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L.A Noire trailer coming soon

Wax Free Vanilla said:
What scanning thing?
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From Amir0x in the PS meeting thread:

The MAIN reason for the hype from some people, though, is because it's SUPER high budget. We're talking even when they were looking for a publisher they were tipping the scales with their requests upfront. And they also apparently are doing some technique where they're using actual actors and building sets and outfits and stuff and mass scanning it into the game. Really expensive stuff. It's just so ambitious and big budget it's hard not to imagine the concept having something really good that attracted a risk like that.
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I doubt they're scanning in building sets..maybe going around locations and photographing them, taking measurements etc., but I doubt they're purpose-building sets in the real life just for the game!

Factor5 is also doing the whole scanning thing, with Lair's dragon models. Hard to know to what extent L.A. Noire might use it, but I guess we'll find out in time.
 
sp0rsk said:
its.....in color?
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Film Noir doesn't automatically mean black and white.

But yeah, i kinda imagined this as black and white. But the influence is apparently more L.A. Confidential, so it could still be amazing stylistically.
 
poppin fresh said:
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.

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.
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this is the origin
 
Amir0x said:
Film Noir doesn't automatically mean black and white.

But yeah, i kinda imagined this as black and white. But the influence is apparently more L.A. Confidential, so it could still be amazing stylistically.
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Well, to be honest, I thought it did. At least traditionally...it does literally mean "black film."

But the color won't make or break it to me anyway.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
Well, to be honest, I thought it did. At least traditionally...it does literally mean "black film."

But the color won't make or break it to me anyway.
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"black" isn't meant to literally mean 'black and white', it's mean to describe the MOOD of the film :P
 
Amir0x said:
"black" isn't meant to literally mean 'black and white', it's mean to describe the MOOD of the film :P
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Well, here's what I was working with:

Film noir began in the 1930's and remained as a strong cinematic medium until the early 1960's. Film noir literally means "black film" in French and features themes which are more negative than positive, with an overall dark and shadowy outlook--being filmed in black and white. This film genre takes in detective and crime noir as well as many gangster films of the 1930's.
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Perhaps it was just a technical limitation that ended up enhancing the style though.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
Well, here's what I was working with:

Perhaps it was just a technical limitation that ended up enhancing the style though.
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the association certainly is with the black and white film (as the most widely recognizable Noir films are B&W), but there have been quite a few color noir movies... it's not limited to that.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
From Amir0x in the PS meeting thread:
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Mmm... sounds like the same setup as The Getaway. They had real actors, built the interior sets, had clothes specially made by Ted Baker, etc. The cut-scenes in The Getaway games still "wow" me now because they look so damn good.

This L.A Noire will be an eye popper for sure.
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Amir0x said:
that's the first time i've seen you be cautious so as not to have your foot in your mouth later :lol
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It's probably not a big deal but its strange wording anyway. They still have on their site that they're working on up to 3 exclusive PS games.
 
SolidSnakex said:
It's probably not a big deal but its strange wording anyway. They still have on their site that they're working on up to 3 exclusive PS games.
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I absolutely hate these stupid games they play, just be straight with their information, NDAs or not, it's easy to state things in plain, unambiguous english that does not lead to unnecessary confusion. As for the July PS meeting, if it exists, announce the damn thing, give people a sense of what the smurf to expect.
 
Kittonwy said:
I absolutely hate these stupid games they play, just be straight with their information, NDAs or not, it's easy to state things in plain, unambiguous english that does not lead to unnecessary confusion. As for the July PS meeting, if it exists, announce the damn thing, give people a sense of what the smurf to expect.
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This is the most stern tone I've ever heard you post in. They better watch out! :D
 
xaosslug said:
there was also word of some kind of advanced AI in the game too, right?
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Yeah

A job advert for the Lead Tools Programmer reveals the team working on the game will be 100 strong, and further down the job spec for Lead AI Programmer states the team is "targeting the most challenging character AI ever seen in a video game", with the AI system "simulating 200+ real-world agents for a real time, single player, story-focused game".
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Y2Kevbug11 said:
This is the most stern tone I've ever heard you post in. They better watch out! :D
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This is me before I hit teh alcohol.

It's like you can talk to Insomniac and ask them whether the game is a launch title, and they'll tell you UNAMBIGUOUSLY that it's a launch title, not "launch window", not "trying to make launch", none of that BS crap, you can see from the MGS4 trailer that it's coming in 2006 with a FREAKIN' KOJIMA STAMP OF SMURFIN' APPROVAL, and Kojima never joked about which platform it's on, it's on the PS3 exclusively, that's it, no "currently announced for PS3" PR crap (I'm looking at YOU, Ubisoft, and I'm going to kick you in the nuts if you don't come clean either way). We don't see Factor 5 or Ninja Theory being cute about calling SCEA/SCEE their "new publisher". Seriously McNamara, it's not like you have an incredible history of making great games, who your smurfin' publisher is is't some smurfin' incredible secret, stop trying to smurfin' play it cute, I'm sure people can appreciate plain english in Australia, so smurfin' use it.

