Land of Blood

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17:34, 16th Aug 2010
ap0calypse: Approved
Update: Re-Moderating with review and rating!

Date: 2011/Oct/16 14:34:25 Vengeancekael: VM // PM: Rep Received: 0

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[Vengeancekael]

Hmm a cinematic, review to come up shortly.

Also, improve the description by using these BB codes.
Also, add a preview image.

Edit:

Review by Kael Land of Blood - Hugget Sukker Cinematic Medieval / Warcraft, Space & Aliens, Miscellanous / Other Hiveworkshop Rules: You are not breaking any of the hiveworkshop rules, however I suggest you use these BB codes to improve the look of the description. Terrain: The atmosphere looks very "dark" and does match the world it should look like. Everything is fine. Storyline: Well you can't really tell much because this cinematic is kinda short, but ok for an intro or something similar. The thing with hell and vampires can be interesting whatsoever. Camera: The camera work was well done and the blood fade was also nice. Imports: There isn't a lot of custom music, except in the end, but I guess you don't want any music in the beginning. ------ Overall: It's a good start and I hope you will be making the next part. But it does need some improvements, for example it was too short and I would have liked dark music in the end. Also the story telling is a bit lacking, at least use transmissions for the text and colorize the text with a tool Rating: 2/5 Status: Approval

 

[Septimus]

Category: Medieval / Warcraft, Space & Aliens, Miscellanous / Other

this gotta be a jokes.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Well the category can stay like that.

 

[Hugget Sukker]

Have limited category to Medieval / Warcraft, improved description with BB code, added screenshots, but I am working on a preview right now. Glad to hear there's too little music next update will have more of that.

Edit: ^^ I was in doubt myself as to whether I was going too far with categories, and now I changed my mind. I just thought it looked pretty otherworldly, so "anything goes" I thought.

 

[Darkzealot_128]

A protected cinematic? Lol...

 

[Septimus]

Vote for approval with 2/5 rating.

Most of the thing I want to mention already been mention by Kael.

However, there is few more thing I need to address.

1) Camera - The camera movement flow ain't that good, some of the movement was way too choppy. My guess is that you directly move the camera to another while using wait action.

2) Starting - Start the cinematic directly instead of requesting user to tune up the volume and press "ESC" to begin the cinematic. ESC are often use to end cinematic and not to enable cinematic.

There is few more thing that could be mention, but I set it aside since it ain't that matter.

 

[dimasa3]

Make more slots so the map can be shared through battle.net, garena etc.

 

[DENJ]

I consider that this cinematic is not so bad, especially landscape design

 

[Dj0z]

may contain spoilers

Few bad things:
-At start, the super-short images slashing through that red glowing blur thing, are too short. Looks like subliminal messages or something, well point is that the watcher has no idea wth it was.
-the vampire at the end plays an odd animation, repeatedly. Slow it down or make it play at different speeds or whatever, cuz atm it really takes the overall quality down, right before the ending...
-Not sure you want your text always white in such a cinematic.
-Cinematics shouldn't be protected.
-Rather short even though i personally don't care much.
-When the camera zooms over the land really fast, you can see monotone dirt tiles on flat ground, add more variation.

Good things:
-Color scheme clearly respected apart from text (see above)
-Creative use of sounds and fade effects, i liked the red pulsating blur (and now that i think of it, was that meant to be blood?)
-Very mysterious and intriguing (until you see that dumb vampire at the end...)
-Good crediting.

Overall i really liked this cinematic but i can only encourage you to refine it, and make more.

4/5 from me, take that as an encouragement.

 

[Hugget Sukker]

Thanks for all these good comments! I take your critical opinions seriously, and have allready been working on many improvements. I hate to keep saying it's going to be updated soon, but it is, and there are surprises in store worthy of watching it again.
Stick around tomorrow by midnight and it may have been updated, else it'll be at midnight of the day after tomorrow.

EDIT: Okay, it's not midnight yet, but HERE it IS. I'm SORRY!

 

[Vengeancekael]

Why did you add more slots when it's not even hostable on battle.net.

 

[Hugget Sukker]

Hmm? Bummer. Thought it would be if I just added slots. Is it the filesize, can't remember the current maximum size. That's a problem I should probably fix, thanks.
Edit: You're right, it can't be hosted. Doh!

 

[Dj0z]

Needs to be lower than 8mb for b.net

 

[Hugget Sukker]

Allright. If combing out the unnecessary imports doesn't do it, using the right tool will. I will go through that sooner or later. For now I just hope the rest of the changes are accepted well. And I think it's obvious that I'm considering whether to make sequels some days in the future, but probably not.

 

[Bugz]

Fix slots on this.

 

[Tanasren]

awesome ambiance (i wanna rate it so i post this)

 

[SirGareth]

nice atmosphere, pretty cool idea, doesn´t seem to be that mainstream.
Unfortunately the cinematic ends when it becomes really interesting. 4/5