Uncanny Valley Moments

[Darth Rahu]

What exactly are Uncanny Valley moments in games and give me examples from some of your?gaming experiences.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Most of Oblivion NPC interaction.

 

[JRCB]

The Uncanny Valley is where something tries to appear realistic but doesn't get it quite right, so it is clearly fake and makes us uncomfortable (from what I've taken from it).

No examples come to mind right now.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Any Bioware game involving a conversation sequence, along with any of Bethesda's recent works.

As for real life, stumbling upon the Actroid on the internets.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Milo.

Kill it! Beat it to death with controllers and joysticks!

 

[Darth Rahu]

The Uncanny Valley is where something tries to appear realistic but doesn't get it quite right, so it is clearly fake and makes us uncomfortable (from what I've taken from it).

No examples come to mind right now.

Kinda like how when someone appears to be drinking something yet the glasses content remains unchanged. Not exactly uncomfortable but weird.

 

[JRCB]

The Uncanny Valley is where something tries to appear realistic but doesn't get it quite right, so it is clearly fake and makes us uncomfortable (from what I've taken from it).

No examples come to mind right now.

Kinda like how when someone appears to be drinking something yet the glasses content remains unchanged. Not exactly uncomfortable but weird.

No, it mostly has to do with things that look like humans.

 

[revjay]

I thought I was immune to it but the face designing during character creation in me2. something about the eyes and moving the head.

 

[cubikill]

Almost the entire game of Heavy Rain. Don't get me wrong I really liked that game, but no one looked quite right. Also the voice acting didn't help. There were some moments in Mass Effect, but I didn't have them in Mass Effect 2.

 

[Logic 0]

A few secnes in no more heros 2 where travis' face just looks creepy.

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

Alot of graphics enhancements over the past few years.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Thank goodness for that, otherwise nobody could stop the terminators.

 

[Aura Guardian]

Seeing Johanna Dark in the Perfect Dark remake for the XBLA

 

[fun-with-a-gun]

The eyes of the shadow company's soldier when rappel down to knife him... Make that any close-up of eyes in a videogame.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

Any Bioware game involving a conversation sequence, along with any of Bethesda's recent works.

As for real life, stumbling upon the Actroid on the internets.

I can't pick the seiyuu, but I know that voice from several anime. That thing is too creepy. The chobits aren't too far away!

Dragon Age characters were always wrong. Not enough facial expression. They're damn lucky the voice actors were talented enough to give them life.

 

[atol]

Miranda from Mass Effect 2 I suppose.

 

[Sonofadiddly]

Almost the entire game of Heavy Rain. Don't get me wrong I really liked that game, but no one looked quite right. Also the voice acting didn't help. There were some moments in Mass Effect, but I didn't have them in Mass Effect 2.

Agreed. The mouth movements were totally off half the time, made them look like they all had broken jaws. Creepy as hell. Also, robot walking on the stairs. Also, the children all sounded terrible. And the next person I hear pronouncing "origami" like an asshole is going to get punched in the back of the head. I think I'll go replay it.