SolidSnakex
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element said:
WTF?
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Does anyone know what's going on with LA Noire? ^__^
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WTF?SolidSnakex
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Just paying that much for a game though is amazing. 10m is how much it cost to develop MGS2, and Sony is paying way more than that just to get a game. This game must be really something special.
SolidSnakex said:
It'd better be, and I hope they show it soon, they've been so secretive about it, and about most of their games, we should really be hearing alot more about Resistance and Warhawk than what we're getting, or maybe the media just isn't trying to cover them? ~_~
Hasn't Lair already run up ~25m? Or projected to by the time it finishes? They do plan to amortise that cost by sharing tech with their next projects though, of course.
With that being the case, 25m is probably an easy/conservative guess for Noire, if it's on the high end.
With that being the case, 25m is probably an easy/conservative guess for Noire, if it's on the high end.
Red Scarlet
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Kittonwy said:
Ha ha you didn't use a smiley there.
SolidSnakex
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element said:
So you're talking about Sony giving them money to develop the game? I thought you meant how much they were paying just to get it exclusive.
element
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yeah how much Team Bondi was asking publishers to fork over to make the team. Team Bondi was shopping the game around, and ended up signing with Sony.SolidSnakex said:
I was always under the impression that LA Noire is more like an action L.A. Confidential or The Black Dahlia. I would be in heaven, as L.A. Confidential is one of my favorite movies.I'm looking forward to see LA Noire,maybe it's something like Sin City.It's incredible how many PS3 titles are still under wraps
SolidSnakex
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element said:
That's more understandable then. I know the lead designer of Mercenaries said he expects next gen games to range between 10 and 40m to develop. I guess LA Noire is closer to the 40m number.
Panajev2001a
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The Black Dahlia was a great and fun adventure game thanks oxy for bringing back some good memories .
.SolidSnakex
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Trying to find out more about this game and ran across Glenn Fielders site. He apparently worked at Team Bondi for a few months and left the company to join...The Mercenaries team. Here's an interesting quote from him
http://www.gaffer.org/archives/mercs2com-goes-live#comments
He never really mentioned anythign about LA Noire other than he was working on it.
http://www.gaffer.org/archives/mercs2com-goes-live#comments
He never really mentioned anythign about LA Noire other than he was working on it.
Agent X
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SolidSnakex said:
I got that same impression after seeing their PSP output so far. Wipeout Pure is still one of the best PSP games, and Pursuit Force is very impressive, too. Now that they're starting to (successfully) resurrect some of the old Psygnosis series like Wipeout and Lemmings, I'd like to see them try their hand at some of the others (particularly Colony Wars).
SolidSnakex
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:lol No wonder we haven't seen the game. They're having photo competitions instead
http://www.flickr.com/groups/teambondiphoto/pool/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/teambondiphoto/pool/
Wafflecopter
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I didn't know using multiple non-GAF smilies were allowed here. Or is this guy an exception because he's "special"?
SolidSnakex
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Agent X said:
I think the general opinion was that last gen the best Sony developers were Sony Europe, this gen they went down in quality and Sony Japan and Sony America got alot better. But as you said, their European division seems to be getting alot better recently and that should be a good sign for what we can expect on the PS3. Having all 3 divisions in sync for once would be really good. Maybe the sharing of engines will help that along.
Pedigree Chum
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Who's making this?
With this, Eight Days and The Getaway it seems that Sony is making a concentrated effort to have a bunch of GTA-ish games. Hope they turn out well, cause you can never have too many sandbox games
Edit: Team Bondi, WHOTF are they? New team?
With this, Eight Days and The Getaway it seems that Sony is making a concentrated effort to have a bunch of GTA-ish games. Hope they turn out well, cause you can never have too many sandbox games
Edit: Team Bondi, WHOTF are they? New team?
SolidSnakex
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Pedigree Chum said:
Kind of. The person that formed it is Brendan McNamara who was ran Team Soho, they developed the Getaway. He left after the first Getaway was made and formed Team Bondi and they're now hiring for this game.
I don't really get the feeling that Eight Days is going to be like GTA. The trailer atleast didn't really strike me as them going for that type of game style. Getaway definetly will be like that, not sure about LA Noire. Brendan said he wanted it to be realistic so going around jacking cars isn't going to fly too well.
