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So, will you buy Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet?
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The Infectious Paradox
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Honestly why even release a trailer like that with no gameplay on a new ip
OceanGaming
Member
I'm not interested in Druckmann's anything.
captainpat
Member
Nah, gonna be at least 2 years before it gets a pc port and even if it was good it's still gonna be one of many good third person action games.
midnightAI
Member
I think the final scene is 'scripted' gameplay (all in engine, that's the character, scenery, textures, other models etc. but scripted so that she jumps off the rock (hey, this is Naughty Dog though and they are very good at motion matching and environmental movements, so you never know)
Ar¢tos
Member
Yeah.. I need a good gameplay video to decide, scripted gameplay doesn't count for me.
HyzerChucker
Neo Member
What exactly has ND done to earn a reputation? Derivative console 3D platformer slop, a poor man's Tomb Raider ripoff series, and zombie slop whose first entry was still a decade late from when that genre might have felt fresh.
midnightAI
Member
I do agree, but if thats the detail of the actual world and characters I'll be more than happy. I;m not really worried about ND gameplay, they have iterated on character movement with every game they have made and made it better each time, my only worry is that they have gone very Souls like (I know some people would like that, but I dont think they would do that though, certainly not go with massive difficulty like some Souls games have)
midnightAI
Member
Wolves hunt in packs
Gold Member
setting/characters wise no issue yet, but there's no gameplay at all, need to see how the game play and then decide.
reinking
Gold Member
Because it is a female heroine that shaved their head? Do you want to f*ck every character you see in TV, movie or games? I don't.
CompleteGlobalSaturation
Member
No I do not. But the context of your post implied women only serve as eye candy (" It is funny... ...some of you assume she would be interested in you.
", hence me questioning your inclusion of a child in your list of photos.
reinking
Gold Member
No intent of eye candy. Just that there have been some bad ass women with shaved heads.No I do not. But the context of your post implied women only serve as eye candy (" It is funny... ...some of you assume she would be interested in you.
SweetTooth
Gold Member
ND is the only developer to threaten Mario Reign in the 90s and one of the only really elite and talented developers ever with R*.
I hate Druckmann direction though, he has been cancer to ND output since the first DLC of TLoU
Isa
Member
Wasn't anticipating anything from them nor after the reveal trailer. ND burned all love I had for them after TLoU2, they once upon a time were my favorite developer. They'd have to go above and beyond to earn my trust and dollar again but instead like most western devs they went even further down a very unappealing path. My girl and I aren't "gooners" we just want attractive designs, the ideal as it were. I miss Amy Hennig. The gameplay could be amazing but we don't care, we're not wasting time looking at that. Visually overall a continuation from TLoU2 and I expect a similarly weak story. The chase for realism in gfx yet fantastical sci-fi designs looks off and like a Marvel movie in all the worst ways. I know that's a matter of preference.
SF Kosmo
Banned
But you'll spend that time looking at a fat plumber in overalls?
near
Member
The fat plumber stops being the focus when the rest of the games design is engaging. I'll accept and tolerate Jordan's shitty design, if the rest of the game supersedes it.
diffusionx
Gold Member
“Bad ass women with shaved heads” is a cliche at this point, it sucks. Alien was over 40 years ago, is this still all they can do?
Like people bringing up GI Jane, lol that movie was shitty propaganda (putting women in combat has been a focus of the social engineers for a long time for some reason), it got mediocre reviews at best, bombed at the box office, and marked the point where Demi Moore’s career was no longer an A-list actress.
SF Kosmo
Banned
Do you normally play game with unengaging design just because the main character is hot? Because that's a whole different can of worms...
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
The Last of Us Factions II died so Naughty Dog could focus on slop like this?
PeteBull
Member
Will u really wanna spend ur hard earned money so Druckman and other liberal devs can preach to u about woke agenda tho? I know i wont even pirate this shit
near
Member
No that's stupid. The expectation from most ND games is a cinematic character driven narrative experience, that experience is hinged on the character(s). If we're talking about a platforming game like Mario, who really gives a shit about the appears of the plumber?
SF Kosmo
Banned
Well sure, but it's hinged in their writing and development not their appearance. Naughty Dog protags are famously bland and generic if you only go by appearance.
No one would play TLOU or Uncharted based on the main characters being intriguing by appearance. You wouldn't even look twice at Joel or Nathan if they were behind you in line at Costco.
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near
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Absolutely, the writing is important. But let’s not pretend that the visual representation of that character isn’t just as important as their backstory and narrative goals. Playing a 1/3 of TLOU2 as Abby was distasteful, which was equal parts writing and character design. This is quite possibly Abby all over again.
SF Kosmo
Banned
Name a visually compelling Naughty Dog protagonist. I'll wait.
