Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream) Announced for PS4

EatChildren said:
Sweeping strings combined with excessive emphasis on textbook descriptive terms for feelings and emotions ranging from extreme positives to extreme negatives to accentuate the protagonist's state of mind and commentary on the state of the setting.

Android-existentialist-crisis is one of the oldest, well trodden tropes of science fiction and this trailer presented an extremely familiar concept with nothing that stood out as an original or intriguing angle or take to differentiate it from the norm, given what other work has already done and better for the last few decades, in addition to about as much grace and subtle use of the English language to present said concepts as a hammer to the face.

I have a stick up my arse about Quantic Dream/David Cage because I firmly believe his dialogue is consistently terrible and his stories consistently awful. It's like watching/playing a narrative written by a person who doesn't understand how people naturally communicate, nor the deeper nuances of themes and how to explore them, in an experience that has no self awareness of what it's achieving and failing or how it presents itself.

And while brief and obviously light on content, the debut trailer for Detroit: Become Human (sic) simply drilled in that cringe worthy script writing him and his team are known for. Beyond the technical accomplishments of QD titles, I feel they're all mostly turds both as narratives and choice driven narrative video games, where glimmers of original ideas and cool concepts are crushed under laughably unnatural characters and script.

Until Dawn was kitchy and stupid but so self aware and fun in its writing that it just enforced my belief other developers are doing the Quantic Dream/David Cage thing far better than them/him despite the latter receiving more attention.
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I couldn't have said it better!!
 
ViewtifulJC said:
from XANDERCAGE, for EatChildren, a script leak

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*melts*
 
Dang, I said we should pray their game is Kara in full game form and the prayers were answered. Looks gorgeous. Let's hope there's no supernatural elements.
 
Slaythe said:
Yeah no.

She looks bad. The actress is gorgeous so if the character looks bad they just fucked it up.

Maybe she has better skin texture, it still doesn't look right in the eyes and overall likeness which is where it matters the most.
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The big picture is that character models were barely improved upon Beyond's, but QD is using the extra computational budget to get big environments with lots of NPCs with quality comparable to the protagonist's.
 
EatChildren said:
Until Dawn was kitchy and stupid but so self aware and fun in its writing that it just enforced my belief other developers are doing the Quantic Dream/David Cage thing far better than them/him despite the latter receiving more attention.
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This right here. All the shit I usually complain about in these kids of games melted away while having a lark through Until Dawn.

Until Dawn proved to me once and for all that these games can indeed be made in a way that lets you laugh with them instead of at them.
 
Ishida said:
The dialogue wasn't bad. "Quantic Dream games have awful narrative and dialogue" is mostly a meme. People say it, others repeat it, nobody can even explain it.
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How can you say it's a baseless meme when Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain exist? Haven't played Beyond Two Souls yet, but even if it's a vast improvement over his past work, you can't say that criticisms against Cage are without merit.
 
DrunkShogun said:
Need to know the writer before I consider this game. Quantic dream is limited by David cage in my opinion.
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The writers consist of two Americans and Cage.


lukeskymac said:
The big picture is that character models were barely improved upon Beyond's, but QD is using the extra computational budget to get big environments with lots of NPCs with quality comparable to the protagonist's.
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Pretty much what they are doing. Power goes somewhere else this time.
 
Randomizer said:
The whole last part. I audibly groaned and grimaced.

*Turns round to face camera*
"My name is Kara, I am one of them. This is our story"
*Turns and walks away*
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David Cage probably said something like, "This is gonna be a great fuckin' trailer. It's gonna be dramatic and shit with that ending. People are gonna shiver with anticipation."

No shivers, Mr. Cage. Just a cringe. It's like he hasn't learned anything.

e: and shower scene will be in there. I wonder how he'll top the last one?
 
"The police officer stares into Kara's robotic but very sexy eyes."

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EatChildren said:
Android-existentialist-crisis is one of the oldest, well trodden tropes of science fiction and this trailer presented an extremely familiar concept with nothing that stood out as an original or intriguing angle or take to differentiate it from the norm, given what other work has already done and better for the last few decades, in addition to about as much grace and subtle use of the English language to present said concepts as a hammer to the face.
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Exactly this, Cage seemed like he thought this premise was original when he was talking about it but it has been done many times before.
 
SuperStiltzkin said:
How can you say it's a baseless meme when Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain exist? Haven't played Beyond Two Souls yet, but even if it's a vast improvement over his past work, you can't say that criticisms against Cage are without merit.
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What's wrong with them? Besides Indigo Prophecy becoming a little too crazy for my tastes.
 
Nice to see that great tech demo they made a few years back becoming its own game :D!

Honestly one of the stronger elements of the PGS to me, as the story has a lot of potential to be something great.

Looking forward to playing this whenever I get my PS4 :).
 
Oh fuck...

Do you think maybe that the entire game interface is you walking around (using analog stick) and interacting with electronic systems around as the "interactive" part of the game... like navigating those shopping outlets as you walk by (from the images in the OP)

This could be the most "natural" feeling QD game yet...

Feels like a QD version of Watch_Dogs
 
So another game where a girl is going to be treated like shit and expected to follow orders but ultimately ends up becoming our savour eh?

I still don't think Quantic Dream have nailed how to animate faces, there's just something off about them, the animations too.
 
Ahahahahaahahahahaha, oh wow that trailer. That rant about how cliche and shitty the writing is did not actually prepare me for how cliche and shitty the writing is.
 
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