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[Wallach]

Looked like total tripe. Even the visuals were not that impressive.

 

[sammex]

They mentioned it started development 2 years ago as a kinect game.

That explains the QTE overkill.

 

[devious.one]

I can't find a direct quote online yet, but the guy on SpikeTV after the press conference said that, due to the interest of the demo they wanted to showcase all the 'executions'. But in the real game it won't be a QTEfest, it'll be more free-attacks.

 

[krypt0nian]

QTE: The Reckoning

 

[NullPointer]

Yeah they sure could have made the influence a bit more subtle

Heh, gamer's have only done that scene in one form or another at least a couple of times a year, every year, since that movie came out. There aint any no mana left in that potion.

 

[ichtyander]

Quite pretty visually, but I'm a bit skeptical about all that at these kind of presentations. Gameplay's like something from Infinity Blade.

 

[redmetal86]

RYSE! CHEW YO SOCK!


Eh, I don't know about this one. Need to try it myself.

 

[thumb]

Nothing shown interested me. Main character is a non-descript angry male who wants to stab dudes. Combat looks one-dimensional and QTE-laden. Events look heavily scripted.

 

[Doctor Decimate]

abysmal

 

[Kusagari]

Everything about this looked terrible.

 

[bidguy]

looks good but it has more qte than vanilla ng3

disappointing ...

 

[ironcreed]

Horrible framerate and quick time events out the ass. Totally unimpressed, and I love source material like this.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

After the whole fight sequence, a catapult comes out of nowhere and takes out the tower. What was the point of storming it?

 

[Heart Attack]

Oh look an On-Rails game with a load of QTE's.

 

[Drek]

Next Gen Lair right here.

Technically proficient developer with a small genre niche they've been successful with, moving to a new genre. Technically strong trailer with weak artistic direction and very questionable gameplay from what we've seen.

1. QTE heavy.
2. Overt "we do this now!" voice work to tell you what to do suggests a painfully linear battlefield, not a "win the battle how you want" scenario.
3. magic spears that just pop into people's hands.
4. art design is painfully uninspired and drab.

 

[Aguirre]

press A to awesome

 

[PairOfFilthySocks]

Just when you thought God of War couldn't get anymore basic and mundane.

 

[Mass Effect]

such wasted potential... QTEs abound, linear, drab looking.

It's like they took the worst parts of God of War and made them into a game.

 

[Demon Ice]

Looked nice, riddled with QTEs, and none of the animations / QTEs/ finishing moves really stood out.

Meh.

Also where the hell were they pulling those javelins from?

 

[Kayhan]

The graphics were pretty amazing.

 

[Double D]

It just looked incredibly boring to me.

 

[Madouu]

I'm sad this is the last thing I could catch from microsoft's conference. It looked pretty average...

 

[metareferential]

I like it, QTE or not.

Maybe there's more to it (not holding my breath).

And most of them are just finishing moves.

 

[darkistheway]

The Kinect roots seem pretty deeply embedded in the 'gameplay.' Looks more like an interactive movie. Be curious to read the hands-on.

 

[sunnz]

Looks very linear and QTE heavy, disappointing.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Can you tell against whom are those "romans" fighting?

If against Carthaginians, Crytek made THE MOST EPIC FAIL IN HISTORY !

No one is so out of touch with history.

 

[gutter_trash]

too scripted and QTEish.

would be more awesome if they gave you more leeway at tackling objectives then being funneled through the ''scripted'' path

 

[yamo]

Imagine going through a whole game where every fight is a QTE... also that Saving Private Ryan rip off intro.

 

[Cyberia]

The framerate and animation is downright terrible.

 

[Ushojax]

I really love the setting but this was once a Kinect brawler and it shows.

One day we will get a game as good as Gladius or Shadow of Rome. One day....

 

[schwupp]

this game needs more qte ... thats what next gen needs

 

[Lord Error]

Yeah, the animation in this was just bad. Much worse than in last two God of War games. Guess the next gen power doesn't really matter when animation skills are involved.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

The 'gameplay' we saw is no surprise knowing that this is Cervat Yerli's 'personal baby'. I would expect something as shallow as it appeared.

