Poll of the Day > Woah, this Extinction game looks cool

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http://store.steampowered.com/app/570710/Extinction/

Same guys who worked on Killer Instinct's second and third Seasons, as well as Divekick and other indie projects. I checked out their dev list on Steam out of random curiosity and lo and behold, a game that comes out in less than two days.
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Looks cool, but I'm extremely leery of any game advertised as "open world" that doesn't have a huge budget. Usually that means vast expanses of procedurally generated blandness.
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Yeah, I'm not expecting too much beyond a very pretty tech demo with good combat.

They talk a bit about the features here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvQGIusToHQ" data-time="

So basically, Ogres are walking Fallout towers lol

But damn, does the action look good.

The PS4 version is apparently under 3 GB, so.... Yeah lol
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funkyfritter posted...

Looks cool, but I'm extremely leery of any game advertised as "open world" that doesn't have a huge budget. Usually that means vast expanses of procedurally generated blandness.

you say that like most open world games worlds aren't just mostly randomly generated

if you think everything is crafted by hand, then jeez
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These days they pretty much have to be.

But I swear that most of Oblivion felt handcrafted.
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the general layout of oblivion was the same, but the terrain, tree placement, ect was all random.
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>open world

and into the trash it goes
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helIy posted...

funkyfritter posted...

Looks cool, but I'm extremely leery of any game advertised as "open world" that doesn't have a huge budget. Usually that means vast expanses of procedurally generated blandness.

you say that like most open world games worlds aren't just mostly randomly generated

if you think everything is crafted by hand, then jeez

There's a big difference between games that start by generating a map and then tweak it and games that just let the algorithm loose and call it a day. The amount and quality of hand crafted stuff tends to make or break an open world game and any small scale developer trying to make a huge world is all but guaranteed to skimp on it.
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okay that's fine but you sort of missed the point

that's just the random stuff done in game, i'm talking about that the devs probably created the map itself first by randomly generating it, and then went in and tweaked it
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While Oblivion had some procedural tools used in its development, it's worth noting that they scrapped them in Skyrim for significantly more hand building. Almost everyone kissed by the succubus of procedural content learns this the hard way sooner or later: It's often easier to hand build something than it is to mold random data into what you want.
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would of been better with some sort of character creation
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

While Oblivion had some procedural tools used in its development, it's worth noting that they scrapped them in Skyrim for significantly more hand building. Almost everyone kissed by the succubus of procedural content learns this the hard way sooner or later: It's often easier to hand build something than it is to mold random data into what you want.

mhm.

and this is why skyrims world looks significantly better aesthetically

same with morrowind
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Apparently the game really sucks hard.
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It just looks like a discount Attack on Titan game, But apparently it costs the same as the actual AOT game?
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Ferarri619 posted...

Apparently the game really sucks hard.

Yeah, I'm hearing it's short and tedious.

A shame, because it looks like it could've been something really cool.
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I honestly don't get the AoT comparisons I'm seeing.

Giant enemies aren't exactly a new thing.

Hell, if anything, I'd compare it more to Dragon's Dogma.
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