If you don’t know what machinima is it’s essentially videos made using a game. In most cases it’s all put together by users, and quite often it’s done without the game supporting it. A lot of modern games do support some kind of theater mode that makes the whole thing easier to pull off, but if you go back to early examples it’s clear that the whole thing is just being recorded by another player.
Now personally I absolutely love machinima. For a start it’s a great way to show off just how cool a games engine actually looks, but mostly I just find what people pull off is amazing. If you go back and look at the early series of Red vs. Blue (my favourite series) they shot scenes that look pretty incredible using only standard multiplayer. They got aerial shots by using a ‘cameraman’ on the turret of a tank and used a bug in the original Halo (the game that’s used to create Red vs. Blue) to make characters position their gun down whilst looking up. To me figuring out how to pull off those kinds of tricks is what amazes me about the whole concept of machinima, you’re often doing things that even the developers didn’t know you could do.
Of course with modern theatre modes the whole thing is easier to pull off, but that just raises the production values and makes the things they pull off even crazier. I love the fact that Uncharted 2 gave a green screen option, although I don’t know if I’ve seen anyway use the mode yet. When I do it’s going to be incredibly interesting.
So do you love machinima too, or am I just a bit weird (for this in particular, I’m very weird in general). Is it just a waster of resources for developers to be supporting this in games?
BrendanCalls
Its not something Ive ever been to interested in. Ive heard lots about it, but I was very late to the party and the whole red v blue I do follow a few directors on Machinima Respawn though. Machinma Respawn has made me an infinitely better CoD player than I used to be. I recommend respawn for anyone wanting to improve at FPS games.
Thats not the only reason I like respawn though, a few of the directors are really interesting.
I used to follow Ken Burton, until he got so hooked about everyone hating him, the content he produced just started becoming about his life as opposed to about his games.
At the moment I follwing Seannaners and Junkyard, and a small bit of Ken Burton gameplay.
galgor
I love Machinima, when it’s done right. A good example is Heavy Rain in Liberty City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1kFNxpp-Ak
Just wish the PS3 could record gameplay from any game, instead of leaving it up to the developers to implement.
NotoriousGTT
You know, I had never hear of this until now. I had heard of RvB in passing but never even thought to look into it.
Maybe I’ll watch a couple of episodes tonight while GT5 loads a race…
kerrfaewishy
to me this kinda thing blows ass
Hamzz
I know this isnt Machinima But its great, awesom creativity and its sooo sam funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1h9YAyjDLM
Burgess_101
my fav is arby n the chief i love it its hilarious
Albert Einstein
Make Love Not Warcraft. Best game video evar!!
Burgess_101
ah yes that has got to be my favourite south park episode of all time !