“A completely real, no bullshit open world.” The presentation from this year’s Dreamhack shows the sophisticated AI in action, the scale of the open world, the way the missions are implemented, the freedom of the open world, the combat, the vehicles, fixing broken vehicles, the wildlife, the physics and fire-propagation.
Game Of The Year, anyone?
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Maybe it was a hollowpoint?
But then you wouldn’t have much luck getting it out. Or using your arm again.
Meh.
I don’t recall ever getting motion sickness from an FPS before, but based on the clip I’d say there’s a good chance I will with this one.
Still, looks awesome. There was another long gameplay video a while ago that looked even better, with the fire propagation and such. Can’t find it now, though.
No, it’s clearly one of those morphine syrettes. You can see him flick the cap off and jab himself. Either that or his left forearm contains a very powerful magnet.
Game of the Year? It looks neat, but I’m still more excited for Left 4 Dead.
Yeah, it’s definitely him jabbing a needle into his arm.
I don’t recall ever getting motion sickness from an FPS before, but based on the clip I’d say there’s a good chance I will with this one.
Playing Half-Life 2 for more than 20 minutes at a time made me nauseatingly sick, at least until someone told me to extend the field-of-view from 70 degrees to 90 degrees.
OMG! A Carl-Gustav RPG! I had one of those back when i was in the military – never thought i’d see one in a game. :) (can say for sure – there’s NO way you can run like that with this thing on your back)
The Carl-Gustav was definitely in Op Flashpoint.
Wow, it takes 40 whole seconds to load a level. Jesus I remember Unreal taking in the region of 30 minutes to load when I was a kid with not enough RAM. Before that there were hour long loading times on the Spectrum.
We’ve got it good if it only takes 40 seconds to load stuff of that quality.
i was wondering what all that area was needed for. diamond exploration seems cool as long as i dont have to mine for hours to get a nug. i was hoping for some other stuff like picking herbs in the jungle such as khat for speed increases or wormwood for health or.. yohimbe for the native women. stuff like that
Is it just me or was that the worst Irish accent ever? (he was meant to be Irish right?)
I bet the mission structure is still linear :)
I see a linear shooter as well, nakke. The land beyond is apparently a mere window frame. Flashpoint allowed you to make tactical use of open terrain.
The frame-rate looks pretty shocking too, given that it’s running on a high-end PC. I think Bad Company’s destruction has FC2’s fire beat.
Looks alot better then i was expecting, but….
IT’S STILL UBISOFT! when have they ever done a game inhouse that was great?
I know its still a long way off, but those framerates where unplayable in my mind. Looks like they bit off a bit more then they can chew. The fact this is coming for consoles also frightens me, alot will have to be conpromised if its gonna make current gen consoles.
But I’m sure I’ll still buy it launch week, even if its terrible.
I love the part where the demo crashes and all the MC says is “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Ummmm did he say CHECKPOINT somewhere about the 15 min mark? UGGGHHHHHH why!
Wouldn’t worry about the guns jamming, that’ll be the first thing modded out.
And since we’re all throwing never-gonna-happen game-of-the-years out there I call Fallout 3. And remind you all that GTA 4 came out this year and will blatantly actually win most GOTYs for being critically well liked and massively popular.
Looks like a tech demo.
Well, to be fair.
Is a tech demo. That A.I. looks just a suicidally retarded as any other FPS.
Also, what is up with having an entire forest of trees that you can cut down on, apparently, every pixel – yet wooden scout towers are impervious to fucking explosive rockets.
I really hope he didn’t mean 50 sq km. I hope what he really meant was 50×50 km. 7ishx7isk km is not exactly huge for a desert/jungle/woodland with lakes and rivers.
So, seeing as this is in Africa, do you get to play as a black character or do you just play a white person shooting black people for 50 hours?
Regarding the terrible Irish accent, it sounded to me like someone on the dev team watched Snatch and decided that they would model the “buddy” character after Brad Pitt’s crazy gypsy.
what is the size of oblivion and morrowind maps?
He meant 7×7km. He said it was “bigger than Oblivion. So that puts the map on the sccale of Joint Ops.
By the way, one thing Flashpoint showed was that building a map off real-world DEM data (not necessarily of the area to be modeled) produced much more interesting terrain faster than making up a landscape (or procedural generation).
The air horn? That’s Barnett’s Trumpet of Idle Wonder.
john: I remember seeing the characters you can play in Far Cry 2 and at least one of them was black.
You guys must have missed the part where he said there is no loading during the game, so going through 1 long load when you start up sounds great to me.
No. We just remember WW2OL (a “no loading” soldier-ground vehicle-boat-aircraft game with abominable spawn times), and any number of “no loading” games that have long freezes like those featured in the video of the (certainly “not optimized”) game to have reservations. Okay, I won’t be a jerk and bemoan it (having loaded games off tape drive), but you don’t get stuff for free. All those megabytes of texture data gotta get to the right place somehow.
Holy hell, hands! and feet! That pretty much makes this game of the decade, at least.
That guy’s voice is really annoying.
I got motion sickness playing this, sold it immediately. The only other game that I have had a problem with is Condemned.
I got motion sickness playing this, sold it immediately. The only other game that I have had a problem with is Condemned.
That’s too bad, as there’s a fix for it on widescreengaming forum.com already.