1) The overabundance of unnecessary detail creates a huge lack of a focal point EVERYWHERE. The characters don't have places for the eye to rest, and most of the screenshots require that I take a few seconds to discern what's going on. That should NEVER happen in any visual medium. Everything should be communicated as instantly as possible. This crazy urge to put a fuckload of detail EVERYWHERE is a trend that needs to die in video games. Give us the detail where it helps focus our eye, don't put 17 plates of armor and chains and skulls of fire on his ankle. We don't need to be looking at his ankle. There needs to be a system in place that exaggerates atmospheric perspective so that background elements don't get visually jumbled with the characters quite as much. There needs to be clarity. clarity, clarity, clarity. They need to be selective with their detail.
2) Joe Mad said in an interview for this game that they disregarded the horsemen Pestilence and Famine because they weren't bad ass enough (or something to that effect.) Give me a fucking break. That REALLY turned me off to the game. Which is a shame, because most of Joe Mad's artwork is a guilty pleasure of mine too. Not always, but most of the time.
I preordered this last night. Maybe it'll be good. If not, I'll just pass that on to BBC2.
Yeah I can't say 100% that this is worth a day-one purchase, but I'll definitely be eying up reviews in the week ahead of its release. The reviews would have to be uniformly piss-poor to dissuade me, though.
The missus likes the art style and thinks it looks cool, so barring a deluge of bad reviews, it looks like we're buying it.
I'll have the last laugh when the sales figures come in and it sells like 12 copies in the first three weeks.
Are you...? Is he...? I think he is. This calls for the sharpest of all implements: internet sarcasm.
Nothing says quality like sales numbers, that's for sure! Games that bomb commercially like Psychonauts, Ico and Beyond Good & Evil are just the worst.
At any rate, I can't wait to get home and crack open my new copy of Wii Play! With twenty three million units sold, you know it's good. :^:
Chance on
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
This does look brilliant from the trailers. I wouldn't be that keen unless it has the puzzle element to it. Otherwise it would be just another fantasy button bash grind-fest. I'm looking forward to it.
I'll have the last laugh when the sales figures come in and it sells like 12 copies in the first three weeks.
Are you...? Is he...? I think he is. This calls for the sharpest of all implements: internet sarcasm.
Nothing says quality like sales numbers, that's for sure! Games that bomb commercially like Psychonauts, Ico and Beyond Good & Evil are just the worst.
At any rate, I can't wait to get home and crack open my new copy of Wii Play! With twenty three million units sold, you know it's good. :^:
He wasn't passing judgment on the quality of the game. It could be the highest quality game ever, but if I'm not interested in it then I have no reason to want it to do well. I'd laugh too if it sells 12 units, because that's both awful and appropriate, given what I've seen of this game.
The game looks immature, but that doesn't reflect on it's quality at all. White Knight Chronicle looked awesome in previews, but hey, it sucks. Puzzle Quests sounded like the worst idea for a game ever, but hey, it's awesome.
I was about to write a post about this 9/10 review score from 360 Gamer (a UK magazine) when I decided to try to find some corroborating evidence for it.
Anyway, I find this blog which seems to be almost entirely about the game - but there are a few other headings that suggest other interests. Either way, if the game had gotten any 60s I doubt we'd read about it there, but here's the review scores he's listed:
10/10 - Play Magazine (us)
9/10 - 360 Gamer (uk) "Gold Award"
8.8/10 - ConsolPLUS (de) "Console Best Choice"
Found a quote from the Play review: "one of the most visually refined, immersive, and altogether robust video game experiences available on any system.”
Immersive? ...really? I don't... wait, what?
I'm looking forward to Eurogamer's review, that's all I can say.
Chance on
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
There's still four, but Conquest is renamed Strife and Famine is renamed Fury. Death is still Death.
Hold on:
blah i'm dumb, revisionist history go!
Who's Conquest?
er, wait a tic.
wikipedia, help!
oh shit, nvm. Death is one of the Four. Hunger and Famine are the same thing, not sure what I was smoking there. And Pestilence is sometimes called Conquest! Okay.
This interpretation replaces Conquest with Pestilence, which is portrayed as a distinct entity (separate from Famine and Death). The first horseman to appear is Pestilence, who rides upon a white horse. In the wake of Pestilence comes War, riding a large, wild red horse and wielding a tremendous sword. In the wake of War, due to immense destruction because of War and Pestilence, is Famine. Famine is portly, and rides upon a black, sickly horse; this represents gluttony and hunger, respectively. And in the wake of Famine comes Death. His horse is stark pale. He is followed by Hades and carries the remaining souls to their final destinations.
