Somehow i doubt that, very very very few Japanese graphic adventure game's/digital comics did well in Japan.
Bandai Namco and SCEI to establish a new joint company CELLIUS for Cell software
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Somehow i doubt that, very very very few Japanese graphic adventure game's/digital comics did well in Japan.
I bought one on PS2 to try out the concept... it's not as compelling as "real" games. Unless the cute actresses and handsome actors have their own pull, it may be a hard sell. Is there anything new with these 3 releases ?
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Google for Cellius and Brave Arms, you will find the scans on other sites.
I'm mistaken. These 3 games don't look like live-action interactive movie. They seem to be video games with elements of interactive movies. Would be interesting to see what the gameplay is like. Also the scans do not mention "Cellius". Bandai-Namco is the publisher.
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Bad_Boy said:
Google for Cellius and Brave Arms, you will find the scans on other sites.
I'm mistaken. These 3 games don't look like live-action interactive movie. They seem to be video games with elements of interactive movies. Would be interesting to see what the gameplay is like. Also the scans do not mention "Cellius". Bandai-Namco is the publisher.
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The quality looks exceptional (from the tiddly little scans) but I do question if they'd be entirely prerendered - that's a hell of a lot of rendering! Depending on how expansive the stories are, you can't render that much. eg. If 'The Incredibles' took 2 years to make and render (dunno how long it took), doubling the amount of content needed through different story choices would double the time to create... So either the stories are very short and prerendered, or the choice have negligable impact other than 'game over, start again', or it's rendering at least part in realtime to adapt to the changes.
Link on Gametrailers found via GAF:
Images are imageshack'd, so hopefully they don't vanish so soon. Mods, feel free to edit if that's too many images. So... uh, Kutaragi lives? Is he still CEO of Cellius?
But the most surprising part is that it's apparently being developed by Cellius... the joint venture between Sony and BandaiNamco
Which made me wish the three games Cellius announced in 2007: Brave Arms, Second Season 01, and Chain Lim!t are still under production... they looked pretty promising. But still good to see they still exist... thought they had vanished
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Heh, good choice. Evangelion has a large following, and is pretty unique. Just look at the items http://www.evastore.jp/index.cgi is selling.
A GANTZ game would fit PS3 + Home deployment too, although the fan base is probably much smaller. The way characters are teleported to and back from "real-life" makes it very Home-like. The slightly more mature theme match the PS3 owner profile also.
A GANTZ game would fit PS3 + Home deployment too, although the fan base is probably much smaller. The way characters are teleported to and back from "real-life" makes it very Home-like. The slightly more mature theme match the PS3 owner profile also.
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/05/27/ps3_evangelion_game_revealed/
EDIT: Cellius' work-in-progress Gundam VOD service: http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/03/18/gundam_vod_for_ps3/
EDIT: Cellius' work-in-progress Gundam VOD service: http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/03/18/gundam_vod_for_ps3/
Have serious world news read to you via a computer character???
Gradthrawn
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Its about damn time! I hate these stupid human reporters, too much character and personality. No, seriously. Especially the local newscasters. I'd say this is a step in the right direction (for me, at least). Now, if they could just get HAL to do the reading...
Why? Often small startups develop amzing new algorithms ahead of big corporations, and then they're bought. As this is a software solution, I think it's quite possible some new method is developed outside of the major players. Not saying it will happen, but it's not impossible. Especially if the target hardware forces out-of-the-box thinking.
Famitsu link to the Evangelion service: http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1224419_1124.html
The voice synthesis technology is called "Ruby Talk"
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AndriaSang has translated the article: http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/05/28/more_on_ps3_evangelion/
Ruby Talk sample clips: http://www.hitachi-ul.co.jp/middleware/rubytalk/summary.html
The voice synthesis technology is called "Ruby Talk"
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AndriaSang has translated the article: http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/05/28/more_on_ps3_evangelion/
Ruby Talk sample clips: http://www.hitachi-ul.co.jp/middleware/rubytalk/summary.html
The official website is up and a demo clip is available.
http://b.bngi-channel.jp/ps3_misato/p_movie.html
The voice of the original voice actress was sampled for this non-game.
http://b.bngi-channel.jp/ps3_misato/p_movie.html
The voice of the original voice actress was sampled for this non-game.
I just tend to think that the people doing exceptional work in this field are specialists at it, and have to spend a lot of capital developing these things, and I wouldn't expect a small shop like Cellius to be able to compete.
Now, if they are working with specialists in the field, then sure, something neat could happen.
As the voice is synthesised, you'd only get an approximation of the Actress's voice. Dunno how advanced they are in that respect.
