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neva-01
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 Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:22 am |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| But yeah this looks literally like an unauthorized Ico sequel. Not that that's a terrible thing. |
The conventional nomenclature would be rip-off, which is indeed a bad thing.
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neva-01
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| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:33 am |
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| bort wrote: |
| Yeah, the best part is that they've got a minute of time to fill with footage, and from capes to the sideways-jump to the shadow monsters to the torch to the broken bridge and tower to the FONT even, they actually didn't have anything else to put in their trailer that they didn't bite from 2 different games by the same dude. |
I just watched the trailer again, and I'm calling this the most cynical game of 2013.
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neva-01
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| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 4:08 am |
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| kitroebuck wrote: |
It's hard to parse, isn't it? My reaction is pretty negative, but why?
I think that ICO and SotC were kind of design showcases. The really showed something that nobody had tried to do with the PS2 before (procedural animation in the case of ICO and collision detection with deforming models in the case of SotC.) The types of games they ended up becoming seemed to be a result of those design decisions, and to copy those mechanics seems, yeah, pretty cynical.
Wind Waker had a great aesthetic. By all means, copy that, but ICO's mechanics? Well... |
Okay, ICO/SotC are not good because of "procedural modular deformation" or any of that, except insofar as those things contribute to a coherent and unique aesthetic. That's the reason those games are interesting. There are plenty of tech demos more impressive than ICO that we know nothing about because they don't do anything interesting with the technology.
| Ketamine Kazoo wrote: |
| I guess it works but I don't think cynical is the word I would've used for that |
It's cynical because they know they can make an unoriginal game if reminds people of an original one. It's a disneyfied ICO, ffs.
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