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Topic: Sigil quests first movie. (Read 3182 times)
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lampshade
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Trippy
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If I didn't know that was from Vanguard I would have assumed I was looking at an EQ2 movie. It has the same psuedo-realistic texturing as EQ2 including the same plastic looking specular highlighting. Brad must really like that look.
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NiX
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It didn't look all that plasticy when I saw the game during my press demo with Brad and Jeff. One thing I did notice was the video moving through the city. How in the fuck they managed that is beyond me. At the demo the computer came to a crawl as the high poly kingdom bent it over a desk and violated its anus. It could have been that they were running the X800 and the drivers for it weren't up to par (a very viable reason.) We'll have to see. It did look pretty, but alot of the land felt empty to me.
Note: If anyone read my E3 Write-up for this I'd like to point out that the phallic symbol(s) I referred to are the spires you see in the first part of the video.
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Krakrok
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Was the E3 demo using SpeedTreeRT? The movie looks like it is. Some well used LOD is all it takes to go from slug to speedy.
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Mi_Tes
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Is that all, another EQ2 with cheesy music? Now I really miss Mythica.
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HaemishM
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About the best I can manage is a morose "Yippie-doodle?"
Looks like Everquest with a shinier skin. I saw absolutely nothing in there that made me want to play the game, especially considering I know McQuaid is involved.
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Alluvian
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What are we supposed to see in a movie to make us want to play a game anyway? By that standard nothing I have seen in about any video for about any game has made me want to play it. HL2 awed me with the physics, but that is because I saw the movies to it a long time before games like Max Payne2 came out and such.
In a MMOG what visually can make anyone want to play a game? I can't think of anything at all. All you can judge is art. And for a game like this you can't even judge that since it will most likely look very different by release. I have not even seen the trailer, I usually don't bother watching them at all. What do people expect to see in them? I usually leave them disliking the game more than I came in. I am more prone to nitpick the negatives than be wowed by the positives.
All we here would care about is maybe a shaky cam of a guy actually PLAYING the game. Then we could see how much he had to interact to do things in combat, we could see the interface, etc...
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HaemishM
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What I like to see in video game trailers like this is something I either haven't seen before, or something that lets me know how the game will play.
This had neither. It had lots of shiny, some really bad Rush guitar rip offs, and not much else.
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Alluvian
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These trailers (especially the first trailers for an alpha or pre-alpha game) never show any gameplay. At best you get embarassingly scripted scenes like the early WoW videos that showed people moving in formation and doing flanking moves and such (what a laugh). The only memorable thing from the early wow videos was, um... it looks like a zoomed in Warcraft 3, and oh, they have treents apparently that roar. Same thing from all these companies. I doubt gameplay is even IN vanguard yet.
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Anonymous
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You say that like vanguard will ever have gameplay worth mentioning.
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