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The Rise of “Movie Games”

   To say that video game storytelling has come a long way is a tremendous understatement. Remember back thirty or so years ago when the “plot” of a game was just an excuse to give the player an objective? Nowadays, the writing and presentation of a game’s story is often taken just as seriously as the actual gameplay, if not more so. Cinematic games are on the rise, and advancements in technology like motion-capture are causing the differences between game and film development to be outnumbered by similarities. Video games are such a unique medium, able to accomplish things that others cannot, and combining them with the medium of film creation and storytelling is a fascinating and increasingly popular concept. I’ve found a few excellent examples of “movie games” that each showcase ways that games are becoming part of cinema in their own right, and together prove just how far games have really come.

   Every now and then, movies will feature scenes shot in a single, long camera take. For a full minute or even longer, the camera moves around the set without being interrupted by cuts, for a difficult yet spectacular final result. It’s arguably even more difficult to pull off in animation, considering the animators all have to work together on the entire scene at the same time. Now, take that idea and extend it to an entire 50-hour-long scene - that’s God of War: Ragnarök. The full game has the most impressive cinematography I’ve ever seen in a game, which might even be more noteworthy than any long take in a live-action film because of how seamless the camera moves between cutscenes and gameplay. When the camera is often controlled by the player, keeping it consistently uninterrupted and smooth takes incredible talent from both the game’s programmers and director. To add to the cinematic feel of the game, every character is animated entirely by motion-capture, making the characters feel more like actors on a stage rather than just hand-animated character models.

   Taking the idea of motion-capture even further, Detroit: Become Human is about as close as it gets to a full live-action game without actually being live-action, largely thanks to mocap magic. Every character is modelled to look exactly like their voice actors, who also perform the motion-capture for a complete live-action feel. On top of the realistic graphics and excellent acting, the choice-based nature of the game makes D:BH closer to an interactive movie than a video game. Many choose-your-own adventure games can feel clunky and inconsistent due to allowing the player to control certain character decisions that clash with the rest of the writing, but D:BH is impressively consistent with any choice made by the player thanks to incredibly intricate programming and quality writing. Watching this game makes it easy to see why there is a growing overlap between game writers and film writers - the screenplay of this game could be mistaken for a film, and could very well be adapted to film with almost no modifications.

   Is the screenshot above taken from a game, or a new Pixar movie? The fact that it’s nearly impossible to tell will never not impress me, and that’s just the beginning. Despite what some might say, animation has just as much of a place in cinema as live action - animated films can tell some of the most emotional and moving stories ever in a short few hours (and if anyone disagrees, they haven’t watched Toy Story 3), and Kena: Bridge of Spirits does exactly that. The only difference is, instead of a bucket of popcorn, you’ve got a controller in your hands. Kena has an incredibly touching story told through a cute, charming and downright gorgeous artstyle, combined with whimsical orchestral music and adorable sound effects that make the game feel as close to a playable Pixar movie as it gets. You could pop a walkthrough of this game in front of a theatre audience and it would probably be a while before they realised they were even watching a video game!

   Looking at these games and all the technology and tricks that go into making them, it’s fascinating to see how far things have come in the past 50 years or so. Advanced cinematography, motion-capture and incredible animation, all held up by genuinely emotional and engaging writing that puts plenty of best-selling films to shame, makes me honestly believe video games are just as important to cinema as any movie or series. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this - do you agree, or do you think games aren’t quite there yet? Feedback is greatly appreciated, alongside reblogs and likes!   Thanks for reading!

Using a Philly International mod as a launch point, I take-off in the stock TBM 930 and track north to Boston Logan through a clearly unregulated virtual sky. Along the way, there are musings about other add-ons and MSFS visual quirks.

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What roles would Centaurs hypothetically be in?

I'm not sure yet! If I get to finalize what asteroid in the asteroid belt will be like, I bet it's somewhat related to centaurs too.

So far what I got for asteroids is that the bigger asteroids are definitely personified, then the unnamed smaller ones are creatures. So the bigger asteroids keep a closer eye on them, like rangers! Ceres is their leader. Well-liked and highly respected!

They're afraid of big old Jupiter because he's in charge of putting them in their place or even executing them, if they're bound to hurt anyone.

(For the record: Jupiter doesn't enjoy doing this at all, but someone's gotta do it. It's one of the reasons he still believes himself to be neither trustworthy nor good.)

Centaurs will likely be similar to this scenario with a somewhat different culture as asteroids and KBOs due to their placement from the Sun! But I do need to do further reading to make sure.

Miyeon Attempting to Pitch for the KBO League LG Opening Ceremony

oh well, she tried 😭 20230430

Commission for @foxgirlchorix of two of her sonas: Meissa the Mechanecological Angel Robot Doll, and Pulcherrima the icy super-earth with oxygen lakes.

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Digital art drawing. An angel-like robotic figure in front of a brown and white icy planet with rings. The figure, Meissa, is a mechanical girl with doll-like joints, four arms, two CANADARM-like grapplers, and large angel-like wings which are glowing red as radiator panels. She is smiling broadly with conical teeth. Her head is styled with a sculpted mohawk and headset with three Radio Plasma Wave Science antenna coming out of the right ear and an Apollo LM communications disk on the left ear. She is wearing a gold and silver foil dress made of the stuff used to insulate the Apollo LM. Her feet-shoes are small ion engines, with blue glow. Her eyes are glowing purple. The planet is off-white with a thin blue atmosphere and dark red-brown landforms, with a few scarce impact craters, most of which are multi-ring basins. There are some gray striations and splotches--oxygen lakes, with thin rivers running into them. The planet has rings and two pluto-like moons.

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Koreans are so creative when it comes to trolling

Ever since Sonny scored hattrick there's been a trend - trolling the baseball team

1 Son heung-min scoring 3 goals in 90 mins vs

9 hitters scoring 1 point for 4 hours

Baseball fans are savage

I've decided I'm now a fan of the KBO League in South Korea. Rip to the Reds and Brewers, but now the Kia Tigers & Hanhwa Eagles are my new favorite baseball teams 💅💅💅

love when we get to the part of the party where one straight guy straddles the lap of another straight guy making out moaning hand on ass the whole shebang

Winter at Boston Logan International

160629 Lovelyz Seo Jisoo at 2016 Tire Bank KBO League‬‬ © 시작하는사랑 do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

baseball...champions

Really enjoying A Clean Sweep on Netflix. The title in Korean I think is "The Strongest Baseball." Didn't think I'd suddenly get at into new sports at 39, but here we are.

^^Mid life faction change^^

I'm not a sports person, BUT baseball contains such great narratives and pinpoint moments of like, "somethings gotta give!"

230704 2023 KBO LEAGUE - SUJEONG

Only two teams in the KBO are over .500 right now.

If it weren't so fun and quirky, it'd probably be pretty miserable to follow a league like that.

230517 Kep1er Xiaoting at KBO league Kiwoom Heroes baseball match