Had a chance to doss on this. Still feel so negative about the whole thing! Why?
To supplement the rants so far:
- The dev has produced utter bollocks. Not good bollocks like EDF, just pissflaps.
- From the footage and screens it looks so very bland. The crisp, clear nature of EDF has been replaced with a dark grey and brown everywhere. Where are the red ants? The black ants? What the hell are those meant to be? Oh yeah. Brown ants. Good old brown. Well how realistic, how lovely for you, how technically proficient they look. And how small and boring.
- It looks like everything that made the other games so good has been crushed. What the hell is that bloke doing with a jetpack? Why does the soldier look like a refugee from every generic space shooter ever, instead of a proper Japanese EDF guy? The ants are tiny, and in EDF bigger is better. They aren't big enough!
My fear is that a poor Western developer has got hold of the title and, due to being hopeless, foolishly attempted to add polish and shine to the series. Those bugs are too fat and overly engineered. I'm afraid that everything will be small and far too 'designed', with ****ty fancy effects and camera bollocks reducing the number of onscreen enemies. I'd wager there's a 'serious' story with attempted-fancy cutscenes. There'd better not be any bloody 'character development'! Only New Detroit is mentioned (shock! US made up city in Western dev game), I hope we still have Tokyo - the home of giant monsters!
I just can't believe it. Sandlot had honed their craft after 3 games, then dished out a great franchise to a rotten developer, who will probably try to prove their cred by flexing their technical muscles and ruining the whole thing. The risk is it'll lose every ounce of design and charm and become an average-at-best standard Western game. With 'competent' voice acting and 'passable' visuals. Well whoop-de-do, totally bland mediocrity. The fact that the soldier and insects look overly designed makes me sick with worry. I'm not opposed to better visuals. But I am opposed to bland, soulless visuals. It looks like an undergraduate's homage to Lost Planet.
If Vicious Cycle take out all the fury, fun and humour, then it's a travesty.
To supplement the rants so far:
- The dev has produced utter bollocks. Not good bollocks like EDF, just pissflaps.
- From the footage and screens it looks so very bland. The crisp, clear nature of EDF has been replaced with a dark grey and brown everywhere. Where are the red ants? The black ants? What the hell are those meant to be? Oh yeah. Brown ants. Good old brown. Well how realistic, how lovely for you, how technically proficient they look. And how small and boring.
- It looks like everything that made the other games so good has been crushed. What the hell is that bloke doing with a jetpack? Why does the soldier look like a refugee from every generic space shooter ever, instead of a proper Japanese EDF guy? The ants are tiny, and in EDF bigger is better. They aren't big enough!
My fear is that a poor Western developer has got hold of the title and, due to being hopeless, foolishly attempted to add polish and shine to the series. Those bugs are too fat and overly engineered. I'm afraid that everything will be small and far too 'designed', with ****ty fancy effects and camera bollocks reducing the number of onscreen enemies. I'd wager there's a 'serious' story with attempted-fancy cutscenes. There'd better not be any bloody 'character development'! Only New Detroit is mentioned (shock! US made up city in Western dev game), I hope we still have Tokyo - the home of giant monsters!
I just can't believe it. Sandlot had honed their craft after 3 games, then dished out a great franchise to a rotten developer, who will probably try to prove their cred by flexing their technical muscles and ruining the whole thing. The risk is it'll lose every ounce of design and charm and become an average-at-best standard Western game. With 'competent' voice acting and 'passable' visuals. Well whoop-de-do, totally bland mediocrity. The fact that the soldier and insects look overly designed makes me sick with worry. I'm not opposed to better visuals. But I am opposed to bland, soulless visuals. It looks like an undergraduate's homage to Lost Planet.
If Vicious Cycle take out all the fury, fun and humour, then it's a travesty.
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