Gears of War gone gold
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Congrats to Ror and Moose and the rest of the Epic Games crew on going gold! 
Newest Gears of War trailer (cinematic is beautiful)
http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3737_en.html
Any local events going on in the raleigh area? Give me an excuse to fly home
Newest Gears of War trailer (cinematic is beautiful)
http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3737_en.html
Any local events going on in the raleigh area? Give me an excuse to fly home
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I think the cinematic was quite poorly directed and didnt at all benefit from the arty no-sounds-just-music style. but the assets looks ace ofcourse and it looks to be quite the treat to play.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sZQ5C5UU_lg
Can't wait for my friend to buy it so I can play it!
Bam! Giant fucking spider...
Pretty graphics though, and I do like the choice of music.
Everything I've seen of Gears before that trailer was a gritty, gory, testosterone-laden dudefest (not that don't want to play it). I was wondering how Microsoft would market this to the masses, now I know.
Glad you're liking it!
r.
Owned.
That being said, personally Gears isn't doing much for me. But I'll leave the negativity out of this thread. It's certainly a big accomplishment to ship something like this.
Spark
I loved how on the 1up show, two of the guys are discussing seeing Halo 3 for the first time, and the only thing they can say about it is how they wished it looked as good as Gears of War.
Owned.
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Ahahahaha, got a link?
Frank the Avenger
r.
I'm not sure anyone knows what marcus was up to in that vid , but that's what I like about it, the ambiguity!
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seeing as it's getting close to christmas, i'm betting he was out looking for the latest must-have toy for his kids. unfortunately the giant spider has the last one and now they must fight to the death for it.
r.
I also like Donnie Darko and the OST, but I think the music choice for the trailer was misguided. The content of the video and the tone of the song are incongruent, imo. Anyway, I'm probably more critical than the average gamer.
Congrats to Ror and everyone else involved with this one.
I thought it was Ron Perlman when I first heard his voice, so I checked at IMDB.
The art is wonderful though. And I'm sure I'll pick up a copy when the price goes down.
And I'm sure I'll pick up a copy when the price goes down.
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The price of the game, or the 360?
This is on my want list this year with the 360. Great job on the art, its got a great lived in feeling.
Meh. It's kinda of horribly cliche. The voice acting seems badly timed and the voices don't fit the characters, and Mad World was a strange choice.. not exactly something I fancy playing when there is some muscle bound freak with a machine gun blasting baddies. Just opinion, though knowing PC attitude ill be flamed for it.
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Hey, at least you're gonna get the last part right. How is it that you can complain that the voices aren't appropriate and that the music is strange, and then call it cliche? Seriously, you just said that a Tears For Fears song dubbed over a First Person Shooter is "horribly cliche." Was there a DOOM trailer set to 'Shout' and I just missed it?
The biggest cliche in that video is the one thing you lauded, the artwork. We've been seeing bombed-out gothic cityscapes and ridiculously armed space marines for more than a decade. That's actually my one gripe about Epic's franchises; the execution is top-notch, but everything they do looks like a bizzaro world Starship Troopers.
The trailer is awesome, makes me wanna buy a 360.
Congrats guys, must be a huge relief after all those years of hard graft. It looks mightily impressive. I dont own a 360, but I cant wait to check it out in the office.
1) The art and the engine. Rarely do we see jumps in this kind of quality and get to play with it, yummy. It doesn't hurt that its all familiar toys, but with upgrades
2) Playing with friends not against them. Squad tactics that aren't rainbow "slug crawl" 6 speed.
Edit: Must fight urge to flame motz...
Later,
Marcus Dublin
Artist Kaos Studios
PS: Unreal make my game art look so purty!
I just realized that my favorite moment in the Prey demo was the alien abduction being set to Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper." Unexpected but topically appropriate musical selections make me much happier than generic metal tracks.
I'm personally more proud of my (limited) involvement with this trailer than I am of anything else I have done in my career because it has depth, because it is attempting to go further than the cliched adolescant male testosterone wank fantasy variations than dominate the games industry.
I'm incredibly excited by the potential effect it will have on games, their marketting and their underlying ethos in the future because I do beleive it is going to have an affect.
We routinely hear the comment that we are a young industry and another way of saying that is that we are immature. I agree, we are, all of us as a whole and the need to grow up is not going to become any less pressing.
The movie industry can only help us so much because its such a passive form of entertainment that requires nothing from us except that we stay stationary, pay attention and if we have read a book or 2, well we're going to understand more of the dialogue.
The heights and the depths that movies can evoke from the viewer is something the games industry envy's with good reason so any fusion between the 2 industries that works is an incredibly positive thing.
You need only look at how much this trailer has seperated people's opinions to realise how affective it is an opening up a fresh dialogue.
Is it arty farty pretentious misdirected nonsense or a brave inteligent attempt to demonstrate that even the most 2 dimensional backstory can have new life breathed into it if it is simply approached from a different perspective?
The need for a decision about what it is creates an arena in which people expose what they think games were before and what they should/could or will be after and I'm excited by that.
My agenda is to see content mature to the point where I care about it, where I feel involved. I want to see game designers the world over realize that being a good designer is a VERY different thing from being a good writer so that it effects a huge change in the industry over the next decade or so where we start seeing companies advertising for writers, fulltime, inhouse in the same way we see artists being recruited.
Whatever your opinions, I think this trailer proves how radically having a different set of skills and approach can alter a game, even if only for a minute.
Thats enough for me , certainly for the moment.
r.