Quantic Dream placed a hidden hint about their next game in the tech demo

Quantic Dream founder David Cage has showed today at GDC a tech demo that demonstrates the capabilities of the new engine that will power Quantic Dream’s next game and possibly a hidden hint about their upcoming title.

[hardcore1912]

The tech demo was good, I'm now interested to know more. But I don't think the facial expression animations are as good as L.A Noire.

[NovusTerminus]

The reason is LA Noire's animations took allot of RAM to look like that. Hence why their bodies where low res but their faces moved human.

[hardcore1912]

No, I don't agree with you. L.A Noire character bodies where fine not low res as you say, especially considering it's an open-world game, not a linear super scripted game.

[Grap]

LordMe he's right the animations in LA Noire took allot of ram in scene in real time (gameplay) they didn't (nor can't) use the facial expression engine.

[nveenio]

I wasn't impressed with LA Noire's animations. It looked too much like a video mapped on a model. I'd rather the animation be more organic to the model itself, like what QD has done here.

[NukaCola]

I wouldn't compare LA Noire to this at all. LA Noire uses real time faces mapped to pretty mediocre bodies. The game was great but the facial expressions were only there to help with it's TRUTH & LIE judgment system.

With QD games, its always about emotion and story. The character are always graphically at their best, not for the effect, but to allow the voice actors to push their emotions into them. David Cage sets his players up with a sense that you learn and grow with the story and you make your choices based on your own emotions in how you would perform each task or scenerio.

LA Noire is driven from a detective's standpoint and is much more linear. QD is about giving the player a freedom to make choices and even mistakes and failures.

I do have to say I am impressed. The Bicentennial Man meets Blade Runner kind of choked me up a bit. Cage is a genius.

[mep69]

@inveni0
Agree completely.

Also LA Noire got a bit boring early on. I wasn't ever bored in Heavy Rain. Thing that let that down for me was some of the Voice Acting and the scenario of how they made Jason die was a bit weak. Should of had something that made abit more sence, like an argument or him saying im bored lets play tag or something like that would have made more sence then him randomly crossing the road and walking back to get hit by a car.

Hmm lol all this just to agree with you HAHA ^_^

[SilentNegotiator]

LA Noire was like watching real people in a "human costume" made of clay and paper, only faces exposed.

But then, I didn't really find ANYTHING impressive about that game. Maybe if they spent less time on whipping actors and face capturing and more on gameplay...

[TheKindRoost]

The tech in L.A Noir was great but it felt very unnatural compared to this. In L.A Noir the face and body felt like they had minds of their own due to being captured separately, this tech on the other hand captures everything as a whole and it shows,the body language matches the facial expression.

[NoOoB101]

This tech demo is year old they said. Im sure a lot of improvements have been made.

[gta_manic]

To me, La Noire was a bit awkward at times with the acting, but the face mapping was great. This tech is trying to put everything together with not just the face mapping but having everything recorded at the same time including voice and motion together.

[Lord_Sloth]

Because LA Noire spent years in development. Tech demos don't.

[CarlitoBrigante]

L.A Noire took 6 years to make. This demo was made 1 year ago, just 1 year after Heavy Rains release, and it already looks far better than L.A Noire.

L.A Noire was a boring game btw, the ending sucked. Quantic Dream tells awesome stories.

[PirateThom]

LA Noire may have better facial animations because their engine was built solely around it. (I would dispute that though, it was a bit weird at times.)

They captured JUST the actors face and then applied it to a body that was captured separately. It's why the main times it comes into play, the actors are, pretty much static, bar their face. There's too much of a disconnect in quality of the motion capture in LA Noire and that's why Cage was saying it wasn't suitable, this captured the actor doing everything at once, no disconnect. Which is why it's more natural.

[BabyTownFrolics]

do you not realize what website your on? acknowledge the power of the ps3 or perish

cant wait for their next game, I hope it integrates move from day one

[StraightPath]

L.A noire facial animation was the best i have seen. This was good but unfortunately wasnt as good in terms of real life depiction. This you can tell its a computer graphics, at times l.a noire facial impressions were scary real looking.

[FrankDrebin]

A hidden Hint.
Haha

I like the sounds of this!

Haha

[gamey]

I will buy anything put out by Quantic after Heavy Rain, and this tech demo was riveting. I want more. The hint thing embedded in the demo was pure conjecture though. May be true, but the title had a ring of certainty to it. Be fun if it was, though!

