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AbstractNapper posted:I only saw the teaser. Do we have any more examples? It does seem terrible, but then again I'm not a fan of this mechanic anywhere that's implemented. I last saw this on Dreamfall Chapters (a crowdfunded point and click adventure game that had its share of problems and bad design choices) where arguably it was better implemented but still largely redundant and sometimes even confusing. CIG are turning SQ42 into a point and click adventure game. Genius. Chris saw a demo of Tales from the Borderlands and, well, you know the rest of the story. 
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Mark Hamill's character looking absolutely nothing like Mark Hamill has got to be confirmation to the rumor that all of the months of mo-cap work had to be thrown out right?
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Dec 21, 2017 18:38
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CIG live stream events are a lot like groundhogs day: Livestream starts on time: footage is a pre-rendered cut scene, outsourced from another company Livestream starts late: footage is live in-engine, and the stream is delayed due to the devs working to the last minute to get a working engine build.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:41
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Is it actually a livestream or are they going to just play a 2 hour long video?
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I liked the Wolf Among Us but I wish Telltale would finish a series because I feel like they have 3-5 of them going and I've been waiting for the next Wolf Among Us since... jfc years now.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Is it actually a livestream or are they going to just play a 2 hour long video? 
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AlbieQuirky posted:So if I had a game that I was basically advertising as "Has Mark Hamill in it!" I would want the Mark Hamill character to look and sound like Mark Hamill. What do I not understand about Mark Hamill development? Chris doesn't think of it as people buying the game to see Mark Hamil. He sees it as people buying the game to bask in his Vision starring Mark Hamil. So all that matters is that Mark be seen to follow his glorious direction, and lend his talents to the proper delivery of Chris's wonderful dialogue.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Is it actually a livestream or are they going to just play a 2 hour long video? Yes
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Calling it now - they will have some kind of Xmas theme going and present it as the greatest Christmas gift of all. Sandi will have some tickle fetish Xmas tree leathers on, Ben will be Santa, only because Chris will come out wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. D_smart will make a guest appearance as Pontius Pilate.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Is it actually a livestream or are they going to just play a 2 hour long video? If they learned anything from last year, it would just be a 2 hour long video. But this is CIG
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Scruffpuff posted:Does anyone remember back when I said that it was all bullshit? And now we can see that these clowns have made no progress, as I mentioned here and here when I said "There's more coming, just wait, two weeks." I never burn my sources by mentioning specifics - I only acknowledge the specifics after the event has occurred, which still serves to burn those exact same sources when you think about it, because even though by that time everyone knows about the event, you can still figure out who blabbed by asking who knew about it before it went public. It's true. All of it. 
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Viscous Soda posted:I dunno about physics. Cryengine games have been (in)famous for sudden spazzing out of vehicles as well as other occasional physics weirdness. CryEngine is the only mainstream engine that doesn’t use PhysX. It’s hacky, unreliable, and designed for just a few specialized use cases.
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So I guess there was a trailer? How was it? Any links?
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So was that Derek article the "big scoop" of the day? That one was lackluster so I hope it's something better.
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ryde posted:So I guess there was a trailer? How was it? Any links? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTcf2bnRhY
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AlbieQuirky posted:I would watch that holiday special every Christmas until I died. The secret best way to use Mark Hamill in your game is to not tell anyone about it, and in fact even try and convince people that no, really, he's not in it, for serious, before the game comes out.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Mark Hamill's character looking absolutely nothing like Mark Hamill has got to be confirmation to the rumor that all of the months of mo-cap work had to be thrown out right? The dumbest thing about this whole project is that fact that you don't need to mocap Mark Hamill in order to have a character that looks like him. All you need are the face scans. If you mocap a random guy walking down a hall and use that animation for Mark Hamill's character nobody is going to say "that walk is nothing like the actor at all!" The entire mocap farce is a vanity project for Chris Roberts so he can feel like a film director. It has no technical purpose what so ever and it's just a monumental waste of money. So to answer your question, no, it looks like poo poo because CIG are incompetent. Throwing out all the mocap work won't make any difference since it was functionally useless in the first place.
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Fatkraken posted:no Who says we need female bots?
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Omniblivion posted:So was that Derek article the "big scoop" of the day? That one was lackluster so I hope it's something better. His bag of scoops was already partially opened, so this scoop came out stale
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idk maybe I’m (un?) biased bc I’ve tried my hand at 3d art/animation and it’s loving HARD, but think it looks like Hammil. What bothers me most about the cutscene is how absolutely hosed the direction is. Ridiculous amateur framing/composition, camera moves so awkward and bizarre it’s like a cat wearing a go pro, and the pacing is so completely wrong it feels like an old school Sandi and Ben ATV transition.
