For all my readers out there well the 4-6 of you. One of my all-time video game franchises is a series called Diablo. I’ve been playing it since it hit the scene in the mid 90’s. It took them 10 years from Diablo 3 to develop Diablo 4 which gets very mixed reviews. I am happy with the efforts and the quality of the game.
My main character is a Sorceress named Teela. She’s a FIRE-based sorceress. Meaning she scorches anything in her way. In the pictures below (click to make them larger as they are as dark as the game is). I have a pic of her in the character select screen. My other characters are on the left but you can’t see them. A picture of her and her Cinder Panther (a panther mount that flesh is burning, very befitting)Then a picture of her roasting everything in sight by setting fires.
What I wanted to get to with this article title is that within this game *SPOILERS* they use the character that you create (no matter how you make them look) everything from eye color to tattoos or markings, jewelry, the markings in blood I have on her skin to the blood red slightly bright eyes. all of it shows in the cinema scenes. I’m shocked that they can just create these HIGH-quality cinema scenes on the fly as they do with your character in them.
I have a friend who is a technical animator and he simply said the tech has come so far that it can do amazing things on the fly. Well, look at her disdain toward the character she is talking to up to when she is stabbed in the back. It’s amazing! *SPOILER* She gets the sword ripped out of her back and falls off a bridge into the water where you see her essentially die until she is revived by some old dude in the jungle.
But take a look at these cinematics in full screen if you can.
