What we see so far is a pretty, frenetic shooter in the vein of a Painkiller or Unreal, that seems just a tad bit uninspired. That said, we don't know how the MMO elements are playing into it, as what we have here is straight-up action. What say you? Has your interest been piqued? Or have the last, dying embers of your desire for Huxley been fully doused?
What we see so far is a pretty, frenetic shooter in the vein of a Painkiller or Unreal, that seems just a tad bit uninspired. That said, we don't know how the MMO elements are playing into it, as what we have here is straight-up action. What say you? Has your interest been piqued? Or have the last, dying embers of your desire for Huxley been fully doused?
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:39PM (Unverified) said
The FPS part does look a little weak, but it's still looks a lot more interesting than combat in all other MMOs I've seen.
Of course, some people enjoy just pressing 2. Then 3. Then 2.
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Of course, some people enjoy just pressing 2. Then 3. Then 2.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:48PM (Unverified) said
Ocho ever played planetside ? best MMOFPS and after watching this still holds the title.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:51PM Anticrawl said
I do belive this is just the PvP aspect of the game. I'm pretty sure everyone figured the PvP system would just be Unreal 2004 with a few more people.
I wanna know how the game is gonna be like in the story, taking a group of friends with you from a nearby town and plundering the worlds and whatnot.
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I wanna know how the game is gonna be like in the story, taking a group of friends with you from a nearby town and plundering the worlds and whatnot.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:46PM masterinsan0 said
I wanna know how they plan on keeping the people that have no life from completely dominating the game.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:49PM (Unverified) said
Well there went my dreams of what this could have been...
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:50PM GuyManDude said
I was wondering what ever happened to this title, after seeing that clip I really have no desire to play this one. Any FPS coming out post Halo3 and COD4 really has a lot of work cut out for themselves. I dont see anything in this thats drawing me in.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:51PM (Unverified) said
Joystiq did you see my Huxley search and then post this? lol! No, but seriously I was just checking on this like 10 minutes ago with no new updates on it. But now this haha. It looks pretty good but that music sucks ballz. Thanks!
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:56PM (Unverified) said
Also...
This (fast gameplay) doesn't look anything at all to what I was expecting, and I dont mean that in a good way. We'll see but my interest has really gone down.
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This (fast gameplay) doesn't look anything at all to what I was expecting, and I dont mean that in a good way. We'll see but my interest has really gone down.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:53PM (Unverified) said
"techno soundtrack"????
for shame, Joystiq. you guys sound like ol' grandpa: anything loud is rock n' roll -- anything with a synthesizer in it is techno... and you guys think yourselves hip.
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for shame, Joystiq. you guys sound like ol' grandpa: anything loud is rock n' roll -- anything with a synthesizer in it is techno... and you guys think yourselves hip.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:14PM Jeremy White said
Yeah, I also think this is Chemical Brothers or The Prodigy, meaning millions of people would probably disagree with what the excruciating part.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:31PM (Unverified) said
You're correct, this song is actually The Prodigy - "You'll Be Under My Wheels" off of their album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.
Seriously though, this isn't even close to techno. It is really oldschool Electro Breaks if anything, but it has always been hard to find specific genre placements for Prodigy.
Anyways, good eye on the song. The remix is much better than the original.
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Seriously though, this isn't even close to techno. It is really oldschool Electro Breaks if anything, but it has always been hard to find specific genre placements for Prodigy.
Anyways, good eye on the song. The remix is much better than the original.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:35PM Dr Stabbingworth said
Here I was about to go on an electronic music rant and knowledgeable Joystigers had taken care of it for me. Nice.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:47PM (Unverified) said
Not that I'm too into the Prodigy but I thought I had to comment on the musical ignorance displayed here. But thanks guys, now I don't have to. The Joystiq grand-pa's are probably still enjoying the last Barry Manilow album...
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 5:16PM (Unverified) said
Who the hell cares. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a @#$%ing duck.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 7:13PM (Unverified) said
since you brought it up, Techno IS a specific sub-genre. anyone wanting to paint with a broad brush would use the phrase "electronic music". if you had any idea what techno is, you wouldn't be making any bizarre duck comments.
by your logic, country music is rock n roll, and video games are toys.
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by your logic, country music is rock n roll, and video games are toys.
Posted: Dec 18th 2007 9:17AM (Unverified) said
I think you will find that most people who listen to electronic music care passionately about genres, as the difference between one sub-genre and the next are quite noticeable once a listener has spent any amount of time within the electronic music genre.
As a DJ, knowing the difference between most of these genres is actually fairly important, your ignorance is acceptable, but some people find it an important (and necessary) distinction.
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As a DJ, knowing the difference between most of these genres is actually fairly important, your ignorance is acceptable, but some people find it an important (and necessary) distinction.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:54PM (Unverified) said
And this should excite me to basically pay to play a sub-par UT3 how?
Was interested in the concept of this game a while back. Now I am a little relieved that it was no big deal, but also a little disappointed that the FPS MMO genre is having the hardest time in the world getting any momentum. Planetside had a lot of potential and fell short. This seems to be following that pattern from what I can tell from the video.
When is someone going to make a MMO BF2 without it being too sim-ish like WW2online?
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Was interested in the concept of this game a while back. Now I am a little relieved that it was no big deal, but also a little disappointed that the FPS MMO genre is having the hardest time in the world getting any momentum. Planetside had a lot of potential and fell short. This seems to be following that pattern from what I can tell from the video.
When is someone going to make a MMO BF2 without it being too sim-ish like WW2online?
