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Rift: Defiant & Guardian Videos
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
The Rift development team has a little Yuletide surprise for its fans: A pair of cinematic videos featuring the Guardian and Defiant factions. These are the videos that players will see immediately after character creation and just prior to entering the starter area for their chosen faction. Check the videos out in our Rift Guardian and Defiant Videos feature.
NEW: The Guardian video has been updated with a new voice over track. (12-21-10, 8:00 pm EST)
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Now you too can hear the terrible voice acting on the Guardian intro!
ROFLMAO!!!
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
Rift is awesome, but they really do need to get a new defiant voice actor, its just plain ol bad.
Sorry Guardians the bad one, Defiant is actually pretty good.
And what is wrong with it's voice? I listened to it just because of the comments here. I did not see anything worng with it.
It's a bit cheesy vs the Defiant video
As one person likened it "Trion invites us to Snap into a slim jim Oh yeah!"
The guardian voice is just a bit too over the top, and at the end the voice actor obviously struggles a bit to let out the second to last final shout, and then just gives up at the last one.
Just not the right voice actor, its not right for the atmosphere imo.
Wohoo, another generic medieval high fantasy MMO! You just can't have enough of these!
Absolutely. Can never have enough of fantasy genre.
Oh wait..yoyu were being sarcastic!!
Who could have thought that WOW could bring super power like USA to its knees?
Originally posted by Arcken
To put it in a nutshell, our society is about to hit the fan, grades are dropping, obesity is going up,childhood the USA is going to lose its super power status before too long, but hey, as long as we have a cheap method to babysit our kids, all will be well no?
Im picking on WoW btw because its the beast that made all of this possible
Well luckily it's a tad different than the standard faire out there
lol..agreed
the voice actor for the Guardian side is terribad.
It seems the voice actors only took one take on these videos. The defiant one had lots of pauses that seemed misplaced. The guardian one just seemed like a bad script read.
Other than that the videos are standard class/race intro stuff.
They are most likely going to replace the voice acting by release.
"cinnamon buns"
- Pickles
I have never looked at the production values of in-game videos. Thing is this crue here has no lore or voice references for any of the characters. Who is to say they were not intentionally trying to be a little cheese with the voice since this is a video game and not some contest for oscars.
Then again, if they are throwing millions into production and this is THE introduction for every single person out there that will be playing the game it would seem this would hold quite high priority and they would spend at least half a day or maybe 2 days getting the dialogue just right. Maybe doing a sentance at a time and really nailing it would be the right way to go. Oh well....not like we will be paying attention to that video when our characters are level 15....we will have more pressing thoughts at hand in the gaming world.
voice overs are terrible.
Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video:
http://n4g.com/news/592585/guild-wars-2-50-minutes-of-pure-gameplay
Everything We Know about GW2:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/287180/page/1
I couldn't agree more.
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The defiants voice over was bad... The guardians was even worse...
If the defiants had been done right it would have been fine and I would be conviced "Sweet im a Defiant."
Even if the Guardians was done correctly, meaning no misplaced pauses and a someone that didnt sound like they wanted to meet me behind the shed at dawn, I think I would still shoot myself in the foot then listen to it again.
"In the immediate future, we have this one, and then weve got another one that is actually going to be so were going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what were targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you cant hold me to it. But what were targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo
did I say voice over sucks?
Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video:
http://n4g.com/news/592585/guild-wars-2-50-minutes-of-pure-gameplay
Everything We Know about GW2:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/287180/page/1
Your tag says you're looking forward to Tera, yet you somehow have no problem agreeing with this statement? That's truly priceless.
That being said, Rift is far from generic and has plenty of gameplay features to help distinguish it. Or you can just ignorantly judge it based on a video. Whatever floats ur boat.
I would say he is right. Rift = generic, Tera = non generic awesomesauce.
Perhaps you could enlighten us. What, exactly, does Tera have that will make it stand out from all of the other fantasy games out there?
Sorry that i didnt see this news event before i posted about it in the Rift Forums, but as I mentioned, the cinematics I've seen of Rift have been excellent, and of course, the caveat is that cinematics never weigh-in on my decision-making tree as to whether a particular game is appealing or not, but they might help with pre-release interest in understanding the purpose or motivation from choosing one side over the other in a 2-faction game.
So far, I like what I see from Trion about rift with their greater breadth and depth of pvevp game-play mechanics, and more dynamic and organic massively-multiplayer environments and influence, as opposed to linear and scripted pve-centric mmo's that might be in the same running.
While by no means is Rift the most original MMO to come out in the past few years, Tera certainly isnt breaking any bigger boundries either. They both have their own pluses but they both utilize part of a well known formula for MMO's. Is this a good thing? To me no but well see when they both release.
We can start with the combat and political system. Anyhow, not to defend it, Rift has to be the most generic game coming out in 2011.