ThereareothersIcanshowyouplease!!!

SharGuidesMyHand

WTF??

I'm sorry, but that is just terrible how that is just squeezed in there. Anyone who hadn't played this game before probably would have no clue what he is saying.

GoodSteve

Agreed, quite lame.

RedGuard

Sounds like a case of "HAPPY NOW?!". :P

Honestly, I wouldn't mind the movies if there was more work put into them. I was never that attached to the original movies because they were always a bit awkward and even hokey at times (BG2 improved in that area greatly). The art style is quite good, but the animation and direction leave a lot to be desired. I would love to see them re-edit the movies and improve them properly, but I just don't see that as being realistic.

I think it's asking too much because even what we ended up with takes time and money and fixing them in any meaningful way would likely take up too much resources.

I'm just hoping that BG2:EE leaves the movies well enough alone. Those ones were great in my opinion and the last thing I would want to see is them thrown out for an awkwardly animated motion comic.

Lemernis

Maybe it's just me, but the biggest problem I see (well, hear) is that the word "others" is truncated to the point that it is barely intelligible.

SharGuidesMyHand

Lemernis said:

Maybe it's just me, but the biggest problem I see (well, hear) is that the word "others" is truncated to the point that it is barely intelligible.

I think the whole thing, other than the final world "please," is sped up to the extent that it is unintelligible.

Grimo88

Absolutely terrible. Please just restore original cinematics... and is it just me, or are you pissed off you keep encountering endless bugs and patches to fix them in an 'Enhanced' edition that purportedly fixed 400 of them?

Last night my game crashed after solo-defeating Sarevok. Then, after I beat him again, the cinematic didn't trigger and it kept kicking me out of the game until I quickly ran out of the Temple of Bhaal.

lunar

I am not a difficult customer to satisfy. I loved the new video as it was, it was new, impressive and cool-looking:certainly an improvement upon the old cinematic, which was a classic but let's face it, quite dated. But the newly re-added line sounds absurd. It feels like a sloppy fan-made edit, and does not sound professional at all.

Calmar

Come on! That dude is about so get wasted by a man who threw him through a closed door moments earlier. He's scared to death and so happens to talk a bit faster. That's how last attempt to negotiate would sound, not like some clear oration.

Lemernis

Calmar said:

Come on! That dude is about so get wasted by a man who threw him through a closed door moments earlier. He's scared to death and so happens to talk a bit faster. That's how last attempt to negotiate would sound, not like some clear oration.

I think it's acceptable that he says it faster than in the original. But when I play the movie I actually hear something almost like a buzz within the chopped word "others" that's a mechanical artifact, and that is immersion breaking.

The fact that he utters the line really fast, in and of itself, isn't what makes it fail, I suppose. It's that it kind of transparently appears to be shoehorned into the overall pacing of the scene.

Riolathel

The line is completely out of place. The real issue though, is the expression on his face..

Kills any mood the intro was trying to set.. when he dies it looks SOOOOOO bad. It's not the lines. It is the animation. Especially the blood effect

Lemernis

Riolathel said:

The line is completely out of place. The real issue though, is the expression on his face..

Kills any mood the intro was trying to set.. when he dies it looks SOOOOOO bad. It's not the lines. It is the animation. Especially the blood effect

Yeah, I kind of have to agree that something isn't quite hitting the mark there. I understand that the movement of the victim's head in relation to a static background is partly stylistic in the graphic novel vein. But it looks unnatural such that that aspect (i.e., the unnatural looking movement) actually calls attention to itself.

I mean, I'm okay with the graphic novel style overall. I like parts of it. It just needs more work. Hopefully they will eventually get enough staff to knock everything out of the park.