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[Musky_Cheese]

Posted for Threeshotgamer

What started as two people creating maps for minecraft has evolved into the announcement of their first title Hytale. With Riot Games as an Investor this new studio has officially launched the first trailer and from what can be seen it looks to be a whole new take on combining the openness of a sandbox with the detail oriented depth of an RPG.

Game Page: https://hytale.com/game
Announcement Trailer:

 

[Sqorin Hammerfarf]

I think it looks really good and maybe the first real competitor to Minecraft since Cube World went.... wherever the fuck Cube World went. Hytale is a terrible name though.

 

[Threeshotgamer]

I think it looks really good and maybe the first real competitor to Minecraft since Cube World went.... wherever the fuck Cube World went. Hytale is a terrible name though.

I too found the name odd but the trailer and just general features being talked about on their page sound pretty promising. And I can respect someone taking 4 years to build a game from a mod into a competitor of the game they started modding to begin with.

 

[Helios]

Never been a fan of the Minecraft artstyle but the game seems interesting. I'm also surprised to see Riot investing into something other than League.

 

[Shifty]

Huh, how about that.

It looks like what you'd get if you decided to rebuild minecraft from the ground up with current software without having to worry about legacy code or compatibility. Very nice.

 

[Alexios]

That actually looks like a lot of fun. It's good to see games try to inject some charm to the formula (in every aspect, from visuals to combat systems to whatever), like Dragon Quest Builders and now this.

 

[Dargor]

That actually looks interesting. I own minecraft, but never can play for long, the lack of a tangible objective loses me quickly.

 

[Holammer]

Dualshockers wrote a piece about the success of this trailer that gave me pause. The trailer's got 31.4M views since Dec 13'th and as DS wrote:
"To put that into perspective, the Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement trailer only has 17 million views in over 2 years."

Done right it'll be a repeat of the Minecraft craze, so we might be looking at the Next Big Thing™ here and god willing, the Fortnite slayer.
Expect Sony/MS fight for exclusive rights and who knows how it'll be distributed on PC.

 

[Shifty]

The trailer's got 31.4M views since Dec 13'th and as DS wrote:
"To put that into perspective, the Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement trailer only has 17 million views in over 2 years."

Those are some pretty big numbers. I'd attribute part of that to having a less age-restricted audience than RDR2, but those timeframes are something else.

and god willing, the Fortnite slayer.

I wouldn't kick this idea out of bed.

 

[Threeshotgamer]

Here's a look into how world generation is going to work. The prefabs and dungeons look really interesting from early looks. I'm pretty excited for this one for the multiplayer possibilities alone at this point.
https://hytale.com/news/2019/1/worldgen-introduction

 

[Threeshotgamer]

One more from the Christmas blog showing the weather effects and a sneak peak of the music that will be in the game.

 

[Threeshotgamer]

New dev post showing off the Model maker teased in the announcement trailer. Based on the work they are showing so far i'm really impressed with the sheer ambition of the project and i'm really hopeful that they are able to make it work.
https://hytale.com/news/2019/1/take-a-closer-look-at-hytale-model-maker

 

[cartman414]

Anyone else expect riffs on Hydlide from the name?

 

[Threeshotgamer]

With all the issues EA is having with Anthem the new Dev post from Hytale is pretty well timed
https://hytale.com/news/2019/1/an-overview-of-hytales-server-technology

 

[Threeshotgamer]

I've gotta say i'm really enjoying the music and how much info of development these guys are sharing. Here's a new music piece from this weeks blog post:


Link to the Blog:https://hytale.com/news/2019/3/three-new-pieces-of-hytale-music

 

[ClanOfNone]

Missed this thread the first time around, but this looks pretty impressive.

 

[Holammer]

Time to necro this old thread. Riot Games acquires the developer.

Hytale Developer Hypixel Studios Has Been Purchased by Riot Games

After previously being an angel investor for Hytale developer Hypixel Studios, Riot Games has today outright acquired the company.

www.dualshockers.com

 

[Lupin3]

I really had to read the thread title multiple times before my brain got the message.

 

[HaveButOneLife]

Time to necro this old thread. Riot Games acquires the developer.

Hytale Developer Hypixel Studios Has Been Purchased by Riot Games

After previously being an angel investor for Hytale developer Hypixel Studios, Riot Games has today outright acquired the company.

www.dualshockers.com

Not sure what this means for them, likely a higher budget but what does that say about the length of development?

 

[Threeshotgamer]

Not sure what this means for them, likely a higher budget but what does that say about the length of development?

It says they are still aiming for a 2021 release but everything else is still in the air.

 

[Hendrick's]

I just don't see what this game offers over the already existing MC clones. Good luck to them I guess.

 

[TheContact]

Riot is really taking off. With how successful Valorant is going to be, and how they have handled past mistakes, I can see them becoming the new Blizzard in a short amount of time.

 

[Threeshotgamer]

I just don't see what this game offers over the already existing MC clones. Good luck to them I guess.

It looks like a more RPG focused MC which is exciting to a lot of people. I also think it helps that the Hypixel MC server is among one of the most popular for it's content.

 

[HaveButOneLife]

It says they are still aiming for a 2021 release but everything else is still in the air.

Yeah I knew they delayed it, but maybe this means even more ambition.