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I think the big thing about animating the monsters in a Harryhausen style is that it makes fighting them binary. See in all MH games, the big gimmick to them is that the monsters you fight don't have health bars; you contextually "tell" how injured they are based on their actions (limping, if you've cut off or broken a part of their body, whether or not they're enraged, etc). In addition, all monsters have tells for what attacks they're going to do before they do them. The appeal of MH is in the tell system. It emphasizes playing close attention to the monster you're fighting and learning what their tells are, because when you have their tells mastered you can literally fight them without taking any damage and cut the fight times in half, whilst breaking and cutting off all the breakable and cuttable parts and capturing them every time. With Harryhausen animation a monster's tells become either super, unbelievably obvious or not noticeable at all, being that they only have a couple of frames of animation to work with. That in turn means monster fights would either be super easy or very hard.
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Occupation posted:With Harryhausen animation a monster's tells become either super, unbelievably obvious or not noticeable at all, being that they only have a couple of frames of animation to work with. That in turn means monster fights would either be super easy or very hard. Limited animation can still leave room for obvious telegraphing. Look at the early Punch-Out!! series for example.
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Jul 5, 2013 15:55
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StevenM posted:Limited animation can still leave room for obvious telegraphing. Look at the early Punch-Out!! series for example. Punch out ran at buttery-smooth 60fps, I think that's pretty much the opposite end of the spectrum. Not that you couldn't reserve 3-4 frames of HH animation for a good windup, but for twitch stuff I wouldn't say it's the best idea.
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Jul 5, 2013 16:31
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miguelito posted:Punch out ran at buttery-smooth 60fps, I think that's pretty much the opposite end of the spectrum. That's... Not exactly... True.
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Jul 5, 2013 17:03
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The Harryhausen style would be neat for one level but it can't carry an entire game.
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Jul 5, 2013 17:10
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Republicans posted:The Harryhausen style would be neat for one level but it can't carry an entire game. For sure. All the Brazen prototype really shows is that that Double Fine could get a "Monster Hunter" style game with Harryhausen animation working. Whatever would have gotten created in production is what would need to carry the game - the design.
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I love the Harryhausen animation from the tech demo. It adds another element of style to the Monster Hunter aesthetic, and it's an appropriate throwback to monster movies. Publisher's saying "yes, but get rid of that animation style!" come off as someone Missing The Point. I think some of Brad's ideas about multiplayer, how you party up on a giant ship before a quest, sound pretty great. He's good at selling people on this idea that he's super passionate about. Really though, I'd like a Monster Hunter game that is not Monster Hunter, and it seems like that's what Brazen would've been. Plus, I thought the character design was great for just a tech demo, and I loved the "everyone pose for a picture on top of the dead monster!"-shtick.
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Jul 5, 2013 18:20
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New update and episode up. Looks like they accidentally caught a PS4 devkit on camera at one point (it's the shot before the buy with the Nerf gun).  Doubt it's anything to do with Broken Age though, probably an unannounced next-gen game.
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They are doing some motion camera horseshit for the PS4 launch. It was announced today.
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Aug 31, 2013 06:23
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Doublefine's motion camera horseshit is pretty great as a stupid toy to gently caress around with, with others.
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I'm liking how the music sounds for The Girl's chapter so far. Very Legend of Zelda-y.
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Aug 31, 2013 07:14
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That wasn't a judgement on the product, just that I don't own consoles and I am bitter that I am not playing it.
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Aug 31, 2013 11:01
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Watching Peter McConnell work out some music for that scene at the end was amazing. I love this documentary so much.
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Aug 31, 2013 13:57
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New episode is fun. I also like that thing we're not supposed to talk about until tomorrow.
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Oh hey, we finally got to hear the professional voices for the game. All of them sound really good so far, and it'll be great to hear them all in the finished game. Kinda wanna hear the blowjob story.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Kinda wanna hear the blowjob story. As voiced by Jack Black and Jennifer Hale.
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What's the thing you're not supposed to talk about? I backed but I don't usually watch the episodes.
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fronz posted:What's the thing you're not supposed to talk about? I backed but I don't usually watch the episodes. The creator of Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward is a voice actor in the game. E: Also you should watch the episodes, they're really good.
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fronz posted:I backed but I don't usually watch the episodes. Seriously Fronz. Unless you are allergic to documentaries or something, they are pretty great.
