ELEX Pre-Release Thread

[Kem0sabe]

What's the explanation for Gothic 3? Or the missing second half of risen 1?

 

[Rev]

What's the explanation for Gothic 3? Or the missing second half of risen 1?

Well, for Gothic 3 it's quite clear that they were too ambitious and weren't able to make such a big world and fill it with interesting quests and good gameplay.
For Risen's second half they probably spent all their budget on the first half and then they had to rush the final part of the game.

In both cases they would've need a better director/manager, that told them to settle for something less ambitious so that they could actually do it right (Gothic 3) and that could manage budget in a better way (Risen).

 

[Grotesque]

What's the explanation for Gothic 3? Or the missing second half of risen 1?

 

[deama]

What's the explanation for Gothic 3? Or the missing second half of risen 1?

I heard it was something to do with them only having a size of 20 or so devs working on a giant open world game in similiar scope to oblivion (at the time). I think bethesda had double the devs working on oblivion right?

 

[Lyre Mors]

Do you think deep silver was the reason of PB's risen 2 and 3?

There has never been much solid confirmation. The most was Björn alluding quite strongly that the direction they had to take with Risen 2 and 3 was one they weren't wholly invested in. He said a lot of the decisions they had to make were imposed upon them. Besides that, Deep Silver has always seemed like a difficult publisher to work for.

I think Gothic 3 was a mixture of too much ambition, lack of proper resources, and publisher pressures to release before the game was completed.

Regardless, Piranha Bytes is in a more comfortable place as a developer than they have been in a long time. This fact causes me to be more optimistic about ELEX than the likes of Risen 2 and 3, among other things. To me, the game is just looking like it's shaping up quite nicely.

 

[adure]

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and btw.
ELEX 2 confirmed
https://translate.google.com/transl...-bytes-foerderung-creative-europe-media-2017/

 

[4249]

Even the European Union knows ELEX is going to be the best thing since sliced bread.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Even the European Union knows ELEX is going to be the best thing since sliced bread.

ELEX will end the refugee crisis.

 

[Mynon]

But will ELEX ZWEI be even better roll-up than the first ELEX? How can any mortal hope to outdo perfection?

 

[Darth Roxor]

No, Elex 2 will be total crap, following the example set by Risen 2.

 

[Ismaul]

How can any mortal hope to outdo perfection?

Perfection squared, that's how they do man. Math solves everything.

 

[Kahr]

 

[Cyberarmy]

"You see the blue dome? You can get in it!"

 

[Konjad]

i love maps :fap:

 

[Kahr]

I just wonder how this is 1,5 times the size of G3 and only has like 7 towns.
From the previews Goliet didn't seem that big either.

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

Hm, what are those structures which are copy-pasted all over the map?

 

[Kahr]

Elex converters where the evil albs are converting elex into smth
Will probably have the exciting quest to free or destroy all of them.

 

[Makabb]

This reminds me of new vegas

 

[Konjad]

This graphics looks fucking shit.

Can we go back to the times without all those crappy post processing effects & sheeit? I liked best how the first Gothic looked like.

 

[Mynon]

Ummm, excessive post-processing has been a PB thing for ages now...

 

[Makabb]

This graphics looks fucking shit.

Can we go back to the times without all those crappy post processing effects & sheeit? I liked best how the first Gothic looked like.

effects can be usualy turned off in options

 

[Konjad]

Ummm, excessive post-processing has been a PB thing for ages now...

and it always looked like shit

 

[Mynon]

This graphics looks fucking shit.

Can we go back to the times without all those crappy post processing effects & sheeit? I liked best how the first Gothic looked like.

effects can be usualy turned off in options

He might be playing on a console...

 

[Konjad]

Literally, the only two companies that actually use all the effects to improve graphics instead of making it shit are Valve and CDProjekt.

 

[Rahdulan]

Can we go back to the times without all those crappy post processing effects & sheeit? I liked best how the first Gothic looked like.

This is spot-on. If you can't get a good looking game that has a satisfying and coherent look you just end up with assets of varying levels of quality drenched in processing effects thrown on top of then. End result is just a really cheap looking product.

 

[Mynon]

Thing is, going by the videos, post processing here is far more restrained-looking than that in Risen 2 & 3.

 

[Heretic]

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and btw.
ELEX 2 confirmed
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.gameswirtschaft.de/politik/elex-2-piranha-bytes-foerderung-creative-europe-media-2017/

Here are all projects from 2017
http://creative-europe-desk.de/dokumente/Games/2017_Games_Ergeb_Call_EACEA_22_2016.pdf

 

[himmy]

HOW DARE YOU TO LET THIS THREAD SLIDE ON PAGE 3!
IT SHOULD BE PINNED!

and btw.
ELEX 2 confirmed
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.gameswirtschaft.de/politik/elex-2-piranha-bytes-foerderung-creative-europe-media-2017/

Here are all projects from 2017
http://creative-europe-desk.de/dokumente/Games/2017_Games_Ergeb_Call_EACEA_22_2016.pdf

Man, I love AWinS 2011 GmbH & Co KG! They're my favourite game company!

 

[fantadomat]

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