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Project EVE announced: AAA Action RPG for PS4, Xbox One, and PC by Hyung-tae Kim’s Studio

Shin

Banned
Today South Korean game developer Shift Up hosted an event to introduce two new games codenamed Project EVE and Project NIKKE: The Goddess of Victory
If you’re unfamiliar with Shift Up, it’s the company behind the popular mobile game Destiny Child and its CEO is famous artist Hyung-tae Kim, also known for his gorgeous character design in the Magna Carta series and in Blade & Souls.

Project EVE is developed in Unreal Engine 4 with the aim to launch an AAA game for the global market. It’s a single-player action RPG for PS4, Xbox One, and PC (via Steam), Its setting os post-apocalyptic and besides Hyung-tae Kim himself, its staffed by the core members behind Blade & Souls.

It doesn’t yet have a release window, but below you can see a trailer and a few screenshots.

The game is being developed as a next-generation title by a newly established South Korean studio called Shift Up. The studio consists of staff including Blade & Soul staff as well as composer ESTi, who previously worked on Ragnarok Online, TalesWeaver, and The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls.

Project Eve is described as a semi-open world AAA game that has taken inspiration from titles such as NieR: Automata and God of War. It is being made as an action game with single-player as a base Using Unreal Engine 4
Shift Up was established for making this game, and they’re putting the latest technologies for 3D scan system and facial capture to use. There are currently about 10 staff members but they’re shooting to have around 100 members by the end of this project.

The story is about mankind fighting back to recapture planet Earth from invaders who forced them out to orbit. The scenario is said to be mostly completed.





Credit: Twinfinite & Siliconera
 
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Saber

Gold Member
I wish they could show gameplay videos. You know...just to see what I'm dealing with.
 

Bkdk

Member
Always love this type of female characters design way more, just feels like a girl. Especially when compared to naughty dogs’ Asian girl character design, Its simply awful.
Seems like they are in very early development stage so hopefully this will at least be a cross gen title and a launch title for ps5.
 

//DEVIL//

Member
First exclusive ps4 pic
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DS_Joost

Member
Well I was interested until the butt wiggle shit. Jesus Christ if you want to be taken seriously stop with that fucking shit. It has absolutely no purpose, it's embarrasing, and it took me right out of what I saw. Leave that shit for DOA Extreme Volleyball, where that shit actually serves it's purpose. I am not an SJW, far from it, I love sexualization as much as everyone else. But I can see why people find this offensive. Because it is. I felt offended by the fact that someone is thinking that that shit will make me buy the game or something. Sweet jesus.

That, and the character design is atrocious. Is she supposed to be some kind of augmented killing machine? Then why the fuck leave so many skin parts exposed?

I get that people are tired of this...
 
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GreenAlien

Member
Seems like Korean devs are not bending the knee to western nutjobs either. Still, I'm not expecting more than an AA game out of that "AAA" budget..
 

DS_Joost

Member
Seems like Korean devs are not bending the knee to western nutjobs either. Still, I'm not expecting more than an AA game out of that "AAA" budget..

How is it bending the knee to design characters that actually look like what they are supposed to portray? I get artistic freedom, and if they wanna go with this, go nuts. I just think it's bad design pandered to commercialism at it's lowest common denominator. THAT is bending the knee for me.
 

Fbh

Member
Not much to go on with the trailer but sounds interesting.
Just yesterday I was talking with someone about how it's a shame Korean devs seem to focus almost exclusively on grindy MMOs, because the visuals and combat in their games often looks great.

So it's cool to finally see someone making a high budget single player game
 

Pantz

Member
Well I was interested until the butt wiggle shit. Jesus Christ if you want to be taken seriously stop with that fucking shit. It has absolutely no purpose, it's embarrasing, and it took me right out of what I saw. Leave that shit for DOA Extreme Volleyball, where that shit actually serves it's purpose. I am not an SJW, far from it, I love sexualization as much as everyone else. But I can see why people find this offensive. Because it is. I felt offended by the fact that someone is thinking that that shit will make me buy the game or something. Sweet jesus.

That, and the character design is atrocious. Is she supposed to be some kind of augmented killing machine? Then why the fuck leave so many skin parts exposed?

I get that people are tired of this...

Or let the developers make the games they want to, then choose for yourself whether to buy it or not. Some people like this kind of stuff. There's plenty of other games to choose from, why does this one have to change into a different game for you instead of you just picking a different game?
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Why does her butt just.... keep jiggling? Physics has gone too far, I guess.
 

Croatoan

They/Them A-10 Warthog
Will Sony sensor the butt jiggle? I guess I am going to have to play these asian rpgs for my "sexy lady" guilty pleasure games since western devs are completely cucked.
 

shark sandwich

tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
Surely there can be some sensible middle ground between “frumpy unattractive characters who defy beauty standards/gender roles” and “obviously designed for lonely nerds to masturbate to.”
 
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llien

Member
How is it bending the knee to design characters that actually look like what they are supposed to portray?
I hope you aren't talking about MK11 "designs". Dudes literally stated they had enlightened rightthink supervisor helping them "be respectful".
We can pretend it was "their artistic choice", and it was indeed thtir choice to go that route to begin with (or, rather I hope it was), but it wasn't artistic. Their design is extreme violence and gore.
 
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Shin

Banned
Well I was interested until the butt wiggle shit. Jesus Christ if you want to be taken seriously stop with that fucking shit.
Is this the first time you've encountered a Korean game?
They are being taken seriously and the style/preference is about the same as anime+Japan (forgot the word).
What you pointed out is pretty much the problem with the West and to be more specific the US.
 

