My wife, who legit beat the 1st game (one of the few she has in her entire life-- she's not a gamer) actually said that the constant F-Bombs were a turn off. She'd like to experience this with our kids and yeah, it felt overly forced.
Could you kindly recommend some essential comics from that genre?
I'd like to become more familiar.
Ok, so I was at work for most of the day and I didn't get a chance to watch the conference but I did see the announcement for BGE2.
My heart freaking rose out of my chest and then promptly fell out again after seeing the comments about the game being a prequel. I mean, after all this time, we ditch Jade and move backward?
However.
I literally just watched the trailer, and, despite some of the language (it just seemed a little odd considering how the first game didn't really have it), I am in. I think I forgot that part of BGE's charms were not only the characters, but the mysterious world that we were introduced to and this trailer has that in spades.
Now, I am worried about how uncertain the game still seems to be (early access?) but man, I trust in Ancel.
Just don't make me wait another dozen or so years to play it buddy, especially with that art I'm seeing a few posts above mine.
Trailer has an insane amount of charm and a unique vibrant universe. The cussing was a bit corny for sure, but it was a fun trailer.
The game being described as an online world is immediately worrying for me, kinda wanted a true story experience here
At this point I see (outside the well constructed but 100% CGI and not gameplay representative at all trailer being very well composed) mainly cause for concern:My wife, who legit beat the 1st game (one of the few she has in her entire life-- she's not a gamer) actually said that the constant F-Bombs were a turn off. She'd like to experience this with our kids and yeah, it felt overly forced.
online optional
'shared world' probably just means you can have friends in your game if you want, nothing MMO style
Not liking the swearing doesn't neccessarily relate to puratinism lol. Some writers, actors, etc know how to swear, some don't. So it comes off as silly or a forced attempt to be edgy at times. Tarantino can write motherfucker lines well, not all his imitators can.
Not saying I neccessarily agree that it was handled poorly, but to dismiss people's issues with that as them not liking them because it's obscene is, quite frankly, kinda fucking stupid. Especially when you already have some pretty obvious contexts as to why people might find it offputting (like being a sequel to a pretty PGish game).
This.
I'm fine with swearing in media.
It just felt a bit out of place and "forced" like the pig throwing three fucks in when the monkey screwed him over. And the monkey sounding like a chav didn't really help either.
I almost expected him to say "guv'nor"....
The rest of it was cool though.
When you ask for a sequel and 15 years later you get a prequel that is nothing like the original game outside of the animal people.
And of course, online.
Interesting, but just not for me.
A prequel after a borderline-cliffhanger in the original, weird tonal changes, and of course online/shared world/Destiny/Anthem/blahblahblah everybody trying to grab the shame piece of market share for some reason.
Edit: As said above, this should have been a new IP.
I don't honestly know what people realistically expected from the 15-year later continuation of a game that sold less than Ice Age 2: The Meltdown The Video Game. Should have done a remaster and turned this into a new IP to avoid letting people down.
Feels weird to say thank you to the fans for your patience and support, and then reveal a game that has almost none of the loved elements of the first game. People were freaking ecstatic about the other BG&E2 teaser because it had Jade and Pey'j, characters we/they loved.
https://youtu.be/5Q1s3lOzQ1A?t=7634
Did anyone else notice the gameplay happening in the background??!?
I havent seen anyone else mention it
Yes, i've notice it too.
I don't think that's something Switch can handle.
I really doubt this is an exclusive for Switch, maybe all the rumors were false, no partnership with Ubi, neither Nintendo behind it.
15ys in the making, i doubt they realese it only on one console or only on Switch.
We will see on Nintendo conference.
One of my most fond gaming memories, ever is at the end of the original BG&E when you upgrade the hovercraft with space travel and fly to the moon. Now I'm probably remembering it with rose tinted glasses... and it's probably nowhere near as impressive as I remember, but the moment in the trailer with the spaceship rising above the clouds and jumping with the theme in the background gave me shivers. I want ancel to make his sci fi epic he envisioned way back on the ps2, and making a new IP seems stupid with such a rich world, and universe to flesh out. The first game was more than it's player characters, it had one of the best settings i'd seen in a game.
I feels so...french! In the best possible way, omg! I'm a fan of french sci-fi/adventure comics and this just captures the feeling! Clunky dialogue is part of the charme, guys!
Anyone have a link to the trailer in the best quality? Did gamersyde put the trailer up?
I actually agree with you and I'm being a bit sarcastic in my post. The idea that two games being separated by 15 years worth of industry time end up fairly different from each other is not surprising. I relish the chance to explore the world of Beyond Good and Evil again. I've grown a bit from when I was nine years old. Even if I went back and replayed the original game, it would be a completely different experience for me.
No.a vast and seamless online playground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6R6EN-soJ0
That's a BG&E sequel I'd be really overexcited for. Not some adolescent nonsense with gratuitous swearing and jiggling breast physics (remember when the original was acclaimed for its female lead being realistically proportioned and nonsexualised? This trailer doesn't!). I see little to no relation between what was shown in the trailer and the affably silly charms of the original. It's like they just slapped the BG&E title on some game they already had in development to give it a bit of a platform. Not great, Bob.