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Wasteland The Wasteland 2 Beta Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Discussion in 'inXile Entertainment' started by sea, Dec 12, 2013.

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  1. Zombra An iron rock in the river of blood and evil Patron

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    Live-action trailers for video games always seemed dumb to me. This one's no exception, but I bet they had fun making it. :)

    Is that a big foamy glass of beer on the console at 0:32? Of course it isn't, but just let me believe that it is.
     
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    +1
     
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    Screw you guys. If they made a Wasteland 2 in the mid-90s in the CD-ROM FMV era, it totally would have had an intro like this. :cool:
     
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  4. Decado Prestigious Gentleman Old time handsome face wrecker Patron

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    Fargo seems to have a thing for them. Remember Stonekeep?



    UGGGHHHHH. SO MUCH CHEESE. SO MUCH.
     
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    Have InXile finally done the impossible?

    Starting to impress the derp-dexian crowd? ;-O

    Awesome intro, and really fucking cool L.A chapter footage!

    I am excite.
     
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  6. imweasel Guest

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    More options

    More options

    The other options would be either no trailer, a CGI trailer for 2-3 million+ dollars or a cheesy yet very cheap CGI trailer (possibly even done by Prosper). What would you prefer?
     
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    Or just some classy narration with still images.
     
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    I always mix this game with Descent to Undermountain.
     
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    Stylization.
     
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    That's for outros, not intros.
     
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    Why? It can work fine for both.
     
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    What games have had "narrated stills" for an intro? I suspect that it would be widely regarded as cheap, low budget, evidence of Wasteland 2's "Russian shovelware made by amateurs" status, etc.
     
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    only to the popamole
     
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    Did they say if they were planning to include ways of going rogue without killing every civilian you approach or going guns blazing into Ranger Citadel?
     
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    Athelas Not so fast! The BG2 intro has a 3D animated segment at the end. And even the "stills" themselves are animated. I thought you were talking about a Fallout ending slides type of thing.
     
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    It's not a terrible intro but there was... zero impact watching it. The biggest thing is "oh hey, they're doing some live action stuff". Otherwise it's completely forgettable. Boring voiceover, boring writing and a cameraman with Parkinson.
     
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    Honestly? I'd prefer something in-engine. It's OK for a trailer for a game to look like the game. Simple CGI, say 2D animation, would be fine too.


    This did not cost a million dollars.
     
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    Are you being deliberately obtuse? The 'animation' in the BG2 intro is extremely basic (zooming in on the pages and some light/saturation effects). The 'real' aimation is about 10 seconds of that book opening and Irenicus appearing. It's basically an FMV consisting for 95% of artwork.
     
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    And what, the amateur live action one is going to win an Academy Award or something? :cool:
     
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    FMV > still images
     
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    No, but at least it's cool and different.

    Anyway, as I said, I was thinking about the completely static Fallout ending slides type of "narrated stills", but sure, you can be fancier than that. I don't think that would work nearly as well outside of a fantasy context with those cool looking illustrated grimoires, though.
     
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    It's like you intentionally fucking forgot the Perlman monologues from Fallout.
     
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    That trailer's pretty cool, and the narration too. I'm really glad they went with something different.

    I wonder how mainstream journalists will react to this kind of intro, though - much like many Codexers in this thread, they don't seem to like FMV, if Tesla Effect's reception is anything to go by.
     
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    It's not a trailer it's a mood setting piece that will be in game.

    Also, I think it's pretty good.
     
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