EverQuest II Now Even Less Appealing, Thanks to New Voice and Facial Recognition Tech

Truly, we live in a golden age of video games. My friends, enjoy it while it lasts.

@Stimpack said:

@Lab392 said:

THAT MAN HAS A PONY TAIL.

I think you may be onto something here.

E3 Mystery: Solved

Man I don't wanna insult a man for his life's work but "Director of Development, Everquest Franchise" is possibly one of the saddest sounding job titles I've seen in game development in 2012.

"JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THAT FROG MAN'S FACE KILL IT WITH FIRE."

best thing about this video post.

I appreciate his enthusiasm though!

@Tahnit said:

who fucking cares about everquest 2...

Am I the only one that Everquest 2 has been taken out to a field a long time ago and put down. I mean come on, who is still riding this dead old horse?

I watched this vid knowing nothing about EQ2. A quick search revealed that it's now a Free-to-Play game, so now all this hot garbage makes sense.

@Turambar: I like the way you think. I'd love to be able to play games like that

Funny how everyone in here are on the "WHO CARES ABOUT EVERQUEST" bandwagon. This video was fucking creepy, but Everquest 2 is a pretty damn great game (if your into mmo's) with a ton of depth.

This technology does look neat though, RPer's will love the shit out of it.

I guess you can't blame them for adding features to their free to play game that I don't think will EVER end...

But seriously, the last thing I want to hear is someone's rage screams compressed and distorted beyond recognition.

cool idea, but a bit wonky. And that was just the frog...

It looks really dumb but by god if that guy isn't fucking stoked.

What did I just watch? Also are they for real for this is not just kinda dumb, it's really dumb. Also I shouldn't have watched that video slightly hangover.

c'mon if this was in a game that didn't look as crappy as EQ II, it might be a fun multiplayer thing...

Hi, I'm director of ruining SOE games, Dave Georgeson. Watch me pull down my pants and take a huge steaming dump on Planetside two days before launching it. Also, SOE pays me minimum wage so I haven't been fucking fired yet.

Dave Georgeson proud member of Hair Club for Men.

OH CHRIST.

Ponytail guy is pretty damn stoked though.

Dan Hibiki plays everquest?

Oh my..

This guy is fucking STOKED.

ahhhhhhhhhh

Dude is way to excited about this feature. 

@GrandMarshal said:

ahhhhhhhhhh

I like to imagine that the frog-man is looking handicapped and making insanely exaggerated movements because he's mocking the dev.

So what webcam will we require as the kinect isnt capable of doing accurate face recognition and my webam is an 8 year old logitech which I need to use generic drivers as its not win7 supported....I dont want a new webcam!

@TrueEnglishGent said:

Dude is way to excited about this feature.

I wish more people were actually enthusiastic in videos. Boring bland monotone in every dev diary ever released starts to get old pretty quick...

That frog would make an awesome Patrick.

Wow that game still exists?

hmm the faces thing is a cute little feature... could be interesting in a game I had interest in playing. well Novel anyway.

I wonder what percent of all R&D budgets goes into to stuff that no one wants.

@DVombatus said:

@viiral said:

@DVombatus said:

This is kind of dumb...

Why.. RPrs will love this..

That's true. But you have to admit that the voice modulation sounded a little rough.

I don't know why he was so pumped about the voice stuff. I distinctly remember that being one of the worst things about early Xbox Live. It just makes everything sound so difficult to hear correctly.

Frogs don't look forward. I DON'T LIKE IT! TAKE IT BACK!

people still play everquest 2?

@DerekDanahy said:

It looks really dumb but by god if that guy isn't fucking stoked.

Where my This. button go?

EverQuest II Facial Recognition Tech: involuntarily punching your monitor never felt so real before!

While this tech looks cool, I find hearing other people's voices in an MMO creepy and distracting enough. I lost interest in WoW at 80, because of all the "vent required" crap my guild was doing. Some people's equipment makes them hard to understand already, not to mention annoying.

I think having to pay attention to polygonal faces for visual cues seems like it would also be terribly annoying. But I was never much of a role player. Just show me where to drop my deeps!

I don't understand the surprise that EQ, and EQ2 are still around and played. Go pick on UO;) Loved that game.

Plus, leave the guy with the awesome job you all know you want alone--no one looks good on a webcam.

I guess if someone is still playing EQ2 beyond casual curiosity to see what the game is like, you'd have to be as excited as this guy is. Betting this doesn't make it to other SOE games but could go to the horrific Eye Pet game thingy.

Don't

That guy spoke and acted a lot like Wayne from "Wayne's World".. very odd.

"It's rockin new facial recognition! EXCELLENT!"

He seems like a nice guy

@tmek: Oh god I can't unsee it. It's uncanny!

@Milkman: well considering that both games are free 2 play, theres probably alot of people playing it now. more than there were before at least.

For some reason I can't stop watching this.

If I played EQ2, this could be fun to turn on and mess around with.  Listening to someone talk on Vent, while their character animates speech, that could be cool.
 
Step away from the computer = character instantly decapitated.

Oh great so now frogmen and the other will get even more creepy. Taken it away Will.

I can't take this seriously. I mean i'd probably get a laugh out of using this way of playing, but, as for enhancing your role-playing experience?

I actually thought this was kind of cool, that Gnome/Halfling voice is certainly the worst thing ever though.

Ponytail detected!

Wonder why people are so against this. The face tracking thing is great for Role Players and if it's real time I'd love to use it. The voice modulator definitely needs work though.

Sounds cool but watching that frogmans mouth move when he talks looks really weird. It's like watching an anime character speak.