i weighed including that but i knew that if i dropped the posting
gunball, the next person would pick it up and post:rat-salute: thank you for your service, soldier.
Why are they remaking this? It's not like gaming has really changed any at all during the time between. Like, MGS got remade on the very next generation but there was also a massive leap between the two. Now it's a barely noticeable graphical upgrade. There's no need for this.
It actually seems like they're burning money when they could've done a remaster for way cheaper and just sell that shit bundled with TLOS2 on the PS5, Sony should hire me.
They could do that, but I bet dollars to donuts this is mainly because Sony wants Naughty Dog to start cranking out new Last of Us media to coincide with the upcoming release of the TV show
Ah, yeah, it makes a bit more sense if they're making an entire franchise out of this, especially if the aim is getting the new designs closer to the TV counterparts.
Yeah, we're getting this remake this year and a multiplayer focused title next year
The show's release is scheduled to sit between those projects and I wouldn't be surprised if they announced The Last of Us part 3 next year as well
Hell, with the Horizon: Zero Dawn and Twisted Metal TV shows coming out, and rumors of a Destiny TV show floating about, it's going to be a great year for things we recognize
I also imagine that artists, animators, and coders might need to get used to what a new gen of consoles handle before a project is far enough along that they have real work. So maybe redoing assets of older games is something that's always happened, and the PS4/PS5 generation spike in remasters and remakes is admin staff pushing those projects further for the sake of "efficiency".
Maybe this model looks more like the girl playing Ellie in the show?
Doesn't really look like Bella Ramsey to me
Would have been an opportunity there, but I think it's mainly to make her look less like Elliot Page as someone else mentioned somewhere around here
Okay, more accurat, in what way at all could this be meaningfully different?
It's not, Sony doesn't want it to be different
Sony wants to turn it into a critically praised multimedia franchise
Sony has plans to turn all of it's IP into TV shows and movies
What better way to get you to buy a PS5 than to pull a "You watched the award-winning show, now play the game, only in PS5 (and pc)"
That's too bad. Isn't the plot just like, pretty typical zombie stuff? I never played it.
The sequel got up its own ass trying to make a point about the cycle of violence, but the first one is just a good story about a broken man and what he does with his second chance
Someone who watched the TV show would probably be more likely to check out a PS5 version than the PS4 one
Got to train new employees somehow after you burn everyone out with massive crunch.
Why would anyone in programming work these 80+ hour crunch weeks in gaming or special effects studios when they can earn double the money working for 40 hours a week at a bank or something.
Not even at a bank, they could just work on the business side of gaming. Pretty sure even EA pays market wage and 40hr weeks for the people who figure out how to get the most out of selling FUT packs. It's less creative work, but fuck being on the creative side if it means getting treated like shit for worse pay.
if they used motion capture then switched out the face its built on isn't that going to fuck it up? like even the dimensions of the head are a bit shorter
gonna show my ass here but are face mo-caps not from the voice actors? they're gonna use the same audio/actors and i doubt they'd re-hire them?
oh wow okay so not only is it a shameless cash grab they've also infused some Director's Cut perfectionist brainworms so they might end up losing money :miyazaki-laugh:
Agreed. I happened to be one of those people with that body at that age. Also ask Billie Eilish. Apparently she has had body issues because she had bigger boobs as well.
I'm looking at some comparison pictures and everyone looks like they're made of clay. Really odd stylistic decision. I suppose it's not a finished product yet but it looks kinda uncanny, actually. Luckily I have 0 investment in the last of us so I don't care, though I'm a bit confused as to why insist on remaking the game when it just needed a texture upscale and some ray tracing here and there.
I feel this way about Return to Arkham. It just felt like it removed the art-style in exchange for better textures. It was an inferior product that just felt uncanny
They had a whole tantrum because a woman had muscles and that “wasn’t biologically possible”. In reality it was a Jordan Peterson style rant about women not make their pee pee go up
I agree with everyone who likes the old face better, but I think everyone is forgetting the very public debacle with Elliot Page over this design. (Article is from before he transitioned and misgenders him.) Basically, the design was pretty obviously inspired by his performance/appearance in Juno to the point where a huge number of fans assumed he was involved.
People also gave him a lot of shit for being upset, and I remember a lot of people claiming he was bitter since the game he was actually starring in, Beyond Two Souls, was less well received. Naughty Dog is probably more aware of the potential legal trouble since Page’s comments on not wanting his likeness in the game are now pre-development/release.
Reading old stuff about him is whacking me out my brain already deleted his old name from the database
I remember a lot of people claiming he was bitter since the game he was actually starring in, Beyond Two Souls, was less well received.
He was upset initially but eventually said he was looking forward to playing the game
I honestly can't tell which image is supposed to be the improved one. They just looked like marginally different photo-realistic styles.
Is that a pepe avi calling out someone's pedophilia?
Truly :heartbreaking: time
I think that pepe along with "based" has now been reclaimed by the left/normal people.
It's done quite a trip online, from normal-ass reaction image, to 4chan nazi avatar, to twitch emote, back to normie reaction image again, all while Matt Furie went from being lax about its constantly evolving memetic status, to wanting every usage associated to 4chan basically banned from the internet, to Matt Furie reclaiming Pepe back to himself and then selling original Pepe NFTs, it's nuts.
tbh I don't really care but I also don't see the need to make her chest smaller. It's not like she's some hentai archetype like every character from Overwatch
It’s not like she’s some hentai archetype
She's the daughter figure that grizzled middle aged father figure must protect with Liam Neeson style fanatical violence. Not entirely sure if that's (directly) a hentai archetype but it certainly is an archetype, especially in the west.
Taken was about CIA agent Liam Neeson saving his daughter from sex traffickers :epstein:
I know, but even if the bad guys later became zombies or black/brown-coded monsters of some sort :us-foreign-policy:, Taken did established the archetype for what came afterward in numerous forms of media.
Not entirely sure if that’s (directly) a hentai archetype but it certainly is an archetype, especially in the west.
I meant the physical part of it. Never played the game. My point is that she kinda just looks like a normal girl, and I don't see why there was a need to make her look different
again, not that I care or that such a small change would prevent me from buying a game that I was otherwise planning to buy
That is of course the first thing you notice as opposed to the drastically changed facial structure
She looks like a completely different character
Well, they kind of based the original design on Elliot Page and he was unhappy with that at the time. I guess they're using this opportunity to make Ellie more in line with her look in part 2 and less like Elliot.
Doesn't this always happen when games get remade?
I guess it's hard to just add polygons to the old face
Don't see an awful lot of difference, tbh. Will it make the game better? Doubt it, and I've never played the original, so my thoughts don't mean shit anyway.
That said, I'm glad that I didn't notice the "boob nerf" until someone else pointed it out. What is wrong with gamers?
and ive finally figured out the murkier screens are the fucking remake :picard:
I don't think the remake looks much better than the original. And why even bother making a remake when the original holds up well even now.
Just an excuse to train up some interns or something without needing new voice actors I guess
it looks like they just added post processing and changed character models lol
