ELEX Pre-Release Thread

[Caconym]

I... Is this guy just a stupid person?
Are we absolutely sure he's working there and not just trolling us with a fake tag? :D I mean, the first sentence alone, holy hell, being this out of touch with reality is almost scary.

 

[Darth Roxor]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Morgoth]

This gotta be fake.

 

[Cyberarmy]

This gotta be fake.

We all want to believe that.

 

[Excidium II]

Couldn't find it using their forum's search, so I guess it's fake

Spoiler

or was deleted

 

[Maschtervoz]

On one hand, that statement does sound like it's specifically engineered to troll, with a devastating combo of 30fps, accessible, mentioning Arcania as a reference and finishing it all up with multi-cult shit. But then again, the game is named fucking ELEX, so no retardation is too retarded for it.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Couldn't find it using their forum's search, so I guess it's fake

Spoiler

or was deleted

Yeah, I couldn't find it either, it's not showing in Elmegalomator's postings.

 

[theSavant]

Not sure it was fake, because "Arcania" was also the first thing which came to my mind after the announcement...

 

[Doktor Best]

Guys its a fake or a jest. I mean the Arcania reverence is making it obvious... PB hates this game so much they went through the hassle of a lawsuit to prevent Jowood from calling it Gothic, so naming it as reverence for their future project would be somehow illogical, even for PB.

 

[Caconym]

Guys its a fake or a jest. I mean the Arcania reverence is making it obvious... PB hates this game so much they went through the hassle of a lawsuit to prevent Jowood from calling it Gothic, so naming it as reverence for their future project would be somehow illogical, even for PB.

ElMegalomator is a Nordic guy though, not PB.

 

[adddeed]

It just reads too much like a joke. If it isn't, well that guy I a grade A neanderthal.

 

[theSavant]

Comparing the screenshot and the actual forum shows me that the font, margin, layout etc. are exactly the same.
Not a single pixel is different. Even in Photoshop I didn't manage to get the exact same style done (be it because of different character margin or different antialiasing algorithm).
So it looks legit to me. Face it guys. It's the truth. The plain motherfucking truth. A truth they were even ashamed of, and that's why they deleted it. But it's out now. I'm done with it.

 

[Infinitron]

Photoshop of this: http://community.elexgame.com/threads/93-Gamescom-2015-Wer-geht-hin?p=1021#post1021

 

[Hobo Elf]

Eagerly waiting for the Darth Roxor review. And to see how badly they fuck up this game.

 

[vonAchdorf]

You don't need Photoshop. Just use the inspector, edit the text on the page and take a screenshot.
(And it's surely a fake, no sane community manager would talk about technical aspects like 30fps this early and without the necessity do so.)

 

[theSavant]

Photoshop must have become better since I last used it 5 years ago
But I agree that's it very unlikely this guy would post in an english and german forum at the same time... so hats off for the 1st class fakery

edit: thanks@vonAchdorf ... I totally forgot that option. Even easier than Photoshop.

 

[Infinitron]

Here's a Piranha Bytes/Gothic retrospective in Krautische: http://www.gamestar.de/specials/spiele/3233843/alle_spiele_im_persoenlichen_rueckblick.html

 

[Darth Roxor]

Ris3n was divided into islands because right until the end they were not sure whether it wouldn't be released as episodic

 

[Hobo Elf]

German shovelware peddlers. How low can you fall from Gothic?

 

[Cyberarmy]

German shovelware peddlers. How low can you fall from Gothic?

Arcania?

 

[Hobo Elf]

German shovelware peddlers. How low can you fall from Gothic?

Arcania?

but that wasn't made by PB.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Cinematic fidelity is the new visceral.

 

[Azrael the cat]

I want to believe this will be good, but I just can't. And not even because of Risen 2 and 3. It's because the only good aspects of their games since G3 have been retreads of early material and it seems abundantly clear that the talent left. The company was left recycling pieces of past games because they could no longer create new mechanics of the same quality.

I'd have far more confidence if they had embarked on a series of glorious failures, even if the end quality was worse - the C+C from Alpha Protocol, the absurdly overambitious attempt at game progression through passage of time instead of player actions in Dead State, even G3's attempt at a genuinely reactive open world game, if they had any such 'interesting failure' in their post-Gothic output, I'd have hope that maybe next time the stars will align for them. But as things are, I'm not even confident that they understand how the recycled Gothic mechanics work or what their purpose is.

 

[adddeed]

Recycled or not, Risen series >>> other RPGs.

 

[Jools]

Recycled or not, Risen series >>> other RPGs.

Define "Other RPGs". Tread carefully.