RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS THREAD!, just a dumping ground

[Calax]

http://kotaku.com/5591036/zone-of-enders-f...-crashing-power

 

 

WWOOOOOOO YYEEEEAAAHHHHH!!!!!

 

 

ZEEE OOHHHH EEEE! Z. O. E. Z. O. E.!

 

...

 

Sorry... I just <3 Zone of the Enders.

[funcroc]

Big Huge Games' RPG revealed: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

 

Lead Designers: Ken Rolston (Redguard, Morrowind, Oblivion), Mark Nelson (Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3)

Lead Narrative Designer: Erik J. Caponi (Oblivion, Fallout 3)

Lead Systems Designer: Ian Frazier (Ultima 5: Lazarus, Titan Quest, Dawn of War: Soulstorm)

Edited July 20, 2010 by funcroc

[Slowtrain]

...Oblivion...Oblivion...Oblivion

 

 

Yeah, that's promising for sure.

[WorstUsernameEver]

So Lead Narrative Designer worked on Oblivion and Fallout 3?

The writing will suck. The game is doomed.

[Mamoulian War]

...Oblivion...Oblivion...Oblivion

 

 

Yeah, that's promising for sure.

 

Still better than remake of

 

...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance

[Spider]

But the lead systems designer worked on TQ. There is hope.

[WorstUsernameEver]

But the lead systems designer worked on TQ. There is hope.

 

But there is MacFarlane. The game is still DOOMed!

 

 

I was joking!

 

[HoonDing]

R.A. Salvatore writing a Tolkienesque history of a fantasy world?

 

[Nepenthe]

...Oblivion...Oblivion...Oblivion

 

 

Yeah, that's promising for sure.

 

Still better than remake of

 

...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance

 

So you are now dissing 1988 classics here, seminal RPGs? Or the sad Pool of Radiance 2: Ruins of Myth Drannor?

 

I am confused, as the title of neither is in plural, so I have to assume that you are referring to both. In which case I'll have to call "heretic".

[Mamoulian War]

...Oblivion...Oblivion...Oblivion

 

 

Yeah, that's promising for sure.

 

Still better than remake of

 

...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance

 

So you are now dissing 1988 classics here, seminal RPGs? Or the sad Pool of Radiance 2: Ruins of Myth Drannor?

 

I am confused, as the title of neither is in plural, so I have to assume that you are referring to both. In which case I'll have to call "heretic".

 

i bolded you the keyword i hope it clears the case

[Nepenthe]

...Oblivion...Oblivion...Oblivion

 

 

Yeah, that's promising for sure.

 

Still better than remake of

 

...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance...Pools of Radiance

 

So you are now dissing 1988 classics here, seminal RPGs? Or the sad Pool of Radiance 2: Ruins of Myth Drannor?

 

I am confused, as the title of neither is in plural, so I have to assume that you are referring to both. In which case I'll have to call "heretic".

 

i bolded you the keyword i hope it clears the case

 

No, it doesn't. PoR is actually old enough that a ~ DAO engine remake might be interesting.

 

+ I had the B/W mac version.

[Mamoulian War]

i meant the first 3rd edition D&D CRPG, which was the ruins of myth drannor

[funcroc]

EA to announce seven new titles soon

GameSpot Livestreaming EA's Studio Showcase on Tuesday

 

Electronic Arts is unveiling seven new titles tomorrow, Tuesday July 20, at its annual Studio Showcase media event on its Redwood City campus. These latest products from EA range from the whimsical to strategic, athletic to horrific. The briefing can be viewed live at Gamespot at 1 PM PST on Tuesday, July 20.

 

 

Add: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning PR

Edited July 20, 2010 by funcroc

[funcroc]

Ubisoft to unveil new strategy RPG title for PC at GamesCom

 

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning interview

[Wombat]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning interview

Ken, what can you say about the action aspect of this game?

I am celebrated justly for being an advocate of free-form, open-world gaming because it is a lot of fun. As well as being a warrior, a mage and a thief, I'm really a pilgrim in the games that I go through. It's that pilgrim's interest or tourist's interest, in just wandering around and seeing everything and playing around with things, that was the thing that brought me the excitement of working on The Elder Scrolls projects. And in many ways they probably have defined the standard for any large, vast, narrative single-player role-playing game that will be an award-winner or best-seller. But we have already done that and I wanted to find some other place where we could be distinct and special and I have always had a lingering sense that RPGs are in some way hampered by their tabletop and PC-based, turn-based past. They are comfortable with being slow-paced and being comfortable with requiring you to go look at your character page or look at your character interface in a PC game or to have to fuss with all those things.

 

What I really wanted was the same kind of action immersion that you get in other games where if you are skateboarding, you are skateboarding. You're not checking your interface to see if you have the right gear on to be skateborading. You are in that moment. ... You'd think it wouldn't be so hard. You just take an action game and then adapt it to an RPG. But if you look at an action game, they almost always have very simple worlds that you are moving through, levels and levels specifically designed to certain aspects of the character. So the player doesn't really have that much choice. He is going through a maze and he is not improvising. Whereas the soul of role-playing games is defining your own character and being whoever you want to be and customizing yourself. So the challenge was finding something that would allow us to have the experience of an action-adventure game but sill have the complexity, richness and customization of a RPG.

I missed quite a lot of things in Oblivion compared with Morrowind, one of which is these simple and humble pilgrim quests although I know he is using it as analogy. Oblivion lost quite a lot of these PnP feel in Morrowind.

[Morgoth]

These latest products from EA range from the whimsical to strategic, athletic to horrific.

System Shock 3 kthxbye.

[Purkake]

These latest products from EA range from the whimsical to strategic, athletic to horrific.

System Shock 3 kthxbye.

That would probably be Dead Space 2, no?

 

As for SS3, maybe wait until DX3 gets released and copy the good parts from that?

Edited July 20, 2010 by Purkake

[WorstUsernameEver]

Hasn't Dead Space 2 already been announced?

 

By the way, nice to see that Project Mercury has a name. We still know NOTHING about it though.

[Morgoth]

At least I hope they announce that Project Redlime from Starbreeze. It's really about time.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Dead Space is pretty damn far from System Shock. Definitely doesn't feel the same.

 

And you all know a System Shock 3 would be dumbed down and stupid. Or wind up like XCOM and be completely different from the first two.

[Purkake]

Dead Space is pretty damn far from System Shock. Definitely doesn't feel the same.

 

And you all know a System Shock 3 would be dumbed down and stupid. Or wind up like XCOM and be completely different from the first two.

I wasn't implying that Dead Space 2 would be System Shock 3, but that the horror game would be DS2.

 

Just keep Ken Levine away from it or we'll get a nihilist utopia in space starring the bastard son of SHODAN

and Tommy

.

[Morgoth]

Ken Levine + System Shock = Heaven!

[Purkake]

These days:

 

Ken Levine + System Shock = Bioshock

 

[Morgoth]

That's inevitable. But it's still better than nothing.

[Purkake]

If it was Bioshock in space with a decent story, sure. As things seem to be going, he'll just rip off all his previous stories again,