Cave Johnson
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Sadly, developers haven't gone past this effect for the sake of HUD'less design. I'd rather they stick with health bars until they can find something that actually works.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Combat Trailer
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Sadly, developers haven't gone past this effect for the sake of HUD'less design. I'd rather they stick with health bars until they can find something that actually works.
Yeah, they should change it to Hellblade: Heavenly Sword 2 instead.
IMO it should be either just Hellblade or just Senua's Sacrifice.
But I have a thing for series that don't use numbered sequels for their titles, so there's that. I also think the Witcher games should just have been called: The Witcher, Assassins of Kings and Wild Hunt.
The latter games need subtitles because "The Order and "Horizon" are painfully plain on their own.
"Hellblade" is unique enough to stand on its own though.
PS4/PC AFAIK, not sure about the release date.
Dragon1893
Member
The game is definitely looking better these days.
It's definitely on my radar.
Only part I didn't like was the "we show the player's health by not letting the player see shit."
It's definitely on my radar.
Only part I didn't like was the "we show the player's health by not letting the player see shit."
thecosmicfly
Banned
There're ways developers can avoid having to follow tradition if they really put forth the effort to think outside the box. It doesn't always have to come down to a HUD, camera filters/overlays or some in-game realistic conceit that's either not fun or doesn't make a lick of sense. Was brainstorming with a friend about this and we came up with the idea of what if the health bar was reflected by a streak of light on Senua's sword. Or having her posture change from upright to staggering/slouching over when hurt enough. Anything really. I can't imagine the grand vision at Ninja Theory all along was "Slap ALL of the shit on screen at once when damaged, that'll work," because at best it's misguided, and at worst, well, don't want my asshole chewed out for saying it.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well I had hoped they would take what they learned from DmC and apply it here but I guess that is not happening. Skip.
Cave Johnson
Member
While I think Dead Space was the best implementation of the "immersive" health it's simply due to the contextual nature of the futuristic theme that they were allowed to explore that design,
They could still do something similar with a glowing tattoo on her back though. The setting is not so grounded that they couldn't use such elements.
Cave Johnson
Member
Actually, since the theme is about hallucinations or schizophrenia, they have full freedom to create visual cues that correlate to her state of damage.
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He's probably not talking about the actual speed. He's likely talking about the feel of the animations. Most of her attacks flow poorly, and there's no wind-up on any of her attacks but the first in the first gif and the last in the second gif, and she mostly swings at the same speed. It ends up looking slow as a result.
Is that suppussed to relieve anyone?
Shame, i was hoping we could see an evolution of that sooner
Please
Same page too.
Crossing Eden
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Heavenly Sword combat was the literal opposite of this, it was like GOW where it had a bunch of attacks that focused on attacking large groups of people with an overhead camera and incredibly over the top animations. This is the complete opposite with attacks that focus on 1:1 encounters where positioning is incredibly important.
Apocryphon
Member
Looks like it plays a lot like Ryse to me.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
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Look how in the first GIF she goes from a sword slash to a jumping thrusting attack with any flow or weight feel...
But don't "flow" and "speed" kinda fight one another? For moves to flow you need additional frames between attacks to link them together, which makes everything slower. It's like complaints about the movement in games like Uncharted, where the realism and fluidity of the animations drive things further from a fast, arcadey feel.
It kinda seems like people want this game to be two opposites at once. When they show something that includes more deliberate, realistic strikes people complain that it's too slow and looks boring. When they show something that has more immediate moves that feel quick and arcadey, people complain that the game lacks fluidity.
BumblebeeCody
Member
DmC wasn't really their game though. I mean that they already had source material and certain aspects that had to be in the game whether they wanted it or not, especially when it came to combat. As much as I love in-depth combo mechanics, at least NT get to shine the most when they're making a game from their own ideas. This isn't supposed to feel combat crazy. What could NT have added from DmC and still made this game have it's own identity?
demosthenes
Member
Looks really good, hope it plays just as well.
Sangetsu-II
Member
Hmm, could explain why the combat looks like that. Would be a fun VR game, I think.
And a Xbox 360 controller? Snaps!... But how this game would work on VR.
I was a bit puzzled why they went to lengths to explain on-screen damage effects that looks like twenty other games. I really like the tone and the main character, but the multi character combat looked stiff, they were just stood waiting for their turn whilst she was full of openings.
grosvenor_92
Member
They have me intrigued by what they've shown so far.
Has Sony said anything about showing more of the game at E3 ?
Has Sony said anything about showing more of the game at E3 ?