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The worst part of that trailer is the closeup of Mark looking down the length of his laser canon. only one eye is looking to the ceiling and the other eye is looking at his crewman's rear end. The no eyebrow movement may be because of those stupid rigs they wear blocks them from the camera lens.
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I know this sounds crazy but a friend who works for CIG just told me that they worked out some sort of cross licensing deal with SEGA? and sonic the hedgehog will be a featured NPC in sq42? Again take this with a grain of salt.
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The fact that Chris Roberts managed to get Gillian Anderson and Mark Hamill on the phone and didn't decide to make a FMV space musical pretty much speaks for itself.Nicholas posted:I know this sounds crazy but a friend who works for CIG just told me that they worked out some sort of cross licensing deal with SEGA? and sonic the hedgehog will be a featured NPC in sq42? Again take this with a grain of salt. Way to burn your sources.
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Nicholas posted:I know this sounds crazy but a friend who works for CIG just told me that they worked out some sort of cross licensing deal with SEGA? and sonic the hedgehog will be a featured NPC in sq42? Again take this with a grain of salt. /me cautiously opens wallet...
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Is it actually a livestream or are they going to just play a 2 hour long video? Both. Play two hour long video at start time because they're two hours late.
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did i miss the derek scoops? also that odesnt even look remotely like mark hamill
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big nipples big life posted:It's probably the same redditor who wrote all the other fake keep doing what you're doing reviews. Now that you mention it, he too got the full Ladyman sendoff. Or I guess it’s more appropriately the Wingman Honorable Discharge since his was, I think, the first such ceremonial discharge.
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Lladre posted:The no eyebrow movement may be because of those stupid rigs they wear blocks them from the camera lens. I choose to believe that he purposefully refused to move his eyebrows throughout the entire shoot.
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Witcher 3 had Charles Dance as a voice actor, and reaped tons of publicity from this, without having to do mocap or face scans. Mocap should be a tool for animators. It can be really difficult to get some motions right without mocap. I remember an episode from a game I worked on where the animators needed mocap of dumping a body in a dumpsters (not the the easiest thing to manually animate so it looks right). Problem was that humans are actually pretty heavy, so most people can't really do this without having it look silly. So a really big guy (producer, actually, I think) and a really small woman did the mocap, and animators did their magic to make it fit the body sizes in-game. It's a monumental waste of money to drag any kind of highly paid actor, especially an A-lister, through mocap for a game. Face scanning and expression mocap makes good sense. But the pudgy-suit mocap? Not necessary for the marketing effect.
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D_Smart posted:My new article is up. It contains some Squadron 42 scoops. That game, get this, is now coming in 2019. what was the cost of the ign fluffer piece? and if they are this far behind how can they keep pulling poo poo like this without the press jumping all over them? I know the backers wont stop - albeit they do have a drop off and refunds along the way as they go but that is normal with any company. I kinda find it disgusting that the media are complicit in all this when they are to be the fifth estate and not cheerleaders to autism thumb. edit do you know the status of all that mocap and the final cost?
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Oh yay a prerendered cutscene with janky graphics (that mechanic's face, lol) and no gameplay.
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Mne nravitsya posted:A song honor of the Christmas Event 
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Nicholas posted:I know this sounds crazy but a friend who works for CIG just told me that they worked out some sort of cross licensing deal with SEGA? and sonic the hedgehog will be a featured NPC in sq42? Again take this with a grain of salt. This would be too good. There's no way it's true. *thinks back to all of the other shameless product placements that CIG have cashed in on.* There's a change this is true. And that alone is too loving funny.
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Meanwhile we can all kill time buying poo poo we don't need in the Steam sale.
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Furious Mittens posted:Calling it now - they will have some kind of Xmas theme going and present it as the greatest Christmas gift of all. Sandi will have some tickle fetish Xmas tree leathers on, Ben will be Santa, only because Chris will come out wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. Chris will take off his wig and say the game is great and did so for the sake of transparency. Shitzens will applaud and pledge more - media will herald in new era of development.
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PederP posted:It's a monumental waste of money to drag any kind of highly paid actor, especially an A-lister, through mocap for a game. Face scanning and expression mocap makes good sense. But the pudgy-suit mocap? Not necessary for the marketing effect. I'd love to know how much money was wasted paying a-list celebs to waddle around in those mocap suits for no reason.
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Chalks posted:I'd love to know how much money was wasted paying a-list celebs to waddle around in those mocap suits for no reason. All will be revealed in space court discovery
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SelenicMartian posted:Meanwhile we can all kill time buying poo poo we don't need in the Steam sale. I must buy more games I won't ever play.
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