20 Times Until Dawn’s Uncanny Valley Made Us Super Uncomfortable

Until Dawn is a gorgeous game that looks incredibly realistic. Every once in a while though, someone looks a little TOO realistic for our tastes.

[Zotaku87]

You know, I haven't cared at all about the PS4 since it's launch. The more I hear about this game, though, the more I really want one.

[tigertron]

The last PS4 exclusive I bought was The Order, and I must admit I haven't really played my PS4 much since as I've been playing my XB1 more, but damn Until Dawn is good. If you enjoyed games like Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls then you should definitely check this game out.

[XanderZane]

Already own a PS4 and I want to play this game as well. But not until next year when I can grab a copy for $20-$25. Heavy Rain and Beyond 2 Souls were decent games. Worth a play through at least 2 times.

[Lightning Mr Bubbles]

Yeah, a few times the camera angle changed and my character was right in front of my screen in a close up, and the face looked so real it startled me a bit.

Also, when you press the button to go to the menu, it has the head of the character you're controlling and you can move the stick to make the character turn and look at you. And it looks like someone is really looking at you in the eyes.

These characters are based off real actors, so there's real people that look like them, so I guess that's how they managed to make the stares so convincing.

[uth11]

the faces on the menu screen look amazing!

Especially Sam's :)

[christian hour]

I just pretended it was set on a planet where we discarded all our first generation androids and it made them much more believable and the uncanny aspect less jarring, because as early humanoid robots they tend to be uncanny valley deformities :)

[Christopher]

Kind of pointless. You can take a screen grab from TV and find humans making worse faces than these.

[EdMcGlone]

Sure but it's Until Dawn's closeness (but not quite) to real life humans that makes it more pronounced. Until Dawn looks so good, but when it misses it misses hard (and comically) because of the Uncanny Valley.

[MetalGear81]

Love this game!!

[_-EDMIX-_]

I think it looks fine.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Love this game btw!

[Jaqen_Hghar]

All a man knows is Sam makes his crotch plate tight

[DragonDDark]

You're no one though.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

right but she is definitely someone...someone who is really really hot

[mogwaii]

This article is akin to those trash magazines that take photos of celebs just at the most awkward moment in between full facial expressions or mouthfulls of food. Trash.