Quantic Dream's "Beyond"

[Fat Dragon]

 

[taxalot]

Wilhelm Dafoe and David Cage were on the french radio this morning. Cage was all about "emotions, pushing the boundaries of the video games" etc, Dafoe was like "I have no idea what the fuck video games are, I was just doing what I was paid to do."

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

I watched some parts of it on youtube, and it's true that the storyline is very disjointed. Not just because of the chronological order of events, but also due to the radical shift in subject matter and mood of each chapter (i.e. once it's drama, then it's horror, then it's SF; make up your mind, will you?).

 

[Dreaad]

I feel sorry for the two actors, they look like they have been raped, expressions of hopelessness and disappointment in humanity. Emotions and all that other gamey stuff.

 

[Athelas]

David Cage has done it again. Brought to you by Kotaku's intrepid reporting (stealing their info from the likes of 4chan and Reddit):

http://kotaku.com/nsfw-players-uncover-a-naked-ellen-page-in-her-new-vid-1443968188
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1o7ebf/uncensored_pictures_of_ellen_page_from_beyond_two/

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

Bros don't link bros to kotaku, bro. Your reddit link seems broken, so I got kotaku'd hard.

But, on the bright side, I can skim it and poast choice bits. So it worked out in the end, brother.

The money quotes:

Earlier today, a Reddit thread by dgmockingjay popped up, and it linked to screenshots of a naked Page in M-Rated Beyond.The screens appeared to be from a debug PS3, not a conventional retail system or at least one running in a debug mode. The screenshots come from an actual shower scene in the game—but the scene never shows Page's bare breasts:

[...]

What's different in the shots today is that the person who took them was able to change the camera angles, allowing us a fuller view of Page's in-game model. To wit, the top of the screenshots say the game is running with a "QA menu," (as in 'quality assurance') activated and that the free camera is set to "true." With these settings, one can access a free-floating camera in a tester mode—which would allow someone to view Page as she appears in the screenshots (if that's what they wanted, anyway).

[...]

Of course, that someone went through the trouble to do this isn't surprising: of course they did. What's notable is that Quantic Dream rendered a fully nude Page even if they didn't show it to players. Granted, having a developer include something in a game that a player might never see isn't so uncommon.

[...]

For now, it's worth noting that Beyond: Two Souls uses the same type of highly-advanced motion capture featured in the movie Avatar. Describing the process of utilizing said technology to Fast Company, Cage said that Quantic Dream "gather[ed] all possible information about the actor’s body.” Additionally, earlier this year the European version of the game was modified such that "the more graphic content is shown from a different angle and not visible" according to Derek Osgood, a marketing manager at Sony.

That bolded text...sounds very creepy.

Wonder what the fallout from this will be? Lawlsuit from Ms. Page?

Edit: OCD shit

 

[HanoverF]

(nothing)Beyond Two Paychecks

 

[chestburster]

I watched some parts of it on youtube, and it's true that the storyline is very disjointed. Not just because of the chronological order of events, but also due to the radical shift in subject matter and mood of each chapter (i.e. once it's drama, then it's horror, then it's SF; make up your mind, will you?).

"Disjoint" is what Fahrenheit is all about. AND the last minute deus ex machina sci-fi bullshit "explaining" the plot intrigues.

To think I spent one whole Thanksgiving holiday playing this shit ... one good holiday that I could have had fun with my family.

Fuck David Cage, fuck his shitty kindergarten "story".

 

[ghostdog]

Dafoe looks so incredibly bored and depressed.

"what the fuck am I doing here with these morons ?"

 

[Echo Mirage]

Ellen Page has got the look on her face of a women who wishes she really had done The last of us.

 

[lightbane]

I believe this should be here:

 

[J_C]

David Cage has done it again. Brought to you by Kotaku's intrepid reporting (stealing their info from the likes of 4chan and Reddit):

http://kotaku.com/nsfw-players-uncover-a-naked-ellen-page-in-her-new-vid-1443968188
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1o7ebf/uncensored_pictures_of_ellen_page_from_beyond_two/

Oh for fucks sake, don't be like those retards on the mainstraim site. Oh my, there is a naked woman in a videogame, oh the horror, the gaming industry should change!!!!! Why don't you respect the women?

And men, William Defoe is one ugly mother fucker!

 

[Athelas]

Oh for fucks sake, don't be like those retards on the mainstraim site. Oh my, there is a naked woman in a videogame, oh the horror, the gaming industry should change!!!!! Why don't you respect the women?

Err, I posted it for the lulz factor. Hopefully Ellen Page will sue them or something.

And men, William Defoe is one ugly mother fucker!

Pretty sure that's just the David Cage effect of sucking the life out of him.

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

David Cage has the self-satisfied expression of a man that has recently been in bed with two sex slaves at once. Dafoe looks dead on the inside. Ellen Page conveys that she's just resigned to her fate, depressingly compliant to Cage's deviant sexual demands.

 

[Bahamut]

This game is just Beyond Retardation it seems

 

[funkadelik]

Can these shitty video game makers please leave actors out of my video games? Let them make movies, which I most likely won't see (unless it's Willem Dafoe).

FUCK IT EVERYTHING IS GARBAGE

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

You shouldn't blame Cage for getting what he wants, you should blame Sony for being so stupid to fund this shit in the first place.

 

[Jick Magger]

 

[toro]

Well, at least the game sales are not good.

 

[Vicissitudes]

Watching gameplay on YT feels like watching intro that never ends.

 

[Azalin]

You shouldn't blame Cage for getting what he wants, you should blame Sony for being so stupid to fund this shit in the first place.

Maybe Sony should fire him from his game director job and hire him as a film director,the sales will probably be better

 

[Menckenstein]

Should've gone with the cute robot girl.

 

[cvv]

Codex's saying Beyond is shit, color me fucking surprised.

Ok, but what's the comparison with Heavy Rain? I remember one lazy hangover Sunday when I kindda enjoyed watching a Heavy Rain playthrough on YT. Considering most my Sundays are the lazy hangover kind, am I gonna enjoy this one too?

 

[AngryKobold]

Once I've been waiting for Quantic to release a new, improved Fahrenheit. You know, a cinematic arcade game that makes some challenge. Something that lefts dead keys on keyboard and broken joypad.

I'm not even mentioning Omicron.

This time, I must admit: they really conviced me they're unable to make games anymore. They're just wasting resources and oxygen. Talk about gameplay in "game" where it looks as if left by mistake.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Cage cannot go back making games because he has build up this massive performance-capturing industrial complex and it has become it's own living thing. Ergo, all future projects now must suit the complex, not the creators vision. Jobs depend on it.
This is why once something becomes too big with it's own gravity, nice things stop.