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This is how people move in real life. If the people who criticize the game for its impeccable mo-cap work would only leave their parents' basements once in a while and got some real interaction, they'd see that.
Psh. Nerds.
Psh. Nerds.
The game is on my top ten of the whole year. It is a can't miss experience to be honest and people complaining about a few bugs then calling the entire game shit pisses me off. Fallout New Vegas was a worst case scenario and I feel Dead island is a better game than FNV. If you haven't thought about picking it up, rent it and find out what makes it so great. Also I am playing on PC and the bugs aren't even that obvious unless you go looking for them and choose to nitpick, the worst being that I loaded a checkpoint and got sent back to the very beginning of the game after about an hour of progress, but that hasn't happened since.
Of course it looks like this. The weird animation seen here is necessary for the first-person camera to see the right things - namely the character's arms, attack animations, and the viewbob. If the game was actually meant to have a third-person camera, then the first-person camera would actually hide the player model and behave independently of the model's movement, and they would have instead made the characters animations look human without fear of it looking strange in first-person.
The game is on my top ten of the whole year. It is a can't miss experience to be honest and people complaining about a few bugs then calling the entire game shit pisses me off. Fallout New Vegas was a worst case scenario and I feel Dead island is a better game than FNV. If you haven't thought about picking it up, rent it and find out what makes it so great. Also I am playing on PC and the bugs aren't even that obvious unless you go looking for them and choose to nitpick, the worst being that I loaded a checkpoint and got sent back to the very beginning of the game after about an hour of progress, but that hasn't happened since.
So, when you're in first-person mode, do you see the shadow that the 3rd person model produces, or is there no shadow? I'm just wondering if the weird arm positions are for shadow aesthetics (altho it'd probably still look weird)
they really should use those animations for some crazy zombie.. that's pretty terrifying.. id scream if something ran at me walking like that.
Dead island is really one of the best games i have played this year, not denying it has its flaws and, lets face it, completely botched PC release. As far as i'm concerned the animation for player in third person doesn't really matter, as it was never meant to be seen.
Why does this video gave the Benny Hill theme playing?
Fixed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
Fixed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
If you're playing it, you should really use hamachi, the co-op seems to run a lot smoother for me and my friend that way.
But then how do they animate in co-op? I mean, what's the point of these terrible animations if they need decent looking ones anyway?
@MooseyMcMan
They are exaggerated so they look good from first person, which is also why their back is so stiff. The other players actually see completely different animations made to be viewed from 3rd person, not first person.
Body animations for a first person game are always really hard to get looking good, and once you do, they usually look terrible in first person.
They are exaggerated so they look good from first person, which is also why their back is so stiff. The other players actually see completely different animations made to be viewed from 3rd person, not first person.
Body animations for a first person game are always really hard to get looking good, and once you do, they usually look terrible in first person.
I swear my first thought as soon as I saw her walking wierdly was that she looked like the damn Charger from left 4 dead 2.
Meh. Same deal with Mirrors Edge. No big deal, it's that way for the player to see the characters body via the camera positioned at their head rather than hovering on nothingness; also probably saves on production costs. Most likely looks the same in Chronicles of Riddick, and any other FPS you can think of which has visible models like that. Not like it matters:
HATERS GONNA HATE.
HATERS GONNA HATE.
How DARE they use placeholder art to prototype possible features and leave them in the dev build! Don't they know anything about software development, geez.
@Mr mew
That's EXACTLY what it is. Using normal animations from first person tends to look surprisingly stiff, so they are exaggerated and changed for the camera (no need to animate what's not seen, etc). It doesn't really save on production costs so much (having no animation or just arms and guns from first person is still cheaper and easier than a full body setup) but this is still fairly standard to get a first person camera looking "right" with a body model.
Doesn't mean it doesn't make for a good laugh out of context though.
That's EXACTLY what it is. Using normal animations from first person tends to look surprisingly stiff, so they are exaggerated and changed for the camera (no need to animate what's not seen, etc). It doesn't really save on production costs so much (having no animation or just arms and guns from first person is still cheaper and easier than a full body setup) but this is still fairly standard to get a first person camera looking "right" with a body model.
Doesn't mean it doesn't make for a good laugh out of context though.
@spatuluk, the shadow you always see is basically the character standing with his/her arms to their sides. Think it might change a little when you pick something up.
Dear god, I hope nobody ever does this for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He already seems to have his arms freakishly apart when he sprints, if somebody shows that in 3rd person Adam Jensen can never look cool again.
Odd, but understandable.
But hang on, if those are how the animations appear in third-person what do other people look like in co-op...?
But hang on, if those are how the animations appear in third-person what do other people look like in co-op...?
Even if the animations were this bad, it's not as horrible as a zombie immediately turning around and hitting you without moving. That is bullshit!
Panzadolphin56, other players presumably see a completely different model.
Like others have said, this is all for the sake of the first person view. A standard first person view will have the arms way out to the sides, exaggerated even more with widescreen becoming the norm. The upper body stays rock-steady to control camera/limb bounce. The leg movement may actually be normal. It wouldn't ever figure into the FPS camera view, and the developers would have no reason to alter it.
Like others have said, this is all for the sake of the first person view. A standard first person view will have the arms way out to the sides, exaggerated even more with widescreen becoming the norm. The upper body stays rock-steady to control camera/limb bounce. The leg movement may actually be normal. It wouldn't ever figure into the FPS camera view, and the developers would have no reason to alter it.
Let me say this first: I get that this is the dev build.
But I don't understand how people find these kind of upper-body animations acceptable in ANY first-person game, only because you're not supposed to see them. You can still see how bad they are when you watch your shadow.
I also don't understand how there's basically no developers who have found the best way to use the camera in these types of games so that two completely different types of animations aren't needed in case they've added in something like co-op. It should be easy at this point considering games have gotten to where they are. More work needs to be done with cameras, natural animations, and clipping so that stuff like this can be a thing of the past.
But I don't understand how people find these kind of upper-body animations acceptable in ANY first-person game, only because you're not supposed to see them. You can still see how bad they are when you watch your shadow.
I also don't understand how there's basically no developers who have found the best way to use the camera in these types of games so that two completely different types of animations aren't needed in case they've added in something like co-op. It should be easy at this point considering games have gotten to where they are. More work needs to be done with cameras, natural animations, and clipping so that stuff like this can be a thing of the past.
i think this shouldn't be a criticism for any version since you technically aren't allowed to play in 3rd person and the game was heavily designed for first person.
still.... i have to wonder how this looks in co-op. with a bunch of stiff-torsoed, rotating people wiggling rubber arms with deadly objects on the other end of them at hordes of zombies... XD
still.... i have to wonder how this looks in co-op. with a bunch of stiff-torsoed, rotating people wiggling rubber arms with deadly objects on the other end of them at hordes of zombies... XD
Well, this is nothing new. Lots of games do this when rendering a first person perspective, to get the arms to pump dramatically on screen when sprinting and such.
This is just pulling back the curtain a little on how game animation works - it would be like complaining about Seaseme Street because you saw a puppeteer crouching behind the stage when you entered the studio from the rear.
This is just pulling back the curtain a little on how game animation works - it would be like complaining about Seaseme Street because you saw a puppeteer crouching behind the stage when you entered the studio from the rear.
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