Morgoth Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Now that Dragon looked goofy. Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I thought the trailer looked fantastic (the Sacred Ashes one), it's just too bad that the game in no way resembles what was shown there. Oh, and one of the female characters (the one who turns into a purple spider) resembles a famous porn star! Uh, one of my friends told me that, I wouldn't know. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwars Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Cool man, I didn't know there was a LOTR RPG in the making! Oh, and one of the female characters (the one who turns into a purple spider) resembles a famous porn star! Uh, one of my friends told me that, I wouldn't know. Very dark, mature and gritty. Now, if the character really was a porn star, then it'd get interesting. Listen to my home-made recordings (some original songs, some not): http://www.youtube.c...low=grid&view=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theslug Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 She looks quite similar to Sasha Grey imo. Which makes sense given the nature of the character, she is a real one of a kind whore. But I like that kind of enduring quality. There was a time when I questioned the ability for the schizoid to ever experience genuine happiness, at the very least for a prolonged segment of time. I am no closer to finding the answer, however, it has become apparent that contentment is certainly a realizable goal. I find these results to be adequate, if not pleasing. Unfortunately, connection is another subject entirely. When one has sufficiently examined the mind and their emotional constructs, connection can be easily imitated. More data must be gleaned and further collated before a sufficient judgment can be reached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Cool man, I didn't know there was a LOTR RPG in the making!This is an insult to LotR. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syraxis Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 This is an insult to LotR. And insult he did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 The 'Ashes' trailer looks great, there's no getting away from that. I don't think it's meant to do anything more than show off that it's an epic, vanilla fantasy party-based game with lots of fighting in it*. In that respect it's very efficacious. Cheers MC * The Urk Hai dude looking extremely buff but taken out by one arrow - it's a bit Indiana Jones and the guy with the scimitar if you remember the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) No party member is "mandatory" for keeping in your active party, save for a few small plot specific moments. You just can't tell every party member to not follow you. So they'll stay in camp if you don't want them in your group. Morrigan is definitely NOT the one. I thought she might be but I saw a friend of mine tell her to pike off relatively early in the game. * The Urk Hai dude looking extremely buff but taken out by one arrow - it's a bit Indiana Jones and the guy with the scimitar if you remember the scene. Trailers always have enemies being dispatched at a much quicker rate than in the actual game. Edited October 12, 2009 by alanschu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Has that trailer some hypnotic properties, or did everyone go insane when I wasn't looking? Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 "This is an insult to LotR." LOTOR is overrated. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 "This is an insult to LotR." LOTR is overrated. Dunno, dun care. My point was, LotR isn't Final Fantasy. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Has that trailer some hypnotic properties, or did everyone go insane when I wasn't looking? What's so bad about it? For starters, it doesn't have Marilyn whatisname caterwauling in the background mixed with scenes of pixellated boobies and unconvincing blood fountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 For starters, it doesn't have Marilyn whatisname caterwauling in the background mixed with scenes of pixellated boobies and unconvincing blood fountains. Have you seen the Brood (Blood?) Mother trailer? The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Has that trailer some hypnotic properties, or did everyone go insane when I wasn't looking? What's so bad about it? Every second is cliche (there's a difference between cliche and badly done too cliche), the characters are cliche (they may have more personality in-game, but what we got here were some defining characterestics, which, presented this way, made the characters seem shallow), the whole thing feels like a bad Advent Children clone (OH HEY, WE'RE HIGH BUDGET B****, LOOK HOW COOL 'N' AWESOME WE ARE), and to crown it all, it made a WRPG look like a JRPG, which is the worst thing a trailer can do. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepenthe Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I love the Baldur's Gate cue when the dragon lands. Even if it's just in my imagination. You're a cheery wee bugger, Nep. Have I ever said that? Reapercussions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Has that trailer some hypnotic properties, or did everyone go insane when I wasn't looking? What's so bad about it? Every second is cliche (there's a difference between cliche and badly done too cliche), the characters are cliche (they may have more personality in-game, but what we got here were some defining characterestics, which, presented this way, made the characters seem shallow), the whole thing feels like a bad Advent Children clone (OH HEY, WE'RE HIGH BUDGET B****, LOOK HOW COOL 'N' AWESOME WE ARE), and to crown it all, it made a WRPG look like a JRPG, which is the worst thing a trailer can do. I dunno, I understand where you're coming from on one hand, but on the other its a teaser trailer designed to entice people, so naturally it'd be chock cool of "LOOK HOW COOL 'N' AWESOME WE ARE". I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I dunno, I understand where you're coming from on one hand, but on the other its a teaser trailer designed to entice people, so naturally it'd be chock cool of "LOOK HOW COOL 'N' AWESOME WE ARE".I'd agree with that if DA's keywords would be 'cool' and 'awesome' instead 'dark' and 'epic'. