Jason Moyer on 9/5/2009 at 06:23
Quote Posted by Manwe
Well it's obviously not a sequence where you actually have direct control over the character.
Its looks pretty much like an exact cross between Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed, and Prince of Persia. I personally don't think it's gameplay footage, but I wouldn't be overly surprised if it were either. There's definitely nothing there that would make me believe it's a QTE, and if it's pre-rendered, I'd assume it's meant to be an estimation of what gameplay would be like.
Sulphur on 9/5/2009 at 08:56
It looks more like a target render or cutscene. The graphics are a little too clean and smoothly executed to be actual gameplay.
What I'm more intrigued about is that it looks like that town is in India/Nepal or at least somewhere nearby. There was a flash of a woman in a red saree, and that helicopter's rotors sported the tricolour.
Which is extremely bizarre given that BG&E was a fantasy game set on a completely different planet. With talking animal men. This looks more like Call of Gritty: Jade Infiltrator, or something. (Yes, I know how that can be read, and no, don't go there.)
Where the fuck's the FANTASYYYYYY
guess we'll have to wait and see if this is for real
twisty on 9/5/2009 at 10:32
I concur, the style of that video is not in keeping with that of BG&E and it would be disappointing to see it lose the cartoony fantasy style of the original. Not that there's anything wrong with the style of that video; quite the contrary in fact. It's just that it seems like a completely different game, albeit featuring what looks unmistakably like Jade.
henke on 9/5/2009 at 10:48
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0llKUBEwGo) Youtube video (if your comp, like mine, is too crappy to run the Joystiq vid at anything more than 2 frames per second)
Maaayyybeee, OK MAYBE on the way back from Hilly's moon after the ending of BG&E1 their spaceship gets sucked into a black hole and they come out in the Sol system. Running out of fuel they have to crashland on the nearest possible planet which just happens to be... dun dun dun... EARTH.
You see how freak out Jade gets when she sees the cow? Everything is wierd and alien to her here. Makes total sense.
Actually I don't really care how they explain it as long as they get the actual gameplay to be as much fun as that video looks. :)
mothra on 9/5/2009 at 14:06
bge1 had numerous chase scenes, this looks more like a cutscene or qte with hidden hud. but I think it is jade, she has a stick, the same baggy pants with pouch for her pda and some kind of helicopter for her to travel (since there is no sea in this location) makes sense, too. as long as the story/characters and setpieces are as memorable as the first game, I don't care that much how they will handle the controls.
Yakoob on 9/5/2009 at 15:08
the BGAE's "fantasy talking animal style" was shallow as fuck, I'd gladly trade it for something that's actually meaningful.
Also, who said you can't have fantasy and talking animals in a desert? Honestly, stop being so reactionary guys.
Sulphur on 9/5/2009 at 18:02
I dunno Yakoob, as one would say, ça dépend.
The style may have been shallow, but I liked the original game for its warmth and charm, if not overall narrative complexity. Taking it to Earth - and that almost certainly looks like Earth - just seems a pretty strange direction to go in at first glance.
I'm not saying the idea wouldn't work, and of course we know fuck-all about the story, so I'm not judging it. It's just that that video's a very strange entry point into the sequel for people who played the first game, because it bears almost no resemblance to the original BG&E whatsoever apart from Jade.
Digital Nightfall on 9/5/2009 at 19:40
It's been a long time since I played the original, but I don't see why this looks like it has to be on Earth. I get a pretty strong Hillus vibe (or whatever that planet was called) from that sequence. It looks like they just tried to flesh it out and detail it up, and instead of making it more alien, they made it more familiar. Sometimes it comes down to budget... you don't need to pay a concept artist to design stuff you can just take photos of in the real world.
Sulphur on 9/5/2009 at 20:12
It could be Hillys, but the entire setting just smacks of 'old Indian town' - from the artists' take on a three-wheeled taxi (effectively an auto rickshaw) to the cow in the street to the general architecture. And then there's the Indian flag colours on the 'copter for some reason.
If that is, in actual fact, a town in Hillys, it's a pretty good portrayal of something you'd actually find on Earth.
Jackablade on 9/5/2009 at 20:46
The Indian flag colours don't necessarily imply Earth. In the first game the Rhinos clearly had Rastafarian colours.
