Woohoo! Thank you very much, I look nearly every day for new Dark Messiah news.
Click: http://www.gamershell.com/download_13746.shtml
It's seven minutes of intense gibbing, showing lots of the Dark Messiah gameplay. Well worth the download if you can afford the bandwidth (it's 400 mb). Also shows possibly one of the most intense boss fights ever. All in all Dark Messiah looks more promising by the minute, although the video has a high amount of Gravity Gun Content - using physics to turn the tides of almost every battle is a bit lol half-life 2 game design of 2004, especially in the aforementioned fight with the huge Cyclops (although it sort of makes sense there).
Woohoo! Thank you very much, I look nearly every day for new Dark Messiah news.
Wow, there certainly are a lot of heavy objects tied to the ends of ropes.
You can find more reasonably sized versions here.
Hah, that looked awesome
The physics did look a little OTT in places, but it didn't look like that would put me off at all.
One for the "buy" list, unless the reviews say it's crap.
Phew, thanks Morte. I've almost reached my download quota for the month already and are relieved that I didn't have to wait until next month to see it.Originally Posted by Morte
Man this game looks so kickass. There really hasn't been anything attempted to this extreme yet, as far as interactive environments and their relevance to gameplay are concerned. The AI's use of their environment is also very cool.
The bit where the troll kicks a mining cart at the character made me jump. Yow! I just hope there's an option to make the player more vulnerable; there's no way he should survive a pounding like the one that cyclops gave him.
I found the demo really disappointing. It looks like there's a lot of scripting going on in this game. It seems that, in order to kill the cyclops, you HAVE TO bring him somewhere specific, you HAVE TO use the trap and then you just press the attack button to kill it. It smells a lot like a pure action game to me.
That's not so, Papy. From other videos (shakey cam) and written accounts of the game, you find that it's not scripted at all.
One person killed the beast with just magic (and very quickly too). Another dealt the killing blow an arrow rather than the sword. In all cases I am aware of, the battle went much differently.
Yeah. The nice thing about physics in Source is that different gadgets and gizmos are quick and easy to set up, so you don't necessarily feel the need to force the player to use each every trick in the environment.
Just put 10 different "traps" in the room and let the player figure out how or when to use em. And if he misses one, who cares? There's still 9 more.
I saw this game at E3, and I must say I can't wait to play it. Arkane has done an amazing job.
- MAHK
offtopic;
why isn't bioshock getting this much attention on the main page?
what does dark messiah even have to do with anything remotely looking glass related, or philosophical legacy thereof?
i'm not complaining though, it's great we get news
and what i've seen of it, it looks quite nice
just feels weird on the story bias
Dark Messiah is being developed by Arkane Studios who released Arx Fatalis, the spiritual successor to the Underworld games. The types of games that they make tend to be in the spirit of the types of games that LGS developed, judging by everything that I have seen so far.
What Twisty said.
Plus Randy Smith's been helping out with it.
Heck, it's not just Randy. Floodgate and dSonic are involved as well. Definitely no shortage of ties to Looking Glass with this one.
Could be cool if it wasnt for the lousy choice of engine. Prepare for looking at a loading screen every 5-10 minutes for 40+ sec. HL2 could've been great and really immersive too if it wasnt for this.
That's what my early Thief experience was like. I had a very old computer when Thief came out, and I died a lot. It didn't hamper my enjoyment very much. It certainly didn't keep me from playing!
There's two short videos up on Steam (you know, the Valve thing).
One shows Warrior type of gameplay, other shows the same place as an Assassin kind of guy.
I think they're new. Confirm/Deny?
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Nm, looks like they're the same ones as in the "All videos" thread.
hmm, i wonder what exactly it is that makes these two
http://www.stygianabyss.com/dmomam/dmmm_26.jpg
http://www.stygianabyss.com/dmomam/dmmm_28.jpg
pictures look much better than all the others that we have seen. in some way, they look much more like a thief-like game with a really cool story, while all the others tend to look a bit like they were taken from some cheap 3d shooter...
AND you can also find the demo here. Enjoy! I know i did!
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