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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
- Thread starter Gowans
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Hah! :<
Haunted
Member
:lol
Banana Kid
Member
Fun fact: Alex Navarro's actual name is Alexis.
His full name is Alexis Alexander Navarro. I'm not making this up.
The game and themselves are interlaced (Their new TVs are 1080, so they might be running 1080i through component as opposed to 720p, since we all know HDCP prevents easy video capture) and they are not well lit at all, at least not in the video, don't know about the actual place where they quicklook Kinect games, which would explain the Kinect losing them quite a bit. Or maybe not.
Anyway, they either need to deinterlace their videos (which will take forever, because just merging the fields together is UNACCEPTABLE) or go back to capturing in 720p (which makes more sense).
Also, they're badly framed (at least on the start of the video). You can clearly see a black bar on (our) right and below them. That's probably framing taking overscan into consideration (even though there shouldn't be such a thing as overscan anymore). It also seems like their video is not simply superimposed on the gameplay, it looks like somebody edited a video of them running on a greenscreen with a fourth of the gameplay behind them, rendered it fullscreen and tried to overlay the video properly on the final video, but the end result was not good at all. You can see that the background of where they're playing is misaligned and a couple frames time shifted with the remaining of the video area.
But hey, if you need to figure shit out, Star Wars Kinect is not a bad place to do it.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
lol
Bravo sir, bravo.
Quick Look: Diabolical Pitch (Brad/Ryan - 18:39)
Oh wow. That's inspired.
MarshMellow96
Member
They should superimpose Coffee Brad on all QLs hereafter.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Yep!
Same prob with SW. The game constantly lost him because he went back too far. Hell the "MOVE FORWARD" thing was flashing in the middle of the screen all the time.
chickdigger802
Banned
The ticker says tomorrow.
MarshMellow96
Member
The pitch for this game must have been.. bad.
Hopefully they recorded these at the same time, as it had the same issues as the SW vid. It doesn't really explain the horribly interlaced video, though.
BobJustBob
Member
I just tried the Diabolical Pitch demo and the Kinect recognized at most 50% of my motions. I don't think it was Brad's fault.
My Kinect has now been banished to the closet.
My Kinect has now been banished to the closet.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
MarshMellow96
Member
Haha, that's amazing.
Typographenia
Member
Looks like a really quirky title buried beneath a less-than-stellar input method... Again. : (
We never got that MGS 3 3DS edition quicklook that was promised before GDC/merger. I think they (everyone) totally forgot about it. I was really looking forward to seeing them rip apart the technical jank of the game.
Edit: Anyone else get the vibe that perhaps diabolical pitch is made up of unused assets from Shadows of the Damned?
Yeah, the actual conceit of the game looks pretty cool, especially the weird netherworld of creepy mascots. The actual gameplay looks... yeah.
They definitely need their own green screen/set/control room built to their specifications. They also need Vinny to oversee that process to make sure everything is to his liking, so, yeah. It'll probably take even longer than they anticipate to get fully up to speed, nice that they at least have some options available until then.
Not sure how they're going to get by with Drew on vacation/Vinny on baby duty, though. Quick Look TXT's?
RomanticHeroX
Member
Put Jeff in the control room and see if he can figure it out. For better or worse I bet that'd be really entertaining.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
lol strange game, so much interlacing though
slaughterking
Member
Patrick hasn't even reached the Gaur Plains. Too bad since that would've really blown his mind.
/edit/ Oh, he actually does reach them.
/edit/ Oh, he actually does reach them.
chickdigger802
Banned
Not really surprised, but still a bit disappointing that one of the longest games this gen gets one of the shorter QL's lol.
But... the game plays out with out much diversity.... so I guess it can work. Will watch it later.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Fuck yes!!!!
do I need to bother to watch this in HD?
Xyrmellon
Member
The America way, which is not giving a shit...
Mechanized
Member
Damn, gonna order Xenoblade today after watching that Quick Look. This looks like the best JRPG in over a decade.
Inferno313
Banned
480p
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Nah I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with resolution. It's clearly a design choice. Example: FFXII did numbers much smoother and with less clutter.
Felix Lighter
Member
I guess, from my point of view, zero punishment for death is not handling death exceptionally well. I guess long load times or simply getting bumped back to the title screen isn't handling death well either but I personally like having something on the line. Not a big deal, the game still looks really interesting.
chickdigger802
Banned
The text font is also rather large.
The QL also demonstrated the biggest problem I had. Everytime I died, I'm never really sure what I did wrong. Combat is a bit mindless and really level oriented vs skill.
Borderlands proved that people like seeing numbers.
The single player part of MW3 was hard to play because it didn't have numbers. Couldn't tell if a guy was really dead or not.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I think it fits Borderlands a lot more than Xenoblade.
PinkCrayon
Member
dem jaggies.
Vire
Member
I've tried to understand the hype for Xenoblade repeatably, but I just don't get it.
It doesn't look that nice to me from an artstyle and graphics standpoint with jaggies galore, and the voice acting seems pretty embarrassingly cheesy.
What makes this game so special? I want to like this game since I've been waiting for a good JRPG this entire generation, but I just don't think this is it. Are we that starved for a decent one?
It doesn't look that nice to me from an artstyle and graphics standpoint with jaggies galore, and the voice acting seems pretty embarrassingly cheesy.
What makes this game so special? I want to like this game since I've been waiting for a good JRPG this entire generation, but I just don't think this is it. Are we that starved for a decent one?
gameplay and story. game looks gorgeous in Dolphin tho.
Haunted
Member
I hope Grasshopper got some good money from Microsoft to finance a proper game.
What a waste of ideas and resources.