Guild Wars 2 conversation cinematic

Published 11 November, 2011 Duration 0:47

ArenaNet's Chuck Jackman shows off Guild Wars 2's cinematic process and discusses the many ways that cinematics are used to convey the narrative and personal stories found in the upcoming MMO.

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  • ikehouserock #1 7 months ago

    I think I missed the part in the video where there was a discussion involved.

  • Innes #2 7 months ago

    8/10

  • CaptainKid #3 7 months ago

    Looks good! Better then Skyrim and that's not even an mmorpg.

  • zegerman1942 #4 7 months ago

    Looks and sounds nice, but what exactly did i see there?

  • WillyWongler #5 7 months ago

    Looks exactly like MagnaCarta 2 conversation cinematics.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #6 7 months ago

    I'm kinda getting fed up of Eurogamer taking one bit of footage/news and trying to string it out by dissecting the whole thing over weeks - This like many of bits of Guild Wars 2 'footage' has been around for months (ok, not this footage exactly but far better with context), in fact a few words into Youtube nets us full on play thrus (30 to 45 mins a vid) of a near complete game.

    Perhaps thats better 'news' then just slapping up a video without context leaving us trying to figure out what we just saw, 47 secs isn't near enough even the ad was almost half the time.
    Edited by Kremlik at 11/11/11 @ 17:23

  • WinterSnowblind #7 7 months ago

    @Kremlik
    Not quite true, this footage is brand new. Before now, they've been using place holder animations in the cut-scenes, this is the first time we've seen the final motion capped animations and proper lip syncing.

    There's a massive write up about it on the official site.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #8 7 months ago

    @WinterSnowblind 'There's a massive write up about it on the official site.'

    Case and point right there EG could have done better then just slap up the video like I said and actually wrote more to explain what people saw - Due to the nature of this site, like I'm saying it's bound to pop up as 3/4 'bits' of news later next week instead of a full fledged article..

    It's better to be good with content then be 'first' with news from time to time

  • hiddenranbir #9 7 months ago

    Kinda hoped there would be more animation than just them swaying side to side. Still, looks BEAUTIFUL.

  • stoopidgreg #10 7 months ago

    Looks like some characters saying a couple lines of badly acted dialogue - or as Eurogamer sees it - FRONT PAGE NEWS!

  • optimusprym8 #11 7 months ago

    Looks lovely but will be skipping these bits to avoid the horrible generic American accents

  • WinterSnowblind #12 7 months ago

    Yeah, I've got to say, while this is easily shaping up to be the kind of MMO's, the voice acting really lets it done. Everything else in the game seems really finely polished.. but for the voices, they seem to hire whoever was hanging around the office.

    It's not game breaking, but disappointing.

  • jrb #13 7 months ago

    get this game released already! been waiting far too long... :-((

  • HAL9000 #14 7 months ago

    Was I the only person physically cringing at that lame excuse for a narrative?