Sasukekun wrote:

It looked closer to Resident Evil than Resident Evil has recently. This could be a good thing.

Closest thing I got to the Resident Evil reveal I wanted to see.

Says the person who said Bayonetta was overrated.

You coming to londonstock gonz? Always nice having someone miserable there

I might be at that one, so maybe the one after the one after that.

Skerret wrote:

I might be at that one, so maybe the one after the one after that.

Mayber.

I have a feeling that this will be awful.

TheDJR wrote:

I have a feeling that this will be awful.

Same. I've really gone off games that interrupt play with little cut scenes and mini QTE's. It frustrates me because it's usually just the protagonist jumping through a glass window or getting bashed off a banister by a monster (see vid for this). What annoys me is the technology is there to have the player do these things themselves, but they make a little cut scene out of it. Even worse is that doing these things in game would actually be really fun. This looks like one of those games where interaction is taken away constantly and the player is only left with basic control.

A bit like a CoD campaign.

Oh.

I was just thinking the other day that general game design knowledge is very good these days. There was a time when almost nobody knew their shit. Games were coming out that were ripping off other games with no clue what was good about them, games journalists were writing about games with no clue what made them better than other games. These days there are indies with world class game design skills and random 13 year old youtube posters that really know their shit.

This game looks like it's from the bad old days. Like when "frankie says relax" t shirts were trendy and there were cheap foreign knock-offs that were just white t shirts with random english words on them.

Guess what this game looks like. Yes. Shite.

It's quite hard to enjoy the graphics really to a degree as so little of it seems dynamic, so you may as well be watching prerendered, but i do hope stuff transpires to let some impressive stuff happen outside  the quasi-dragons lair structure

God of War (I believe this is the same guys?)
looked great , had shallow gameplay and qtas.

The difference is the result of the shallow button pressing was something absolutely epic.
You would tear the eye out of a 100 foot God or ride a titan while being attack by a God who's hands were a collection of water stallions.

You still pressed triangle to kill it but you were rewarded with epicness.

Some of it was even smart qte, like pressing down on both thumbsticks to simulate pressing Kratos' thumbs into an enemy's eyes from a first person view.

Pressing triangle to watch a guy 4 foot away tackle someone, take their knife, stab them and do a judo throw isn't all that immersive.

Maybe it's all in the name, 'The Order' comes back to you in to the qte traversed end showdown and it all twists into a crazy, Grasshopper-aesthetic-heavy statement on the metagame. And you find out you are in fact god and have been infused the power from the amazing graphics firing amazing rays into your eyes and programming your deification. Okay probably not

I find QTE's work well in the Telltale games for that reason. The Wolf Among Us has some fights that feel quite engaging even with the small amount of button prompts.

Some of the fights in Uncharted are basically QTE but (IIRC) without prompts. Just use the most logical button from the character's own move set.

I could suffer that if they looked like they knew how to make a cover shooter. I'm hoping that kitchen is the room where you learn about cover before the game properly starts. Timing when you pop up and shoot to avoid getting shot by the other guy that's popping up and shooting you is the most basic use of cover mechanics, and it should be fun on its own, but that really can't carry the shooting.

A good cover shooter should be a line of sight puzzle while spinning threat-plates, prioritizing targets in order of their ability to do you damage and restrict your movement, carving a path from cover to cover that allows you to pick off your targets in the best order.