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[Theecliff]

This is looking good. Some of the gameplay actually reminds me a bit of inFamous with the traversal.

Aside from a few clunky animations/transitions in the movement, the art style looks pretty damned great in motion too.
Loved that the huge mushroom cloud explosion formed the word 'boom'.

 

[Dragonborn]

RAD really have squandered an important first impression. Now they have to rebuild hype at E3.

I'm still hyped for the Order. How'd they squander it? I was under the impression thay what they showed was supposed to be just a teaser, not quite an info blowout like SO right nkw. I may be wrong though

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Looks fun in a crackdown sort of way, but the bad and janky animations are pretty jarring, maybe even more so because of the art style. This style is begging for super fluid, smooth, over the top animations. Hopefully that improves significantly.

The key will be making the traversal and controls fun. A game like crackdown was pretty limited and repetitive in terms of content but the controls were just good and responsive enough to make stuff like hunting for agility orbs really compelling .

 

[GarthVaderUK]

Buying an Xbox One when this is released.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

I'm assuming this is going to have dedicated servers and not be peer hosted. Has this been said anywhere?

I don't know if has been confirmed, but I assume the game will be using cloud compute for the online portion considering it's supposed to be constantly evolving world or something like that. I want multiplayer details now dammit.

 

[Endo Punk]

I'm still pissed off that in a entire gen, Insomniac didn't release anything remotely as fun as what this game seems to be, yet on their first try on a MS platform. BAM.

Goddamn it Insomniac. GODDAMN IT.

Personally I don't think Sony ever gave them the opportunity. They were never treated as well as the owned studios as their games were just seen as padding out the library, that's why they never got a good enough budget for proper dev time.

 

[SniperHunter]

The graphics look great. Very colourful, good lod, good quality blur, good quality effects. Very impressive

 

[Bomb-Threat]

Buying an Xbox One when this is released.

This year IG?

 

[jstevenson]

gah, that spanish clip obviously just capped GI this morning (also, gah) and obviously dropped a lot of frames when capping there.

not representative, and obviously we're getting it pulled.

we have a great video for monday that shows more stuff.

glad folks dug what they got a sneak peak at tho

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

Looked like it was in slow motion. The gifs look a lot better.

Yeap, It looks worse than the original Game Informer video.

Good. This may be one of my first Xbox one games. Long as there isn't any sneak always-online crap or Pay2Win Micro transactions I'm down.

 

[T.O.P]

gah, that spanish clip obviously just capped GI this morning (also, gah) and obviously dropped a lot of frames when capping there.

not representative, and obviously we're getting it pulled.

we have a great video for monday that shows more stuff.

glad folks dug what they got a sneak peak at tho

Can't freakin wait!

 

[Cse]

I REALLY hope this game has local multiplayer...

 

[noobasuar]

I'm still pissed off that in a entire gen, Insomniac didn't release anything remotely as fun as what this game seems to be, yet on their first try on a MS platform. BAM.

Goddamn it Insomniac. GODDAMN IT.

I don't get this. Some of the R&C games were awesome as hell on the PS3.

 

[samman6]

All the reactions In this thread go to show that art style is probably the biggest driving force of a games reception. Imagine this same game with a brown gritty realistic take, I bet most the comments would be a lot different, and a lot more negative. I am also in the same camp as most here, thinking this looks really good.

 

[NemesisPrime]

I'm assuming this is going to have dedicated servers and not be peer hosted. Has this been said anywhere?

No... but being an X1 exclusive I guess it is a VERY safe bet it will be running dedicated servers on the cloud.

 

[Endo Punk]

I'm still hyped for the Order. How'd they squander it? I was under the impression thay what they showed was supposed to be just a teaser, not quite an info blowout like SO right nkw. I may be wrong though

2 minutes of standard unimpressive gameplay. QTE and visual talk with lots of dark cutscenes. The February event was the first time critics got to see it and it just didn't blow anyone away.

 

[backflip10019]

we have a great video for monday that shows more stuff.

glad folks dug what they got a sneak peak at tho

Awesome. Can't wait!

 

[Tripp Daily]

The liquid pouring out of the silo is like the best liquid I've seen in a game.

I don't think that is pouring out of the silo. If you look at his weapon its a harpoon gun with a 20 oz of the overcharge drink attach. I think this is some sort of a distraction gun that draws the OD'd to the spill. You can a little of this in the video when he shoots the car and a couple of enemies run and start drinking up the overcharge.

 

[Kagutaba]

Not quite sure it would be Uncharted at that point

Shush! I'm a dreaming...

And Prince of Persia's traversal system and platforming would also work really well in Uncharted seeing their shared Tomb Raider legacy. Hell Drake already got some of the prince's moves... just not enough of them.

Spoiler

GIVE ME WALL RUN, IN EVERYTHING, NOW!

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

This is the only game to make me consider getting a One.

Can someone answer, is a live subscription required to play games? I don't want to pay for two online subs at the same time this gen.

 

[Dragonborn]

Personally I don't think Sony ever gave them the opportunity. They were never treated as well as the owned studios as their games were just seen as padding out the library, that's why they never got a good enough budget for proper dev time.

More importantly, I think working on an IP they own completely is much more motivating than working on an IP someone else owns.

