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    Titanic: Honor and Glory

    Decided to give this one it's own thread as despite being an indiegogo project at the moment, it's damned impressive.



    The developers are working on this Titanic set title for PC which utilises Unreal 4 to recreate the famous ship. You play an investigator who wakes as the ship strikes the iceberg and only has limited time to find the criminal he's chasing down before the ship sinks and to make your safe escape.

    Here's the kicker though, the developers are aiming to recreate the whole ship in real time which you can explore in your hunt. It also uses a sandbox design meaning once you begin, it's up to you whether you hunt the criminal, follow the panicked passengers or simply try to get off the ship. They're also working on a freeroam mode so you can explore at your leisure.

    When the ship sinks in either story or freeroam, it does so in real time to the timing the ship sank in real life. The team has ambitious stretch goals which could see the game stretched out so you experience a more limited narrative covering the days of travel before disaster hits and also the ability to 'stalk' recreations of real life passengers to see what happened to them in realtime as the ship sank.

    This is the new fundraiser info-trailer:




    Whilst this is the in game trailer:




    I feel they're over stretching by hoping to expand the game to include so many off-ship areas etc, it would seem much better to just focus on the ship and the people on board or risk losing focus and overstretching themselves. If they complete it as it currently is aimed though, very impressive and very keen to play.

    #2
    Just read the full article very impressive if they can pull it off, can't help but think would be fantastic with Oculus Rift.

    Re your final comment, I'm sure they have the sense to put 99% of their efforts in the ship part.

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      #3
      It does look brilliant. My only concern is that this won't gain traction as they need at least approx $1m to complete a basic version of the game which will off put many who are already burnt out from crowd sourcing bad stories. In the likely event they don't get the money they feel they need, hopefully they get a publisher deal and it makes it to market. Simply releasing it as a none gaming exploring recreation of the ship you just walk around would be worthwhile at the least.

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        #4
        i remember hearing about this ages ago but i can imagine it would take all the budget to recreate the ship let alone make a decent coherent game....i have a sinking feeling about it

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          #5
          Well from what they're saying the ship itself will only be the tip of the iceberg.

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            #6
            Get yer coat you two, at least there's no chance the ending won't be spoiled for us with this.

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              #7
              Interesting, I always wanted to play Nostalgia 1907 on Mega CD ( or any format) though never translated, this may give me a taste of that

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                #8
                Work in progress video of the main grand staircase, needs to be watch in full screen HD of course.



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                  #9
                  Haven't looked at it yet, but from OP's description, it sounds **** hot. They should also include a mode where you can explore the underwater wreck as a ghost. Oh man, a whole survival horror game set on the sunken Titanic would be the tits.

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                    #10
                    I'm skeptical, unfortunately. The main reason is they're talking about simulating the whole sinking of the ship, from every conceivable angle, and having all those little situations play out in an interesting way - when something with the size and budget of Uncharted would only just manage to make it feel plausible with you running down a very select route through the ship.

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                      #11
                      Their ambition does seem to be a bit OTT for the project. That said, what's in place looks brilliant. Hopefully the gameplay itself works well within the ship model they've put together. They're near certainly going to have to reign in the ideas they had in the initial campaign video as the fund raiser isn't really getting much traction. They just need to focus on what they have now

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                        #12
                        Should say that I seemed a bit negative in the previous post. I actually want this to be really good; I've just been let down many times before.

                        Too much of modern gaming is an exercise in "pretty corridor exploration". This is why I said earlier in another thread that I wasn't fussed about Killzone on PS4; the E3 demo immediately turned me off it. Games like Uncharted etc. look awesome, ditto for CoD, but I always feel short-changed by the very scripted, narrow confines the player is expected to follow. It feels too much like a movie and not a game. Some games even do things like spawn enemies etc. strategically to "pace" you, to push you along the levels at a pre-defined speed. I can't help but feel I've been playing games like that since the original Jedi Knight and the appeal has worn off.

                        Some games manage to make it work; Left4Dead, Mass Effect, a few others.

                        I really want to see more stuff like this Titanic game, where there are few confining mechanics and no "pretty corridor" scripting.
                        Last edited by Asura; 15-03-2015, 09:02.

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                          #13
                          Just been looking for more information on this title, seems the devs don't think it will be out until 2017.

                          However there is a free "extemely early" demo you can grab here, it went up three months ago


                          1.1GB but it's via Mediafire which give me under 100kb/s so will have to grab tomorrow.

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                            #14
                            I thought that this was the title that hit Steam the other day, but turns out it's another Titanic exploration type game.

                            Fall On The Titanic, is only a couple of quid, mixed reviews though, and been patched already
                            Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

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                              #15
                              Titanic: Honor and Glory - Project 401 (titanichg.com)
                              Didn't know about this till now but 10 years on and the devs are still working on it and also a new version called Titanic: Project 401
                              You can download a demo containing 50% of the recreation and... it.is.stunning.

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