Uncanny Valley, Videogame edition

Alan Wake has a wife that doesn't look too bad in still pictures, but in motion she's probably scarier than the stuff trying to kill you.

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Eh. Those aren't realistic enough to fall into Uncanny Valley.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Talking_Head

Talking heads are fake enough for them to dodge being weird.

edited 17th Dec '10 12:31:42 AM by Legionnaire

Just pointing out that there were, in fact, faces in Fallouts 1 and 2.

I'm pretty (but not totally) immune to Uncanny Valley, so there is rarely anything that I perceive as such. Non of the things mentioned here have an effect to me.

However, there is this one chick in Omikron The Nomad Soul, whose face creeped me out...

To be honest, I don't like any of the character designs I have seen in any of the Elder Scrolls games.

Some of the people in Deadly Premonition fall into this. York himself doesn't look bad, and neither do Emily, George and Forrest, but Anna looks terrible! To take what Shirow Shirow said, Anna looks scarier than the zombies trying to kill you (and those zombies are hilarious, as anyone who's played the game knows).

edited 17th Dec '10 10:44:07 AM by BonsaiForest

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WHY HELLO THERE BUG-EYED JESUS.

edited 17th Dec '10 7:42:31 AM by mrsaturn

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines had bits of Uncanny Valley (with Ming Xiao, for example), though not a lot, Source Engine doesn't lend itself to it as well as, say, Unreal Engine 3 does.

Testing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgWbYsHMPSw

Holy crap I got it to work!

Now I'm not sure whether this counts as Uncanny Valley or just plain old High Octane Nightmare Fuel, but it was mentioned in my opening post so dammit, you're all gonna have to look at it.

edited 17th Dec '10 10:25:08 AM by OmegaKross

Here's the scene with Juri I mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LNR9b_oCxc

This one may just be me though. Juri's hotness greatly offsets her weird facial contortions.

Hm....Dajh from Final Fantasy XIII. I don't know why, but that kid just didn't look right. Most of the characters in the game looked great, but he was just off somehow.

His skin texture is strangely shiny and his facial animation moves at a weird pace.

Yeah, he looks like a freaky living doll. The worst part is when he smiles.

As mentioned in the Unpopular Opinons thread, the music video for "Trip" from DJMAX Portable 3 and DJMAX Technika 2.

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The game of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

^^ So thats what it was called.

Behold, a terror beyond time and space! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwvdVuneStM

Also laugh at the cartoon violence and the softcore porn on the TV. Sorry, it's the best video I could find for closeups of the guy's face. Skip to the 3 minute mark for the creepiest part.

edited 18th Dec '10 4:53:54 AM by OmegaKross

Gran Turismo 5.

It took them over five years to achieve that.

Why did Tom Riddle's Horcrux ghost need the Voice Of Legion? Were the developers afraid the kids wouldn't get that he's evil or something?

EDIT: That's totally a trope. I think it might need some alt titles so people can actually remember it.

edited 18th Dec '10 6:13:55 AM by mrsaturn

Go and watch the L.A. Noire trailer. Go, I dare you.

@mrsaturn: Voice of the Legion?

I found that Siren 2 clip I mentioned.

Hang on, fixing bugs...

There. Fun bit of trivia: a capital 'i' is completely indistinguishable from a lower-case 'L'.

Again sorry about the length, it was the only one I could find. skip to 5:40 or so for simultaneous Uncanny Valley and High Octane Nightmare Fuel!

edited 18th Dec '10 9:09:36 AM by OmegaKross

You know, I never understood how the faces and models for Oblivion were "disgusting" or "horrific". :/

Stuff like this.◊

Just scroll down to the first bit of fanart, and you'll have what I think of the faces in Alone In The Dark.