I'm really excited.
Shadow of Rome still looks better and that is old and even had much larger environments to fight in.
Now that is a trailer...
@WereKitten... I really doubt that anyone cares about realism enough at this point. However, those "Hollywood" battles with tigers and such did happen.
The animal battles continued for about 100 years after the Roman Emperor Honorius outlawed Gladiatorial combat because so many men died.
Most Gladiators didn't live past ten battles. So while it's true, that not all battles ended in death, almost all gladiators died in the coliseums.
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
Great physics, great; add slight RPG elements and customizations options (buy armor and weapons, upgrade skills, etc) and I'm sold.
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why are people complaining about this? no one complained that soul calibur was 1 on 1 combat.
i found the graohics and music impressive but id rather the trailer show 1 battle rather that lots of battles. then wed get a better idea of how the combat flows. the other thing i didnt like is i didnt see much use if motion plus. myabe they havnt put it in yet
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I do like the style with those extreme lighteffects but I don't understand the unnecessary violence. Somehow, that's killing (yeah) the game for me. This looks to me as if High Voltage Software is trying hard to be called an hardcore dev-team because they're using some bloodZZZ, it's so mature.
To people saying they don't want a one on one figher - HVS said in their reveal that there would be lots of different kinds of fights, many with more than one combatant.
To people criticizing the Graphics, and combat - you should criticize HVS for releasing trailers when their game is so early instead. Because at this point we really can't make any judgement calls on what the final project will be like.
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Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
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steven787 said: Now that is a trailer... @WereKitten... I really doubt that anyone cares about realism enough at this point. However, those "Hollywood" battles with tigers and such did happen. The animal battles continued for about 100 years after the Roman Emperor Honorius outlawed Gladiatorial combat because so many men died. Most Gladiators didn't live past ten battles. So while it's true, that not all battles ended in death, almost all gladiators died in the coliseums. |
It was an answer to this:
.jayderyu said:
"Looks better, but it still looks like a 1 on 1 fighter, not a Gladitorial Roman empire game."
And about 1 every ten fights ended with a death, yes. That's still very different from the usual hollywood image. As for the battles with animals, the venationes were usually opening acts, followed by the death sentences (again exotic animals could be a part of it) and then by the proper gladiator fights.
But the "throw anything at the group of gladiators" surprise battles, including amazons and tigers? That's hollywood fluff. But again, who cares really :)
WereKitten said:
It was an answer to this: .jayderyu said: And about 1 every ten fights ended with a death, yes. That's still very different from the usual hollywood image. As for the battles with animals, the venationes were usually opening acts, followed by the death sentences (again exotic animals could be a part of it) and then by the proper gladiator fights. But the "throw anything at the group of gladiators" surprise battles, including amazons and tigers? That's hollywood fluff. But again, who cares really :) |
I am perfectly aware of to what you were commenting on. I am saying you are wrong. They did fight people of varying origins and exotic animals (including tigers... actually, when people fought animals they weren't called gladiators, they were called bestiarius) from all around the Roman Empire. They also went beyond one on one combat, they recreated battles on land and on sea. Some of the events that actually happened in the Coliseum (and other ampitheatres) were more outlandish than anything Hollywood would dare put on screen. As for chariots, there were chariots involved in Coliseum battles and some minor races but most of the better chariot races happened at the Circus Maximus.
Edit: If you are interested in learning more about Gladiators and other battles at the Coliseum, I highly recommend reading, Liber Spectaculorum or The Book of Spectacle by M. Valerii Martialis.
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.