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Sony touts acne as a next-gen game feature

Destructoid writes: "Sony let us know that only the PS3 has the power to render detail so fine that the characters even have acne. We had the privilege of seeing the amazing Heavy Rain up close, but maybe this was particular close up was too close for comfort. We're talking whole-screen face here.

"He's got acne. I don't think acne on an actor in a game ever before," Sony says of Heavy Rain character Norman Jaden.

Scars are old. Pores are so last year. Acne is where it's at, according to Sony. Microsoft, where you at with the acne?"

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xino - 201 days 1 hour ago

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Itagaki does not approve!

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qface64 - 200 days 23 hours ago

1.1 - um wow

i don't know about the rest of you but i don't care how amazing that is
i mean acne? its not really appealing if you ask me

*pictures kasumi and ayane with acne* shivers >_<

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Blaze929 - 200 days 22 hours ago

1.2 - oooooh snap!

Come on, bring on head lice! Skin cells! nose hairs! Every detail counts

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Jaces - 200 days 22 hours ago

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Oh jeeze...

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Elven6 - 200 days 22 hours ago

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Cool but this isn't anything new, facial details such have acne have been reproduced in games for a while now. The only thing that would have changed now is the detail which is a given.

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FelinePornographer - 200 days 22 hours ago

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Fanboy sarcasm from 'teh gaming media'???

This is shocking to see!

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fezthabest - 200 days 21 hours ago

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YES! awesome now Itakagi can develop for PS3, as you all know he was waiting for Sony to create a machine that can render his face completely

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1.8 Trebius | 200 days 21 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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KRUSSIDULL - 200 days 8 hours ago

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The sims 2 had acne, a big red one :)

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KionicWarlord222 - 201 days 1 hour ago

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damn..thtas interesting. acne? Damn i wonder whats next...

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pwnsause - 201 days 1 hour ago

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LMAO

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lloyd_wonder - 201 days ago

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Just goes to show how immersive games will become. The little facial imperfections are helping to build more believable character models.

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dogmeat eater - 200 days 22 hours ago

5 - I hope it can render

genitle warts too. That would be hot.

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Hellangelzx - 200 days 22 hours ago

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I've already got to deal with acne enough as it is, don't want to be reminded of the sh1t in video games :/

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dogmeat eater - 200 days 22 hours ago

7.1 - people

Wouldn't get acne if they took showers once in a while. It takes all the greasiness out. True dat.
Edit: I see a non showering person disagreed to me. Please three words, soap and water.

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dogmeat eater - 200 days 22 hours ago

7.2 - This is pretty easy to believe

All you would have to do is put a little red dot on the characters face.

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RH06 - 200 days 22 hours ago

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I believe there was some acne in Bully by Rockstar.

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bjornbear - 200 days 22 hours ago

9 - LOL!!!!

OMG!!!! why!? =P

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deshon09 - 200 days 22 hours ago

10 - lol how dose this crap get

approved lol

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GiantEnemyCrab - 200 days 22 hours ago

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Next gen doesn't start until we get dynamic nose hair! In 4D that grows as the game progresses.

Try harder Sony.

o_O

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Qui-Gon Jim - 200 days 22 hours ago

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An Molyneux will be the first to deliver, errr... promise it. Should be easier to code as growing trees, no?

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RonDeMuerte - 200 days 22 hours ago

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I love it when internet people think they're saying something really clever and then they top it all off by saying "TRY HARDER".....apparently it never gets old...

hahahahaha!!!

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GiantEnemyCrab - 200 days 21 hours ago

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Wow, Ron you must be great at parties. Do I really have to defend a comment even when it was basically just a light hearted joke?

Qui-Gon you bet and they would be the most amazing and fantastic trees you ever seen! Why? Because Peter said so!! lol

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REPLOID24 - 200 days 12 hours ago

11.4 - yeah, pimples and games has been done....

the majority of kids on Live taking accutane can attest.

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greyfox235 - 200 days 22 hours ago

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mario has crabs

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RH06 - 200 days 22 hours ago

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I think thats Lara Croft

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TheBand1t - 200 days 22 hours ago

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Destructoid always makes me chuckle.

