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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    I say yous crazy

    that is actual gameplay

  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    I'm not sure what you're asking for here

    the demos look as much like gameplay as a demo is gonna look

    let me demonstrate by using Assassin's Creed as an analogy

    when you start playing any AC game, even for a short while, you learn pretty soon that you have to angle your jumps and leaps a certain way, otherwise your character does a thing where it jumps the wrong way and tumbles to the ground, possibly dying

    you would never see that type of thing happen in a demo like the one they showed

    you could see it happening a bunch in, well, "shaky cam" videos that record people actually playing with the game proper

    I want to know how the game handles when it's really being played, the sort of stuff they've shown is just a less expensive CGI trailer

    that's every demo ever

    they are played by people who are really good at the game and they are going to avoid showing bugs or shortcomings

    it will probably be playable at E3 if you want to see random joes play it

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    Quantic Dream using PS4 to advance ugly man technology

    David Cage has taken to the stage tonight to suggest that emotion in games begins and ends with graphics, proving his point with a really ugly old man head. Who needs a good script when you have the sad eyes of a near-dead warlock? Not Quantic Dream.

    Measuring emotional storytelling in terms of nothing but facial polygons, Cage unveiled this hideous old man head. Proof is in the pudding, or in this face, the wrinkly visage of a potential pederast. This is basically Cage's problem, typified. It's all about the surface-level, and not the actual depth he claims to want.

    Still ... PS4, bitches!

    I get that this is Jim Sterling trying to be funny but he must not have listened to literally any word of David Cage's presentation, where he directly mentions all the other things which generate emotional storytelling.

    apparently he has a history of thinking david cage is full of shit

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
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    David_T wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    I'm not sure what you're asking for here

    the demos look as much like gameplay as a demo is gonna look

    let me demonstrate by using Assassin's Creed as an analogy

    when you start playing any AC game, even for a short while, you learn pretty soon that you have to angle your jumps and leaps a certain way, otherwise your character does a thing where it jumps the wrong way and tumbles to the ground, possibly dying

    you would never see that type of thing happen in a demo like the one they showed

    you could see it happening a bunch in, well, "shaky cam" videos that record people actually playing with the game proper

    I want to know how the game handles when it's really being played, the sort of stuff they've shown is just a less expensive CGI trailer

    So it's not that you haven't seen the game being played, it's that you haven't seen the game being played poorly?

    yes. I want a non-developer playing it, and that being recorded.

    I don't know what your problem is then because then you'd be railing against literally every live demo that has ever happened

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    Of all the complaints to have about that presser, WatchDogs looking scripted

    what

    I'm not really complaining about that as it relates to the PS4 (because it doesn't), I just said I wish for an actual gameplay video, which I say this isn't

    It was clearly in-engine using gameplay mechanics. I don't even...what?

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    yes. I want a non-developer playing it, and that being recorded. But that is a personal preference, and I'm aware of it. Not condemning either the console or the game for it.

    to say nothing of the issues of marring the presentation, there are also a host of practical reasons why that can't happen at an unveiling

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Quite frankly the system level stuff was my favorite part, though

    Playing a game as it's downloading? That was fucking mindblowing when Guild Wars 1 did it and it's still mindblowing now

    Not sure about their predictive stuff but as long as I can turn it off I don't much care

    And streaming demos, while perhaps not great for learning how a game controls precisely, is great for knowing whether or not that's a game you even WANT to play to begin with

    There's still a lot we don't know, but the stuff they showed about how they're treating their online stuff and store stuff and their platform as a whole?

    I'd say Microsoft has a much tougher act to follow than anyone thought

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Quantic Dream using PS4 to advance ugly man technology

    David Cage has taken to the stage tonight to suggest that emotion in games begins and ends with graphics, proving his point with a really ugly old man head. Who needs a good script when you have the sad eyes of a near-dead warlock? Not Quantic Dream.

    Measuring emotional storytelling in terms of nothing but facial polygons, Cage unveiled this hideous old man head. Proof is in the pudding, or in this face, the wrinkly visage of a potential pederast. This is basically Cage's problem, typified. It's all about the surface-level, and not the actual depth he claims to want.

    Still ... PS4, bitches!

