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[Srey Plaughtered]

What I want to know about the game is what happened to this?

Could be that because these people were unknowns, but somehow faces striked me being a bit higher quality here.

I suppose so. The faces in Gamescom 2015 look just as good to me. Still the gif you posted is from early development footage(I think), so can't say anything for sure.

And wait, did they really change Jack Joyce into Iceman? I thought he was going to be another playable character.

 

[cripterion]

Generic white guy with a stubble and gun walking....innovative.

Well he's modeled after the actor...

 

[Fallout-with-swords]

So is this a new character or did they change what the lead looked like? Really weird when devs do that.

 

[Srey Plaughtered]

So is this a new character or did they change what the lead looked like? Really weird when devs do that.

I did some googling and yeah they replaced the guy who played Jack before with Ashmore. And apparently, Sean Durrie, the guy who did play Jack before is still in the game as another character.
Their reasoning sounds really odd to me for some reason.

 

[soulassssns]

Man with gun. Check.

So was the old cover.

Still want the game though.

 

[User 479360]

I like it. It's better than the original.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Hot

 

[Black_Stride]

new one looks like one of those twin brothers that play Jimmy Olsen from Smallville/Iceman from the X-men films.

This just in Shawn Ashmore looks like.......Shawn Ashmore

So is this a new character or did they change what the lead looked like? Really weird when devs do that.

Tey replaced the genric character with Shawn Ashmore, makes sense when the live action parts come into play i guess, would be werid to have one face for gameplay and another face for live action.


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Fucking garbage cover, the old one was better should just tweaked the old one with the shattered glass motif and Shawn Ashmores face.
But it doesnt really matter, its not like i stare at my game covers much anyway.
Just hope the tile on the Dashboard looks alright, im strangely pedantic about the tiles looking good, if a game has a shitty tile i usually just unpin it.

 

[Kurt Angle]

guy with gun walking towards screen

 

[matrix-cat]

Tey replaced the genric character with Shawn Ashmore, makes sense when the live action parts come into play i guess, would be werid to have one face for gameplay and another face for live action.

It wasn't a generic character, it was another actor named Sean Durrie. He's still in the game, playing another character, but he either was Jack Joyce from the start (both in-game and live-action) and they recast the character with Shawn Ashmore, or he was just a placeholder the whole time (which doesn't really seem likely).

Remedy and Microsoft have been really tight-lipped about this game's development. I can't believe all these notable actors were there from the beginning of the project. The game was originally set to be released in 2014, but it's been delayed numerous times. I would guess that the game was originally going to have all the actors we saw in the early trailers, then at some point a deal was made with Iceman, Littlefinger and friends and much of the game, voice acting (and especially the live-action stuff) had to be scrapped and redone.

 

[grosvenor_92]

Old one was definitely better.

 

[neogaffer1]

Definitely generic but I'm not bothered by it. It'll certainly be an eye catcher with all that white on shelves anyway.

you only ever say positive things don't you

 

[Memento]

I think it is too minimalistic. I don't like it. But the old one was even worse, so errr...

 

[Wynnebeck]

Looks like the cover to a straight to video Sean Bean movie.

lol

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

It wasn't a generic character, it was another actor named Sean Durrie. He's still in the game, playing another character, but he either was Jack Joyce from the start (both in-game and live-action) and they recast the character with Shawn Ashmore, or he was just a placeholder the whole time (which doesn't really seem likely).

Remedy and Microsoft have been really tight-lipped about this game's development. I can't believe all these notable actors were there from the beginning of the project. The game was originally set to be released in 2014, but it's been delayed numerous times. I would guess that the game was originally going to have all the actors we saw in the early trailers, then at some point a deal was made with Iceman, Littlefinger and friends and much of the game, voice acting (and especially the live-action stuff) had to be scrapped and redone.

They've been working with Ashmore for a year and half. The early tv stuff was probably place holder.

This guy was the original pilot/we gotta have something to demo so go shoot something Jack Joyce

Then Sean Durrie who obviously isn't that dude was Jack in the E3 demo.

Ashmore signed on and I guess they didn't have time between him shooting and gamescom to have his character model ready for GC 2014 so they went ahead and used Durrie again since his character was ready to go

Jump to GC 15. Ashmore's model is done and they've shot the show so now was the time to role out his reveal proper as Jack.

/my theory.

 

[neogaffer1]

They've been working with Ashmore for a year and half. The early tv stuff was probably place holder.

This guy was the original pilot/we gotta have something to demo so go shoot something Jack Joyce

Then Sean Durrie who obviously isn't that dude was Jack in the E3 demo.

Ashmore signed on and I guess they didn't have time between him shooting and gamescom to have his character model ready for GC 2014 so they went aheead and used Durrie again since he's character was ready to go

Jump to GC 15. Ashmore's model is done and they've shot the show so now was the time to role out his reveal proper as Jack.

/my theory.

there was also this guy

edit: might want to ignore the vlc lol

 

[Alex_Mexico]

Will we ever see a chin UP, eyes DOWN type of cover? Anyone tried the opposite of the rule?

After a couple of covers from Naughty Dog not being so generic (TLoU and TLoUR) I'm legit sad they went with Uncharted 4's horrible one.

 

[Twin Tails]

Will we ever see a chin UP, eyes DOWN type of cover? Anyone tried the opposite of the rule?

After a couple of covers from Naughty Dog not being so generic (TLoU and TLoUR) I'm legit sad they went with Uncharted 4's horrible one.

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[-MD-]

The old one looks like an Animorphs book cover but it's still better than the final one.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Old cover looks like a videogame cover.

New cover looks like a movie cover.

Movie cover wins.

 

[Shredderi]

Dammit I guess I got too used to the old character model/face since I seem to prefer that.