I would love to hear them talk about the development of the open world, environments, weather systems, etc. The beta maps people have found are really interesting to me

That's because they're too busy crunching to do any.

@@ericpalacios920 Not exactlly what your looking for, but you might find it interesting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gphnhMVjlae9nZc.html&ab_channel=GDC

@@ericpalacios920 I would like too but i think all the mistery around Rockstar way to do things is one of the various reasons that made them so unique in the industry.

@@ericpalacios920 No one cares about beta maps, I care about pre alpha, alpha and beta Builds of this game

Sadly he left Rockstar and is at Tencent now

@@MikeyTux97 tencent?? Yikes

@@GodWarsX Yes as Animation expert, his name was found in those Gta 6 leaks ,so he did work on GTA 6.

@@Nick-kb2jc In debug screen from one of those testing clips

@@Nick-kb2jc According to forums the debug UI is ImGui which is open source and has name and build dates for each script. Rest you can see it yourself in the leaks

They've done this rarely in GDC and siggraph for GTA 5 too.

@@squidstone8399 what did tbeh talk about in siggraph

@@youngknight5589 Atmospherics in rdr2

Do they have any behind the scenes? They’re very secretive

Nothing gameplay related, thats for sure.

@@Makrillo I love the gameplay. And the animations that compliments it are top notch. R* games are grounded in reality, and the gameplay works for what it’s trying to do. I don’t need Arthur Morgan to do backflips and Run on walls as he’s shooting lawmen

@@gleam6370 Im fine with its controls, but I hate the rigid mission-structures and would like more freedom in how I solve quests, RDR2 was extremely limited in how to take on missions and often when I took two steps to the side it failed. Which I find incredibly boring.

@@Makrillo you probably mean combat, as gameplay is alot of things it's not just the gunplay, so hourse riding, walking/running , animations, interactively, etc is all gameplay, and R* will suerly push that to new levels in there next title, as in RDR2 they introduced many gameplay systems like interacting with NPCs, improved melee combat, and animations in general, these are just a few examples.

@@nonaborhan7269 combat could be fine, its more missiondesign and the freedom you have to resolve the missions in a manner that is entertaining. Rockstar has designed them in such a way that you either resolve them as they had planned, or not at all. Which is boring to me. The open world, while beautiful is also rather pointless to do anything in. Sure I can ride around and steal a carriage or whatever, but there's not any tangible rewards for it. The only thing that was mildly worth pursuing was the legendary animals, but hunting them also felt more like a chore than anything. The best part of the game to me were some of the smaller more personal quests.