I don't know why but I'm sort of angry right now.
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gofreak posted this in another thread

Anyhow, I'm off for our 4-day week (we return on Wednesday), and next week we'll have some cool and exclusive PS3 stuff from Konami and not too many weeks after that the first real info on a Sony second-party that our readers have been asking me about forever... see you then!
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http://uk.ps3.ign.com/mail/

LA Noire is a 2nd party game since its only published by Sony and TB is an independant dev.
 
Finally.

Curious comment on the publisher, seeing as being a new studio they've never had an 'old' publisher.
 
SolidSnakex said:
Well i'm hoping Noire because I relaly couldn't give a shit about Lair.
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LAIR could make launch though. What are the chances Noire makes launch? Good? How long has this been in development?
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
LAIR could make launch though. What are the chances Noire makes launch? Good? How long has this been in development?
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I'm not paying $60 for a tech demo. And until F5 can show different, that's all they've really made recently. LA Noire has been one of my most anticipated game since it was announced so i'm hoping that's it.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
What are the chances Noire makes launch? Good? How long has this been in development?
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Since Mid-2003 (technical research started). I think its 100% certain it wont be at launch and I doubt it'll be released until late 2007 at the earliest.
 
SolidSnakex said:
I'm not paying $60 for a tech demo. And until F5 can show different, that's all they've really made recently. LA Noire has been one of my most anticipated game since it was announced so i'm hoping that's it.
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Lair might not be just a tech demo though, I'm not saying it's a super-duper ambitious thiggamajig, but Factor 5 has had time to make the game since they finished off Rebel Strike in late 2003, perhaps a longer development cycle than they have for most of their games.
 
Kittonwy said:
Lair might not be just a tech demo though, I'm not saying it's a super-duper ambitious thiggamajig, but Factor 5 has had time to make the game since they finished off Rebel Strike in late 2003, perhaps a longer development cycle than they have for most of their games.
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We'll see then. That's only 1 of my problems with the game though, another being that atleast from what we've seen so far the concept is boring.
 
SolidSnakex said:
We'll see then. That's only 1 of my problems with the game though, another being that atleast from what we've seen so far the concept is boring.
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We're talking about DRAGONS here, they ain't boring!!!

I think for a lot of the games shown so far, they simply haven't revealed much of the story and a lot of times the story makes the game much more compelling than just a bunch of gameplay ideas slapped toegether.
 
Kittonwy said:
We're talking about DRAGONS here, they ain't boring!!!

I think for a lot of the games shown so far, they simply haven't revealed much of the story and a lot of times the story makes the game much more compelling than just a bunch of gameplay ideas slapped toegether.
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I just wanted F5 to make a new type of game instead of doing another flying game. Make an adventure game with dragons. Instead, atleast from the looks of things its another flying game except with dragons instead of Star Wars. From one boring thing to another.
 
SolidSnakex said:
I just wanted F5 to make a new type of game instead of doing another flying game. Make an adventure game with dragons. Instead, atleast from the looks of things its another flying game except with dragons instead of Star Wars. From one boring thing to another.
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Well, we all know how sucky where the on-foot missions on Rebel Strike. It's better if they stick to what they're good at.
 
ELS-01X said:
Well, we all know how sucky where the on-foot missions on Rebel Strike. It's better if they stick to what they're good at.
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too bad apparently there's on foot segments in Lair :lol
 
So does anybody have any idea how Lair is supposed to play? Like can I take my dragon to a nearby village and terroize it by burning it the ground and eating all the villagers?
 
ELS-01X said:
Well, we all know how sucky where the on-foot missions on Rebel Strike. It's better if they stick to what they're good at.
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I'd say RS on foot missions were hindered by it basically being a backseat concept to the flying missions. If they were to give the same attention to an on foot game it could turn out pretty well. Their engine will be nice, that much is sure.
 
BigBoss said:
So does anybody have any idea how Lair is supposed to play? Like can I take my dragon to a nearby village and terroize it by burning it the ground and eating all the villagers?
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If it's like the trailer suggested, you can swoop down and burn enemy warriors with your dragon fire, I wonder what the game world will be like.
 
I'm excited about it's theme but I really need to see something to get actually excited. Hopefully the $40 mill is going to pay off and Sony has a new AAA on their hands since they probably gave up GTA:IV for games like this.
 
black_13 said:
I'm excited about it's theme but I really need to see something to get actually excited. Hopefully the $40 mill is going to pay off and Sony has a new AAA on their hands since they probably gave up GTA:IV for games like this.
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Yep, i'm glad SOny's turning up their first party offerings for next gen. I remember people were really down on them early on with the PS2 because their first party lineup didn't look all that hot. They're trying to build a quality first party lineup right frmo the start this time.
 
Vibri said:
I don't know what game IGN's referring to, but LA Noire is being published by SCEA.
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That is what IGN is saying. Team Bondi is an independent studio, in that they aren't owned by anyone and can work with whoever they want. They just happen to be working with Sony.
 
SolidSnakex said:
The game IGN is talking about? I doubt that, we know alot about Resistance and I don't think we'll be hearing or seeing anything about Ratchet for awhile.
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I think he meant that Insomniac is like Team Bondi, they're both independent studios but they choose to work exclusively with Sony.
 
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