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PonchAxis posted:The creator of Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward is a voice actor in the game. Thanks. King Burgundy posted:Seriously Fronz. Unless you are allergic to documentaries or something, they are pretty great. I plan to, I just don't generally have the time. And when I do it's sorta daunting to start on these, what with that baaaacklog and all...
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I ordered these on a DVD anyway, and I just don't have the patience to keep logging into their site when my cookie has already expired and logging in, finding where I last left off and continue from there is such a hassle. I actually have better things to do in my life, like reaching max level in Skyrim.
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Mordaedil posted:I ordered these on a DVD anyway, and I just don't have the patience to keep logging into their site when my cookie has already expired and logging in, finding where I last left off and continue from there is such a hassle. I haven't had to relog to their forum since last year and I only open that tab when a new episode out. You could also just open all of them and save them from cache for later viewing.
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Or just view them from the Kickstarter website? This isn't really a complicated procedure. And they release like one episode a month.
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I subscribed to the RSS feed, so I don't even have to think about it unless some news or an update comes out.
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New Secret Update was alright. Can't believe they got John Cleese to do a voice.
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So I'm guessing the big announcement at the Spike awards will be who is voicing the boy on the spaceship.
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Cloud Potato posted:So I'm guessing the big announcement at the Spike awards will be who is voicing the boy on the spaceship. I rather doubt it. It's not going to be Horovitz and with the art style and the tone I think they'll go for a more naturalistic casting with a child actor and I am unaware of any child actors that would be an awards-announcement big name. We'll see I suppose.
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Megazver posted:New Secret Update was alright. Can't believe they got John Cleese to do a voice. Guy has a divorce(s) to fund - he'll take any work. It's more of a matter of working out a spot in his diary than anything else. Edit: VVV Fair enough. Considering what's going on at the moment (Python Reunion and such - he's done voice acting in some terrible CG movies lately, etc) it wouldn't surprise me if he actually was brought in. v  v
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LashLightning posted:Guy has a divorce(s) to fund - he'll take any work. It's more of a matter of working out a spot in his diary than anything else. (I was bullshitting. He's not in the game.)
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Megazver posted:I rather doubt it. It's not going to be Horovitz and with the art style and the tone I think they'll go for a more naturalistic casting with a child actor and I am unaware of any child actors that would be an awards-announcement big name. We'll see I suppose. Walp, I was wrong. It's Elijah Wood as the boy.
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Megazver posted:Walp, I was wrong. It's Elijah Wood as the boy. Here's the video with Elijah Wood and the new trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/u2e4fw/broken-age-vgx-2013--world-premiere-featurette And the gameplay demo: http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/q1ord9/broken-age-vgx-2013--live-gameplay-demo Also Joel McHale is a loving rear end in a top hat. AllisonByProxy fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Dec 8, 2013 |
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AllisonByProxy posted:Also Joel McHale is a loving rear end in a top hat. You should see what he had to sit through before that point.
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scary ghost dog posted:You should see what he had to sit through before that point. He very shouldn't.
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Elijah Wood sounds good in that trailer. I can't wait for this to go up on Early Access, it's easily my most anticipated game at this point and every trailer/gameplay video just makes it look better and better (even though we've mostly only seen the same bits of the Cloud Colony). I just really hope the puzzles are up to scratch, and that it's not too easy.
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AllisonByProxy posted:Here's the video with Elijah Wood and the new trailer: AllisonByProxy posted:Also Joel McHale is a loving rear end in a top hat.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Hah, they blurred out the Playboys in the background on this one. No, the guy was just stupid. He even brought up the loving dumb, "heh, you must have been on drugs to come up with something like this."
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IShallRiseAgain posted:No, the guy was just stupid. He even brought up the loving dumb, "heh, you must have been on drugs to come up with something like this."
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Watching some of the videos that are online so far, he looks like the only saving grace of that trainwreck. Did anyone watch the whole thing? Yes, and Joel McHale was in fact the only thing with a pulse in the video game part of that show. The Tim Schafer bit was actually one of the best segments just because you could tell that Joel was interested in talking to and messing around with someone who resembled an actual human being and not a corporate handpuppet.
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Joel McHale is an unfunny hack with all the personality and comic timing of plank of wood. Even he is too good for the VGAs.
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I hope Dane Cook is the host next year. That way everyone has a reason to hate every aspect of the award show. gently caress the VGX. Maybe Ben Kuchera can cohost.
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