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well, it's still one step closer to me being actually able to play it

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woah. does that include use of all the IPP stuff?

still windows-only though :\

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oh yeah, some cel-shading is done with an edge detection shader too, my bad. i should probably shut up because i barely know what i'm talking about.

been pondering exactly how the cel shading in that ps3 misato katsuragi news reader was done, because it's the slickest i've seen yet - the outlines are always in exactly the right place and at the right widths, perfectly AAed, and it's not really a cel-shading thing per se but i appreciate that her mouth moves instantaneously. i'd like to see game cel-shading on this level of accuracy where all the animation was done like that instead of automatically interpolated (though i guess it would still end up looking artificial when the camera moved.)

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yeah, it'd be better if they eliminated interpolation in all the animation like i suggested or capped the frame rate something low. but it's a farther step than any other game cel-shading i know of. (fun somewhat related fact: for the 3D rendered environments in spirited away and howl's moving castle, they intentionally cut/paused on a couple frames each second so it would match better with the hand-drawn elements)

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there are definitely cel-shaders that use cubemaps to simulate the presence of a point light that doesn't move with the camera. but yeah that may very well be overkill in most situations. and i thought i read that's how it was done in wind waker, but that person may have just been guessing.

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well yeah it's a more controlled environment than most, with a higher polycount window since it's only focused on one character, but the outlines are still much much smoother and more convincing than that naruto game or the last prince of persia. not sure what you mean by "even if it was all being rendered in realtime." it is, i tried the demo on my ps3, you can move the camera around and everything.

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that's a good article. some of that crossed my mind quite a few times during the course of persona 4, where most of the characters are constantly telling you how awesome and what a great friend you are.

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i don't know what that is but it looks beautiful

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i get what you're saying but that doesn't look nearly as bad to me as the xtreme anime ninja vibe from the trailer. certainly not improving things by its mere addition, though.

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oh man that is the most ridiculously bitchy bandwidth protection picture ever

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only yesterday with its carefully controlled palette, especially in the flashbacks, is way nicer to look at than a live-action version had any chance to be

also it's got that one daydream sequence where she's like flying and stuff

toradora would seem to have more to do with the difficulty of finding a competent romantic female lead who looks 5

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awesome

damn, maybe spinach's marketing strategy was on the right track after all

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i can't imagine any purpose for gesture tracking on a system with a touchscreen except to humiliate the player

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is that rudie he's a cutie

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bullet points i want to see on back of P5 box
- choose between dude or girl protagonist, with some potentially bisexual social links for each
- handles characters' internal struggles 50% more coherently with 80% less pandering to the status quo
- instead of rudimentary random maze crawling, other world is non-stop semi-randomly-composed battles, with brawler-style enemy waves replacing floors in the progression structure
- more than one normal battle theme
- all of the voice acting is good, no nanakos we swear

i just wanna know what system it's going to be on. atlus was trying to recruit ps3 and 360-experienced programmers a while back, and i'm pretty sure persona is their most lucrative property, but i'd honestly rather they put it on PSP or 3DS if they can't make the HD fully-voiceacted/cutscened thing work just right, at least something along the lines of valkyria chronicles if not mass effect. p3/4's dialogue presentation would just feel weird and creepy in HD.

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oh yeah, i agree the protagonist's choices shouldn't ever be voiced, for the same reason. but i think the anime portrait next to 3d model thing and the one-second soundbites they use for social link dialogue would come off really awkward on a current system.

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i could've swore paul's had genuine involvement with vidcons several times already. didn't he do pixel art for a couple ds games?

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the shattered memories team was climax group who are british and have nothing to do with double helix who made homecoming

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the space harrier stage in bayonetta was pretty poorly executed but i guess if the production was focused on perfecting the feel of rail shooting like bayonetta does for brawling that could be great

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seems like it. that scene only uses a handful of textures along with a grayscale lightmap so it shouldn't take as long to load as you might fear.

i guess they're just trying to show off the engine/graphix but that was a pretty hilariously blah trailer.

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gecko kinda looks like a miraculously not-terrible new peripheral sonic character, i think it's the asshole look on his face

i like the panda seal thing although i agree it would be better w/out the outfit

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that tomb raider game looks a lot like a psx indiana jones game i vaguely remember from a demo disc. weird.

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iirc the storybook about rosalina's childhood was a mildly charming Little Prince homage but like rosalina had nothing to do with anything and the cutscenes were an indulgent drag with a stock japanese metaphysical rebirth ending. i like what tim said: why would the player want to save a princess when there's already one right in front of them? like much of the game design, it's a sloppy committee-driven pile of Stuff that feels like less than the sum of its parts and i'm a worse person for writing a paragraph about it

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well, Ico could stand to run in more than 320x240, though i guess the textures might look weird then

edit: not really, here are some shots taken with pscx2. there's a surprising amount of detail, makes you wonder if they initially wanted it to be standard resolution but had to scale it down at some point during development to get the bloom etc at a decent framerate
http://i39.tinypic.com/se9dau.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/8/8/0/7/7/3/ico_2.jpg.jpg

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i want to like it but there's something weird about those ghibli ps3 shots, the lighting and characters and foliage and backgrounds are frequently mismatched in style and fidelity, just enough to throw the effect off. almost like an uncanny valley for cel animation.

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