Having said that - and this will be praise that Cervat likes the most - the graphics looked very good.

But good graphics don't make a good ga....I don't think Cervat cares.

 

[plantedunicorn]

Maybe my eyes were deceiving me but is this game on rails? It was just so linear and looked like a chore to play. Looked really beautiful though.

 

[Frillen]

Disappointing. Graphics looks ok, but nothing more. QTE, holy shit! I was like "seriously!?". EVERY SINGLE ENCOUNTER IS QTE. Bullshit.

 

[R1CHO]

This game looked lame as hell.

To be expected from Crytek i guess, graphics are 60 percent of a game after all.

 

[LakeEarth]

Why do Romans have British accents again?

 

[Hindle]

If they can make the combat like Dark Souls, or along those lines then this could be great. If they keep it as it is then no thanks.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

The 'gameplay' we saw is no surprise knowing that this is Cervat Yerli's 'personal baby'. I would expect something as shallow as it appeared.

Having said that - and this will be praise that Cervat likes the most - the graphics looked very good.

But good graphics don't make a good ga....I don't think Cervat cares.

In the ideal scenario, they just license the engine to a bunch of talented studios. It's not like the best UE3 games were Epic's.

Why do Romans have British accents again?

70 years of film tradition

 

[Lach]

My two cents
- Grafic looks great
- You can see that it started as a connect game
- QTE in the very first fight made me lose all hope's
- Looks incredibly "overstaged" (if that's a word)
- Marius Titus has to be the most generic roman name I've heard
- I love ancient rome and I really could see me playing such a scripted game if the stories worth it. I don't get my hopes up on that. As a AsoIaF/GoT Fan I asked myself what I would think of this game if that scene were [light Game of Thrones general lore spoilers]

Spoiler

The Sacking of Pyke during the Greyjoy uprising.

and figured I'd be probably all over this game....

 

[dreamer3kx]

They said they had lots of QTE for the e3 demo, that there will be deeper combat.

 

[Sibylus]

Why do Romans have British accents again?

I know the demo was flat, but this gripe is kind've of a miss. Neither enrollment in the army nor even citizenship were restricted by ethnicity after a certain point.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

Yeah, the animation in this was just bad. Much worse than in last two God of War games. Guess the next gen power doesn't really matter when animation skills are involved.

Yeah although textures were good the animation was about as good as Heavenly Sword way back when on PS3.

 

[peaceiscloser]

I think the name is stupid.

Y is not a letter in the Latin alphabet. I bet there isn't even a good explanation why it's called "Ryse" in the game.

 

[Cosmozone]

I thought it was pretty and the atmosphere moody and a bit suspenseful. Sure, QTEs are a bummer.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

My twopenth's
- Grafic looks great
- You can see that it started as a connect game
- QTE in the very first fight made me lose all hope's
- Looks incredibly "overstaged" (if that's a word)
- Marius Titus has to be the most generic roman name I've heard
- I love ancient rome and I really could see me playing such a scripted game if the stories worth it. I don't get my hopes up on that. As a AsoIaF/GoT Fan I asked myself what I would think of this game if that scene were [light Game of Thrones general lore spoilers]

Spoiler

The Sacking of Pyke during the Greyjoy uprising.

and figured I'd be probably all over this game....

There's actually only like a dozen different names for males in Rome. It's a surprise that they actually got it accurate. Unless you were noble you didn't have more than one or two names.

Things like Caesar or Augustus were nicknames given afterwards. So Caesar is actually Gaius Julius.

 

[Suairyu]

Looked awful.

Roman setting clearly just paint, as the PC just one-man-armies everything.

That and the game seems to play itself. QTE QTE QTE. More QTEs in three minutes than Shenmue might have in an hour.

 

[Weemanply109]

Looks amazing, but really scripted.

 

[PhatSaqs]

Graphics = good. Meh everything else. Typical launch fodder IMO.

 

[Face it Tiger..]

Looks overscripted and extremely linear.

how fortunate.