It is this interpretation which is most commonly used as the basis for pop culture's uses of the Four Horsemen concept.
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Ehhh not really. A big reason people have such hatred for WW was because of its pedigree.
Now, your point would be valid if this was an actual Zelda game, but it isn't.
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1) The overabundance of unnecessary detail creates a huge lack of a focal point EVERYWHERE. The characters don't have places for the eye to rest, and most of the screenshots require that I take a few seconds to discern what's going on. That should NEVER happen in any visual medium. Everything should be communicated as instantly as possible. This crazy urge to put a fuckload of detail EVERYWHERE is a trend that needs to die in video games. Give us the detail where it helps focus our eye, don't put 17 plates of armor and chains and skulls of fire on his ankle. We don't need to be looking at his ankle. There needs to be a system in place that exaggerates atmospheric perspective so that background elements don't get visually jumbled with the characters quite as much. There needs to be clarity. clarity, clarity, clarity. They need to be selective with their detail.
2) Joe Mad said in an interview for this game that they disregarded the horsemen Pestilence and Famine because they weren't bad ass enough (or something to that effect.) Give me a fucking break. That REALLY turned me off to the game. Which is a shame, because most of Joe Mad's artwork is a guilty pleasure of mine too. Not always, but most of the time.
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:^:
I'll have the last laugh when the sales figures come in and it sells like 12 copies in the first three weeks.
The missus likes the art style and thinks it looks cool, so barring a deluge of bad reviews, it looks like we're buying it.
If it does badly its because nobodies heard of it.
Are you...? Is he...? I think he is. This calls for the sharpest of all implements: internet sarcasm.
Nothing says quality like sales numbers, that's for sure! Games that bomb commercially like Psychonauts, Ico and Beyond Good & Evil are just the worst.
At any rate, I can't wait to get home and crack open my new copy of Wii Play! With twenty three million units sold, you know it's good. :^:
I only care if the game is good. and it's got a lot of positive buzz, so here's hoping.
He wasn't passing judgment on the quality of the game. It could be the highest quality game ever, but if I'm not interested in it then I have no reason to want it to do well. I'd laugh too if it sells 12 units, because that's both awful and appropriate, given what I've seen of this game.
Also Wii Play is good and well worth it.
Anyway, I find this blog which seems to be almost entirely about the game - but there are a few other headings that suggest other interests. Either way, if the game had gotten any 60s I doubt we'd read about it there, but here's the review scores he's listed:
10/10 - Play Magazine (us)
9/10 - 360 Gamer (uk) "Gold Award"
8.8/10 - ConsolPLUS (de) "Console Best Choice"
Found a quote from the Play review: "one of the most visually refined, immersive, and altogether robust video game experiences available on any system.”
Immersive? ...really? I don't... wait, what?
I'm looking forward to Eurogamer's review, that's all I can say.
I mean, conquest and famine are prettttttty metal...
Conquest?
I don't think there was ever a horseman named Conquest
I think it was War, Death, Famine, and Pestilence
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Hold on:
blah i'm dumb, revisionist history go!
Who's Conquest?
er, wait a tic.
wikipedia, help!
oh shit, nvm. Death is one of the Four. Hunger and Famine are the same thing, not sure what I was smoking there. And Pestilence is sometimes called Conquest! Okay.
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Hm
Looks like it's War, Famine, Death, and the last one has a bunch of names: Pestilence, Conquest, Righteousness, Evil
Weird
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So I was right!
Everyone make a note: I was totally right
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So it's War, Fury, Strife, and Death? They all sound generically delicious.
....stop it. Stop laughing. No, seriously. Stop.
You guysssss, come onnnnnn... I was supposed to be the badass this time, you're ruining it.
Ha.
I do like that the horse is named Ruin. But I will eat my dinner if the sword is called Chaoseater.
I might be confusing this with Dante's inferno.
google... Nope!
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=chaoseater+sword&meta=&aq=f&oq=
Hahaha holy shit
Even so, this looks like a pretty sweet game.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
So it's actually Ginormo Sword + Zelda? If so that's amazing.
Well, if thats what we have to do to get you to eat your dinner young man, then so be it.
Your sword is called Chaoseater.
FUCK YOU, DON'T POST THAT LINK
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Yeah, if you're gonna do the Four Horsemen angle, you need to go whole hog with it
You can't just rename them however you want, that's dumb
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