Two people hitting each other. And it wasn't even pretty.

 

Yay!

That didnt take as long as I thought it would.

 

Could have been a bit more going on. But it looks like they were some distance from the villiage at the time.

Baldur's Gate intro was better, and the graphics weren't as shiny.

Not bad, I'll keep waiting for more gameplay movies though.

meh, too short and it reminds me too much of NWN's intro. Cool graphics, but I was unimpressed.

I'm not sure how much I like 'Matrix moments' in my fantasy stuff, which is why I likely won't go near the new Dungeon Siege film (as if I needed another reason).

blizzard stuff works 'cause they dump so much money into the effort. you gets kewl factor after seeing blizzard stuff. obsidian and atari ain't willing to spend the time and effort on blizzard quality movies... so we gets a blizzard-lite intro... which kinda misses the whole point o' why the blizzard stuff is cool. if you ain't gonna try to dazzle us with hollywood movie quality animation, then don't bother... is money pi$$ed down the drain. is not like any of the cut scene movies is really gonna add to playing experience anyway... is simply an opportunity to makes people "ooh" and "ahh" at your effors... and with our ADD generation, those seconds of glitz is maybe all some folks will be able to recall from a game.

 

to this day we still is thinking that iwd had our favorite cut scene movies and intro. sure, blizzard has done some visually impressive stuff, but 5 seconds of blizzard pyrotechnics not could compare favorable to winchester narration and very nice story books drawings we got in iwd.

 

HA! Good Fun!

Here's a cooler intro: Clicky

There are CGI companies out there that make intro FMVs on contract, and given the quality of work I saw in Warhammer 40k intro (one such contracted FMV), it seems that they're about as good as Blizzard. Was this made by the Obsidian/Atari artists?

The 40k intro was amazing.

Same people made Hellgate: London's movies.

I'm not surprised.

 

Speaking of the CG quality alone, the trailer/intro didn't look bad at all. However, it was a bit too short and lacked the impact of truly amazing CG ala WH40k.

 

Still, I'm not sure why Gromnir had the impression that Blizzard's CG artists were much better - did you see the WoW intro?

http://www.blur.com/indexs.html

 

Go to animations -> game cinematics section. You can watch their masterpieces.

"Still, I'm not sure why Gromnir had the impression that Blizzard's CG artists were much better - did you see the WoW intro?"

 

did not see wow movie.

 

warcraft 3 and diablo 2 both had very impressive movie sequences given the date of their release. if blizzard has changed philosophy and no longer dumps big cash into little movies, then good for them.

 

HA! Good Fun!

http://www.blur.com/indexs.html

 

Go to animations -> game cinematics section. You can watch their masterpieces.

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That Warhammer video kicked some booty.

I am not particularly impressed by CG. May they be intros or part of the game sequence. They get in the way of actual gameplay and they are more than often worthless in terms of propelling the story forward through engaging the player. I prefer in game cinematics with in the game engine than FMV if such things are used.

These things are lost on me but I guess some people like them. As Gromnir notes, the Blizzard ones are usually pretty exceptional (and I guess there are others) but they rarely interest me.

 

More in-game footage please.

I didnt read the 2nd page of this thread but the man with the tattoos is the "shadow king" isnt he?

 

 

 

edit: pre-rendered FMV's might be fun as part of the finale to a game but at this point all I want too see from NWN2 is ingame, ingame and more ingame

Edited May 9, 200619 yr by Kaftan Barlast

How do you know it isn't in-game footage ...? "

Because you can compare them with the ingame footage of last week and see a HUGE difference? "

And, the fact that Obsidian's said so...

Because you can compare them with the ingame footage of last week and see a HUGE difference?  "

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This is first-person, that was third person. "

And, the fact that Obsidian's said so...

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Ssssshh!

I didnt read the 2nd page of this thread but the man with the tattoos is the "shadow king" isnt he?

 

I thought the Shadow King was the guy that became all shadowy a few times.

blizzard stuff works 'cause they dump so much money into the effort.  you gets kewl factor after seeing blizzard stuff.  obsidian and atari ain't willing to spend the time and effort on blizzard quality movies... so we gets a blizzard-lite intro... which kinda misses the whole point o' why the blizzard stuff is cool.  if you ain't gonna try to dazzle us with hollywood movie quality animation, then don't bother... is money pi$$ed down the drain.  is not like any of the cut scene movies is really gonna add to playing experience anyway... is simply an opportunity to makes people "ooh" and "ahh" at your effors... and with our ADD generation, those seconds of glitz is maybe all some folks will be able to recall from a game. 

 

to this day we still is thinking that iwd had our favorite cut scene movies and intro.  sure, blizzard has done some visually impressive stuff, but 5 seconds of blizzard pyrotechnics not could compare favorable to winchester narration and very nice story books drawings we got in iwd.

 

HA! Good Fun!

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You know it. After seeing the movies in K2 they pale in comparison to the movies of Diablo 2.

I am not particularly impressed by CG.  May they be intros or part of the game sequence. They get in the way of actual gameplay and they are more than often worthless in terms of propelling the story forward through engaging the player.  I prefer in game cinematics with in the game engine than FMV if such things are used.

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No surprise here.