Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

[Mr Cochese]

Ahaha. Amazing.

[NecroMorrius]

*All credit to someone-or-other on Neogaf*

[NecroMorrius]

[Harsin]

Despite being a comedy character dressed like a mummy, Joakim's Twitter picture is still less ridiculous than Cliff's.

[RubberJohnny]

Despite being a comedy character Joakim is still less ridiculous than Cliff.

[Broker]

Yeah, even high-end performance-capture stuff is still years off being photo-real like that. It's clearly just KojiPro fucking with everyone and GAF being, well, insane.

Just as an example, there's a shot in Avatar where Cameron replaced one of the actors with CGI and its impossible to spot even if you know where it is. Obviously that's higher budget than a Fox engine game, but that type of thing isn't impossible.

[Smitty]

Just as an example, there's a shot in Avatar where Cameron replaced one of the actors with CGI and its impossible to spot even if you know where it is. Obviously that's higher budget than a Fox engine game, but that type of thing isn't impossible.

True, and I agree it's impressive, but it is just a very brief shot and there's obviously miles of difference between the brain accepting something seen for instant and something in a clear long shot with movement and speech.

[RubberJohnny]

And that shot was likely done on a render farm for days and isn't realtime.

[Smitty]

And that shot was likely done on a render farm for days and isn't realtime.

Everything in Avatar was the cutting edge of the cutting edge and I can't remember the specifics but yeah each frame took a considerable time to render.

[NecroMorrius]

There's a new theory on Neogaf.

What if half the shots are real and half the shots are CG?

[Glasgowchivas]

Just as an example, there's a shot in Avatar where Cameron replaced one of the actors with CGI and its impossible to spot even if you know where it is. Obviously that's higher budget than a Fox engine game, but that type of thing isn't impossible.

What shot is it?

[Smitty]

What shot is it?

[NecroMorrius]

You could have replaced that shouty Australian man from Black Ops with a Playmobil person and I wouldn't have noticed to be honest.

[Smitty]

To render Avatar, Weta used a 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) server farm making use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores with 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage running Ubuntu Linux, Grid Engine cluster manager, and Pixar's Alfred queue management system.[103] [104][105][106] The render farm occupies the 193rd to 197th spots in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. A new texturing and paint software system, called Mari, was developed by The Foundry in cooperation with Weta.[107][108] Creating the Na'vi characters and the virtual world of Pandora required over a petabyte of digital storage,[109] and each minute of the final footage for Avatar occupies 17.28 gigabytes of storage.[110]

Not even Layte has 104 terabytes of RAM.

[Parappa]

To render Avatar, Weta used a 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) server farm making use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores with 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage running Ubuntu Linux, Grid Engine cluster manager, and Pixar's Alfred queue management system.[103] [104][105][106] The render farm occupies the 193rd to 197th spots in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. A new texturing and paint software system, called Mari, was developed by The Foundry in cooperation with Weta.[107][108] Creating the Na'vi characters and the virtual world of Pandora required over a petabyte of digital storage,[109] and each minute of the final footage for Avatar occupies 17.28 gigabytes of storage.[110]

Will it run Crysis?

[NecroMorrius]

They should have got it to write the script too.

[NecroMorrius]

OK, they're up to page 60 (hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahahahahah) on Neogaf now.

Here's the latest evidence!

So, Rllmuk, are you #teamcg or #teamreal?

[SMD]

It was a guy in a bandage winding people up.

[NecroMorrius]

Cleared up the Twitter image a little. Tried to offer more definition. No matter what I did there was no definable definition on the neck area.

Also worth noting that messing with the levels of the image showed some rather interesting artifacts on everything apart from his head. Suggesting a higher resolution image has been layered atop the low resolution body.

Points worth noting:

• The upper eyelids only half drop. The attached skin doesn't move at all. (i.e. the eyebrow, the recess below the eyebrow)
  
• The lower eyelids simply don't move. I don't know about you, but I can't move my upper eyelids independently of the lower. More-so, when you are shocked or taken aback by something, the natural is to winch/squint.
  
• The point of light in his pupil doesn't move in relation to his head movement. In fact it's static within the pupil at all times.
  
• The shadows around the bandages on the right of the image are not consistent with the head movement
  

[SMD]

It's going to be so embarrassing for them when it turns out they can't tell what humans look like.

[Chadruharazzeb]

Well, Joakim Mogren is a fictitious person therefore he must be a ludicrously elaborate Max Headroom style CG avatar for Konami's marketing department.

[Alex W.]

That's what Hideo Kojima looks like when he's not wearing his Darkman-style mask.

This man is also Reggie Fils-Aime and both Wachowskis.

[Steven]

So that lower image is what we can expect from the next gen Johnny Sasaki?

[SMD]

So that lower image is what we can expect from the next gen Johnny Sasaki?

Did you play MGS4?

[NecroMorrius]

Someone claiming to be Joakim Mogren has posted a video onto GTTV.

In morse code it says

Translation of the Morse Code: G E N E R A T I N G I M A G E H O L D S C E N A R I O L O A D I N G H O L D A C T I V A T I N G P H A N T O M P A I N D O T M E M E H O L D E R R O R E R R O R E R R O R E R R O R

There's a single frame in there which shows this:

This is from the Ground Zeroes trailer:

Probably just a fake account, but I'm loving all the trolling going on. Neogaf is exploding with simultaneous credulity, incredulity and anger.

[SMD]

Hahahaha they already said it's getting a new trailer at GDC, that's only 9 days from now.

[NecroMorrius]

That's about 600000 posts in Neogaf time.

[Dandy_Sephy]

How far back does the Kojima having a laugh at everyone elses expense go back? It certainly seems to be a MGS4 reveal onwards thing, but that might just be internet perception.

When it comes to getting people to talk about his games, Kojima is surely unmatched.

[Alex W.]

There's been a line of irreverence towards the series' popularity from MGS2 on, I think. The MGS2 Substance trailer edited together dialogue to highlight that the game wasn't going to be a platform exclusive.

"Change sides? I don't recall saying I was on yours."

[Spacehost]

Then there was the whole MGS3 thing, where they took the piss out of every game trying to be GTA in the launch trailer.