6th April 2003, 4:34 AM
Max Payne tries to look like a comic book... a really VIOLENT comic book... and only in cut-scenes...
Anyways, I think the whole book idea is something that should be explored. Particularly with cel-shading.
Take an RPG (or Adventure game), and have it played, as though it's being read in a book. A narator can introduce it, then you see the book as he opens the first page to a picture with text under it. It then zooms in so the picture completely engulfs the screen. Which is when you take control. Then, in between load areas, instead of the screen going black, the page could 'turn'. Then at the end and beginning of each 'chapter', the narator can take over as it zooms out to the book.
It doesn't even need to be a novel, a Journal, or even a Playboy magazine would be fine.
I think it's a neat idea. Hell, you could even add the Silent Hill noise filter to add that gritty 'paper' effect, and could throw in creases, and tears, and holes in the paper occasionally, just for effect!
Anyways, I think the whole book idea is something that should be explored. Particularly with cel-shading.
Take an RPG (or Adventure game), and have it played, as though it's being read in a book. A narator can introduce it, then you see the book as he opens the first page to a picture with text under it. It then zooms in so the picture completely engulfs the screen. Which is when you take control. Then, in between load areas, instead of the screen going black, the page could 'turn'. Then at the end and beginning of each 'chapter', the narator can take over as it zooms out to the book.
It doesn't even need to be a novel, a Journal, or even a Playboy magazine would be fine.
I think it's a neat idea. Hell, you could even add the Silent Hill noise filter to add that gritty 'paper' effect, and could throw in creases, and tears, and holes in the paper occasionally, just for effect!
If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!