You would think... I didn't even have time to find some of the more scary alien-looking ones.
G'night.
@Norm:Eh. Maybe some twelve year-olds complained?
I honestly think they might have. Rather than writing better dialogue for him, they just cheated by modeling his face with how they wanted you to see it? They'd make it more cutesy for sympathetic scenes, then give him back his cheekbones and shit for when he's supposed to be killing people?
edited 11th Jun '13 2:03:36 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistMeh.
Sorry for derailing your conversation.
Cloud is messed up mentally, physically and now metaphysically.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Ninja'd, so I'm putting it here: I honestly think they might have. Rather than writing better dialogue for him, they just cheated by modeling his face with how they wanted you to see it? They'd make it more cutesy for sympathetic scenes, then give him back his cheekbones and shit for when he's supposed to be killing people?
@Pyro: You don't even have to look closely, though. I actually remember looking away from the screen at times when watching it for the first time through simply because it jarred me so much and creeped me out.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistAnd there's his creepy paedosmile at the end... when he's surrounded by children... and he very, very slowly essentially sneers at the camera and stares for a full five seconds. -Shudder-
So... I think Mr. Nomura tried to apply what he knew about anime to a photorealistic CGI movie. And it didn't work.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistYep... ACC fixes several of the problems that AC had, but it... still didn't work.
(At least it didn't retcon half the original game, though!... Bastards.)
...Spirits Within stayed consistent and had synched up lip flaps. But the Uncanny Valley was even deeper there.
Which is a shame, because I think Spirits Within might have actually been good if they hadn't marketed it as Final Fantasy. To recap:
- People familiar with FF will see "Final Fantasy" and be disappointed that the only thing it has in common with the series is a guy named Cid and a plot largely ripped off from VII (and all the unused ideas that didn't go into VII -- no, really, check the production thingies).
- People unfamiliar with FF will see "Final Fantasy" and think it's part of a preexisting series and therefore not for them.
- Lip flaps that match! Hooray for lip flaps that match!
- It was a new, untried thing they were doing — it was the first feature-length CGI movie done in a photorealistic style, I believe. Done with motion capture, no less. That could have roped a few people into watching it.
- The people looked like puppets sometimes, which probably scared some people off.
...
-Witty concluding line-
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistSpirits Within had a lot of visual cues that Mass Effect appropriated, so I can at least appreciate that.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I see. Said friend seems to like the movie a fair bit, but with no offence intended towards him... he's probably the kind of guy that would just overlook its flaws.
I had an opportunity to watch Spirits Within once on band camp a couple of years back IIRC, but the other people in the cabin wanted to watch a show about porn stars so I let them be.
In our heart, Mr. Ando will always be a penguin.
Something sexual happened at band camp, yet you give up the perfect moment for an American Pie quip.
I am disappoint, Pyro.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?@Norm: So I'm not the only one that noticed that, then... when I first saw a picture of Miranda Lawson online, I thought it was a weirdly-stacked Aki Ross at first.
@Pyro: You can find it online for free easily enough, and the English dub is pretty decent. Haven't seen the Japanese yet.
Of course, they did market it as Final Fantasy... and then Squaresoft nearly went under because they put so much into the movie and it bombed, taking the practically-stillborn Square Pictures with it. Which nearly killed the merger with Enix. And then the VII-remake for the PS 2 was cancelled due to money issues. And then came the age of money-grubbing, low-quality spinoffs...
</resentment>
Of course, Squeenix was desperate enough for money to brownnose Disney that Kingdom Hearts got created, which I suppose is good, but still...
...Anyway, when ACC was good, it was definitely good. The fights are fun to watch, and the animation (the motion, at least. Thank god for mocap) was executed quite well. The updated graphics also touched up a few scenes to look less creepy and added new ones which cleared up some plotholes and character derps. But if you're looking for anything deeper than a guy with a really big sword chopping a motorcycle in half and watching it explode behind him, you're in for disappointment.
This. You have failed as a human being on the most basic level.
edited 11th Jun '13 3:02:35 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistEvery single year, every single time I've mentioned the words "band camp" near anyone, they have made a reference to American Pie.
I've never seen the movie.
Sorry, I have to have dinner now, so I can't respond to that. Bye.
edited 11th Jun '13 3:03:25 AM by pyr0h1tman8
In our heart, Mr. Ando will always be a penguin.Yeah, but you can see inspirations in the armour, vehicles, weapons.
Even the omnitools.
Topics Norm has derailed into Mass Effect: 2.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I OFFICIALLY GRADUATED TODAY
Nothing seems to have changed. But perhaps one day it will.Someone start another conversation so I can turn it towards Mass Effect.
edited 11th Jun '13 3:18:16 AM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Ooh! Wait wait wait — CALIBRATIONS
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AHAHAHAHAHA... why am I still awake?
...Fuck, now Garrus sounds like Steve Buscemi in my head.
...And Shepard is Alec Baldwin.
DAMMIT.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist

@Spazz: One would think 3D models would be easier to keep consistent than drawings...
@Norm: That is just straight-up cray.
Going to go into my bed and die now. G'night, y'all.
and then they fricked in the booty