I don't think so, i got the first one gifted from the epic store, i'm never gonna buy a game where i know that i'm gonna dread every combat encounter for possibly 40-50 hours or more, i jist can't express with words how much i hate everything about this combat system, and i don't wanna be a broken record and sour the people who are excited for the game.
People have their own sleep and work schedules, like in KCD1, which really helps with immersion. And you can now antagonize people like in RDR2, but I am sure it is a simplified version in KCD2. RDR2 has a crazy amount of dialogue variety among their NPCs that is still industry leading. But even in KCD1, NPCs are pretty good at reacting to stuff. Much better than most AAA games like Cyberpunk
I have to disagree that RDR2's animation is gold standard, yes it looks impressive but controls horribly. Its like driving a tank at times.
We were talking about npcs animations, the variety is astounding compared to other games, and gta6 looks 10x times better, that beach scene get me a semi every time i think about it.
Sorry, multitasking. That will teach me to read only the last comment.
RDR2 probably cost like 3x to make vs KCD2. They aren’t at that level, but I think all in all, considering much larger freedom vs RDR2 (missions there are very rigid for most part), it’s a good overall tradeoff.
But it's also true that animations are super important to sell your liveable, breathable city.
I will agree to disagree I guess. You have to have trade offs somewhere. I would rather devs focused on writing, characterization, NPCs and NPC AI, freedom to approach missions in many different ways, interesting side quests, good approach to crafting and more vs blowing a lot of money on mocap.
Different games have different priorities, i get that, it would be great to have both things.I will agree to disagree I guess. You have to have trade offs somewhere. I would rather devs focused on writing, characterization, NPCs and NPC AI, freedom to approach missions in many different ways, interesting side quests, good approach to crafting and more vs blowing a lot of money on mocap.
I mean sure, if they can do it all, that’s great, but usually studios don’t have the budget (unless you are Rockstar).
I mean look at Spider-Man 2 and what we got for $300 mil reported cost. I would take crappier animations vs that game any day of the week.
For Crimson Desert, it looks interesting but we don’t know jack about its storytelling, mission approach, NPC AI and more. Hard to judge at this juncture.
It worked!! Ok so, now that I'm a bit more into the game, I'm really diggin this vulnerable shit. The swordplay (though I'm getting spanked more often than not) is rewarding when I finally manage to kill someone. Henry is a funny dude bruh, I like the character. The way he speaks so frankly. And that Ben Shapiro head ass cat robbing the butchers body! That guy was a fucking asshole for real. Felt really good selecting fuck you and then trying to beat his ass.
Ben shapiro is in the game?
the game director has a twitter post yesterday saying KCD2 has the most words of any RPG ever created. Even more than Baldurs Gate 3. I don't think people are grasping how big this game really isI will agree to disagree I guess. You have to have trade offs somewhere. I would rather devs focused on writing, characterization, NPCs and NPC AI, freedom to approach missions in many different ways, interesting side quests, good approach to crafting and more vs blowing a lot of money on mocap.
I mean sure, if they can do it all, that’s great, but usually studios don’t have the budget (unless you are Rockstar).
I mean look at Spider-Man 2 and what we got for $300 mil reported cost. I would take crappier animations vs that game any day of the week.
For Crimson Desert, it looks interesting but we don’t know jack about its storytelling, mission approach, NPC AI and more. Hard to judge at this juncture.
RDR2 is estimated to have cost 400+ million (1600 fulltime devs with avg salary 5K for 5 years is a bit under 500M)
Yep, them and some of Sony’s studios are basically it for that sort of high end mocap. It’s not worth the money for smaller publishers and studios. It’s much better to concentrate on their own strengths and weaknesses should see that shortly with KCD2.
A full time Rockstar developer average over 100k a year. A large portion of the 2000 people who worked on RDR2 were part time workers. Whether it be voice actors, marketers, producers, contracted people. For example, Larian has 400 plus developers, but over 2000 people worked on BG3
My man take your medicines
You get unput lag on NPC's?
All animations are based in your input, for example you pushing a NPC, so basically the full engine is using the latency to make better kinematic animations
No. i made the same mistake the person you quoted was talking about the quality of NPC animations, nothing to do with the fact that Red Dead controls like shit.
I was not making that number up - Warhorse CEO confirmed in interview the cost is around 1 billion Czech Crowns, which is about 41 million USD.
It was perfectly playable on console and even more on pc, not everything need to feel like a super fast and reactive game, especially not an immersive simulation like rdr2, many people love the heaviness of rockstar games, deal wth it.
Sure, you can ask 1seg latency controls for GTA 6, Rockstar will be happy
