The Best of E3

[metadigital]

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I challenge you to play the demo and the first couple of levels: give it half an hour. If you don't end up playing it until you collapse ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.... then you're obviously do not have as addictive a personality disrder as me ..

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

I just read over the FAQ of Aftershock looks like they have made some improvements. Actually being able to enter buildings and climb is a big plus.

 

My machine can still run it at top specs too

[GhostofAnakin]

Which of those are RPGs?

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Which of those are RPGs?

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I'd say there are about 5 RPGs on the list. Ten if you include RPG/something else hybrids.

[Musopticon?]

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I challenge you to play the demo and the first couple of levels: give it half an hour. If you don't end up playing it until you collapse ...

.... then you're obviously do not have as addictive a personality disrder as me ..

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I'm not disbelieving it's addcitiveness or value. But comparing it and Rebelsta(Raiders) is...mindnumbing.

[GhostofAnakin]

I'd say there are about 5 RPGs on the list. Ten if you include RPG/something else hybrids.

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None of them look very promising, or atleast not in terms of what I'm looking forward to. <_<

[Petay]

Grrrr.......whats with the lack of Black and White 2 in the list??? huh?

 

IMO that was the best game at E3 apart from the game crash at the interview :"> , but then again have been waiting for 4 years for this game <_<

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Dr Lunatic Supreme With Cheese

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That so much sounds like an 80's band.

[mkreku]

Alan Wake

Elder Scrolls IV

Fahrenheit

F.E.A.R.

Gothic 3

Hellgate: London

Need For Speed Most Wanted

Neverwinter Nights 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

The Movies

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These titles are kind of interesting. Some more than others.

[6 Foot Invisible Rabbit]

Concept art is irrelevant.

[Musopticon?]

No if it's awesome.

[SteveThaiBinh]

Perhaps NWN2 will be released in flickbook form.

[Musopticon?]

Adding custom content would be interesting then.

[6 Foot Invisible Rabbit]

No if it's awesome.

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Art is art. Its not a game.

[Musopticon?]

Concept art speaks volumes of how a game might turn out. It's hardly irrelevent in development phase.

[6 Foot Invisible Rabbit]

Concept art is meanngless for it shows nothing about the game. Take a look at the concept art of NWN 1 and take a good look at the OC.

[Musopticon?]

Bad example, but I'll do it anyway...

 

These are some of the pieces I found:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/neverwinter...ex.html?page=29

Considering how NWN turned out and what those pieces try to convey; I see your point. But look at the concept art of BG for example: areas, models, gear, storyboard; you can see what the general feel of and sights of the game might be. As not a whole lot of NWN concept art where given to public and therefore you can't really make a call for it's relevancy. But that doesn't really matter; when I see concept art, and I mean real art; not sketches of models; I either get a fix of of the feel of the game, an estimation how the atmoshphere might play out to be; or if the art is really bad it leaves me with foreboding "This is the stuff they're gonna base a game on? oh, shucks...-feel. To me; art is relevant, but only before the game is out, after that it becomes useless eye candy.

[mkreku]

There are plenty of examples where concept art shows what kind of style the final game is going to have. I agree that it's definitely not as fulfilling as seeing real in-game screenshots, but you can still get a pretty good glimpse at what the designers are going for.

 

Gothic 2 concept art examples:

 

A dragonhunter (not as detailed in-game, but still very close):

 

A holy paladin (very much like the one found in-game):

[metadigital]

Concept art is irrelevant.

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Yeah, I originally thought there was some substance to the hype, but when I opened the DVD that was all there was ... I think this was noted by a few others elsewhere ...

 

Anyway, here is the latest Gamespy Call of Cthullhu review. :D

[EnderAndrew]

Concept art can be indicitive of the mood and theme of a game. Would Fallout be the same without its unique style?

[213374U]

They are. Nothing you purists can say will change that.

Not really. It's more like a bunch of smart devs trying to take advantage of the X-Com franchise with their UFO wannabe products.

[Musopticon?]

What's the problem? The game concept is the same; gameplay is roughly the same. What gives?

[213374U]

Well, the game concept is not exactly the same, it's only similar. Artwork is quite different, too. And the mission/combat part of the game sucks horribly due to pacing, controls, camera/perspective layout and unbalanced difficulty. Not to mention the absurdly retarded AI.

 

Other than that, it's OK.

[metadigital]

So you're really a big fan, then.

[213374U]

You better believe it. In fact it's one of the few games I have ever uninstalled without beating it. I had to do so based on the realization that I could become effectively addicted to such a level of suckage.