Guild Wars 2

Don’t fall behind on innovation ANET!

It probably takes a lot of processing power that the game doesn’t need to dedicate as it has no in-game voice chat and no one zooms in on faces anyways. Besides, it still needs some work. The character looks pretty stoned and/or concussed in that video.

It’s cool tech, it just needs some polish and has no real place in Guild Wars, since there is no in-game voice chat anyway.

i would work an in game voice chat first… i would love it

Nice. Would like to give this game a shot

I agree that it is an interesting feature but it still needs some tuning.

Man EQ2 was such a good game before it tried to become WoW…..I love that voice chat to character model speech idea though! I don’t think the character models in game are articulated for actual speech though, only in the cut scenes.

it seems like one of those things that would of had to of been considered and developed pre-release.

Wow, that’s pretty awesome :-) But we don’t even have basic emotes, I don’t think this will happen. We need a lot more emotes in this game, it’s such a tiny list.

Good find Phira

I think the RP’ing community would love to see this implemented.
- Nice feature, still needs some tweaking, but it adds more personality and breathes more life into your character.

considering we don’t even have the basic facial expression modes that EQ2 had from basically the start I can’t see us getting anything like that anytime soon.

No facial expressions? What do you call what you see in personal story cut scenes? It has better facial expression than most games IMO.

thats specifically made cutscenes, in EQ2 your characters had expressions during normal game play that you could manually change with /commands.

I don’t think GW2 has the base coding to allow for that let alone the SoEmote style system

It sounds nice in theory, but there’s tons of problems with it.

1. They already did all of the voice acting and paid the voice actors. It’d be kinda mean of ANet to put this stuff in so late in the game.
2. I can see this being abused by people. Can you imagine people choosing a high pitched voice and then autocasting the shortest shout they can think of just so that they can annoy people?
3. As was pointed out by people, the software is clearly not finished yet. A lot of the expressions were interpreted in a strange manner or resulted in a look that wasn’t really that accurate. And that brings me to the next point: how the name of the six gods would you animate Charrs? Their facial structure is just so different from a human’s, so it’s not really something that could be accurately represented.

lol wish we had this stuff in this game! How come a 2004 game have this first!

I’m not tying my real life face and expressions to my virtual character though a webcam.

I prefer to play my character as herself, not as me.

More specific info. here on how it works and latency concerns.

And for those saying there aren’t lots of facial expressions in this game, try /laugh

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Emote

List of emotes in this game

And they got a rat character to work in sync. So I don’t think charrs would have any problems.

It is quite curious. Trying to imagine this in GW2. Would definitely be fun to be able to ‘puppet master’ my character on command.

As for the current game characters emoting, they can and do. Try watching an Asura shooting off pistols and how their face emotes.

GW2 doesn’t even support voice chat though, probably because you don’t need to communicate to win.