Comments on: Time Unravels: New Singularity Trailer

By: Meowington T Cat

Meowington T Cat — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:29:20 +0000

Wow, I poo’d a little. Glad I’m sitting on a leather couch. I always enjoyed Raven’s games. Star Trek: Elite Force rocked my socks.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:52:47 +0000

@ Sonic Goo

That’s because you need a scientific doctorate in “Dabbling with things mankind wasn’t meant to meddle with.” Mere class room science will hardly produce those results.

By: The Hammer

The Hammer — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:35:59 +0000

I’m looking forward to this one, actually. It seems to be setting up a great and interesting narrative, with an interesting spin on the whole Commie theme, and the combat itself looks agreeably meaty.

By: Sonic Goo

Sonic Goo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Why do scientific experiments gone wrong always produce monsters? That never happened when I did something wrong in chemistry class.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:49:42 +0000

Hmmm, now if I had a time manipulation device strapped to my hand, I’d grab a big box of tissues and treat myself to a nice long w………

By: Wazzle

Wazzle — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:45:33 +0000

People are being skeptical about this game. I’m going to be shallow and say that it seems to be shaping up into orgasmic fun. I’m just saying…

By: Andy``

Andy`` — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:08:54 +0000

kwyjibo: MIR-12 and MJ-12 happen to have nothing to do with each other. MJ-12 is an American Roswell-based conspiracy thing, while MIR-12 is related to Russian history. “Mir” has a fair few references but the most important ones, says Wikipedia’s disambg page, are all Russian. The word means “world” or “peace” depending, but there’s a page on a social system (focusing on the “world” meaning), which I’m guessing the game’s organisation is based on.

And Katorga is about some kind of Russian Siberia-focused penal system, thus Katorga-12 from the game probably originated as a prison island (or, you know, maybe they just liked the name). And since MIR is investigating this island, what better name than MIR-12?

It also confuses people like you and me into briefly thinking of Majestic-12 and Deus Ex. But I’m sure that’s not intentional.

Aaaanyway, that trailer looks pretty cool. And is the only trailer in a long time that’s had me totally intrigued and interested after just 5 seconds of player-controlled footage. And the time shift effect was just awesome. Sci-fi, time travel, paradoxes everywhere, yes!

And then a random giant alien monster thing came along. What? Why?

By: DMJ

DMJ — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:32:28 +0000

Don’t think about it. Your head will explode. And the paradox will prevent you from un-exploding it.

By: DeliriumWartner

DeliriumWartner — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:45:37 +0000

Wait, if he stops the singularity, how will he have gained the device to stop the singularity? I smell a paradox!

By: v.dog

v.dog — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:50:50 +0000

A protagonist with the powers of HL2 and TimeShift plunged into the events of STALKER, set on the island of Lost? I am intrigued. I hope they can pull off something this ambitious, and have it play well.

My one concern is whether the powers will be a gimmick, or will they have an actual effect on gameplay?

By: Pundabaya

Pundabaya — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:08:33 +0000

Dude, everything is better with zombies!

By: Tei

Tei — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:06:18 +0000

The video.. is not a huge spoiler? theres a damn big moster at the end…