ELEX Pre-Release Thread

[luj1]

This game already has a solid chance to flop.

Why go real-time when your combat is a 2007 shit? Hell, it'll set a new industry standard as far as HP bloat is concerned. Ranged combat is like throwing toothpicks at your foes. All in all, looks like a must-buy for masochistic cuckolds who won't mind using 2 melee attacks for the entire game.

 

[undecaf]

Poor PB... Trying so damn hard and still evertyhing screams hasty and underdeveloped with this thing.


Again.

 

[Metro]

It's over for them. I want to say they should reboot and start making lower budget games with perhaps smaller worlds but more dense and interesting. And make them difficult like the older Gothics. Cater to a niche and charge like $30-$40. But... too many of the core people gone and the ones that are left still want to chase the publishing overlords to make another Skyrim clone.

 

[Paul_cz]

PB should just disband and get itself hired out by other companies at this point. Elex looks utterly pitiful.

 

[Junmarko]

I want to say they should reboot and start making lower budget games with perhaps smaller worlds but more dense and interesting.

PB should just disband and get itself hired out by other companies at this point.

Pankratz, Hoge and Ruve, they were the core at PB. Between DivinityOS and Gothic 1/2, a lot of Ultima's best traits were evenly captured on both sides - would be awesome if Larian picked those guys up.

Hoge is still floating around at the subsidiary, Piranha Bytes RED, not a whisper since Aug'16...with apparently a now dormant Twitter page...

 

[Latelistener]

Erm.. Pankratz and Ruve are still at PB, and everything went to shit when Hoge stepped away, and Pankratz became the head of the studio. Some important people PB before, during, and after Risen 2.

The last I heard Hoge with some old timers (Henrichs, Rosenkranz) were trying to find a publisher for Spacetime, so even if they did, we probably won't hear from them so soon, since they're starting from the scratch.

 

[Junmarko]

Erm.. Pankratz and Ruve are still at PB, and everything went to shit when Hoge stepped away,

Ah yeah, I was consciously not thinking about "PB" beyond NotR

 

[Icymad]

Looks like ps2 models with modded high resolution textures.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Which is weird because some other shots looks good.

The hell is going on in PB?

 

[luj1]

The only good thing about it, as far as I can tell, is that it won't feature level scaling. Or respawning idiocy. Which automatically makes it better than Skyrim and similar garbage

So, even though I'll never touch this cadaver, if you'd put a gun to my temple, I'd rather play this than Skyrim, DAI or Gayomada

 

[Aenra]

It's over for them. I want to say they should reboot and start making lower budget games with perhaps smaller worlds but more dense and interesting. And make them difficult like the older Gothics. Cater to a niche and charge like $30-$40. But... too many of the core people gone and the ones that are left still want to chase the publishing overlords to make another Skyrim clone.

Yes, but not quite
It takes actual talent to make something like G1 on a shoestring budget. I don't think there's anyone left there with that quality. So not much of a choice for them.

 

[Metro]

The only good thing about it, as far as I can tell, is that it won't feature level scaling. Or respawning idiocy. Which automatically makes it better than Skyrim and similar garbage

So, even though I'll never touch this cadaver, if you'd put a gun to my temple, I'd rather play this than Skyrim, DAI or Gayomada

Risen 3 didn't have level scaling but it didn't matter since you were grossly overpowered halfway through the game.

It's over for them. I want to say they should reboot and start making lower budget games with perhaps smaller worlds but more dense and interesting. And make them difficult like the older Gothics. Cater to a niche and charge like $30-$40. But... too many of the core people gone and the ones that are left still want to chase the publishing overlords to make another Skyrim clone.

Yes, but not quite
It takes actual talent to make something like G1 on a shoestring budget. I don't think there's anyone left there with that quality. So not much of a choice for them.

Perhaps. All I know is I'd pay $40 for a game half the size of G1 with a bit more depth. Graphics could be whatever is most cost effective.

 

[Aenra]

Only 40!? You goddamm cheapskate ^^

 

[Junmarko]

 

[Darth Roxor]

if your game does not have extensive mining operations, it is a shit game

 

[Junmarko]

"Reestablishing a functioning infrastructure is unnecessary."

 

[Gepeu]

I hope to see mining trainers a la NotR.

 

[Morgoth]

Which is weird because some other shots looks good.

The hell is going on in PB?

They stopped giving a fuck about making good games a long time ago?

 

[Junmarko]

All of our strength is focused on the extraction of #Elex.

....hopefully it's been better for development than the last few "Sumpf Kraut" years?

We'll see Piranha....

 

[Gnidrologist]

It's a pity that german dude (forgot the name), who hated PB heartily even when it was still good is gone from codex.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

It's a pity that german dude (forgot the name), who hated PB heartily even when it was still good is gone from codex.

You mean ol' Bubbles?

 

[Gnidrologist]

Only if it's an alt of the former member the name i have forgot.

 

[Junmarko]

It's a pity that german dude (forgot the name), who hated PB heartily even when it was they were still good is gone from codex.

Wow "heartily even when they were good", so the first two games included?

...doesn't sound like a German...doesn't even sound like a Russian.

 

[Gnidrologist]

I tried to search old Gothic/PB threads to remember who that was, but stupid xenforo only dishes out search results till 2012. That guy was running his chores here around mid 00s. He was pretty notorious with his PB hate and he was certainly german by his own admission. Self hating german doesn't feel anything far fetched anyway, no?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I tried to search old Gothic/PB threads to remember who that was, but stupid xenforo only dishes out search results till 2012. That guy was running his chores here around mid 00s. He was pretty notorious with his PB hate and he was certainly german by his own admission. Self hating german doesn't feel anything far fetched anyway, no?

Only other bugger I remember what used to bash Gothic is hoverdog.