I still hope Ratchet is given to another dev though, Insomniac has treated that IP like trash and it deserves better

 

[ironcreed]

I love the animations while riding the rail. So alive.

 

[Kinsei]

This looks amazing. I'll definitely be picking up an XBone when this hits.

 

[hal9001]

The art direction with all the bright colours looks fantastic.

 

[Fletcher]

Looks awesome.

 

[nbraun80]

gah, that spanish clip obviously just capped GI this morning (also, gah) and obviously dropped a lot of frames when capping there.

not representative, and obviously we're getting it pulled.

we have a great video for monday that shows more stuff.

glad folks dug what they got a sneak peak at tho

ha figured GI was a goof when you told us video would come later. The spanish vid is definitely lower quality. It looks great though, looking forward to monday now.

 

[intheinbetween]

This is the only game to make me consider getting a One.

Can someone answer, is a live subscription required to play games?

what? nope, only for online modes

 

[Endo Punk]

I don't get this. Some of the R&C games were awesome as hell on the PS3.

None of them were better than the PS2 Ratchet games though. And the franchise got worse with each entry on PS3, now it's just tired and boring.

 

[matrixman92]

is there another trailer with a guy not shouting in spanish...i think ill wait until there is

 

[Chettlar]

WHOA. It DOES look better than the E3 trailer! HTF?

Looks great.

But is that our set character or can we create our own? I was under the impression that you can create your character, but now that we know that the single player is a seperate thing from multi i'm not sure anymore.
Hope you can create one, Saints Row shows that this is the way to go for such games.

Confirmed by jstevenson in the other thread. Yes, for single player.

 

[Gbraga]

Is this the glorious return to 60fps Insomniac we've been waiting for?

Probably not, but the game does looks pretty gorgeous, I like how the platforming seems to be fast and have momentum, and the combat bits remind me of Ratchet.

I hope the skyrails don't have only one speed, I hate when you lose all your momentum by using those kinds of things.

 

[Windom Earle]

WTF, missed it again!

 

[sn00zer]

Character respawn is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0exebHgpf8

 

[Sn4ke_911]

WTF, missed it again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0exebHgpf8

 

[Silky]

This is the only game to make me consider getting a One.

Can someone answer, is a live subscription required to play games? I don't want to pay for two online subs at the same time this gen.

It's odd that in 2014, peeople still believe that a subscription is required to play a game.

But, it's not. Just for online multiplayer.

 

[Lemondish]

Just read up a bit more on the title. Why, oh why does this have to be MS exclusive? It looks pretty great.

Oh well, I guess I get to just go back to acting like Insomniac is dead to me. Makes it easier to ignore SO :-(

Am salty.

 

[nbraun80]

Character respawn is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XzF7l6Jddk#t=63

EDGE also mentioned being respawned by being beamed down by a UFO and thrown out of the back of a van. ha

 

[Dragonborn]

None of them were better than the PS2 Ratchet games though. And the franchise got worse with each entry on PS3, now it's just tired and boring.

Disageee, ACIT was the peak for Ratchet and Insomniac in my opinion (though that may change now).

 

[Baroquemantic]

I was under the impression this was first person. I am infinitely more interested in this game now. Looks pretty nice visually. Way better looking than DR3, not as good as infamous. Animations don't look to hot, though, especially in the main character, but I'll chock that up to the game being unfinished.

 

[bananafactory]

This looks great, the first game to really make me want to buy an Xbone.

 

[TrueGrime]

Character respawn is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0exebHgpf8

Taken down quickfast.

 

[Xenon]

Actually looks pretty good. Not enough to get me to budge on X1, of course, but it certainly seems Insomniac is going to get out of their mediocre slump of the past few years. Does remind me of a scaled back infamous though (and of course that's not bad since I did love infamous).

Huh, Infamous SS, has a beautifully rendered city but very little to interact within it. SO, is more like a parkour playground. Nothing in that game looks scaled back.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

Say what you want about Insomniacs games, but god damn, when they go colorful artstyle, they do it better than anyone else.

 

[kiguel182]

Looks like a fun game.

The rail animations are awesome.

 

[statham]

gah, that spanish clip obviously just capped GI this morning (also, gah) and obviously dropped a lot of frames when capping there.

not representative, and obviously we're getting it pulled.

we have a great video for monday that shows more stuff.

glad folks dug what they got a sneak peak at tho

Game looks amazing, can't wait until Monday!

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

I love how bright it is.

 

[Marvel]

Looks like I'm getting an Xbox One again.

 

[nbraun80]

It's odd that in 2014, peeople still believe that a subscription is required to play a game.

But, it's not. Just for online multiplayer.

yeah and also if he did want to play online, just keep your eyes open, especially around black friday-type sales, and you can usually get then for $30-40..

 

[Trickster]

Game looks pretty. But not really sold on the gameplay. Trailer makes the game look like it's an open world where you just run, slide and jump around killing pink zombies and flying teddy bears in an otherwise empty city.

 

[takoyaki]

This looks so damn good, "JSR x Infamous x DayZ".
Finally, a reason to justify my XONE purchase!

edit: here's another upload of the gameplay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AznD0PmtNJs