Hippolnareff
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Really great explanation. I mean, it doesn't make the animations less sucky but I guess it provides an understanding.
It mostly boils down to time. It seems like Bioware needed much longer time, since we can't even customize companions even though text in the game refers to the option, there's only 2 casual appearances in the game, the CC is borked, the amount of bugs etc.
They needed more time. 6 months at least I'd say.
It's more like "they planned to reach new heights of animation quality, then had to abandon that goal, and we got the placeholder animations in the final product."I'm sorry but in post Witcher times, "I't s a big RPG" won't cut it
Jesus,
Why do this in tweet form?
They had 5 years. It's not like this was done in a 2-3 year timeframe.
I'm sorry but in post Witcher times, "I't s a big RPG" won't cut it
Good explanation but it really shows how far we've come and if you mess it up, it's gonna impact your game hard.
From his first posts he is condemning the hate/vitriol aimed at a single person and twitter is a good way to get this message out.Jesus,
Why do this in tweet form?
Still very informative
What is the 'my face is tired' thing? Link?
The most important thing he's highlighted is how we live in an age where the lowest quality portion of a game will be recorded and uploaded to misrepresent the game's baseline visuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b6qH48bslA
I would argue that the animation is the least of that scene's problems tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b6qH48bslA
I would argue that the animation is the least of that scene's problems tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b6qH48bslA
I would argue that the animation is the least of that scene's problems tho.
Regardless of how poorly ME might look like at it's absolute worst, anyone comparing it to a game like Uncharted 4 is a complete dumb ass.
We can compare it to Horizon zero dawn and ME is complete trash in comparison
We don't know the budget for ME but I can bet it is higher than the 50 million approx that Horizon cost
I agree with his assessment at the end, one positive to come out of it is that (hopefully) less AAA devs will skimp on the animation simply because an event isn't important to the main story.
What? Thats it?
Basically. The VA is straight up bad, matched by equally bad writing, who the hell says my face is tired in conversation? It's like the writer is being self aware of the bad animation. In fact the animation is the only excusable thing as it is.Yeah can we talk about how awful the voice acting and makeup is?
The animation essentially matches what I'd imagine someone speaking in that tone would look like.
People on the most recent Glixel podcast made an aside that these animations kind of bring back that old school CRPG charm.
The Witcher's animations are often great and subtle. Whatever they did there whether it was mocap or an algorithm with some extra attention on top of that, it works more often than not. That's basically what I expect from big content heavy RPGs with lots of dialogue in the future, not necessarily Uncharted levels of mocap quality.
I suppose you could compare it to something like the Witcher 3, which probably comes close to having as much dialogue and content. Mass Effect does look super jenk but Fallout 4 wasn't exactly a great example of animation either and there didn't seem to be nearly as much vitriol surrounding that (admittedly average) game.
The more damning comparison is ME:A to ME 1-3.
ME:A animations are objectively worse.
Horizon is leagues ahead too.
Easy, quick and reaches a large audience in no time.Jesus,
Why do this in tweet form?
Still very informative
Try read what was said, then.I'm sorry but in post Witcher times, "I't s a big RPG" won't cut it
He wasn't writing an article, just throwing out his thoughts on the game.What a world, where i have to read 50 tweets strung together instead of an article.
Just fuckin burn twitter already.
Witcher 3 used algorithm/scripts. When you watch the cut scenes in the other languages, it matches what they're saying. But yeah that kind of level should be expected. Maybe they didn't create enough facial animation bits to make it look smoother and natural for them to use in the scripts. Or they didn't have enough time or whatever to script the animation facial bits to make it look better.