Project Offset

DarkChaosRenamon

Project Offset is a FPS game set in a fantasy world, it reminds me partly of Elder Scrolls or The Lord of the Rings as far as the world setting goes. It was started by three (yes just three) people being one programmer and two artists in 2004. The team has grown since then but here is a video clip showing what they accomplished with only the three members back in 2005.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8iRDrA14j4

As was mentioned in the video all of that footage was real time. This next video is a gameplay trailer released more recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpdPWVfaBQs

I'm wondering what everyone's thoughts are on this game. I didn't see a topic on this game so if I missed it let me know.

TychoCelchuuu

This kind of went into no-man's land when Intel bought them to show off the Larrabee stuff Intel was working on, then Larrabee got canned, so...

John Zoidberg

I get a real Dark Messiah of Might and Magic vibe from that gameplay trailer.

I loved that game.

joshgotro

John Zoidberg wrote: »

I get a real Dark Messiah of Might and Magic vibe from that gameplay trailer.

I loved that game.

John Zoidberg

If it can basically replicate the physics gameplay of DM and look pretty at the same time.

Sold.

Monger

The little bits of this that we did see definitely had a bit of a Dark Messiah vibe.

I don't know what to expect about ever seeing anything from Project Offset again. It's been a while, and Intel isn't having great luck with this kind of thing. I mean, Alan Wake was their quad-core showpiece and, coincidentally, now it isn't even coming to the PC.

Forever Zefiro

I hadn't heard anything about this game for an eternity.

Let me know if anything solid is ever really announced.

I figure this will never come out though.

Lord_Mordja

I'm fairly certain this game is the dictionary definition of "abandonware".

Darmak

Pretty much, I was all excited about this game years ago but their website hasn't been updated since what, March '09? Over a year ago? Yeah, this is either vaporware or when it does come out nobody will give a shit because it will have been surpassed by dozens of other games.

fragglefart

The graphics in PO made my fucking jaw drop in 2004/2005.

Still look pretty good, but have very little hope of seeing this out ever, and gawd knows how it would hold up as a modern title. The graphical 'wow' factor is trickling away with time.

reVerse

Good thing that the melee fighting stuff is in 3rd person. If Dark Messiah did anything well, it certainly proved that melee fighting from first person perspective just doesn't work.

Sad to hear that this game might've gone the vaporware route, it looks pretty and interesting.

Darmak

Who cares about the graphics, it was the gameplay that looked awesome back in the day. Now I can't bring myself to give a shit anymore. Not because there's better out there but because there's no point in getting excited over something that's never going to come out. Ever. Duke Nukem Forever will be released first.

Noooo, I'm not bitter about this at all. :P

edit: reVerse, what do you mean? The melee fighting in DMoMM was fucking sweet.

Monger

reVerse wrote: »

Good thing that the melee fighting stuff is in 3rd person. If Dark Messiah did anything well, it certainly proved that melee fighting from first person perspective just doesn't work.

Obviously you didn't play the same Dark Messiah that the rest of us did.

reVerse

Dark Messiah's melee combat was clunky, horrible and the narrow view inherent in the FPS genre made any attempt to establish any kind of situational awareness without wildly moving the mouse around impossible. Compared to Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, a third-person sword fightin' game, the combat in Dark Messiah was unacceptably poor, and when you get outdone by a game that came out ten years before your game there's some serious problems with your product.

Also shit: Zeno Clash, combat sections of Mirror's Edge.

Darmak

Wow, what's it like to be so wrong?

Monger

reVerse wrote: »

Zeno Clash

Did you just call Zeno Clash's combat bad?

Do you know what I do to people that call Zeno Clash's combat bad?

TychoCelchuuu

Zeno Clash is the only game better than Dark Messiah when it comes to first person melee combat. It's soooo good. You, like, punch people. And it rocks.

Elimination

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Zeno Clash is the only game better than Dark Messiah when it comes to first person melee combat. It's soooo good. You, like, punch people. And it rocks.

You know he is only hating on the combat in those games because the combat was in fact good, and he knows we will disagree with him. He's just trolling.

Anyhow, back on topic. I forgot this game even existed. I heard it got canceled but apparently it is just vapourware?

Drake

Escape from Butcher Bay had wonderful first person melee combat.

Elimination

Drake wrote: »

Escape from Butcher Bay had wonderful first person melee combat.

Yes it did. I almost forgot about that. So did Dark Athena, though i guess they are pretty much the same deal. I loved those finishing kill animations with knives and such. So brutal.

DarkChaosRenamon

Drake wrote: »

Escape from Butcher Bay had wonderful first person melee combat.

Easily one of the greater attempts.

LewieP

Mirror's Edge did a great job of feeling like a person in a first person environment. Not so much the combat, but everything else.

Edit: And yes, butcher bay, condemned and Zeno Clash are all great too.

Drake

Well, I enjoyed the way that combat was portrayed in Mirror's Edge a lot. I mean, you're a 95 pound girl who has spent all of her time mastering parkour. She's not going to hit like a Peterbilt, shoot like Ding Chavez or fight like Ryu Hyabusa.

Waka Laka

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/blind-giant-project-offset/62098

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-09-project-offset/47368

These are the most recent vids of the game, but they're only tech demos. Have not seen much in the way of gameplay for some time.

The development team is also only very small, so they can only really pick at it. Intel threw money at them at one point to promote Intel's Dual and Quad core stuff, so they've got funding as well.

At the moment, the game is a curiosity more than anything. If there is not anything by next E3 that is even remotely playable, I won't hold my hopes up.