iPad Gameplay Footage

[thesporkman]

http://wireless.ign.com/dor/objects/...lay_61710.html

[Linque]

Ahhhh this looks so good, can't wait! You most definitely have a winner on your hands TellTale!

[der_ketzer]

I can't wait to get my hands on the steamrelease for this one.

[doodinthemood]

Like the atmosphere, but... "inspect the fence" *clicks fence*...... "enter the hotel" *clicks hotel*

What? Does it tell you what to do every step of the way? Can that be turned off?

[MarkDarin]

Originally Posted by doodinthemood

Like the atmosphere, but... "inspect the fence" *clicks fence*...... "enter the hotel" *clicks hotel*

What? Does it tell you what to do every step of the way? Can that be turned off?

That's just part of the intro tutorial (And is still being tweaked) it certainly does NOT do that throughout the game.

[Tjibbbe]

Man, that looks great. One question though: English isn't my native language, but is 'thru' actually a word? I always thought that was just the internet-way of writing 'through'.

The game looks great, and I love the voice acting. June can't come soon enough!

Wait...

[doodinthemood]

Originally Posted by MarkDarin

That's just part of the intro tutorial (And is still being tweaked) it certainly does NOT do that throughout the game.

Ah cool, in which case woot Ahm so excited.

Originally Posted by Tjibbbe

Man, that looks great. One question though: English isn't my native language, but is 'thru' actually a word? I always thought that was just the internet-way of writing 'through'.

The game looks great, and I love the voice acting. June can't come soon enough!

Wait...

thru is just a slangy way of writing through, actually more common now in things like "drive thru"

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by Tjibbbe

Man, that looks great. One question though: English isn't my native language, but is 'thru' actually a word? I always thought that was just the internet-way of writing 'through'.

It's one of these text message-like things that pops up here and there in the US. You'll also see stuff like "Ped Xing" for "Pedestrian Crossing", it's extremely weird, like living inside of a cellphone or something. And I'm pretty sure things like that appeared before cellphones were as common as they are now.

[prizna]

Originally Posted by MarkDarin

That's just part of the intro tutorial (And is still being tweaked) it certainly does NOT do that throughout the game.

Yea thats what I thought that was, i wouldnt expect that to be throughout the game.

[Lena_P]

Originally Posted by Avistew

It's one of these text message-like things that pops up here and there in the US. You'll also see stuff like "Ped Xing" for "Pedestrian Crossing", it's extremely weird, like living inside of a cellphone or something. And I'm pretty sure things like that appeared before cellphones were as common as they are now.

Ped Xing is more a case of truncating a word so as to fit it onto a street sign. Writing "thru" is similar in that drive thru signs want to have the text be big as possible so that you can see it from the highway, and because it's "cooler" ... or something.

It might just be a misspelling in the demo, though. You know how TTG says they work on the games right up to the minute they're released? Turns out they kind of mean it.

[MRN]

This looks awesome, make a release date already!!!

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by Lena_P

Ped Xing is more a case of truncating a word so as to fit it onto a street sign.

I guess, but France does fine with "passage piétons". It's not like the size is so horribly huge or anything. And seriously, when you're learning English, you look stupid when you ask "Hey, what does "ped gzing" mean?"
If at least they wrote it like a plus sign, then you'd think it's a cross rather than assume it's a letter like the rest >.>

I honestly prefer stuff like "thru". Sure, you double-take it at first, but at least you know what it means right away.

[Lena_P]

I've never driven in France, but I'm assuming you don't usually have pedestrian crossings on streets with high speed limits like the US, or at least they're not common. Here there are roads that go from 55 mph down to 25 in about a 1/5 of a mile. It's better to have larger font signs at those places, and nowadays they're often just the pedestrian symbol instead to make them even easier to identify, and fix the language problem.

[Avistew]

Well, the signs I was referring to in France do have the symbol too, with the text underneath. And I wouldn't know how France's driving work, I barely ever climb in a car when I'm in France.
Not that it would make me more likely to know anyway since I'd be a passenger and pay absolutely no attention to road signs when there are so many more interesting things to look at.

I wasn't trying to be offensive or anything, just saying that it felt like being on a cellphone. You say it's because of lack of room, but then the analogy remains, since that's also the reason why stuff are shortened in text messages.
The point is, it's confusing when you don't speak the language. I'm sure it would be the same the other way around. People who aren't familiar with French would have trouble with "a12c4" or even "a tt" or something.
I don't know SMS language enough to come up with examples that aren't conversation examples, but I'm sure you get what I mean. Sure, "Ped Xing" takes less room, but if much less people understand what it means it defeats the point.

Road signs are much better as symbols anyways. Apart from names of places and stuff.

[guitarsareboring]

Looks a bit fiddly, look at the difficulty they're having dragging those items at the beginning. Despite the finger being nowhere near them, it's still selecting the original one.

[Lena_P]

It is a review copy. They still have about two weeks to tighten up the controls, etc.

@avistew I'm not upset, I was just trying to explain why it was done. Another thing you have to realize is that X is also a cross, so for a native speaker Xing immediately makes you think of cross-ing. Frankly, if you don't speak the language where you're driving you're going to run into trouble anyway because you won't recognize an exit if you see one. "Ausgang? Boy it must be a big city! I see signs for it everywhere around here!"

[Jake]

Originally Posted by guitarsareboring

Looks a bit fiddly, look at the difficulty they're having dragging those items at the beginning. Despite the finger being nowhere near them, it's still selecting the original one.

Yeah that snuck into the E3 build. Sucks! It will be fine in the one that ships.

[Avistew]

I guess To be fair I was speaking from a pedestrian point of view, so not on highways. On actual crossings, apparently to the attention of pedestrians so they'd know where to cross.

Also, the X thing might be obvious for native speakers, but you have no idea how long it took me to figure out was "Xmas" was. "Xing" was slightly faster (I had to figure it out on my own, when I ask people kept laughing >.>) but not by that much. If it was X-ing, then yeah, I'd get it faster, but this way it just looks like a normal word I guess.

[thesporkman]

The X in "Xmas" isn't actually the English letter X; it's the Greek letter Chi, as in Χριστός, "Christ."

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by thesporkman

The X in "Xmas" isn't actually the English letter X; it's the Greek letter Chi, as in Χριστός, "Christ."

Or, you know, a cross, which is what Christ was named after. That's the point. the X in Xing isn't the letter X either.