So, Gamescom in Germany is happening again. And all the big players are out there flaunting their neat new games, like Battlefield 3, Guild Wars 2, Resistance 3, Saints Row 3, Borderlands 2, Dark Souls, Modern Warfare 3, and plenty more both you and I have never heard of, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It is the year of the sequels, and threequels, but to spice things up a bit, some new players are entering the ring.
NCSoft, the company that owns ArenaNet (creators of the Guild Wars franchise), have had a sleeper agent waiting to pounce on the games convention circuit till now, in the form of this awesome trailer and potentially awesome game.
It’s another MMORPG, yeah, but as I said in previous posts, sometimes the standard tropes with big steel swords and ancient ruins and medieval sensibilities gets bogged down. Enough arrows and mage staffs. Bring in the hoverbikes and space freighters.
That’s right, it’s a damn space western, a ‘future fantasy’ and an MMORPG. Not much news yet, since just about everyone is discovering this game for the first time, but I’m stoked to see how they handle classes and gameplay mechanics. Looks like your standard class archetypes though; rock-dude tank warrior, bunny-girl sorcerer, dashing duel-wielding rogue—but hey, those things work in MMO’s, so I’m not complaining.
Also, I would watch a movie of this, like if Pixar had a fringe sister company taking care of less kiddy-oriented, more awesomesauce ideas like space westerns. The animation reminds me of Tangled though, if Tangled was set on an alien planet and everyone had energy pistols. Lovin’ the art direction this game, is my point.
Disney-Pixar X-Treme?
Fund it, Pixar. Fund it.
For those interested, here’s some commentary. Apparently it’s been in dev for four years. Jeez, NCSoft, you’re really holding back to cards on this one.
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