    I get that this is Jim Sterling trying to be funny but he must not have listened to literally any word of David Cage's presentation, where he directly mentions all the other things which generate emotional storytelling.

    apparently he has a history of thinking david cage is full of shit

    Well David Cage is full of shit

    but that's no reason to print blatant lies

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Quantic Dream using PS4 to advance ugly man technology

    David Cage has taken to the stage tonight to suggest that emotion in games begins and ends with graphics, proving his point with a really ugly old man head. Who needs a good script when you have the sad eyes of a near-dead warlock? Not Quantic Dream.

    Measuring emotional storytelling in terms of nothing but facial polygons, Cage unveiled this hideous old man head. Proof is in the pudding, or in this face, the wrinkly visage of a potential pederast. This is basically Cage's problem, typified. It's all about the surface-level, and not the actual depth he claims to want.

    Still ... PS4, bitches!

    I get that this is Jim Sterling trying to be funny but he must not have listened to literally any word of David Cage's presentation, where he directly mentions all the other things which generate emotional storytelling.

    apparently he has a history of thinking david cage is full of shit

    well to be fair david cage is really bad at writing and directing

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    Mr. G wrote: »
    David_T wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    I'm not sure what you're asking for here

    the demos look as much like gameplay as a demo is gonna look

    let me demonstrate by using Assassin's Creed as an analogy

    when you start playing any AC game, even for a short while, you learn pretty soon that you have to angle your jumps and leaps a certain way, otherwise your character does a thing where it jumps the wrong way and tumbles to the ground, possibly dying

    you would never see that type of thing happen in a demo like the one they showed

    you could see it happening a bunch in, well, "shaky cam" videos that record people actually playing with the game proper

    I want to know how the game handles when it's really being played, the sort of stuff they've shown is just a less expensive CGI trailer

    So it's not that you haven't seen the game being played, it's that you haven't seen the game being played poorly?

    yes. I want a non-developer playing it, and that being recorded.

    I don't know what your problem is then because then you'd be railing against literally every live demo that has ever happened

    I guess I'm not much of a fan of "live" demos then

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I'd say Microsoft has a much tougher act to follow than anyone thought

    I really don't know what Microsoft can do to follow this besides go deeper on "we have halo and gears of war and as far as you know call of duty"

    Pretty sure everyone stopped using their Kinects at least a year ago

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
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    yeah

    yeah this is hot

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    The only video during that whole thing that made me think "What? No fucking way." was the bit at the end of that Move demo where they had what looked like a scene comprised of hundreds of high poly sculpts and probably billions of active points of deformation, which unless they dynamically bake to regular-ass final static meshes the PS4 can render I have to assume they're pulling it off through dark wizardry.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    Quantic Dream using PS4 to advance ugly man technology

    David Cage has taken to the stage tonight to suggest that emotion in games begins and ends with graphics, proving his point with a really ugly old man head. Who needs a good script when you have the sad eyes of a near-dead warlock? Not Quantic Dream.

    Measuring emotional storytelling in terms of nothing but facial polygons, Cage unveiled this hideous old man head. Proof is in the pudding, or in this face, the wrinkly visage of a potential pederast. This is basically Cage's problem, typified. It's all about the surface-level, and not the actual depth he claims to want.

    Still ... PS4, bitches!

    I get that this is Jim Sterling trying to be funny but he must not have listened to literally any word of David Cage's presentation, where he directly mentions all the other things which generate emotional storytelling.

    apparently he has a history of thinking david cage is full of shit

    Well David Cage is full of shit

    but that's no reason to print blatant lies

    he's not lying though

    cage straight up said that "you don't need any writing to tell you about this man, you can see it all in his face" (paraphrasing here, but yeah)

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    yes. I want a non-developer playing it, and that being recorded. But that is a personal preference, and I'm aware of it. Not condemning either the console or the game for it.

    to say nothing of the issues of marring the presentation, there are also a host of practical reasons why that can't happen at an unveiling

    and again, this is a personal preference, and I'm not talking about it as it relates to the presentation. I'm still very excited from what I've seen of watch_dogs, and I still think this presentation was terrible, regardless of this issue.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Watch Dogs was played by a human being

    A human being who had played that section to hell and back over and over and over again, with a number of heavily scripted sequences to show off certain bits

    But a human being nevertheless

    Just so's we're clear

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
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    god, that's really not a typo then

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    that's surprising

    I thought the presentation went well?

