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Is there a publisher who does cutscenes better than Sony Interactive Entertainment?
- Thread starter SilverX
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but very little (if any)? It's extremely well known that Blizzard has one of the best inhouse CGI Teams in the entertainment business. They have 200+ people on their CG team at this point.
The Arthas cinematic with the waking of Sindragosa still sends shivers. Years old and nothing coming near it but other Blizzard cinematics.
Maybe if you ignore all the bad stuff. There are also a lot of Sony games that aren't cinematic experiences (Knack, Infamous, Killzone, Bloodborne, Astrobot, etc). People keep focusing on a small handful of high budget titles.
Don't know, it feels like that most AAA games are on such a high level that the differences are negligible. Anyone can do a mocap session nowadays.
But I have to give a shoutout to Creative Assembly for their trailers. They manage to create compelling visuals and small narratives entirely with ingame assets, and from strategy games no less. For me that's more skillful than letting a serverfarm rendering a CGI movie for a few months.
I mean just look at this:
But I have to give a shoutout to Creative Assembly for their trailers. They manage to create compelling visuals and small narratives entirely with ingame assets, and from strategy games no less. For me that's more skillful than letting a serverfarm rendering a CGI movie for a few months.
I mean just look at this:
Also, Blur are the best CGI studio in the business.
Fuckers got Deadpool made for fuck's sake. They made the leaked Deadpool test footage all 100% CGI. Shit looks real.
Fuckers got Deadpool made for fuck's sake. They made the leaked Deadpool test footage all 100% CGI. Shit looks real.
I think Blizzard are right up there with them. Ridiculous cinematics.
...yes?
The emotion you feel and experience with cutscenes is amplified tens of times over what can be achieved in movies because of the gameplay in-between the cutscenes.
Uhh, video game cutscenes can be great yes, but that doesn't make them suddenly better than anything a movie can be. Hell, plenty of times losing control of the character is more irritating than it is fulfilling.
They are impressive very impressive. Best? No idea i dont play many games.
People mentioning Blizzard if you mean the cg stuff i dont think its a fair comparison here. In that department I would pit Riot against Blizzard. And Riot has literally no competition, nothing comes near their work in this area imo.
People mentioning Blizzard if you mean the cg stuff i dont think its a fair comparison here. In that department I would pit Riot against Blizzard. And Riot has literally no competition, nothing comes near their work in this area imo.
But it is not the cutscenes that are doing the legwork. This is the same argument as being more invested in characters from novels because you spend more time with them. One can argue that video games by virtue of their gameplay are more immersive than movies, but not that their cutscenes alone can deliver the same emotional punches a movie can, since a movie is solely designed to convey those things and required nothing outside of its runtime to do it (ignoring the fact that their content is usually stronger).
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Agree. The kings of cinematic action games. Lots of my favorite games are from Sony.
First you say story and cutscenes is the most important thing over anything else in games and then you say the cutscenes are getting enhanced by gameplay? I get what you want to say but it comes off kinda contradicting.
I suppose so, but even in SIE games the story is better told through gameplay over cutscenes. Imagine if that scene at the end of The Last of Us was only a cutscene. It wouldn't have a fraction of the impact.
PS: this is the actual best cutscene, nothing comes close
PS: this is the actual best cutscene, nothing comes close
That actually was the original ending they shot. Joel was going to burst into the operating room in a cutscene and then gun down the doctors along with Marlene (she was initially in there) until Neil decided that wasn't as impactful so he decided that it should be handled differently.[/spoiler]
You know, I feel we can simultaneously praise the work of artists working for studios under a company like Activision Blizzard, while also decrying their managements poorly made politically driven decision-making.
It's not a zero-sum game, you know.
And as I said I dont think the work is that great if they cant be bothered to work it into the game. I do not care for them making hype trailers for their loot box game that pretends it has a story, and also as china made clear pretends to have a progressive message.
Cutscenes or just cinematics? Publishers don't make the cutscenes in video games themselves. Kinda confused by this thread.
I do wonder who makes the Legendary intro cutscenes and if GameFreak ever worries they will have to make the games look like that eventually.
My vote goes to Sony. Square-Enix is up there along with Rockstar, especially Square. But Sony's efforts this gen should be the proof of that. Even recently this year, Days Gone and Death Stranding are two of the best showcases of it. This is mainly because SIE as a publisher is responsible for all the tech powering the visuals and scenes with their in-house SIE Visual Arts Group. Death Stranding is powered by it using their performance capture and facial tech.
"Performance capture and facial solution by SIE Visual Service Arts Group"
en.wikipedia.org
Then there's also the ICE team from Naughty Dog.
"Performance capture and facial solution by SIE Visual Service Arts Group"
PlayStation Studios - Wikipedia
Then there's also the ICE team from Naughty Dog.
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Destiny Era Bungie? Fuck no. Especially we are talking complete package of dialogue, acting and visuals. Don't think Blizzard compares either as their games have very little actually story for the most part.
I was thinking this as well. Think Blizzard hasn't made anything great in years too.
