Final Fantasy XIII is another game that falls into the "I Would Totally Get This If I Had Time To Play It" category along with such titles as Heavy Rain and L.A. Noire. And when considering I'll be finished with school soon, jobless and nothing to do, I might just finally indulge in the world of the stay-at-home-homeless-person.
I'm not going to lie, I only watched the first bit of this video but one of the reasons I respect well made video games like this is that it really does fall into what I see as Cinema. Now you obviously don't have the same dynamics on a video game as you do on set, no physical camera operation, no metering, no yelling at the grips for slacking off, but what you do get instead is something very exclusive only to the creation of a video game. What that is I have no idea but I imagine it to be just as collaborative, which is what being on a set really is. Teamwork.
I mean there still are certain jobs that cross from film production into video game production. Just notice the level of depth in the design of the wardrobe, the detail in every shot. Take a look at the overall feeling you get when you think of where you are in this world. Art direction and production design must be a blast considering you don't have to worry where to find these props. Do you notice the image you are seeing is designed to resemble an actual camera finding the correct exposure? Take a look during the POV our character looking outside that highly designed coupe.
With this and of course the obvious, but incredible graphics, is why I think video games are really an artform.
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