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Yeah, I take the point and can see why Oner thinks it's a bit cliched, but then again it's a difficult genre in which to be genuinely original. It's vanilla sub-Tolkein fantasy guys, what else do they have to work with? Characters armed with senitent pieces of tropical fruit? A trailer that concentrates on the inventory system? Personally, I don't think a spell whereby you turn an enemy into a walking IED is a cliche, I think it's pretty darn cool. Yeah, the red-haired chick = Legolas with a bit of Crouching Tiger... about it, but hey those are cool character tropes - who wouldn't want to be like them in a game character? Stenn is the Terminator with dreadlocks - er, that's pretty cool from where I'm sat too. I find myself in the deeply ironic position of defending Bioware marketing, but sometimes you can be a bit too clever with this stuff for your own good. This trailer was polished, with high production values and exciting combat... it sends a deeply positive message about the development goals of the people who made the game. Whether the reality of those goals are met remains to be seen, but for me that trailer was pretty much on the money. Cheers MC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) The CGI looks way too clean, the dragon and "ork" models look pretty horrible and what's up with the weird anime combat stuff? Compare it to any of Blizzard's CGI. Edited October 12, 2009 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILL THE ALMIGHTY Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I was wondering why the orcs looked like they came from Wacraft 2's cinematics. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 It's nice that they tried, but they should probably just outsource the CG or something. They're idea of epic combat is pretty weird and has almost nothing to do with the actual combat in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Evenstar Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Yeah, I take the point and can see why Oner thinks it's a bit cliched, but then again it's a difficult genre in which to be genuinely original. It's vanilla sub-Tolkein fantasy guys, what else do they have to work with? Characters armed with senitent pieces of tropical fruit? A trailer that concentrates on the inventory system? Personally, I don't think a spell whereby you turn an enemy into a walking IED is a cliche, I think it's pretty darn cool. Yeah, the red-haired chick = Legolas with a bit of Crouching Tiger... about it, but hey those are cool character tropes - who wouldn't want to be like them in a game character? Stenn is the Terminator with dreadlocks - er, that's pretty cool from where I'm sat too. I find myself in the deeply ironic position of defending Bioware marketing, but sometimes you can be a bit too clever with this stuff for your own good. This trailer was polished, with high production values and exciting combat... it sends a deeply positive message about the development goals of the people who made the game. Whether the reality of those goals are met remains to be seen, but for me that trailer was pretty much on the money. Cheers MC My guess is that the creativity lies in details you're unlikely to observe in a trailer. Original doesn't need to mean "bizarre." It can be a matter of seeing ordinary things through new eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) Yeah, I take the point and can see why Oner thinks it's a bit cliched, but then again it's a difficult genre in which to be genuinely original. It's vanilla sub-Tolkein fantasy guys, what else do they have to work with? Characters armed with senitent pieces of tropical fruit? A trailer that concentrates on the inventory system?It's more like too many cliches presented badly. I mentioned the PC-deflects-axe part earlier, that wasn't new either, but was done well and I liked it. My guess is that the creativity lies in details you're unlikely to observe in a trailer.Well put. Edited October 12, 2009 by Oner Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I dunno, I understand where you're coming from on one hand, but on the other its a teaser trailer designed to entice people, so naturally it'd be chock cool of "LOOK HOW COOL 'N' AWESOME WE ARE".I'd agree with that if DA's keywords would be 'cool' and 'awesome' instead 'dark' and 'epic'. Maybe they're going for cool dark awesome epic? I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I dunno, I understand where you're coming from on one hand, but on the other its a teaser trailer designed to entice people, so naturally it'd be chock cool of "LOOK HOW COOL 'N' AWESOME WE ARE".I'd agree with that if DA's keywords would be 'cool' and 'awesome' instead 'dark' and 'epic'. Maybe they're going for cool dark awesome epic? Which r-tard tried to breed Baldur's Gate with Devil May Cry? Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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