Elveon interview at CVG
Elveon interview at CVG
Interview - posted by Vault Dweller on Tue 31 October 2006, 20:27:32
Tags: ElveonCVG has posted an interview with Elveon developers. Elveon, in case you are curious, is an "elvish action epic" RPG thingy, that promises "novel action gameplay with cinematic duel fights" and "ground-breaking visual presentation". Of course!
An overview of the interview:
Our game and our fantasy universe depict an ancient era where the Elves still are a cunning and dynamic race on their rise to power, with great deeds not the fairy-like fading culture that is known from most other fantasy stories.
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The story describes the journey of an Elvish elite warrior, who follows the path of a legend that leads him on the trail of an ancient Elvish king who attempted to find and claim the rumoured paradise and centre of power of the world - the city of Nimathar and the tower of the Gods Starspear - and claim it for the Elves to lead them in a new era of greatness. Our hero follows the trail of this ancient king and, to be able to fulfil the task the king has failed at, he must become more than any Elvish elite fighter before him.
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There will be many opponents, all kinds of Elves coming from different cultures and presenting very different doctrines in close- and ranged-combat, monsters, demons and supernatural and divine opponents.
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In Elveon we have four different combat classes - bow, spear, sword and daggers. Each class has his advantages and disadvantages. At specific points in the game, the player will interact with divine avatars that will give him major character upgrades and new combat actions in their area.
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The game will take place in levels, but the story covers a millennia-old ancient Elvish legend and will be told in a non-linear way - so that you will have the opportunity to see some levels both in 'present' time and in the past - we want to give the world a very mythical dream-like look and feel, so that the player will feel like he is really walking in an ancient heroic legend. There will be multiple possible ways, endings and answers in Elveon. And you wont know it all unless you try more than once. The gameplay and the character development system will also encourage replayability.
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With many optional quests, the gameplay will definitely also depend on the player - at the current stadium of the developmental period we are locating a game play time of approximately 15-20 hours for the action-only player, going up to around 25-30 hours for the investigative RPG fan.Investigative RPG fan? That's a new one.
An overview of the interview:
Our game and our fantasy universe depict an ancient era where the Elves still are a cunning and dynamic race on their rise to power, with great deeds not the fairy-like fading culture that is known from most other fantasy stories.
...
The story describes the journey of an Elvish elite warrior, who follows the path of a legend that leads him on the trail of an ancient Elvish king who attempted to find and claim the rumoured paradise and centre of power of the world - the city of Nimathar and the tower of the Gods Starspear - and claim it for the Elves to lead them in a new era of greatness. Our hero follows the trail of this ancient king and, to be able to fulfil the task the king has failed at, he must become more than any Elvish elite fighter before him.
...
There will be many opponents, all kinds of Elves coming from different cultures and presenting very different doctrines in close- and ranged-combat, monsters, demons and supernatural and divine opponents.
...
In Elveon we have four different combat classes - bow, spear, sword and daggers. Each class has his advantages and disadvantages. At specific points in the game, the player will interact with divine avatars that will give him major character upgrades and new combat actions in their area.
...
The game will take place in levels, but the story covers a millennia-old ancient Elvish legend and will be told in a non-linear way - so that you will have the opportunity to see some levels both in 'present' time and in the past - we want to give the world a very mythical dream-like look and feel, so that the player will feel like he is really walking in an ancient heroic legend. There will be multiple possible ways, endings and answers in Elveon. And you wont know it all unless you try more than once. The gameplay and the character development system will also encourage replayability.
...
With many optional quests, the gameplay will definitely also depend on the player - at the current stadium of the developmental period we are locating a game play time of approximately 15-20 hours for the action-only player, going up to around 25-30 hours for the investigative RPG fan.
