Yeah Ima Skeptic man. It seems to me like "Dune" A large group of devoted people. SciFi is a hard market. and SciFi RPG Shooters seem to me to be a hard push. Will the speech system really appeal to everyone? I hope so. I'm looking forward to it like I said but the Genre is a really "Ify" one I think. Seriously. Here is what I gotta see from the view of "Guy dont know jack about games walks into store"
A. Treasure Hunter with Gears of War style Shooting, Strong Indiana Jones style Story, Beautiful Grafics, Cool Characters, All the simple gameplay designs that appeal to people but they add a few new things that are good. Giving you a main Character everyone can relate to and maybe even "Aspire to be"
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B. Sci Fi/ RPG/ Shooter with Speech controls and a LONG story Dealing with polotics, Religious debacle and opinionated storylines. The videos of it to me are hit and miss. It looks good. But no one on earth will live to see this kind of thing unfold. hence hard to relate to...
There are some issues to me personally but I think as a selling game... Who is it marketed to? I feel a small group really... I am in that group as are most N4G Dorks like me and JC. and Xbox loyalists. Still though. I am seriously just a fan of Video games. I hope that the issues I have seen are not bad in the game. I hope there are more then 3 enemies on the screen at once and that pacing is better then it looks. I also hope that its a story I can relate to and doesn't get confusing and boring... I think they can pull it off but failing in any of these elements will kill it hard. I hope its smooth and quick.
The one thing I am hating about Folklore is all the load times. They get freakin old quick to me... I like the game but find myself getting bored with it due to this... If these issues are in either of these games they will have to make up for it big which Folklore doesn't.
Thats why I think it is gonna be hard. Its hard to break through in the Sci Fi genre. Why I feel Tabula Rasa (Bad ass beta btw) will also fail to games like WOW or WAR. Cause people would rather play as an "Orc" or "Witch" then a "Space Marine" or "Universe Frontier Fighter" or whatever...
But Seriously guys I hope it does really well. I really do. But in your opinion if you were to pick up a MMO and play for a while. Which would it be. Tabula Rasa, World of Warcraft or the new "Spy" MMO sony is coming out with or the "Marvel" or "DC" ones? I think the last one on most peoples list would be Tabula Rasa. Just because of the genre... I feel a lot of people dont like it as much as the others.... I hope I'm wrong though =P
Breaking through is the hard part. Starwars and Halo are already there.
BTW JC Pick your poison. COD4(Demo rocks!!!!)? Gears? Haze? Halo3(I suck at this but will try)? UT3? Nah you'll probably own me but I'll give you will have to work for it =P
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