[Ness-Psi]

I thought he said his next game was gonna be an emotional war game?

what ever it is i'm very excited,i just like that he doesnt stick to the same old thing and tries new things.

the tech demo was awesome.

[Tomonobu Itagaki]

Did you also notice that Kara has 5 fingers? It's certainly not a coincidence, definitely another hint about their next game.

[Virtual_Reality]

To have 5 fingers that is more normal than a coincidence xD.

If that was Sarcasm, then lol!

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

*woosh!*

[Virtual_Reality]

Hard to tell, but also there is another article of QD saying they are recruiting personal, and also they are casting asian people for something.

Definitely they are working in a game with the new engine, but still yet to be revealed.

[VsAssassin]

Did you see Kara's facial expression when the interviewer gave her a name? That was subtle but very nicely done! I say QD nailed subtle facial animations this time! Very nice!!!

[JimboJones]

i think this game could end up like i, robot, with the girl on the loose and the unseen voice in the vid as someone who needs to find her

[Bimkoblerutso]

Look, I know I'm going to sound like a total douche here, but....how in the hell is that a hint at the next game, by any stretch of the imagination?

Five androids = five characters in the next game? First, if it actually was a hint, it would be a terrible hint. He wanted us to know there was going to be five characters in his next game? That's...wonderful?

Second, how bizarre is it to assume that a random number of something presented during the demo represents anything in the first place?

[jc48573]

lol, i feel dumb all of a sudden. I would like to watch the trailer again. didn't notice the recurrence of a hint.

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

I'm with you. The web domains and linkedin accounts using "5" in them are clues. Having five characters on the screen at once? NO.

[Wolfbiker]

You're right but this is just food for thought, he has a point somewhat....the fact they seem to be toying with that number could be a hint.

[Emilio_Estevez]

Very cool tech demo.

[Thepcz]

he lets a blatant self aware robot go with no real fuss

[Raf1k1]

TBH the robot did make quite a fuss about not wanting to be disassembled and her emotions came across really well IMO. I thought it was nice how the guy showed sympathy to something that looks and acts completely human even though he could scarcely believe it himself.

[Thepcz]

unless self aware robots are the norm in that world, a whole lot more fuss would have been made over 'her' plea for freedom.

[Pozzle]

I'm surprised he wanted to disassemble her so quickly. If a self-aware android is an unusual thing, you'd think they'd want to study her or something. Try to figure out why she is the only one capable of self-awareness and human thought.

[jizzyjones]

I think the game will be all about Kara... trying to fit into the human world, used as a test subject but ends up becoming 'more human than human' ;)

[svoulis]

Does anyone here know about how Heavy Rain was created?

It started with a tech demo, and they dubbed it as the casting for the game. They didn't use the same story line as the tech demo but used the same actress..well one of them anyway. It was also crazy to see how far Heavy Rain came from this tech demo.

Watching this video got me caught in a trance, I literally watched it over and over again, feeling even more sorry for Kara.

Anyway here is the link to the original Heavy Rain tech demo.

[Raf1k1]

The casting tech demo used an environment that looked very similar to a house in Heavy Rain so I wouldn't be suprised if the look and feel of the assembly room is reused in the new game.

[Paragon]

Haha, I doubt it was a 'hint' or anything... I think the term 'over analyzing' can be used here.

[OmegaSaiyanX]

After having seen that not sure what to say about this tech demo on the PS3...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Arksine]

Samaritan is impressive (as it was a year ago when it was shown), but it doesn't make project Kara any less impressive. Of course you couldn't resist the opportunity to troll it anyway.

[jagstatboy]

the tech demo was just a neat way to showcase a trailer for I,Robot 2. It looks like it will be a love story between Kara and Sonny.

[RyuDrinksTheDew]

i mean, possibly.

David Cage made it pretty clear that this story was only written for this tech demo to run across multiple emotions in an 8-10 minute video sequence. Its more of a fan service for those who enjoyed The Casting. Sure, it shows off their new tech that will be in the new game, but this tech demo is a year old.

my source is the interview with Geoff Keighley on GameTrailers.

[Blasphemy]

So David Cage is the Steven Spielberg of video games nice. Sony has the best developers!

[-IronMan-]

Dont worry 360 fanboys u still going to get alot of exclusives Kinect games. >_>

[PixL]

"hidden hint"? VGArabia should stick to their 360 stories.

[neogeo]

Loved it. Cried like a lil Bitch.