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Ninja Theory sets a new benchmark in video game animation
- Thread starter Oggmeiler
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I mean, I hope the game looks like that it's probably possible but I'll hold the excitement. I remember Deep Down.
Looks really amazing. I was actually more impressed with the landscapes. Looked so incredibly lifelike. Can not wait to see what the next generation holds.
I thought exactly this when I first saw the reveal trailer of Hellblade 1. "Wow this game looks really cool, but I bet the actual game won't look nearly as good as what I'm seeing right now"
yeah, no. that game blew my mind after seeing actual gameplay. I genuinely belive Ninja Theory will deliver with Senua 2, with this bar that's been set from the reveal trailer.
I'm too jaded to believe that's 100% representative of what we'll see when the game comes out, but it does look good.
It's a trailer, people seem to forget the infamous uncharted 4 trailer, while it might look close at release it will never look this good in gameplay.
not hard to believe what can be achieved with facial capture, especially after death stranding
but i doubt the full game will look all the way like that, we'll see
but i doubt the full game will look all the way like that, we'll see
Thought I read that it was running on Xbox hardware here on Era?
"Hellblade 2 is the very first of these first-party Xbox Series X games and the trailer was captured straight from the console"
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Yeah, it's insane how detailed it is. It's in engine and the gameplay videos are still pretty far away, having said that the fact this is even possible with the engine and their capture tech speaks volumes.
Looks bonkers for sure, regardless if its gameplay or not. A new bar is set and hats off to Ninja Theory!
this.
they are well known for their mo cap and animation since Heavenly Sword. Anything less than another benchmark effort would be uncharacteristic of their work. Anyone who has played Hellblade already knows there should be no doubt that the game will look like this. Hopefully a bigger budget will allow for an even bigger game. But if not, that's fine too. Hellblade as it was offered was one of the few games I will always remember from this generation. This will be worth having a Series X at launch for, just to say you were there when.
Didn't play it with headphones did ya
It really makes a huge difference.
I don't trust these kind of "in-engine" trailers. I'll wait to see some gameplay and other next gen games before I make that kind of proclamation.
You really know who hasn't played Hellblade as soon as they comment in threads like this, don't you?
For example.
Yes i know, but that can mean a number of things. In-Engine is a very vague statement. I have created a 360 Stereoscopic visualizations in Unreal Engine that were exported to image files and then composited because of hardware limitations. That is in a sense "In-Engine" but not real-time. Saying it was captured from real Xbox Hardware is also somewhat vague, but that seems to imply real-time.
Is was an insane trailer for me. This is how you present a new game and new gen.
NT has been doing amazing shit since day1. They did lots of good work on ps3 gen. MS made a smart move to purchase them because they are a team that I would say can make games like Sony's 1st party ones. They have that cinematic feel with rich story telling. Good for them.
NT has been doing amazing shit since day1. They did lots of good work on ps3 gen. MS made a smart move to purchase them because they are a team that I would say can make games like Sony's 1st party ones. They have that cinematic feel with rich story telling. Good for them.
It`s in engine, not real time. Lots of cutscenes running in engine look like CGI on the ps4/xbo, so we should keep our expectations in check for Hellblade 2. The facial animation will obviously always be tied to cutscenes so I expect them to actually reach this level of fidelity. However, I'd be surprised if they manage to get those environments/terrain, water, effects and lighting running in real time gameplay.
You guys really, really should play Hellblade before commenting about their work. Like, you really should. Go play Hellblade, people. It was one of the most compelling and fascinating games of the generation, and its animation always looked like it was from a different generation.
They didn't play the game. The posts from people that didn't are so obvious it's almost frustrating.
Wait a second... People actually believe that this is how the final product's gameplay is going to look ?! Come on man, you can't be that dense.
Reminds me of that time when ND released the first 'in-engine' trailer for UC4 ... good times. I also have a bridge to sell you guys, it's in great condition too.
Reminds me of that time when ND released the first 'in-engine' trailer for UC4 ... good times. I also have a bridge to sell you guys, it's in great condition too.
I love ND. But, I'll wait for final release for final judgment.I don't know if I would call it a new benchmark yet, when there are also current gen games that are equally as impressive:
Yeah, it looks great. Can't wait for devs who put focus on animations to show us what they can do next gen.
Doubt we'll see downgrades on cut-scenes animations.
Doubt we'll see downgrades on cut-scenes animations.
I've played it, calm your horses soldier. I'm just skeptical about early in-engine trailers of next gen games. It's like some of y'all have forgotten when this was supposed to be "real time"...
I don't trust anything until gameplay is shown. It's my policy this gen and it will be my policy going into next gen as well.
It's unfortunate to highlight the animation specifically when it's the one thing in a cutscene that's probably entirely canned. The rendering fidelity deserves the attention from this vid... when we see the gameplay animation we can judge that. I'm sure it'll be great, but controlled/canned cutscene animations are not a showcase of game animation, anymore than they would be if the cutscene was indeed prerendered.
So not captured from Xbox hardware according to you or is there a misinterpretation of the word "real time"? I call things like Gears 5s cinematics to be In-Engine and real time aka running at the proper frames that we see.
It is probably not, though. It's made with a game engine (UE probably), but you can render some fancy stuff with those if not rendered in realtime (especially since they support ray-tracing nowadays)