Comments on: RPSish At-Ish E3: Housecleaning – EA

By: Whiskey Jack

Whiskey Jack — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:28:23 +0000

@cyrenic;

Because very often, the devs themselves don’t have a say in the trailer. It is the marketing guys and the publishers who take care of that, sadly I might add.

On a team of a 100 people, it is perfectly conceivable that only 1 to 10 people even see the trailer before its release on the web.

I’d wager that a pretty good percentage of the trailers we see wouldn’t see the light of day if it was up to the devs, which I can understand in many cases.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:19:14 +0000

That zero-G Dead Space trailer was pretty wicked. You know, for years I’ve been waiting for Escherian gravity play, for portal-based hypercubes, and have been disappointed. I spoke to a dev friend who says it’s too disorienting for players. Public reception of this game could have a large effect on future games. (Although the game doesn’t look very interesting to me in any other way.)

The sewer shot from Mirror’s Edge is pretty. Yeah, it’s a sewer, but it’s not the same sewer we’ve seen a million times. I think most people are really interested in exactly how ME plays– everybody’s scared that it’s Dragon’s Lair 2008: “Hit -> to wall run! Oops, too slow, you get run over by a giant rolling sphere.” How do all those nifty moves work?

By: Erlam

Erlam — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:24:24 +0000

Is there a way to change Dead Spaces godawful OTS view?

By: Larington

Larington — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:08:11 +0000

I must admit, I am somewhat surprised and amazed that EA are releasing at least 2 games with very high game of the year potential. I’m almost prepared to forgive them for their EA Sports division (Even though I have no interest in sports games anyway), I regret however that I cannot forgive EA for allowing the EA spouse incident to occur, at least not yet. I’m sure the majority of folks there are 24 carrot solid gold, but 85 hour weeks should never be allowed and certainly not ones that have been deliberately scheduled to be that way from way in advance of it.

By: Noc

Noc — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:35:01 +0000

So about that MySims thing. I hear it’s going to be coming to PC.

And that it’ll include new online features.

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:16:11 +0000

Still I do wish they’d get their act together – trailer wise.

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:59:51 +0000

Maybe the marketing department is under EA’s thumb? Maybe all marketing departments everywhere are just rubbish. Personally I think it’s the latter.

By: Rook

Rook — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:45:45 +0000

I’m kinda really interested in BattleForge, that RTS with trading cards that EA or doing, but no-one else seems that into it.

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:29:54 +0000

mirrorsedgewantwantwant*breathe*

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:35:24 +0000

Ha, if the Warhammer devs know their trailers look like crap, why are they letting them get released?

By: Lorc

Lorc — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:53:42 +0000

I’ve lost a lot of my enthusiasm for mirror’s edge after seeing the developer walkthrough trailer. It looked so clean and beautiful in the initial teasers – the same kind of beauty as shadow of the colossus.

But generic comlink mission voice, generic main character dialogue and generic guard threats somehow drowned out the visuals and made it seem messy and cluttered. Generically videogamey. Also; bullet time.

It looked like a brilliant concept executed halfway, then drowned under videogame cliché.

I still like the “look for red” deal though. With the subdued monochrome aesthetic they have going, they could even change the key colour from area to area to avoid clashing with the environment – vivid blue in the dull green sewers you mention for example.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:40:07 +0000

Dead Space sounds like Event Horizen crossed with Bad Taste, SS II and a comprehensive selection of my childhood nightmares – where do I pre-order?