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Weekend Confirmed 103 - GDC 2012 special
by Garnett Lee, Mar 09, 2012 11:15am PSTWeekend Confirmed goes on the road to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and finds some long-time friends of the show to make it a doubly excellent episode. John Davison of CBSi joins Jeff and Garnett for the show, with 8-4 Play's Mark MacDonald and videogame editorial ninja Billy Berghammer tag-teaming the fourth chair. Along with some of the topics of the day from the conference, the group catches up on a long list of games. Halo 4 and the newly announced Wreckateer highlight take top honors from Microsoft's recent Spring Showcase Event, the first look at Medal of Honor Warfighter also gets its due, SSX springs back to the forefront of the discussion again this week, and there's much more. Special thanks to CBSi and GameSpot for graciously opening the door and allowing Weekend Confirmed the space to record the show again this year.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 103: 03/09/2012
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The trailer can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKdB-GoIka0
More on topic, I do think that the machinima community has a lot of questions about Halo 4. Bungie went to incredible lengths to build features that support machinima makers. We've been given:
1) A theatre mode with the ability to record 1st or 3rd person footage from any game we play.
2) The ability to lower our weapons in custom games, so that characters can talk to each other without pointing thier guns at each other.
3) The ability to shut off music and dialog in the campaign so that we can record footage for machinima.
4) The ability to create our own custom "sets" with the forge mode, and a the ability to customize the game rules in hundreds of different ways in order to create whatever scenarious we need for filming.
5) The ablility to upload our footage to bungie's website, render the clips into proper video files, and download the WMVs.
^^^ As of the end of March 2012, this last point is being taken away from the Halo community. Bungie is disconnecting their website from all Reach servers, meaning I will no longer be able to upload my saved films, render them, and download them to my computer.
I use this rendering feature for all my Halo videos (including the trailer I linked to above). As of right now, 343 has not made any announcements of a replacement video rendering service. So I might need to buy a capture card of my own.... fair enough. But it has lead to some concern from the machinima community.... some people are wondering "what other features are we going to lose?"
For anyone who wants to check it out, the trailer can be found here:
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And have you guys seen this insane Halo fan film?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ly9Gt8LDXLQ#!
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