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At 6/17/10 08:50 PM, squidly wrote: If you wanted Wind Waker, we'd have a cartoony look, but no, this is REALISTIC cell shaded, which doesn't make too much sense.

You act like this is something that's never been done before.

Though it doesn't look very realistic to me. All the monsters look quite cartoony.

At 6/17/10 06:15 PM, squidly wrote: I'm just saying, I'm pretty sure when the trailer was recorded, nobody was using their wireless devices, but there was STILL jittery movement.

Well the game's not out yet. They have plenty of time to refine everything.

On the graphics, these graphics aren't incredible or anything. But the Wii can't do realistic graphics well. Practically the only games I can say look 'good' on the Wii use a cartoony, or a cel-shaded style.

What I'm hoping for this game is that they'll put some emphasis on the story. Twilight Princess was a step in the right direction but it was nowhere near on the level of what I have come to expect from a good modern video game story.

Sprankton
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1. a disease you get from chewing too much

At 6/17/10 07:50 AM, puddinN64 wrote: Ha. It's so funny to hear all of this. Two years ago, all of you guys were bashing on the Wii and now you're saying how great it is. I think you should all write letters to Nintendo, apologizing.

Apologising for what? The Wii having a terrible line up two years ago?

At 6/17/10 07:32 AM, Lost-Chances wrote: Which isn't a good sign when it comes to the writing.

There's also something else you have to remember:

Almost every game that is well written by video game standards is poorly written by film standards. If you try to scratch the surface of almost any game script in terms of its themes you're really not going to find much.

There may be a few exceptions, but I can't really think of any at the moment. I was going to offer Braid as an example of depth, but then I remembered I couldn't offer it as an example of good writing.

Even if they're not getting a Charlie Kaufman or a Coen Brothers to write their game, it's great that they are taking steps towards trying to get their writing on the level of films.

I have no idea if Andy Serkis is a good director or not, though. But hey, I don't think I've ever been amazed by the direction in any game's cutscenes. But he is a great actor, and is playing the main character (and sounding like Ron Perlman apparently). Andy Serkis hamming it up was probably the best thing about Heavenly Sword.

At 6/17/10 07:11 AM, Lost-Chances wrote: You've never watched Sunshine? I can't say the writing is mediocre, but rather just down right poor.

It falls apart in the third act, but other than that I think it's solid enough.

And 28 Days Later was well-written.

At 6/17/10 06:37 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:

At 6/16/10 07:45 PM, Aigis wrote: They got a Hollywood screenwriter, Alex Garland (the writer of Sunshine )

Oh no...

Explain.

At 6/17/10 03:03 AM, Slain wrote: If you guys watched E3 you got to see Shigeru Miyamoto demo it but unfortunately it looked quite inaccurate with the motion control.

Apparently there was a shitload of people using infrared devices in that theatre, and that interfered with the motion detecting.

Everything I've read from journalists on the showroom floor has been positive.

NG Art Karate.

At 6/16/10 09:00 PM, Ranger2 wrote: -They did not have a lot of scenes of Link fighting, how violent (violence is good) will this game be?

'Violence is good'?

This is Nintendo we're talking about there. It's going to be as violent as all the other Zelda games.

-The monsters looked stupid with cel-shading. I think cel-shading worked with the toon Link, but with the more adult Link, cel-shading makes it look unnatural and a strain on who the audience is: more mature audiences like those who liked TP, or a younger audience who liked WW?

Or possibly the audience that liked both of those games. Which would be the majority of Zelda fans.

-The fact that you use the Nunchuk to use the shield. There's only so much you can do, and in other Wii games, the Nunchuk is pretty darn unresponsive. Plus, with the Wii as the sword, is this goodbye to a left-handed Link?

According to previews the motion control as a whole is amazing. And yes it appears Link is now right handed.

At 6/16/10 08:56 PM, scruffydog90 wrote: VOICE: Sucker punch obviously couldn't get Coles original actor, hasn't anyone taken any acknowledgment to that?

Yeah, I'm sure Jason Cottle is really busy at the moment.

He's been spending all this time playing "Audience Member #2" on Law & Order.

At 6/16/10 08:40 PM, xscoot wrote: You know guys, it's probably not just ice, but all the elements.

Fire, wind, ice, electricity, bees. All of these can be shot out of your hand.

I support the idea of turning Cole into the Bee Man.

If you actually pay attention to what the developers have to say, in Game Informer a person from Sucker Punch stated:

"Cole is the electric man. You're not going to be the ice man."

At 6/16/10 08:25 PM, Digital-Terror wrote: summed up in a single image:

Technically that's the new Nintendo Wii remote.

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is the newest game from Ninja Theory, the developers of Heavenly Sword. It's one of the games that I am the most excited about. And it's in development for the PS3, and the Xbox 360.

It is an action game where you control a character called 'Monkey', in a story inspired by the Chinese epic 'Journey to the West'. Some of you will be to some degree familiar with this story through DragonBall. At some point I guess the characters get enslaved. There is also another female character, whom I suppose you have to protect as when she dies, you die. There are robots involved.

It's set in a post-apocalyptic world, but it's not a barren, Fallout-style one. It's a world where the trees have taken over, and everything is overflowing with colour.

E3 2010 Trailer

What really intrigues me about the game is the emphasis on story. They got a Hollywood screenwriter, Alex Garland (the writer of Sunshine and 28 Days Later) to write the game. He's a good writer, so I'm hoping that will translate to a good game story.

