BioWare was at PAX West over the weekend to talk about ANTHEM, and during one of its panels, the developer decided to have a pop at the recent "controversy" over those bloody puddles in Spider-Man. If you don't have a clue what we're talking about, you should definitely give this article a read.
While showing off some concept art, lead producer Michael Gamble said "there's a lot to unpack here, but most importantly, you'll see that there's a puddle," a wave of laughter sweeping across the audience. "Before we move on, there's a 98 per cent chance that that puddle's gonna be changed, moved, reduced." Naturally, there's applause from the crowd.
It's just a dumb joke, but the subject matter must drive developers up the wall. Hearing BioWare acknowledge and poke fun at something so overblown is probably a good indicator of just how ridiculous the whole scenario has been.
[source dualshockers.com]
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I want to make another puddle joke, but the video already did that.
So here's a puddle gif:
Its a very good joke. I love when dev are straightforward in that way. Still it seems a lot of people don't get it or even worse, they take the opportunity to blame them for past alleged 'poor' work.
I think a lot of gamers need to chill out
He's laughing now, but just wait for the backlash when it's announced that Anthem's puddles are actually paid DLC
Why that article has 200+ comments is a mystery beyond comprehension.
@Gremio108 🤣 Its funny because it’s true.
@DerMeister the answer is cat videos lol. Important world news gets nothing. Cat videos go viral. It’s who we are as people.
Just wait until Anthem causes Bioware to shut down.
They are laughing but no matter how good or even perfect the game turns out to be there will be 100% some controversy about Anthem lol
Besides people tend to overreact about the puddle when the point of the image comparison was to show that the whole 2018 image looks a little worse! Be it compression, lighting...anything, it looks objectively worse
At least all of the terrible animations from Andromeda got turned into some funny memes, this puddle stuff is just sad.
BioWare's like
"Haha puddles, haha....
...Man, those puddles in that Spider-Man game have wayyy more detail than our entire character models in Andromeda. How do they DO IT?!"
Humour good.
Cough.. Mass Effect Andromeda.. Cough cough
I like puddles IRL and I like puddles in games.
@AFCC
People overreact to the image comparison. Image comparison which was actually pointless when you consider this is an open world game.
I like when jokes about the puddle are made and then people go 'Oh its not just the puddle, theres blah blah blah' not realising how silly all this is, about a freaking staged image.
@JJ2 just saying the facts man, I'm not even mad! I wasn't even that mad in Watch Dogs, I enjoy the visuals a lot in a game but at the end of the day it's the actual gameplay that keeps me playing
@AFCC
Yea I'm talking facts too haha
Horizon Zero Dawn has some incredibly overlooked puddle tech. Puddles form and dissipate over time with the weather.
HZD puddles ftw 😂
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