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BIONICLE: Masks of Power Gameplay Preview (Fan Game Built in Unreal Engine 5)
- Thread starter IbizaPocholo
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ProgenitorCastle
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Why companies don't back/get involved with passion projects like this to a retail release is beyond me. Clearly they're not hurting the brand, quite the opposite.
Apocryphon
Member
What the fuck is a Bionicle and why does this look so generic?
Tams
Gold Member
Because too often it turns out that the person who made it isn't fit to or capable of making an entire game.
And often they are opinionated about it because of their passion for it. This often does not go well with business decisions and deadlines.
Apocryphon
Member
Nevermind: it's a fan made thing.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I get that but if the company is making nothing of note, why not back a little cash or resources to see something across the line and promote your brand/community at the same time. When was the last Bionicle game? 2003. A passion project of even 5 to 10 years at this sort of quality can have some team support for the missing talent, just leave the person/people running the passion project in charge with some stipulations. Editor vs content creator sort of thing.
CamHostage
Member
Well, kudos to a fan-game studio actually making a game with the engine. That's a rarity... might actually even be a first for me.
Looks like a fan game, of course, but they're a talented bunch in certain fields (UE and the Marketplace are doing the heavy lifting, of course, but it's better than I can do for whatever I'm a fan of, that's for certain.) Could use some improvements in the combat mechanics, as has been mentioned, but all the hits are working and there's logic to the moves and contact. So good work so far.
...and because if they put out a call for designers to help for a team for their project, or put out a video of a fan-game with no brand that people could be fans of, who would care?
I imagine in due time, they'll get a cease-and-desist, pull the brand off of it, change the robot designs slightly, and continue on as an original creation called like Roboticle: Masks of Power...
Looks like a fan game, of course, but they're a talented bunch in certain fields (UE and the Marketplace are doing the heavy lifting, of course, but it's better than I can do for whatever I'm a fan of, that's for certain.) Could use some improvements in the combat mechanics, as has been mentioned, but all the hits are working and there's logic to the moves and contact. So good work so far.
...and because if they put out a call for designers to help for a team for their project, or put out a video of a fan-game with no brand that people could be fans of, who would care?
I imagine in due time, they'll get a cease-and-desist, pull the brand off of it, change the robot designs slightly, and continue on as an original creation called like Roboticle: Masks of Power...
01011001
Banned
this is one of the only UE4/5 fan projects that actually doesn't look or come across as complete shit.
the fighting system look very bare bones so far but the mask switching and having different Bionicles opens a lot of doors for further development.
the fighting system they have there is already better than the ones in 90% of western action games,
given that the attacks don't seem to be context sensitive nonsene or use random animations without any clear pattern like most western games do nowadays.
the fighting system look very bare bones so far but the mask switching and having different Bionicles opens a lot of doors for further development.
the fighting system they have there is already better than the ones in 90% of western action games,
given that the attacks don't seem to be context sensitive nonsene or use random animations without any clear pattern like most western games do nowadays.