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[ShineALight]

Needs a dose of that rim lighting that helped make Mario Galaxy look so good.

Thirded, I'd love to see what that would do for this game.

 

[magicalsoundshower]

Long post

Don't feel bad for feeling skeptical about the game, I think all of us have every right to be even though Spector is involved. Sure, he knows how to make a great RPG or first-person RPG but does that mean he magically knows how to make a good platformer? Plus, it's obvious that when he tried his hardest to make an accessible game (i. e. the shoddy Deus Ex sequel) he also failed the hardest.

If anything, trying to make a Disney game seems even more remote from what he does best to me. Add to that that this is Junction Point's first game, the outcome may indeed be more than sub-optimal and look just like the screenshots -- after all it's them who're doing the actual programming, not Spector.

Sure, Spector is responsible for a good chunk of my favorite and second favorite game of all time but come on, no one's infallible, especially when they're trying something they haven't really done before, no matter how enthusiastic they're being about it.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Carl Bark's Scrooge has nothing on Don Rosa's Scrooge... I like them both, but Rosa's Scrooge has more depth, emotions, and a greater sense of adventure to it.

While I absolutely do love Barks, I'd have to admit that I do prefer Rosa, both as storyteller and as artist. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is one of the best graphic novels I've ever read (the Rosa comic about the hidden Templar treasure under Castle McDuck is also awesome).

 

[Jeff Albertson]

Is tomorrow the big unveil event?

Hope we finally get to see some footage.

 

[Door2Dawn]

I can hardly even see the screens, how are we making these claims about how rough it looks?

 

[Fuu]

I can hardly even see the screens, how are we making these claims about how rough it looks?

Click on them again to enlarge. The images get as big as 2560×1416.

 

[Dr. Chaos]

Nice, the Spatters me think of Psychonauts for some reason.

Yeah, I'm starting to get that wonderfully odd kind of vibe from Epic Mickey (which is definitely a good thing).

Like Psychonauts, It's not something thats probably going to amaze me on a technical scale but might find whole new ways to wow me.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Somebody knows when does it start the London conference to present the game?
I think this time we will not have to wait un until 2-3 am in europe to know more about the game, maybe a trailer?

 

[McBacon]

Somebody knows when does it start the London conference to present the game?
I think this time we will not have to wait un until 2-3 am in europe to know more about the game, maybe a trailer?

5pm start.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

5pm start.

Thanks!

 

[McBacon]

Deepbrown, are you still going to this, dude?

 

[SirPenguin]

5pm start.

I feel this is a silly question, but what timezone? 5pm GMT?

 

[McBacon]

I feel this is a silly question, but what timezone? 5pm GMT?

Yeah. I mean its just a preview event though, so you're going to have to wait for everyone to write and publish their articles.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Yeah. I mean its just a preview event though, so you're going to have to wait for everyone to write and publish their articles.

Maybe its gameinformer's today update.
They record the presentation with the trailer and they put as the last udpate.

 

[Vanillalite]

I get a vibe of Spector's take on Mickey is like some wacky variant of a Rayman platformer!

 

[Peff]

I assume there is no embargo, correct?

 

[SirPenguin]

Yeah. I mean its just a preview event though, so you're going to have to wait for everyone to write and publish their articles.

Yeah, indeed. But I'm still pretty pumped, as 5:00pm GMT is 12:00pm EST, which is just in a couple of hours. I was worried the info would be coming way late tonight.

 

[Fuma-X]

I like the fact it's 2D AND 3D in some stages. It sure looks like a Wii title, but I'm fine with that... really reminds me Kingdom Hearts in every level...

I'm just not craving the quite low rez textures.......

 

[SirPenguin]

Guess I can't do math. The event is at 1:00est, an hour away. 1up is doing a LiveBlog of it.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176674

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

45 minutes, cant wait!

Hope there are going to show more rides in the trailer and maybe some cutscene action.

 

[Azure J]

Guess I can't do math. The event is at 1:00est, an hour away. 1up is doing a LiveBlog of it.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176674

So hype. 35 minutes to go!

 

[schuelma]

Cool. Hope we get a trailer with different environments from the GI scans

 

[Pachimari]

Isn't the press conference in like 5 minutes?

 

[SirPenguin]

yep

 

[Peff]

Yep, and 1-Up doesn't seem to be very stable right now :-/

EDIT: Ah, nevermind, they opened the blog and it started! HYPE!!

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Its starting. So hyped!

 

[Peff]

No videos of the game? Either a big bummer or a gameinformer exclusive hopefully

 

[cw_sasuke]

Its starting. So hyped!

.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

No videos? What a lame resentation of a game is that?

 

[Hero of Legend]

I just see the page and no actual live blog...

 

[SirPenguin]

It's clearly so people can't make fun of their flower textures

I'm banking on a GI exclusive

 

[cooljeanius]

Wow, I entered this thread at the right time.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Come on!

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreditch
http://www.shoreditchstudios.com/

 

[SirPenguin]

The wifi is really spotty. Expect to lose probably a lot of information. Might wanna wait for the recap

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Evil Donald, does he mean the animatronic one that is not evil or a new character?

 

[Stormwatch]

Am I missing something? I'm not seeing anything on the 1up page except for a "Live Blog coming soon" article.

 

[traveler]

Am I missing something? I'm not seeing anything on the 1up page except for a "Live Blog coming soon" article.

Same here.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

So Bob Iger bought Osawld for the next new videogame AND for Walt's daughter?

 

[SirPenguin]

Really? Not sure why. Keep refreshing I guess.

 

[cooljeanius]

So Bob Iger bought Osawld for the next new videogame AND for Walt's daughter?

Wait, where are you getting the Walt's daughter part?

 

[Thunder Monkey]

It's working for me... sorry guys.

 

[SirPenguin]

THis is a "platformer meets RPG/adventure"

Oh sweet, 3 of my favorite genres.

DON'T MESS THIS UP PLEASE OH GOD

 

[schuelma]

THis is a "platformer meets RPG/adventure"

 

[TomO]

Our live blog is here if 1up's plays up for any reason: http://www.videogamer.com/features/live_report/28-10-2009-817.html

WiFi isn't great so it's making our updates behave a little strangely, but the info is still there

 

[SirPenguin]

10:23
But this image is the core of the game, of a happy Mickey talking to a completely bitter and resentful Oswald

10:24
he's now showing in-game models of the exact same pose


Fantastic! He's talking about that memo in the GI magazine, btw

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Wait, where are you getting the Walt's daughter part?

Its a quote from Walt's daughter when he was bought in 2006.

 

[Hero of Legend]

 

[schuelma]

Warren is showing off different cartoons to show off that the animators animate Mickey in the same way as he moves in the cartoons, to the point that they can easily reinset Game Mickey into Old Tyme Cartoon Mickey's world

 

[SirPenguin]

"Discovering his essence is important to me" As an interesting stress test, the animators took the ingame model and placed ingame Mickey within existing Mickey cartoons


They really are focused on making the models as close to cartoons as they can it seems. That's a neat way of making sure it's smooth/fits/etc.