Bkdk

Member
Well I was interested until the butt wiggle shit. Jesus Christ if you want to be taken seriously stop with that fucking shit. It has absolutely no purpose, it's embarrasing, and it took me right out of what I saw. Leave that shit for DOA Extreme Volleyball, where that shit actually serves it's purpose. I am not an SJW, far from it, I love sexualization as much as everyone else. But I can see why people find this offensive. Because it is. I felt offended by the fact that someone is thinking that that shit will make me buy the game or something. Sweet jesus.

That, and the character design is atrocious. Is she supposed to be some kind of augmented killing machine? Then why the fuck leave so many skin parts exposed?

I get that people are tired of this...

There are honestly very few AAA games that does this type of fan service and female character design anymore, the kind of games you like are so abundant in AAA industry right now and we don’t need more of that, the devs are smart that they design it in sexier Way, I’m so glad there is finally an AAA game that does female character design right in what I hoped for. Hopefully the game will come out great on combat too.
 

CatCouch

Member
I'm a huge fan of Hyung-tae Kim. I even studied his art in college and have art books full of his work. I'm really excited for more games with his art!

I really wish people would stop complaining and trying to control the art in games. It's fine not to like it but don't act as if it's wrong. Why is it so hard to understand why people might like and create art like this and why is it so difficult to just let people enjoy it?
 

Shin

Banned
I'm a huge fan of Hyung-tae Kim.
As am I, a part of me kinda died when he quit NCSoft / the Blade & Soul team so early in the game because the direction went completely to shit.
Someone from the AION team took over and now everything is some stupid ass alien looking with spikes outfit or monster instead of the original vision.
 

CatCouch

Member
As am I, a part of me kinda died when he quit NCSoft / the Blade & Soul team so early in the game because the direction went completely to shit.
Someone from the AION team took over and now everything is some stupid ass alien looking with spikes outfit or monster instead of the original vision.
I've only kind of followed Blade and Soul since I don't play online much so I'm super excited to see some single player goodness coming! It's been a long time since I was playing games like Magna Carta. This is the kind of stuff I live for! Hyung-tae Kim knows how to design wonderful characters.
 
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To be honest I entered the thread thinking SE is somehow resurrecting Paradise Eve but this looks awesome. Also it's really surprising it's not MMO when it's coming from Korean developer.
 
I'm completely turned down by the look, this is bland and uninspired, I felt like looking at a UE4 (you could guessed the engine without reading) demo by a nobody with a random asian design.

Destiny Child is a pedokawai game with great artwork but no game design or content whatsoever.
 

Hellblueboy

Member
Look great, but i still don't have confident on Korean ability to make a good game.
Most Kr games are look very good but play worse.

Still hype for Hyung-tae Kim tho.
 

iHaunter

Member
Seems like Korean devs are not bending the knee to western nutjobs either. Still, I'm not expecting more than an AA game out of that "AAA" budget..

I have no idea what this means. But Korean developers tend to make the same games over and over with not much going for them other than graphics. Hell every KMMO I've played ended up in a P2W cash-grab. Obviously not relevant in this specific case, but my point still stands. I'm still a little curious about this game, needs to see more.
 

brap

Banned
Well I was interested until the butt wiggle shit. Jesus Christ if you want to be taken seriously stop with that fucking shit.
Video games don't need to be taken seriously. You can go play TLOU or some other hollywood cliche trash if you want something serious. There's no shortage of serious games and there hasn't been in a long time.

I love sexualization as much as everyone else.
I mean apparently you don't.

But I can see why people find this offensive. Because it is. I felt offended by the fact that someone is thinking that that shit will make me buy the game or something. Sweet jesus.
Then don't buy it. Buy Horizon Zero Dawn, TLOU 2, MK11 and all other western feminist grimdark up its own ass garbage being shat out.

Surely there can be some sensible middle ground between “frumpy unattractive characters who defy beauty standards/gender roles” and “obviously designed for lonely nerds to masturbate to.”
Surely there can be a wide range of characters and not whatever just shark sandwich approves of.
 
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GreenAlien

Member
I have no idea what this means.
Let me explain it to you:
AAA = high budget
AA game = I'm implying that I don't think the final product will be on par with other AAA games.
bend the knee = as in "to submit"
nutjob = a mentally unbalanced person/a crazy person



So, to rephrase:
It seems like korean developers (the guys making the game are from South Korea) are not submitting to the demands of mentally unbalanced people (the ones who demand all games are either made specifically for them or not made at all) from the US and parts of Europe (as you can easily see by watching the trailer, specifically the character design and walking animation), unlike a lot of western devs and publishers. Why is that worth mentioning? Because they are targeting the global audience this time, not just the korean one.

Still, I'm not expecting them to make a very good game (based on their history as a mobile game/MMO developer and the environment design in the trailer [boring wasteland]), even though they claim to have a high budget (why is a high budget relevant? Because it implies the intention to sell a lot of copies to get a return on that investment. To sell a lot of copies, you usually have to make a very good game.)
 
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Shin

Banned
Updated the first post with a second quote, this time from Siliconera on what the game is about and more info.
 

ThatGamingDude

I am a virgin
Phew, to think people get upset that they made a butt jiggle

Wonder how they feel 'bout twerkin

For all the people celebratin' a great new lookin' game, I bring to you:
 
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shark sandwich

tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
Surely there can be a wide range of characters and not whatever just shark sandwich approves of.
They can create whatever they want and I can criticize it however I want. My point was that you can criticize this kind of fap material without being some SJW.

Personally I like playing as, and looking at, fit + attractive people. But I don’t want to play a game that looks like it was made to jack off to.

There’s a fine line between “sexy” and “blatant fap material”, and it seems like most media have figured it out. It’s only anime and video games that haven’t.
 
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