Shadow of the Eternals (Eternal Darkness successor) - Morgoth is very angry

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/05/03/shadow-of-the-eternals-teaser-trailer

http://shadowoftheeternals.com/

They're gonna launch a Kickstarter on May 6th.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Brb, moving this to weaboo discussion

(Seriously though, awesome news!)

 

[Crooked Bee]

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem wasn't developed by the Japanese?

My faith in the grorious Japan is completely undermined now. Thanks, Morgoth-kun.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem wasn't developed by the Japanese?

My faith in the grorious Japan is completely undermined now. Thanks, Morgoth-kun.

And I thought you were kidding here.

No, it was made by Silicon Knights (Canadian). They developed a sequel for Nintendo, but then fucked it up with the Epic Games lawsuit bal bla. So basically, the company was dismantled, but I guess they still were allowed to keep the assets.

I wonder if Dennis Dickhead is working on it.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem wasn't developed by the Japanese?

My faith in the grorious Japan is completely undermined now. Thanks, Morgoth-kun.

And I thought you were kidding here.

I'm drunk (a little bit), sorry

Although for some reason I did think Eternal Darkness was a Jap game. Serves me right, I guess.

 

[80Maxwell08]

Tell me I'm not going to have to click on an IGN link to get any details on this.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Tell me I'm not going to have to click on an IGN link to get any details on this.

You're gonna get a fucking trailer with in-game footage, for starters.

 

[80Maxwell08]

Tell me I'm not going to have to click on an IGN link to get any details on this.

You're gonna get a fucking trailer with in-game footage, for starters.

Well I just watched it. Not much of a horror fan myself but I think I know someone who would be interested in this.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://kotaku.com/5955223/what-went-wrong-with-silicon-knights-x+men-destiny

Oh boy.

Let's just say if Denis Dickhead is onboard here again I'll refuse to pledge.

 

[evdk]

http://kotaku.com/5955223/what-went-wrong-with-silicon-knights-x men-destiny

Oh boy.

Let's just say if Denis Dickhead is onboard here again I'll refuse to pledge.

Do you have a summary / screen shot for those of us who refuse to visit Kotaku?

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Denis Dyack (Founder of SK, Creative Director and self-ascribed "benevolent dictator") is almost single-handedly responsible for Too Human and X-Men Destiny to be so shitty, to lose the court battle with Epic Games and getting the entire company shut down.

The only two good games they ever released (Eternal Darkness, MGS Twin Snakes) can only be attributed due to Nintendo's rigor and that "Nintendo quality seal". In other words, Nintendo made Dyack do things their way, not his.

If he is on board of Shadow of the Eternals, I'm not gonna pledge. Period. That guy is a maniac.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

He does look a little bit like David Gaider though....

Also that Hideo Kojima wallpaper.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-03-eternal-darkness-spiritual-successor-announced

Evidently, Precursor Games had written up a crowdfunding campaign for an Eternal Darkness sequel called Shadow of the Ancients. It was to be an episodic series for PC and Wii U that centered around a Louisiana detective named Paul Becker, though it would span over 2500 years and be at least partially set in Egypt, England and Hungary.

Entitled Shadow of the Eternals, little is known about the project, but IGN confirmed that series creator Denis Dyack is involved then posted a teaser trailer for the project.

 

[Gurkog]

Poor Morgoth, If this gets successfully kickstarted he will have to buy a 50 gallon drum of lube to stave off fatal levels of .

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Poor Gurkog, he'll Day 1 pledge and then never ever get a released game, nor a refund.

 

[tadhg]

I'm sure they'll release a game, it'll just be delayed and terrible.

Very few games let me down as badly as Too Human. Between that and the utter disaster Silicon Knights became, there's no way I'd pledge.

 

[evdk]

Yep, from the best Zelda clone ever to this.

EDIT: I've broken down and clicked the link and this quote is absolutely hilarious after watching the teaser:

Yet despite this reportedly split effort, the ED2 demo also failed to come together in a satisfying way, sources said. "The farthest they got with it when I left SK was, literally, one two-level church interior," says one former employee.

DOHOHOHO

 

[iqzulk]

The only two good games they ever released (Eternal Darkness, MGS Twin Snakes).

Aren't you forgetting something, my man? Like, I dunno, the very first Blood (fucking) Omen?

 

[Jick Magger]

It doesn't help that Nintendo has literally patented the insanity meter as it was in Eternal Darkness.

Not as though Eternal Darkness was particularly amazing in the gameplay department, either. Limb selection was kinda pointless since the only place you'd ever want to hit enemies is the head, controls were kinda finicky and awkward, most of the magic was kinda useless outside of story progression, the rest easily abusable to game-breaking levels. Lucky for them that basically every other element of the game made up for it.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://www.precursorgames.com/shadowoftheeternals/

 

[tuluse]

Rewards:
• Shadow of the Eternals Episodes 1-6
• First Episode is FREE

What does this mean?

 

[Crooked Bee]

What does this mean?

I believe that's a very lame and unfortunate way of saying that 6 x $5 = $30, but you only pay $25 when you pledge at that tier.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Dickhead won't get a single cent from me. At least not after the pilot episode has been released and judged to be good.

 

[evdk]

Dickhead won't get a single cent from me. At least not after the pilot episode has been released and judged to be good.

But that's the only episode that's ever going to see the light of the day and you know it.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

You're too optimistic. I don't even think the crowdfunding will hit it's goal, certainly not with such crawling pace.