It's being directed by Andy Serkis, an actor probably best known for playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, who also directed the cutscenes in Heavenly Sword (and played King Bohan). And from what I can tell, the voice acting seems good. I believe Andy Serkis is playing Monkey, and he's great.

The game also appears to have platforming involved.

At 6/16/10 03:44 PM, Ultor wrote: Did you notice how every high school or almost every single one has an anime club? Theres always that small group of secret nerds that gather weekly its amazing

Mine didn't. But then again, mine didn't have clubs of any kind aside from sports teams. It was a small school.

I'm making my way through Ouran, and I'm going off and on about liking it. I think Haruhi is a little bit interesting as a man character, but Tamaki gets quite annoying to watch. I'm still not into the over exaggerated anime movements.

At 6/16/10 11:14 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: Double checking the forum rules it doesn't specifically say "no spoiler tags" so it's rather up to user interpretation whether spoiling something is just to be a dick. It's a pretty douchebag thing to ban someone over even if the poster is a douchebag. But, I'll assume it's fair play until this matter is actually clarified.

Well, to put it in perspective:

Typing out an unmarked spoiler, and then adding 'lol spoilers' is a pretty clear example of 'being a dick'.

Also, from the rules page : "If you're about to make a post that you're not sure is OK, whether covered by the rules or not, don't."

At 6/16/10 10:49 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: I'm pretty sure there's a more legitimate reason than that.

Nope.

Unmarked spoilers are against the rules of the forum.

I think they violate the general rule of "don't be a dick".

At 6/16/10 07:43 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: Actually, I mean "he's like Shiki Tohno from Tsukihime" because the main character on Shakugan no Shana (Yuji Sakai) is not the real one, just like Shiki is not the real Shiki. lol spoilers.

You know, KermitTheMuppet just got banned for posting unmarked spoilers in this thread.

At 6/16/10 05:36 AM, Shauna wrote: TOUCH DOOOOOOWN!

Photo shop in memory.

YOU MANIACS.

At 6/16/10 01:23 AM, Im-A-Pirate wrote: First: They completely butchered cole. He looks nothing like he did, and doesn't sound like he did.

I have no problem with that. Cole wasn't exactly a great character design, and his three pack a day for thirty years voice was so bizarrely out of place in a delivery boy.

The new design isn't really any better, but it's not any worse. The voice acting seems a little less ridiculous, though.

Second: They gave him ice related powers. what the fuck, How does electricity evolve into ice?

It's all they could do, really. They already basically did everything they could with electricity in the first game. So unless you wanted a rehash of all the powers from the first game, they had to mix it up a little.

Third: No fucking gameplay trailers! All they did was show like 30 seconds of a trailer, showing that cole sounds like alex mercer, if he were gay.

That's mildly disappointing, but I'm not all that bothered about it. I'm sure gameplay trailers will come sometime soon.

At 6/15/10 11:39 PM, Makeshift wrote: So the Nintendo conference is being rerun. This Zelda demo is terrible. "You can swing up and down." *Link does spin attack*.

Apparently when they talk about interference they're not just making excuses.

The previews by other journalists playing it on the showroom floor are very positive about the motion controls.

Now I don't play MMOs because they're extremely boring, and my laptop would not be able to run that.

But if I were to want to play an MMO, that would almost certainly be the one I'd choose.

Although the stigma of playing not only an online RPG, but a Star Wars online RPG may be a little too much. That's like double nerd.

I wish Bioware would have just made another Knights of the Old Republic instead.

At 6/15/10 08:38 PM, Kakashi1930 wrote: but the girl-baby (i dont really know how ti describe it).... the ROBOT! yeah, thats what it is....
anyways, the robot seems to be leaning forward at a really unnatural angle, idk if you meant that or not...
almost as if she was looking over someones shoulder, but theres no one there

She was supposed to be leaning forward, but I hadn't thought far enough ahead to say why she is leaning forward.

Perhaps to get some sort of uncanny valley effect.

Here's a WIP for a Robot Day submission. I'm not sure if I like what I've done or not, and I really have no idea where I'm going with this as part of a full composition. So I might not end up finishing it.

I call it Gold Star for Robot Girl.

Anyway, I would appreciate any advice on how it's going.

At 6/15/10 07:33 PM, LaserKarl wrote: Those things are much cooler than god anyway.

They are certainly cool, but aren't Telsa coils usually more of a doughnut shape than rather than a spherical one?

At 6/15/10 06:58 PM, greatcornhol wrote: sequels irrelevant unless it has companion cubes

Hello.

At 6/15/10 04:55 PM, LaserKarl wrote: I was thinking something like this.
Still a WIP

1000x536 px

I'm kinda curious as to what the giant ball is supposed to be.

Some sort of giant silicon atom, perhaps?

Looks a lot like Sin and Punishment.

At 6/15/10 06:26 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: It's anti war message rings louder and truer than ANY anti war film or book that I have ever encountered. Most anti-war sentiments focus on the struggle of the soldier. But here we have to innocent children, starving to death because of the conditions of war. A toddler, a vibrant young girl full of life, dies in her youth because of circumstances out of her control.

First of all, spoiler alert.

Second, it's not only the war that causes their troubles. It's Seita's ridiculous stubbornness.

Here's a work in progress, but I'm not sure how I feel about it.

I may end up scrapping it and starting again.