Comments on: This Eden/YouTube thing is sort of nifty

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By: Nerfgun

Nerfgun — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:36:18 +0000

I see what you are saying ArtichokeSap – it is a “before the fact” decision to record. At least you can trigger it very quickly if you find yourself doing something noteworthy. I liked the way Skate handled this; I believe it always buffered the last 30 seconds of whatever you were doing, so if you had some spectacular wipeout or supermove, you could pause it and have the instant replay ready to go. *That’s* how you catch the really great moments.

Maybe someone will incorporate a feature to auto-upload the clip if the microphone detects the player saying “ohmygod”

By: ArtichokeSap

ArtichokeSap — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:45:28 +0000

Frank is only partially right. It may not be so exciting, but it was a random experiment, not a particularly great run, or a clip of any particular strategy. But, that’s part of the problem with the implementation, like those EasyShare cameras: I’d like to record first, decide to send later, not decide “Send this next picture!” and then take it.

By: Agreschn

Agreschn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:39:37 +0000

lulz @ uni’s GT5/YouTube comment. Yeah, we know that there’s nobody who’d be crazy enough to make GT5 videos and put them on YouTube, right?? And watch them, pssshh! (How many views are you up to?? I watched them all awhile ago… )

I love the playback/video functions of games and am hoping that more of them in the future will have them. Halo 3 was fun/awesome because we could go back and watch the stupid shit we did when playing (remember our pyramid to get that skull, unimental??) but did suffer because you can only watch the movies in-game unless you have a video recorder/converter. I don’t want to be throwing Halo 3 into the drive every time I want to watch a little movie. It’s a very useful way to call people on whether they’re bullshitting you or not, though (“I made this awesome sticky toss the other day! It bounced off a crate, hit a grav lift, and then smacked the sniper!” “Oh yeah, prove it!” “Okay, video’s in my file share” “….you suck”).

I was glad to hear that Gears 2 is going to have a camera mode for spectators once they die in multiplayer. I seem to spend more of my time chatting it up and being dead then I do playing it seems to me. Video would be nice to capture some of those “OMG! Fluke!” moments where a ‘nade bounces the right way or somebody pulls off an amazingly fluke shot (hopefully, not your own teammate into your head – I would’ve killed for a video of that one, though), but I guess screenshots will do for now.

Also, replays can be helpful for some of the ‘tougher’ levels. I don’t know how Eden plays out, but I know that I’ve watched a ton of N+ replays (on XBL) to help me get through one level and I still haven’t yet. Has helped me get closer, though.

By: unimental

unimental — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:33:25 +0000

Who the hell would watch a video of GT5 on YouTube, let alone upload it?

Cool functionality… but in all seriousness do we really need 10,000 videos of PJ Eden online?

By: Nerfgun

Nerfgun — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:22:09 +0000

Good point.

By: Deviation

Deviation — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:17:29 +0000

The thing with Gran Turismo is, they already make a replay of your entire race, so all they’d have to add is a bit of waiting to convert it to Youtube so there would be no overhead at all.

By: Nerfgun

Nerfgun — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:14:12 +0000

Yeah that’s true. Eden is… what’s the word… “fiddly”. Like, full of tiny little HD bits of things. Not the best for YouTube compression.

I hope the standard OS overhead includes this feature, rather than devs having to give up some CPU time to it, because that would certainly limit the popularity. Great for teams like PixelJunk where they can be agile and aren’t really taxing the system but I wonder if you could say the same for, say, Gran Turismo.

By: Frank Caron

Frank Caron — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:09:51 +0000

I’m pretty happy with this new function; I totally agree with you. This feature, as it was so well used in Halo, is a great get. Hopefully every PS3 game gets this eventually; Eden, while awesome, doesn’t really lend itself to the most exciting videos.