]

My EDF photoshop (spoilers!)
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c345/forgeforsaken/edfvsclover.jpg

 

[Gattsu25]

That thing is NOT Sin dude. :lol

No no no. I meant that his comparison to 'the Sinspawn that fall off of sin and start attacking people' was pretty good.

 

[CreatureX3]

SPOILER


Cloverfield monster revealed!

 

[The Elite]

You should probably just link to it. You can't really scroll past that without being spoiled.

So does EDF have anything the size of the cloverfield monster in the game?

 

[Buttonbasher]

SPOILER


Cloverfield monster revealed below!

That's stupid. Spoiler tag it.

 

[NeoForte]

Honeslty when I saw the monster it instantly reminded me of a mix between a Taurus and Dragon enemy in FFXI:

http://ff11.vanamon.com/pic/xarca/shadow_dragon.jpg

http://monsters.ffxi-atlas.com/monsters/imgs/taurus.jpg

 

[Odrion]

The monsters look like they came RIGHT out of Resistance: Fall of Man.

 

[Nemesis_]

EDF has nothing THAT big, though it does

Spoiler

change size lots

so there's no way to tell if there is something EDF style.

Furthermore, does anyone have some full size picks of Sin? IIRC, Sin was a kind of whale type creature with no arms. I know initially they released mutated whale pics for Cloverfield, but they were proven to be fan made and not official.

 

[forgeforsaken]

So does EDF have anything the size of the cloverfield monster in the game?

Vallak is pretty close. Can't find a good shot of him now though. Basically Godzilla like. Also the end game super giant spider and ants, and well the robo walker and Mother Ship. Mother Ship is HUGE!

 

[Salazar]

Gaffers have seen The Host, right ? I'd love something in the order / atmosphere of that panic in the park scene in a game.

 

[minus_273]

The monsters look like they came RIGHT out of Resistance: Fall of Man.

yeah the face is exactly the same.

 

[Jarmer]

The concept of Sin + Sinspawn is good connection, but the creature itself doesn't remind me at all of the actual Sin monster from FFX. It was just like a giant sea creature.

 

[I AM JOHN!]

What a horrible movie. Damn thing made me wanna vomit throughout. >:|

EDIT: also, it reminded me of the Brumak.

 

[K0NY]

I thought it looked like a bigger uglier Rancor monster.