Does Games Need Motion Capture?

[Chaos Raiden]

Like the title said, do you think games need motion capture?

In my opinion, yes, as it allows much more natural facial animation and movements as well as proper lip sync with the voice acting. You can observe a well done motion capture in a game in the video below:

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For those who like to see how motion capture is carried out, look here:

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Share your opinion about motion capture, and no flaming, bashing, and whatsoever.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Wouldnt work in every game like the representatives have said but games that require some emotional connection or a deeper character personality could benefit greatly from using it.

 

[Chaos Raiden]

Wouldnt work in every game like the representatives have said but games that require some emotional connection or a deeper character personality could benefit greatly from using it.

Games that focuses more on storyline, I guess?

 

[LordOfDarkness]

YES!

YES!

YES!

My reason is simple. It looks beautiful. It makes you feel like the thing is more realistic, but without taking away the fun that it's a game.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Games that focuses more on storyline, I guess?

The regular motion capture and that, that is used in L.A Noire are different kinds. I think most games should use either motion capture for full body animations however real time physics are better in games that have lots of action. So the character model doesnt simply recycle motion captured animations over and over it uses real time physics reactions to objects. Euphoria is a good example of a physics engine more people need to get used to using and expand upon.

However story based games could implement the new facial capture to good effect and add a lot to their games.

 

[DreadnoughtDT]

Facial capturing and such is good for story bits, but physics based movement is awesome for actual gameplay.

 

[fon]

Oops, I accidentally voted 'no' before I read the first post.
OTL =____=""

I thought the title referred to motion gaming like kinect and wii.
So anyone that sees that, i'm actually a yes.

 

[Dante's Stalker]

I vote yes.
Simply because there's no point in going back to the old school ways of doing things since technology has improved majorly. Developers give gamers something new, something better, something faster, and then they have to outdo themselves for whatever is next that they release. No gamer is going to be happy with choppy, jerky animation that looks kinda weird if they've been spoon fed the real deal mocap stuff.

 

[aka958]

Some games? Yes. All games? No.

Threads answer: Yes.

I'm hungry btw. Totally random and off topic I know.

 

[Klawed Flaw]

Depends on the game. If it's something like Silent Hill, yeah, motion capture kinda would be a no brainer. It just works well. It can make the feeling much easier to trigger.

If the game is something like Pokemon? In the words of the green face from Cybermorph...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ObaiI30500

Seriously. Imagine a Pokemon game for a handheld with motion capture? What would it be for? Making the developer bankrupt?