Comments on: Gillen Wants Me To Quote Buzzcocks But I Won’t

By: adg1034

adg1034 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:30:33 +0000

The music that starts at ~2:00 into the second trailer sounds an awful lot like music from the 1UP Show. Still, it works really well with the amazingly ethereal and surrealist visuals Tension’s got going on.

By: KingMob

KingMob — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:12:46 +0000

I really like the painting with different colors mechanic. That’s awesome.

Er, I object to tree-humping unless it’s absolutely necessary to the plot.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:46:47 +0000

After reading through that whole Pathologic write-up, I’m willing to give this thing the benefit of the doubt. I think the seemingly needless nudity may prevent Tension from being taken entirely seriously. Sure they’re only wearing slightly less than a lot of female game characters, it may even be more tasteful, but nudity creates different assumptions.

Also that girl in the second trailer really needs a sweater, though she may be all set if she’s the village glass cutter.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:34:12 +0000

Not enough shiney sheep. 0/10

By: Shanucore

Shanucore — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:18:03 +0000

If it’s all about beautiful graphics to you, you should just go watch the 3DMark demos or something.

As for Tension, the trailer piques my curiosity but I’d be more interested in reading a little about what the game is about, what it is attempting to do, etc.

And, erm, Sitting Round At Home, You Know You Can’t Help It, I Believe, in A Different Kind of Tension.

/coat

By: the_apologist

the_apologist — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:43:32 +0000

@Howard

Damn right – that looks a bit rubbish to me.

Umm…come on…find something nice to say…errr…a couple of the environments looked nice?

By: Jwisel

Jwisel — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:27:18 +0000

that engine looks a bit sourcey imo

By: James T

James T — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:06:32 +0000

I was going to say something like ‘artful eroticism’, until it got to the tree-humping and giant wood phallus bit at the end. Still, it seems more dignified than the Witcher’s boobie content, eh?

Well, uh… I guess it has more pole-dancing and “B-MOVIE PRODUCTIONS PRESENT ‘ROSE PETALS OF BLOOD’ STARRING TIA CARRERE”-esque shots than Witcher, but as to whether that makes it more dignified or not… *furrows brow*

A certain ‘inevitable-when-you’ve-got-a-small-art-department’ sameyness to the buildings aside, the game looks quite pretty, but who the heck knows how it plays or what it’s about… I’ll give it a chance when it shows itself, but I gotta say, I think very little of ‘gesture systems’ (a strange sentiment from a Streetfighter devotee, perhaps, but then, even in SF I’m lucky if I can unleash an intended special move on the first try…), so the game’s gonna have to pull off something pretty fresh to pull me in.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:34:31 +0000

Yes, the buildings in the first (second-released) trailer really reminded me of HL2.

By: Jae Armstrong

Jae Armstrong — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:58:23 +0000

What.

I mean. What.

Maybe it’s because it’s three in the morning, but I simply couldn’t process that on any intelligible level. Intriguing, yes. Confusing, very yes.

It’s like a series of entirely unreleated events all strung together in a video.

By: RobotLiberationArmy

RobotLiberationArmy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:58:14 +0000

I actually have no idea what happened in those trailers. There we some colors, and some naked women, and some tree-humping, and a giant drill-man.

Do those buildings give a Source and/or Viktor Antonov feel to anyone else?

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:35:43 +0000

I like the second trailer, with its much lower percentage of random boobage and much higher percentage of ethereal strangeness and awesome music.

Though both make me anticipate this game eagerly.