06-30-2008, 11:49 PM
I'll say this:
There is NOTHING clean and polished, cute and cartoony, about that Siege Beast taking the Barbarian corpse, tearing its head off with his monstrous jaws, and seeing him fling the corpse away, with the upper entrails still clinging and hanging from its teeth.
That one scene gave me chills, and if there's even a modicum more of that in the game, I will have no problem with the environment.
Besides, it's pre-alpha. They have a LONG way to go before it's all said and done, and frankly many of the environments, particularly those that FoxBat so deeply picked apart into oblivion, looked VERY unfinished to me. I'd be highly surprised if those screenshots truly reflect the entire environment when the game is finally released.
Besides, stills do NOT do this game justice. Listen to what people say: download the full video, and watch it. Everything is just so fluid, so dynamic, so outright beautiful... to ME, getting hung up on a bunch of stills and nitpicking them into oblivion is like inspecting a Monet with a magnifying glass and picking that apart. I'm not trying to come off condescending or anything. I just think people are being way too critical, and way too early. But hey, if people don't like it, they don't like it. Not up to me to change someone's mind. Just trying to point out what I feel is early and unfair prejudice. To each their own, and all that.
There is NOTHING clean and polished, cute and cartoony, about that Siege Beast taking the Barbarian corpse, tearing its head off with his monstrous jaws, and seeing him fling the corpse away, with the upper entrails still clinging and hanging from its teeth.
That one scene gave me chills, and if there's even a modicum more of that in the game, I will have no problem with the environment.
Besides, it's pre-alpha. They have a LONG way to go before it's all said and done, and frankly many of the environments, particularly those that FoxBat so deeply picked apart into oblivion, looked VERY unfinished to me. I'd be highly surprised if those screenshots truly reflect the entire environment when the game is finally released.
Besides, stills do NOT do this game justice. Listen to what people say: download the full video, and watch it. Everything is just so fluid, so dynamic, so outright beautiful... to ME, getting hung up on a bunch of stills and nitpicking them into oblivion is like inspecting a Monet with a magnifying glass and picking that apart. I'm not trying to come off condescending or anything. I just think people are being way too critical, and way too early. But hey, if people don't like it, they don't like it. Not up to me to change someone's mind. Just trying to point out what I feel is early and unfair prejudice. To each their own, and all that.
Roland *The Gunslinger*