Game News Piranha Bytes' New Game: ELEX

[Angthoron]

Tags: ELEX; Nordic Games; Piranha Bytes

It seems that Piranha Bytes' and Nordic Games' productive relationship continues, as Nordic Games announce a new "collaborative" project: a "hand-crafted RPG experience", ELEX.

Let's hope that the previous labor of these great partners were performed with different body parts, then.

The creators of Gothic turn over a new leaf together with Nordic Games and tackle their first new, collaborative project: ELEX

Nordic Games teams up with veteran studio Piranha Bytes to work on their first collaborative and new project: ELEX. This eclectic, lavish, exhilarating, xenial open-world RPG is scheduled to release in Winter 2016/2017 on PC and current gen console platforms. This is by far the most ambitious project for Piranha Bytes and Nordic Games to date.

“To say we are excited to see this new project unfold in the hands of Piranha Bytes is an understatement. ELEX is going to be edgy, dark, uncompromising, complex, and we love it already,“ comments Reinhard Pollice Business & Product Development Director at Nordic Games. “We will be premiering a vertical slice build at Gamescom 2015, more info will be released in due time.”

“Apart from being enthusiastic about the cooperation with Nordic Games, it is great to know, that we will have ample creative freedom with ELEX, which is a very important factor for us” said Björn Pankratz, Game Director at Piranha Bytes. "We can't wait to show you a completely new game experience with a fresh setting, new assets and plenty of possibilities."


About ELEX

ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic science fantasy universe that puts players into a huge, seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Website: http://www.ELEXgame.com
Forum: http://community.ELEXgame.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ELEXgame​

Source: http://www.nordicgames.at/index.php/article/nordic_games_piranha_bytes_elex

Oh, and ELEX apparently stands for Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial, probably beating "Thedas" in originality right off the bat.

 

[himmy]

Actually using the word "xenial" in your pitch.

 

[Angthoron]

Better yet - ELEX stands for Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial. Not to confuse with plural of Elekk.

It's almost as good as THEDAS.

And they say Germans lack in creativity.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Tentatively hyped despise the horrible pitch.
They have been on a declining parable for a while at this point, but I'm still too fond of their good games (or even of the good parts of their bad games) to give up any hope to see them rising back to form.

 

[Zeriel]

My word, chaps, say what you will of Piranha Bytes, but they always deliver the comedy.

 

[Havoc]

THEDAS

Wait... it stands for THE Dragon Age Setting?

 

[Angthoron]

THEDAS

Wait... it stands for THE Dragon Age Setting?

Yep.

 

[CyberWhale]

Don't have any faith in PB's competence to deliver a worth vile RPG, but at least they had some courage to replicate Gene Wolfe's setting.

 

[thesheeep]

Post apocalyptic fantasy?
Hmmm... it's been a while.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Quite sad to see how in other forums there are people immediately going "Yuck" as they are noticing Piranha Bytes as the developer.
The worst thing is, you can't even exactly blame these people for it at this point.

They used to be a talented bunch but they butchered their own reputation with some of the most baffling design choices after Risen 1.

 

[Zeriel]

 

[Jack Dandy]

Is "Xenial" a real word?

 

[Zeriel]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenial

I wish it wasn't, it was more funny imagining them just making it up and using it without any explanation.

(God knows what is supposed to be "hospitable" about a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Maybe they did make it up, without realizing it was actually a word.)

 

[Darth Roxor]

Maybe they got it confused with the 'xeno-' prefix?

 

[FeelTheRads]

New buzzword.

After majestic comes xenial.

Next?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Maybe they did make it up, without realizing it was actually a word.

There was a poetry collection by Goethe and Schiller called Xenien, so the word must be familiar to the (educated) Germans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenien

Die Xenien, in which the two friends avenged themselves on opposing critics

That doesn't exactly sound hospitable to me.

 

[himmy]

Maybe they did make it up, without realizing it was actually a word.

There was a poetry collection by Goethe and Schiller called Xenien,

Sturm und Drang confirmed as next RPG buzzword.

 

[Zeriel]

Maybe they did make it up, without realizing it was actually a word.

There was a poetry collection by Goethe and Schiller called Xenien, so the word must be familiar to the (educated) Germans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenien

Die Xenien, in which the two friends avenged themselves on opposing critics

That doesn't exactly sound hospitable to me.

It does sound like something Piranha Bytes would want to do, though.

 

[Outlander]

 

[WhiteGuts]

By xenial, they probably wanted to say otherworldly. But it's cooler this way I guess.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Sturm und Drang nach Osten confirmed as next RPG buzzword.

fixt

 

[Infinitron]

Sturm und Drang nach Osten confirmed as next RPG buzzword.

fixt

They might indeed be obsessed with replicating the success of a certain Polish RPG series...

Piranha Bytes needs spielensraum

 

[toro]

Everybody is missing the point: PB is no longer shackled by the deal with Deep Silver. PB is now able to work with the publisher of the one and only true Gothic game ... I mean the publisher of Arcania also known as Nordic Games.

 

[toro]

ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic science fantasy universe that puts players into a huge, seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Edit:

Piranha Bytes' next game will be ELEX, scheduled to be released in winter 2016/2017 on PC and console platforms.

 

[Tacgnol]

I wish PB would just get back to making smaller focused open world titles.

Unfortunately, console kids seem to enjoy having hundreds of square miles of entirely empty wasteland.