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Absolutely. I'm so glad that they picked up on lead changes and lateral turning movement -- extensive procedural horse movement with varied "styles" is something that no game has really had the ability to explore fully before due to budget and hardware constraints, and the lack of it will always leave virtual horses feeling "off." It's something that even non-horsey people will notice, when a horse in RDR2 turns, it feels dramatically different to how a horse in RDR turns (ie: their turning circle is no longer larger than the circumference of the moon). The changing posture when going up/down hill, the different speed and animations in deep snow/water/mud... it all paints a picture. Procedural foot placement on differing terrain was so exciting when it started coming to games. I remember the first time I played a game where you could put ONE foot on something, and have the leg bend to adjust. Mind. Blown. But all these extra plains of movement are the next step. It's so exciting. It can't be overstated how much believability it adds to the horses, which are so vital to the genre. I'm so glad that R* put budget and time behind finding such great solutions to this, and of course, it's not perfect. We could see more improvements in the future, and personally, it makes me very excited for a next-gen RDR title in the far-future and what that could accomplish with horse animations and personality, breeds and just more, more, more variation and individuality. It seems that this guy especially has an idea of how much players loved this attention to detail, which makes me hopeful that if/when R* makes an RDR3, they'll go with the same idea (the one that makes me so happy I could cry), "the horses inform development." When I played RDR2 for the first time, I could not BELIEVE how alive the horses felt. It was the most unexpected gift. I never expected a game not *just* about horses to care so much about how the horses came across. It was surreal. I still play RDR2 and am amazed by the way the horses turn. It never gets old. I've got a new-found appreciation for certain features after watching this, too. This presentation meant little to me in a game development sense -- I did learn some, but I'm sure a lot went over my head. I knew that the animations of the horses were WAY too varied to all be hand-picked transitions, and that they were procedural, but it's so cool to see HOW that works. Plus, this guy actually shed some light on some horse features that players have been arguing over the existence of since release. I hope that in the future, they make these features even more obvious, like various things slowing the horses down (including horse type -- it could be so much more extreme and it'd be better imo), horses not always doing what the player asks them to, etc. I'm amazed that they didn't hype some of these features more. Horse balls, shitting, great. But lead changes? That's what got me at release. And the uphill animation. I STILL walk uphill in RDR2 for no reason, just to see it. The horses in TLOU2 are absolutely stunning, especially considering how little time they're in the game. I was so surprised and amazed by them, too, again, ESPECIALLY because they're not in the game for that long. It's cool to see devs taking horses seriously and having some fun with them. It's like they're all collectively realising that horses are pretty and move in interesting (and from a game production standpoint, no doubt challenging) ways, and putting budget and time into adding it into their games. It's so cool to see even non-horsey people realising that it DOES add to the game to have believable horses, even if it's not *essential* to function. I had to laugh at how happy this guy seemed abut the article of the "big stupid" Belgian. That article is a favourite of mine. Made me so happy, and it's exactly what I mean when I say that even non-horsey people loved RDR2's horses.

Have you tried shadow of the colossus ps2??

@@LiquidSnake1988 Glad someone brought this up. There's no way the horse movement/physics/AI in Shadow of the Colossus did not influence RDR 2's dev team. It still holds up to this day. I wonder if the PS4 remake changed any of the underlying horse animations? The mane/tail appears somewhat less floaty, but that might possibly have more to do with updates to the physics rather than animation.

@@bobstatesman I dont' have the impression of modifications with Agro on PS4. With Wanda, a little, but not with our trusted mount, I think.

Why we crash into trees so much 35:00

That’s what I’ve been trying to tell people They’ve obviously never seen videos like this before

Same !!!

would be amazing

Rockstar is making games about america specifically, and about more or less modern times to reflect on society and satirize. Medieval game would be very out of the left field for them

Doesn’t need any online features

12:16 42:04

sadly never gotten saved nor it will ever be

Horse biomechanics are quite complex; I see why it'd be difficult to emulate realistically to any degree. I've certainly seen many many poorly created horses in gaming over the years lol

@@BleachBasket108 Witcher 3 is a good exsample.

they do graze

I’ve seen wild horses laying down, can’t remember if the camp horses do

@@cjeff99 caught my horse in rdo laying down after a blood money mission

They graze, lay down, roll in grass

Story mode is amazing and deserves to be experienced. Online is a whole different can of worms. We are very pissed rn, but definitely play single player if you want to. It’s on sale on PlayStation rn

i cannot stress this enough buy the game for the story its amazing don't worry about RDO

Yes a huge part of the community is irritated about RDO, myself included. ( For good reason may I add) But the Single player game is jaw dropping . It's truly a generational game. The best I've played imho, and as an older adult, I've been an avid gamer since pong. Rockstar is unparalleled in the detail they put into it, as this presentation shows. The rest of the game is just as detailed. They do single player amazingly well typically, and this is the pinnacle. They need some help w/ online though. Sorry R* take your lumps too lol.

Same here, I can never get enough Red Dead content.

It already is a masterpiece

GTA and Manhunt more like. Of course they played a Big role in RDR2 as all the devs at Rockstar worked on it.

@@John-996 they are the core of Rockstar and they do the magic. Rockstar south just takes the credit.