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Hellblade (Ninja Theory, PS4/PC, UE4) - Gameplay Trailer
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RespectThySole
Member
They did not.
It was announced to use UE4, although it seems that they have disabled the default AA and thus there is lots of problems with aliasing surfaces.
If it does, call me out on it. & I will retract my words, and apologise.
This certainly won't be the first game or media to lend supposed credibility to it self by wheeling out experts. It's good pr. They all do it. Whether it's dance lessons in toy story 3 to military advisers in COD.
Factors such as unpredictability and association with violence make for good drama but don't help the perception of the mental health community. The vast majority of whom are tinged with this stereotype.
I myself am learning the error of my ways in the fiction that I am writing. This is perhaps why I am reacting as I am of course. But whatever.
GavinUK86
Member
Looks great. They've never mentioned the mental illness thing in any of their previous videos so that came as a surprise. I gathered Senua was literally travelling to Hell not in her own kind of Hell. It's more interesting now though, that's for sure.
edit: I wonder if they added the mental illness thing later on. That's how it sounds when I read this:
They realised they couldn't achieve what they really wanted with their limited budget so they made it all in her head which allowed them to partner with the Wellcome trust.
*tin foil hat off*
edit: I wonder if they added the mental illness thing later on. That's how it sounds when I read this:
They realised they couldn't achieve what they really wanted with their limited budget so they made it all in her head which allowed them to partner with the Wellcome trust.
*tin foil hat off*
aesupreme1
Member
I actually dig the art design even if it is a little rough around the edges. In particular, I liked the way the forest looked when the protagonist is running through it. I also think the premise of the game seems interesting, and with Ninja Theory behind it, I have little doubt that it will be a solid title.
nailbombxx
Member
What are they going for with that combat system? Yeesh
Corpsepyre
Banned
I would have liked it if they kept this as a more dumb hack n' slash thing. Having this personal element involved isn't really enticing.
deeptech
Member
Man, i wish i knew too. It looks like some scripted QTE combat or similar stuff
Lets see what more they have, i guess
And what exactly makes you think they are doing a bad job tackling mental illness? Just a knee-jerk reaction? In the dev diary, Ninja Theory was pretty clear that Senua is not violent because of her mental illness; rather it was her violent past as a very accomplished Celtic warrior fighting against the Vikings that really lead to her severe psychosis. Senua is not a character just going on a violent rampage because she's crazy, but someone who is fighting (figuratively) to come to grips with her anxiety, delusions, and hallucinations.
The combat is far from scripted or QTE based. If you want a better look at what they're planning, they released a developer diary a few months back of two of the devs doing PvP. Just a rough prototype of the combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovov5djvEdc
deeptech
Member
That's something i can ride with, as long as there is some depth and not just blocking and mashing attack button. Thank you for the video, the trailer got me little worried as i was looking forward to play it
TheSpaceBetween
Member
"Gameplay Trailer." Ugh, sadly in my hype for E3 I forgot that this is usually how most of the trailers are at E3.
That they're actually backed by the wellcometrust mental health charity makes me assume that's more than just a marketing quip. In the dev diary they seem already to go out of their way to point out that the violence isn't caused by her mental illness.
Getting a charitable foundation to engage with them and a knowledgeable consultant, speaks to their sincerity...
My hope is that they will show off their demo at E3. From the video, they obviously have a solid length demo but have only shown 5 seconds of it, which would be a waste of resources if that's all they did with it. Then, we can actually see how they've implemented the more advanced ideas of having directional charge attacks and directional blocks.
One can tell just by looking at the face in the OP and tell this is a Ninja Theory game. She has that Ninja Theory look (I can't decide if having that distinctive look is good or bad for all these different games, but I guess it's the same person designing the protagonists)
Now on to the youtube video!
Edit: Looking nice.. Hope they add some motion blur tho
Now on to the youtube video!
Edit: Looking nice.. Hope they add some motion blur tho
Yeah, that's what I think too.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Seriously. I'm far more offended by this trailer being called "gameplay trailer" than I am with anything regarding mental illness. It's nothing but cinematic cut scenes, except like 2-3 sword slashes and something that almost looked like a QTE "dodge".
Call it a "cinematic trailer" or whatever, but this is insulting. Reminds me of the "gameplay trailer" for The Order which showed 95% cut-scene and the rest was generic gunplay and QTEs.
Yeah people seem to be jumping to conclusions here. I understand that DmC's writing was utter shit, and maybe this game will have shit writing too, but I don't think they're going out of their way to be offensive and tacky with regards to mental illness here...
You should prepare for a long wait then. That's not what they're going for with this game and anyone who's been following their development blog and dev diaries knows that. The amount of idiotic kneejerk reactions in this thread from people who've never bothered to educate themselves one bit on the game would be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating.
Remapped88
Member
Ehh, looks okay-ish. Ninja Theory games always seems to have the same art-style and it's getting kinda old nowadays.
nortonff
Hi, I'm nortonff. I spend my life going into threads to say that I don't care about the topic of the thread. It's a really good use of my time.
So specifically speaking, which mental illness involves fighting giant flaming monsters with a sword? They are promising an accurate, true to life representation here.
They ought to just drop the "this is realistic" stuff, because in a best case scenario they're only going to end up painting a picture of the worst possible mental illness when most cases are much more mild and manageable.
Femmeworth
Banned
"Through the lens of mental illness"
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well that "gameplay" trailer was bunk and the parts that were gameplay the camera was way too close to properly judge anything going on.
Watch the dev diary. *sigh*
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
In the dev diary the following is stated:
Right now it seems to be the most basic form of what they're planning to do with her perception when it comes to combat.
Thats exactly what is and please refrain from looking like an idiot yourself. Their graphical style have a common theme through out. The grainy look and the forced textures on every surface is a staple of Ninja Theory games. Their art style is also very showing there with a wired shadowing effect and cloth physics that tends to weave.
And I haven't commented on their themes or storyline....
synce
Member
Thank you but that's a 10 minute video of mostly talking and an unfinished game. I was hoping for polished gameplay footage and nothing more
Well yeah, this game isn't dropping this year. It probably isn't even dropping next year. Development only started in September
texhnolyze
Banned
I'd say that's a pretty bad trailer.
Dictator93
Member
I would fully agree with you.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Yea that's pretty much impossible at this stage. Game is still a long way out. One of the goals of the project is to be as transparent as possible with the game development process. Part of that is seeing a lot of the unfinished animations, placeholder textures(or bits of proof of concept videos) & glitches etc. instead of a super polished gameplay presentations. Although they do have a vertical slice it's doesn't seem to be polished, think they only had two weeks to iron out some issues from playtests. Regarding the camera, the plan:it stays behind Senua, very similar to an over the shoulder perspective as it would be too expensive to make a dynamic camera like in say DmC. I also agree with the sentiment that this was not a good gameplay trailer, it should've been called a teaser.
Oh, right. So because they're using film grain you can already tell that the gameplay is going to be style over substance? Give me a fucking break. Everything they've said in past blog entries and dev diaries proves that that's not at all what they're going for with Hellblade. This one entry alone shows that they're doing the exact opposite, in fact: http://www.hellblade.com/?p=17730
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Looked Ryse like to me. Take that as you will but I love Ryse.
Stillmatic
Member
Still looks early, but sounds really interesting.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
pretty meh for me..
i wonder if they're still going to release on XBO
i wonder if they're still going to release on XBO
I imagine that's going to depend on how successful the PC and PS4 versions are.