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Binary Domain, a "dramatic action" game from Sega

 
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Levi



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:37 pm        Reply with quote
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Levi



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:18 am        Reply with quote
SuperWes wrote:
Tulpa wrote:
What about Binary Domain "looks like dog shit"


Mostly that the character design shows less creativity than bottom of the barrel shit like Brute Force.



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-Weş


I'll tell you what, if instead of White Dude, Black Dude, and Asian femDude, it had been White Dude, Black Dude, Lizard (fem?)Dude, I'd froth right up.

Actually, the robots in that trailer look really familiar, and it's killing me that I can't figure out where I've seen them before.

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CubaLibre wrote:
Also you seem to be missing the huge possibility that the character designs are that way exactly on purpose. Which is what's exciting about the trailer. Whether or not that comes to fruition who knows, but why not be excited about the maybe?


Is that really the vibe you're getting? Because between the interview and the trailer, this guy sounds Isaac Asimov serious. Besides that, irony is what I qualify a game as possessing after every other possibility is exausted.
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Levi



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:41 pm        Reply with quote
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Hey guys, this game takes place in the 9th century. Let's put Gothic arches (thought to be invented in the 13th century) and printed books (good job, nice lack of printing presses) everywhere. Oh, and steal the design for Pan from a del Toro movie. GOOD ART DIRECTION!




In all fairness, that sort of thing is a Castlevania trademark (Da Vinci's flying machine? In the 11th century? Steam powered spike traps? ...Hamburgers? The Phonograph?)

Fuuuck I can't find any pictures of the old I, Robot robots but you're probably right Toll.
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Levi



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:36 am        Reply with quote
handsomenattou wrote:
boojiboy7 wrote:
Levi wrote:
boojiboy7 wrote:


Hey guys, this game takes place in the 9th century. Let's put Gothic arches (thought to be invented in the 13th century) and printed books (good job, nice lack of printing presses) everywhere. Oh, and steal the design for Pan from a del Toro movie. GOOD ART DIRECTION!




In all fairness, that sort of thing is a Castlevania trademark (Da Vinci's flying machine? In the 11th century? Steam powered spike traps? ...Hamburgers? The Phonograph?)


Yeah, that is entirely true, but for some reason I find it a lot more intolerable in overly-detailed 3d.


Probably because the makers of this game want you take it "oh so serious", and it's simply their lack of historical knowledge that leads to these mistakes. So it's more embarrassing than anything.

Hamburgers on the other hand--that's just so ludicrous that you know it's meant to lighten up the mood.

I'm not saying the difference is "authorial intent" though. It's simply that I don't think there is really an argument for the gothic design and printed books to be "interpreted" as playful subversions like hamburgers or robots are.


Oh definitely, it's just, you know, I'm not sure how else you'd communicate Medieval Times to a popular audience. Can you imagine how pissed the kids would be if they bought a game where the Castlevania was made out of WOOD and was essentially just a BAR? (well actually it would probably be a stone Roman garrison but fuck me that's not the vampire romance deviantart wants)

I'm not going to lie; I'm very pleased that this is now a Castlevania thread.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:57 pm        Reply with quote


Goddamn it the world missed out on its probably only opportunity to have a Castlevania where Patrick Stewart plays Belmont and Dracula.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:44 pm        Reply with quote

I always figure the Medusa Heads are a Clash of the Titans / The Gorgon reference.




Bloodlines at least had the dignity to provide a nazi skeleton factory a decade ahead of schedule...I wonder if they might have actually thought it tacky to include a period correct Hitler in PoR. Maybe they're saving him for Demon Castle War 1999 Tactics: Somebody to Love. Cyber-Rommel's defection is how the Lance of Longinus ends up in the cavern in the 2030's.
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