Lord Error
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I don't know... All the bumpmapping of this world wouldn't have saved the mediocrity that was Primal. The technology was the last thing to complain about with that game. It looked and sounded very nice, but played and controlled rather poorly. It was full of unengaging and uninspired gameplay :\Kittonwy said:
That's a nice comment indeed. Should have said which PC is being compared against though, but game devs always work on something high end, so I'm guessing this is pretty good news.SolidSnakex said:
CassidyIzABeast
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seems like sony signed a pretty extensive deal with team bondi b/c their site says they're making 3 ps3 exclusive games.
CountZeroInt
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Kittonwy acts like a 12 year old in 90% of posts and then splurts out detailed analysis of Sony versus the World in the other 10%, come on man, show us your Sony money bag. It's a really annoying act, because 90% of your posts don't match at all with the other 10% (serious tone), and you seem to know way more than you are letting on.
As for this topic, Team Bondi has a ton of The Getaway team members, which is a good or bad thing depending on your opinion of that particular game. I am however a big fan of Aussie game developers, who seem to bring fresh things to games (go Gazunta)
As for this topic, Team Bondi has a ton of The Getaway team members, which is a good or bad thing depending on your opinion of that particular game. I am however a big fan of Aussie game developers, who seem to bring fresh things to games (go Gazunta)
SolidSnakex
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jett said:
From what little we know it sounds interesting. Plus if Sony is laying down alot of money for this there's got to be a good reason for it.
Pedigree Chum
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SolidSnakex said:
Just like The Getaway?
mckmas8808
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element said:
OH CRAP!!!!!!!!!
Are we talking about over $40 million Element? What do you personal think a good dev team could do with a $40 million budget?
SolidSnakex
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Amir0x said:
Kate Beckinsale.
SolidSnakex
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Pedigree Chum said:
I liked the Getaway (not Black Monday though). It had its flaws, but I like that despite being a free roaming game it wasn't trying to be GTA at all like pretty much every other GTA clone.
Isn't Gears of War 'only' $10M? And thats the most anticipated X360 game behind Halo 3. So its clear a huge budget isn't needed to make an anticipated title.element said:
Back in 2004 Naughty Dog said there next PS3 project would have a budget of $25-30M and this has a huge budget so I wonder what is pushing these up so high.
mckmas8808
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I can't wait to play in this city.
mckmas8808
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Striek said:
It's probably the research to make the engines. Keep in mind these studios are making Sony/in house only engines to build these games.
HomerSimpson-Man
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It's eye brow raising to ponder how far things have gone when $10 million is just considered about average-decent budget and not anywhere near crazy money any more.
SolidSnakex
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mckmas8808 said:
Are any of Sony's in house studios licensing the UNREAL engine? So for it seems like all of them are designed from the ground up on the system instead a licensed engien. It seems like it'll stay like that until an in house Sony engine is done and they start sharing.
poppin fresh
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In regards to L.A. Noir I saw a ton of stuff about it end of last year, sounds fairly interesting and was my biggest WTF in terms of sony not useing it for PS3 hype, pretty much everything in the game is scanned instead of traditional in computer development, so all characters are real actors who have been hired to play the roles, their costumes are real hand made costumes that have been scanned for 3d as have every inch of the actors themselves, also most props I believe.
Lots of motion capture is being used too, pretty much the main guy behind it has managed to invest in some very advanced 3d scanning and capture equipment, most advanced in Australia I believe.
All up it makes for alot of good press buzz words to be able to say things like "These are real people in a real cinema experience" crap like that which I thought would have been big for sony at their conference.
I think I still have some stuff around my room related to it, may scan it in if I get a chance.
The woman playing the lead role most Australians would recognise from I think the current foxtel ads or some crap, or it could be the century ads.
Lots of motion capture is being used too, pretty much the main guy behind it has managed to invest in some very advanced 3d scanning and capture equipment, most advanced in Australia I believe.
All up it makes for alot of good press buzz words to be able to say things like "These are real people in a real cinema experience" crap like that which I thought would have been big for sony at their conference.
I think I still have some stuff around my room related to it, may scan it in if I get a chance.
The woman playing the lead role most Australians would recognise from I think the current foxtel ads or some crap, or it could be the century ads.
SolidSnakex
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poppin fresh said:
The money Sony spent on this is started to make sense now. I hope Brendan was able to get Katie Ellwood to Team Bondi to write the script with him.