ELEX Pre-Release Thread

[Kem0sabe]

Don't disagree, and I'm still sceptical as to how this will turn out. But, the fact that THQ Nordic are the publisher now and how they've given PB more creative freedom, alongside a massive development extension, might mean this is will be the closest thing to Gothic in a while...



...but still, always keep your expectations low

What was the reason for them making risen 2?

 

[Junmarko]

What was the reason for them making risen 2?

The contract dictating a "trilogy".

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Makabb]

looks like skyrim, the horrible animations, the uninspired dead voice acting and the average music score......


yep it's piranha bytes

 

[harhar!]

There will be some NPC's that cannot be killed, like very important plot related NPC's.

Why all the decline votes? The last time they made literally everyone killable was Gothic 3. And that didn't turn out very well in part, because the story was shit and basically non-existent. Making important NPCs killable is only good, if you program in some strong consequences that still make the story enjoyable. If you don't do that, then it just means that no NPC can actually be relevant for completing the game, which severely limits the story. Normal Quest-NPC should be killible though, which they are.

 

[anus_pounder]

Looks kinda shit, tbh. Will pre-order it anyway.

 

[Metro]

I will preorder... when it's on sale for $10.

 

[Metro]

You can decline me but last game I paid full price for was Darkest Dungeon... you see how well that turned out...

 

[Makabb]

Some footage might've not been seen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3uuYYjZdRg


The shooting looks like New Vegas

 

[Elwro]

New Vegas was turn based. What's the resemblance? Shitty animations?


Edit: lol, see below. I just couldn't imagine anyone not using the VATS system. It's been a few years

 

[Makabb]

New Vegas was turn based. What's the resemblance? Shitty animations?

New vegas turn based? what? It was an FPS..... yea the shooting animations look similar.

 

[Siobhan]

Making important NPCs killable is only good, if you program in some strong consequences that still make the story enjoyable. If you don't do that, then it just means that no NPC can actually be relevant for completing the game, which severely limits the story.

Two words: Arx Fatalis.

 

[Elwro]

New Vegas was turn based. What's the resemblance? Shitty animations?

New vegas turn based? what? It was an FPS..... yea the shooting animations look similar.

This is quite funny. I finished NV a few times, having spent more than a hundred hours on it. And somehow I completely forgot you could play it not using the V.A.T.S. system. I have no idea why anyone would want to do that. But yes, I agree, in such a case it would be quite similar to what Elex seems to offer

 

[ortucis]

Release the fucking game already, PB.

Haven't played any RPG for ages now. I'll settle for Gothic rip-off.

 

[prodigydancer]

Pirahna Bytes, yet another company that continually remakes their one game - with better graphics and worse everything else in every iteration.

 

[Metro]

Just remake Gothic 1 in Risen 1 engine and add the cut/missing content that never made it into the first version. The more complex/large scale PB gets the worse the finished product turns out to be. This trend started with Gothic 3.

 

[Makabb]

Pirahna Bytes, yet another company that continually remakes their one game - with better graphics and worse everything else in every iteration.

So just like Bethesda?

 

[Latelistener]

Morrowind has an interesting and unique art design, almost alien I'd say. Every other iteration of TES looked worse in this regard, while Piranha actually improved a lot in both, art and graphics.

And with mods, Morrowind looks simply astonishing.

Spoiler

 

[Makabb]

It was interesting in Morrowind when you entered ruins for the first time and expected old stuff, but it looked like high-tech

 

[Lilura]

This trend started with Gothic 3 NotR

 

[Jarmaro]

Foolish are those who think ELEX will be more like gothic. They made decision when they developed Risen 2 like "modern game".
Risen 3 was a succes for them (which amazes and terryfies me at the same time), so they will keep it that way.
We would need a miracle, like a gothic fan billionare who would buy PB and fund another gothic. Otherwise... Don't even dream about playing gothic once more.
Or anything that looks similliar to it.

 

[Jarmaro]

This trend started with Gothic 3 NotR

This trend started with Gothic 3 NotR Gothic 2 Gothic Literally every game ever developed.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Foolish are those who think ELEX will be more like gothic. They made decision when they developed Risen 2 like "modern game".
Risen 3 was a succes for them (which amazes and terryfies me at the same time), so they will keep it that way.
We would need a miracle, like a gothic fan billionare who would buy PB and fund another gothic. Otherwise... Don't even dream about playing gothic once more.
Or anything that looks similliar to it.

Who is left at PB to develop it tho?

They are in the same place as Bioware, they lost all their talent, and live off releasing games that try to appeal to nostalgic fans of their older work, but without any of the talent that made that work appealing in the first place.

 

[Jarmaro]

They are in the same place as Bioware, they lost all their talent

I can only agree that they have some talent when they made their first good rpgs. Since that time they literally didn't make a single game, only copied previous with decrease in quality.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Even a greatly diminished nu-PB with all their flaws still suit my taste more when it comes to designing an open world compared to the competition which is the main reason I'll give ELEX a shot (even though I'm not expecting much).

I dislike all that stuff that plagues modern open world games/RPGs like pointless filler activities copy-pasted over the entire world, MMO level based enemies and itemization, 2000 crafting ingredients/trash you constantly lug around, exclamation marks over questgivers etc. just not my cup of tea. PB worlds still feel more handcrafted to me, even in their worst games.