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:54PM anilramcharand said
Wow, I hope this game is filled with ads so there won't be a monthley fee. ^_^
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:55PM Sloar said
Those embers are dead. And I'm not talking just dousing them with water. It's like when you'd pee on the fire to put it out. After that soundtrack, it's probably more like puking on the fire to put it out--although I've never seen that actually done. But you can imagine what that would be like. It would be like...Huxley.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:59PM (Unverified) said
...looks boring and uninspired. reminds me of the run and gun multiplayer in quake 3.
p.s.: go back to listenting to dave matthews band and save the musical criticisms for someone who knows what they're talking about. not saying i love that song, but someone does. it's been used in several games and movies, including one of the need for speed series.
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p.s.: go back to listenting to dave matthews band and save the musical criticisms for someone who knows what they're talking about. not saying i love that song, but someone does. it's been used in several games and movies, including one of the need for speed series.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 3:58PM BananaBoat said
I was looking forward to both Huxley and Hellgate London as the only chance FPSMMO's had. So far Hellgate is a disaster, and Huxley is looking like a b-list title at best. Oh well, what could have been.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:02PM (Unverified) said
My hopes for this just died...wtf is with the speed(i'm kinda hoping they sped the vid up to match the music, but even that means something is f'd up) seemed like some big map/area but there was hardly anyone there...the list goes on
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:04PM (Unverified) said
While initially excited about this game, It looks like they took the boring multiplayer of quake 3 complete with the "Success you hit the enemy with that bullet" sound and upped the graphics. In all fairness though by the 2nd third of the video i was spinning glowsticks and droppin e
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:15PM (Unverified) said
The song is "You'll Be Under My Wheels" by The Prodigy.
But, yeah, I was kind of hoping an MMOFPS would be a bit more tactical. But I guess in the future, everything is fast paced.
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But, yeah, I was kind of hoping an MMOFPS would be a bit more tactical. But I guess in the future, everything is fast paced.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:25PM MrHashbrown said
Good song.
Well then I guess everything in the future is lame.
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Well then I guess everything in the future is lame.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:15PM MrHashbrown said
I got a headache from watching that for 2 minutes. And I'm out of Tylenol...and interest.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:21PM (Unverified) said
Huxley, is that you? T.J., that's Huxley! God, I haven't seen her in forever. She was so fine back in the day. I wonder how she looks now.
Hey Huxley, how have you been? Oh, car accident, huh? Yeah, uh, couldn't have fulled, me. You still look, uh, great. Yeah, you'll be just fine.
Damn, was going to be such a fine game. Oh well.
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Hey Huxley, how have you been? Oh, car accident, huh? Yeah, uh, couldn't have fulled, me. You still look, uh, great. Yeah, you'll be just fine.
Damn, was going to be such a fine game. Oh well.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:21PM (Unverified) said
There isn't enough Mountain Dew in the world...
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:31PM (Unverified) said
I'll reserve final judgment until the final product is ready (and I see some game footage without horrible techno music that makes me want to puke). That said, it looks like more like a Halo wannabe than what I expected. Unless the MMO elements really bring something new to the game, I'll probably pass.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:33PM ThornedVenom said
This definitely looks like Unreal Tournament in an MMO.
I'd go crazy if I had to grind for hours like that.
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I'd go crazy if I had to grind for hours like that.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 4:57PM (Unverified) said
This is making me interested. After all, it looks more like Unreal Tournament than UT3. UT2008 with character development, anyone?
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 5:09PM horngreen said
Wow I was expecting SOOOO much more back when this was first announced. Now it looks hopeless. Oh well no biggie I guess. I do wonder why is it that so many of these fast paced shooters always seem to have the human to scenery proportions ALL wrong. I remember in the Quake demo on the 360 sometimes the characters looked like they were 12 inches tall in parts of the game. This one seems to have the same issues. Oh and that music takes the cake.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 5:18PM (Unverified) said
Ungh...I was so looking foward to this game...annd that just went out the window.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 5:47PM (Unverified) said
I'm resigned to the belief that this game is never going to be the game that I want it to be.
And that had to have been the least informative gameplay video I've ever seen. Slow that shit down!
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And that had to have been the least informative gameplay video I've ever seen. Slow that shit down!
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 5:41PM (Unverified) said
Ugh. I'm not in the mood for a twitch shooter in the UT mould. I'm getting too old for that retro stuff.
Why would I want to play a game where I'd need to be taking Speed to be any good only to be owned by some 11 yr/old with the reactions of a conga eel, with more symbols in his name than letters, bunny hopping in circles?
Seriously, tactical shooters are where it's at.
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Why would I want to play a game where I'd need to be taking Speed to be any good only to be owned by some 11 yr/old with the reactions of a conga eel, with more symbols in his name than letters, bunny hopping in circles?
Seriously, tactical shooters are where it's at.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 5:51PM (Unverified) said
Can you say Quake Arena?
The game looks ridiculously fast and the worst is that for this type of games the guy with the best mouse and connection always wins. I really don’t like fast FPS I mean the video alone made me sick.
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The game looks ridiculously fast and the worst is that for this type of games the guy with the best mouse and connection always wins. I really don’t like fast FPS I mean the video alone made me sick.
Posted: Dec 17th 2007 5:55PM (Unverified) said
I don't think the video is in real time. It looks sped up to me.
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Posted: Dec 17th 2007 6:02PM (Unverified) said
Can you imagine console players trying to play that game up against PC players using mouse and keyboard!
LOLOLOL!
They'd need super auto-aim (AKA Aimbots) to even stand a chance.
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LOLOLOL!
They'd need super auto-aim (AKA Aimbots) to even stand a chance.
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