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crimsonblud - 200 days 22 hours ago

13.1 - Hahaha

And only possible on the PS3 lol...

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colossi16 - 200 days 22 hours ago

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Have you guys seen otacon's face, there were a lot of bumps.

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GiantEnemyCrab - 200 days 21 hours ago

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I hear they used Itagaki-san as the mocap model.

;)

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dogmeat eater - 200 days 21 hours ago

16 - judging from the number of disagrees with my last comment

I guess everyone on here is a smelly kid. Please take a shower everyone. Do your community a favor :)

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Darkfocus - 200 days 19 hours ago

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you can wash twice a day and still have acne I hate people like you

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n4f - 200 days 18 hours ago

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its genetic even if you wash it wont do anything you have to use a special cream to see a difference. sometimes even the special wont do much.

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Jrome - 200 days 21 hours ago

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Next up...you can pick your characters nose...and actual boogers will come out...in HD of course

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f789790 - 200 days 21 hours ago

18 - Forget acne

Just add in detail elsewhere. Acne is the last thing I want.

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The Viking - 200 days 21 hours ago

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I want to see a giant zit on Kratos's forehead, and when he pops it the flying pus decapitates a centaur.

PWND!

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Blue22 - 200 days 20 hours ago

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Can they render the backdraft of my salsa fueled farts yet?

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deno - 200 days 20 hours ago

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Well if it's acne then the ps3 fans have something in common. Fits the sony age on n4g atleast

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NoxiousD - 200 days 20 hours ago

22 - omg whats next?

A remake of boogerman..

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Senden - 200 days 15 hours ago

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Instead of toting about how powerful their system is.. why don't they PROVE it? I'm not enough of a graphics whore to fully see the difference in some games but seriously, there hasn't been one ps3 game yet which has made me say "wow only possible on the ps3." While sony keep totting it, until I see a game on the ps3 that graphically blows anything i've seen on the 360, I couldn't give my left testicle what they say... put up or shutup imo.

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kaveti6616 - 200 days 13 hours ago

24 - I saw the heavy rain vid, and the faces weren't all that great up close.

There were some impressive textures but the level of detail on the overall facial features including the skin can be improved a lot more before devs start worrying about adding zits. I don't want my video game heroes to have imperfections. I want them to be perfect because that's who I idolize. Although the scars on Marcus Fenix are cool. He wouldn't look as brutish and awesome without them.

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Matpan - 199 days 22 hours ago

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You can give all the acne, facial hair and moles and even dandruff... in game animations are still kinda stiff for my taste... I´d work on more joints and better rigging (specially for facial animation) before making more realistic looking robots :S

But I guess it´s nice anyways... go figure. I didn´t quite find Heavy Rain thaaat amazing. Not my kinda game though, I guess.

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-x.Red.x- - 201 days 1 hour ago

1 - LoL

can the xbawk handle that?

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RonDeMuerte - 200 days 22 hours ago

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The 360 would explode if it were ever coded to render a zit!!!

It's just too much for it..

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So Easy I Can Do It - 201 days ago

2 - NO wonder xbots don't like the ps3

it's like looking into a mirror. BURN

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Obama - 200 days 21 hours ago

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I can't believe some stupid bots have the guts to say that Alan Wake looks better than Heavy Rain, which is totally not true.

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Murderdolls - 200 days 18 hours ago

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Movies will always look better than games.

owned.

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Obama - 200 days 18 hours ago

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In Heavy Rain there many instances where you are free to move around and explore stuff. And Alan Wake's graphic is really disappointing; you just can't deny that.

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ArsArcanum - 200 days 13 hours ago

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how does sales affect if a game is good or not?

I loved ICO on ps2, but that game didn't sell well at all

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Murderdolls - 200 days 18 hours ago

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Says alot about Sony's fanbase.

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ULTIMATE_REVENGE - 199 days 22 hours ago

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I think LostPlanet 2 looks better then Alan Wake in trems of graphics, the reasone i say that is because Alan Wake looks exactly like Alone in the Dark

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