Abby was deliberately challenging in terms of narrative and I personally think it paid off and was an incredibly impactful narrative, but it's a weird game in that it's kind of anti-fun.
I'm not especially worried about the kitschy retro sci-fi game about battling robots with a laser sword being misery porn designed to challenge players' empathy.
This trailer was little more than a statement of intent, and it seems like the vibe they are going for is fun, cool, stylish action. I am not worried about this being another TLOU2 (even though I liked TLOU2, I will probably never play it again).
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Madserb2023
Member
It would have to be really good for me to buy it. If it's an 8 I won't touch it.
near
Member
I mean I see what you’re trying to do. Diminishing the value of past character designs doesn't make Jordan’s more tolerable at all. I never said they had to be compelling. Jordan’s design is just shit in my opinion and could be better.
I don’t feel like Abby’s narrative arch paid off either. A narrative designed around a moral quandary is just frustrating, the entire plot was frustrating. Trying to make Abby relatable when she was anything but that was poor writing from the team.
Sure. But Jordan does not look cool if that was the intent. Like I said, if they’re able to supplement Jordan with great world design, other interesting characters, good gameplay, etc. I will 100% overlook her design. Whether that happens or not is still a mystery.
FIREKNIGHT2029
Member
I’ll probably get it being a ND game but I need to see more. I like the sci-fi setting and the fact it’s a new IP but I’m not entirely sold on the new character yet, she looks weird and unappealing. Hoping to see more gameplay so I can decide if it’s the game for me based on gameplay.
Zero_Karisma
Member
Need to see more but excited that Naughty Dogs next project is getting close. Naughty Dog has made some of my favorite games with TLoU being probably being my all time favorite. Loved the sequel and Factions 2 being cancelled is the biggest disappointment of this generation.
And for all of the cultural crusaders;
-TLoU2 isn’t woke.
-the main character from intergalactic is objectively attractive
I’m sick of all the woke nonsense also but not everything is woke just because there’s a chick with a shaved head in it. The anti woke side on this site is as insufferable as Ree that people here like to make fun of. All the people contributing to this nonsense are just proving that political horseshoe theory is a real thing.
And for all of the cultural crusaders;
-TLoU2 isn’t woke.
-the main character from intergalactic is objectively attractive
I’m sick of all the woke nonsense also but not everything is woke just because there’s a chick with a shaved head in it. The anti woke side on this site is as insufferable as Ree that people here like to make fun of. All the people contributing to this nonsense are just proving that political horseshoe theory is a real thing.
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Yes, the fat plumber is a cartoon character and is not designed to be realistic. Hell, Intergalactic would likely be much better with the fat plumber in overalls as the main character instead of this atrocity.
This is kind of how I feel, you hit the nail on the head.
Well - while Chloe stands out 95% for Claudia Black's performance, as opposed to anything appearance related, I don't know that anyone would argue that either Chloe or Nadine were not also physically very attractive.
And while we're on Uncharted - the above applies to Nate and his... brother... as well.
TLOU protagonists are a bit different - but then so is the setting and the themes, it's appropriate.
If we really want to complain about visually compelling - it was NDDs platformer mascots that were ugly (for well - mascots), but we're 20 years removed from those so...
Anyway - since this trailer made nothing known except for the 80ies aesthetics (and real branding) I can only go on that. And while I still have fondness for the timeframe, there's been a lot of really awful media produced in recent decade trying to exploit this nostalgia, so that alone is not a selling point for me, and potentially a concern (if they rely on it for appeal as heavily as the trailer implies). So yea - need to see more.
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ZoukGalaxy
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I was really excited to see them going space and this trailer killed any excitement, going "future low tech 80/90s" is truely a mistake, they should have built a unique high tech future with their imagination like Mass Effect.
I won't even speak about the (main ?) character, sexy man or woman is apparently now forbidden, ridiculous.
I won't even speak about the (main ?) character, sexy man or woman is apparently now forbidden, ridiculous.
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PaintTinJr
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I've even tried going back to the remastered Uncharted games and found it difficult to enjoy what I previously did, with all the forced elements. So I wouldn't even say I'm a fan of any of those games, but did surprisingly like the homage to uncharted in the recent Astro bot on PS5.
I think playing the far superior environmental gameplay of MGS4 again shortly before the TLoU came out didn't help, and that just added to my feelings of needing more control in my games after enjoying Rage 18months earlier IIRC. TLoU and Rage both have locked in survival sections or no progressing forward without advancing through a danger section, but in gameplay TLoU is like watching paint dry compared to the immediacy, feedback and control of Rage's iDTech5 empowerment in those trapped moments.
The TLoU felt so slow I started creatively decomposing the game in my mind between the setup gotcha moments of gameplay. I finished it but didn't enjoy it at all.