  • Ms DapperMs Dapper Yuri Librarian Registered User regular
    Microsoft is doomed
    I am not lying when I say I've been looking at that screencap of the Sucker Punch guy and giggling for the last five minutes.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    that's surprising

    I thought the presentation went well?

    OPINIONS

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    that's surprising

    I thought the presentation went well?

    OPINIONS

    I was responding to the stocks thing

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Nintendo is doomed
    that's surprising

    I thought the presentation went well?

    I thought it went as well as it possibly could have

    shareholders disagree

    Mr. G on
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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    Mr. G wrote: »
    I voted correctly

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Watch Dogs was played by a human being

    A human being who had played that section to hell and back over and over and over again, with a number of heavily scripted sequences to show off certain bits

    But a human being nevertheless

    Just so's we're clear

    There are plenty of single player games I'm sure I can give a demo of at this point.

    It's just too bad nobody's going to pay me to show off the Party Time mission in Saints Row The Third at E3.

    But they should.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Quantic Dream using PS4 to advance ugly man technology

    David Cage has taken to the stage tonight to suggest that emotion in games begins and ends with graphics, proving his point with a really ugly old man head. Who needs a good script when you have the sad eyes of a near-dead warlock? Not Quantic Dream.

    Measuring emotional storytelling in terms of nothing but facial polygons, Cage unveiled this hideous old man head. Proof is in the pudding, or in this face, the wrinkly visage of a potential pederast. This is basically Cage's problem, typified. It's all about the surface-level, and not the actual depth he claims to want.

    Still ... PS4, bitches!

    I get that this is Jim Sterling trying to be funny but he must not have listened to literally any word of David Cage's presentation, where he directly mentions all the other things which generate emotional storytelling.

    apparently he has a history of thinking david cage is full of shit

    Well David Cage is full of shit

    but that's no reason to print blatant lies

    he's not lying though

    cage straight up said that "you don't need any writing to tell you about this man, you can see it all in his face" (paraphrasing here, but yeah)

    He said that a person's face is a means of expressing emotion and who they are

    this after mentioning about how writing and gameplay all affect emotion

    he was talking about the use of advanced face technology enhances the ability to deliver emotion, not that it was replacing everything else

    he never even implied that

    jim sterling inserted his own thoughts about what cage said instead of what cage actually said

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    i admit that i don't really know much about the Nikkei, or about the stock market in general really

    but a drop of 40 yen in stock value doesn't seem like a huge deal

  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    shareholders like concrete info like release dates and pricing, not bullshit prerendered demos and game engines.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    shareholders like concrete info like release dates and pricing, not bullshit prerendered demos and game engines.

    Well did anybody tell them there's going to be like 4 big events where they'll be doing this again over the next 10 months

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I'm pretty sure stock always drops right after a presentation regardless of its quality

    investors are weird

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    Mr. G wrote: »
    shareholders like concrete info like release dates and pricing, not bullshit prerendered demos and game engines.

    Well did anybody tell them there's going to be like 4 big events where they'll be doing this again over the next 10 months

    shareholders don't care

    they want that shit now

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    shareholders are horseshit in general

    fuck em

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    we were never ever going to get release dates and pricing this early

    we would get last guardian, versus 13, and kingdom hearts 3 before we got that

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  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    you fuckin sharist

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    jim sterling inserted his own thoughts about what jim sterling said instead of what jim sterling actually said. jim sterling!

    Jim Sterling's thought process right here.

  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Playing a game as it's downloading? That was fucking mindblowing when Guild Wars 1 did it and it's still mindblowing now

    Not sure about their predictive stuff but as long as I can turn it off I don't much care

    I'm repeating myself now, but I think the predictive stuff could actually work surprisingly well because of the ability to play games while downloading. You buy an 8GB game, it downloads the first .5/.8GB of it and then you start playing. Next time, you buy something similar, the predictive download only has to have downloaded the first .5GB so you can start playing immediately, not the full game. It might end up being BS marketing jargon, but if it works well enough to where you can routinely buy games on the PSN Store and start playing them immediately, without having to download six or seven multi-GB sized games just in case, I think it could easily end up being one of those small things that you can't imagine doing without.

    If it works.

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    even if sony had announced pricing and release date, stock still would have done down

    because shareholders would've said "too expensive" and "at a bad time"

  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    If it wasn't 2 hours, I would have liked it a lot more than I did.

    I don't think it was bad enough for the stocks to do what they're doing now, though.

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