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But they weren't teasing anything, just "hey, I'm looking forward to this". Any game developers not allowed to express their excitement? People overanalyzing random developer posts and over hyping themselves only have themselves to blame.
Mother of god, I'm gone for an hour or two and we're 12 pages into a new thread? FFS, all that reading...
This is nice:
As you mentioned, the game has rogue-like aspects to it. There are lots of random elements — weapons, upgrades, enemies, map layouts, etc. How do you ensure that every combination of these variables is fun to play?
HK: With Returnal, we've taken a bit of a hybrid approach to our procedural content. What that means in practice is that all areas — you have treasure rooms, combat spaces, traversal-based connecting areas, narrative spaces — all of these have been meticulously hand-crafted. So you get the maximum quality there with asset placement, lighting, narrative beats, audio design, so there's this consistent quality to those individual areas. However, these are combined and connected very freely across multiple runs.
The content you find in these areas is also procedurally generated. That means, even if you do identify a treasure room for example, or an arena space, it will often be filled with unfamiliar content. Sometimes you will have a certain combination of enemies and varying numbers, you might have just one elite enemy there, other times you might just find a treasure chest waiting for you. These are just some really quick examples of how we're embracing this variation and making sure that each run creates memorable player stories.
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I feared the areas would be procedurally generated. This is the way, hand-crafted stuff in a different order with different content (enemies, upgrades, etc).
As you mentioned, the game has rogue-like aspects to it. There are lots of random elements — weapons, upgrades, enemies, map layouts, etc. How do you ensure that every combination of these variables is fun to play?
HK: With Returnal, we've taken a bit of a hybrid approach to our procedural content. What that means in practice is that all areas — you have treasure rooms, combat spaces, traversal-based connecting areas, narrative spaces — all of these have been meticulously hand-crafted. So you get the maximum quality there with asset placement, lighting, narrative beats, audio design, so there's this consistent quality to those individual areas. However, these are combined and connected very freely across multiple runs.
The content you find in these areas is also procedurally generated. That means, even if you do identify a treasure room for example, or an arena space, it will often be filled with unfamiliar content. Sometimes you will have a certain combination of enemies and varying numbers, you might have just one elite enemy there, other times you might just find a treasure chest waiting for you. These are just some really quick examples of how we're embracing this variation and making sure that each run creates memorable player stories.
Interview: Returnal PS5 Developer Housemarque Talks Story, Replayability, and Value
Permanent progression, first person segments, and more discussed
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I feared the areas would be procedurally generated. This is the way, hand-crafted stuff in a different order with different content (enemies, upgrades, etc).
There's also a Digital Deluxe for $10 extra. Includes a Digital Soundtrack, Kena Digital Deluxe Staff and Golden Rot Skin.
Yea, I really like the sound of this. Everything about the game is so promising.This is nice:
As you mentioned, the game has rogue-like aspects to it. There are lots of random elements — weapons, upgrades, enemies, map layouts, etc. How do you ensure that every combination of these variables is fun to play?
HK: With Returnal, we've taken a bit of a hybrid approach to our procedural content. What that means in practice is that all areas — you have treasure rooms, combat spaces, traversal-based connecting areas, narrative spaces — all of these have been meticulously hand-crafted. So you get the maximum quality there with asset placement, lighting, narrative beats, audio design, so there's this consistent quality to those individual areas. However, these are combined and connected very freely across multiple runs.
The content you find in these areas is also procedurally generated. That means, even if you do identify a treasure room for example, or an arena space, it will often be filled with unfamiliar content. Sometimes you will have a certain combination of enemies and varying numbers, you might have just one elite enemy there, other times you might just find a treasure chest waiting for you. These are just some really quick examples of how we're embracing this variation and making sure that each run creates memorable player stories.
Interview: Returnal PS5 Developer Housemarque Talks Story, Replayability, and Value
Permanent progression, first person segments, and more discussed
I feared the areas would be procedurally generated. This is the way, hand-crafted stuff in a different order with different content (enemies, upgrades, etc).
This is nice:
As you mentioned, the game has rogue-like aspects to it. There are lots of random elements — weapons, upgrades, enemies, map layouts, etc. How do you ensure that every combination of these variables is fun to play?
HK: With Returnal, we've taken a bit of a hybrid approach to our procedural content. What that means in practice is that all areas — you have treasure rooms, combat spaces, traversal-based connecting areas, narrative spaces — all of these have been meticulously hand-crafted. So you get the maximum quality there with asset placement, lighting, narrative beats, audio design, so there's this consistent quality to those individual areas. However, these are combined and connected very freely across multiple runs.
The content you find in these areas is also procedurally generated. That means, even if you do identify a treasure room for example, or an arena space, it will often be filled with unfamiliar content. Sometimes you will have a certain combination of enemies and varying numbers, you might have just one elite enemy there, other times you might just find a treasure chest waiting for you. These are just some really quick examples of how we're embracing this variation and making sure that each run creates memorable player stories.
Interview: Returnal PS5 Developer Housemarque Talks Story, Replayability, and Value
Permanent progression, first person segments, and more discussed
I feared the areas would be procedurally generated. This is the way, hand-crafted stuff in a different order with different content (enemies, upgrades, etc).
Sounds like a variant of bloodborne chalice dungeons in a way.... Does that mean everyone that hated bloodborne chalice dungeons will nope out on this?
There's not much variety in the Chalice Dungeons. I really enjoyed them, but as a extra.
It shouldn't be a problem here since this is a dedicated roguelite, with upgrades and stuff. I assume they made much more content to keep things fresh for longer.
No, Chalice dungeons were different, Levels weren't crafted like it says in Returnal, they were boring plain huge levels that went against the good thing of BB, Crafted interconnected levels that were fun to explore. Had to get through the levels to get to good boss fights, variation in enemies isn't a problem if it's good. Half the enemies were boring to play against in Chalice, some weirdly placed traps, placements.
Well, I'm sorry if I struck a nerve in you and made you feel antagonized. It certainly was not my intent to make you snap like this.
Never said anything about people saying the game would not perform well. And never made fun of anyone either, just questioned what the fuss was about. No words were put in anyone's mouth....well, except mine.
I was saying I don't understand the frustration over the game not being shown when it's not out of the ordinary and there's plenty of time to show it later. That's it. Not of that other stuff. DAS was a very bizarre one as I mentioned in my post, but nothing going on with R&C is out of the ordinary with other games, both from Sony and other publishers. And Insomniac even strongly hinted at a deep dive coming soon in the blog post when the release date was announced. Makes more sense to wait for that than demand that it had to be shown a 30-minute presentation with 10 other games being shown. 5-minutes (at best) of additional clips or a short story trailer would have hardly changed much. And being able to preorder a game has no bearing on how much must be revealed at that point. It never has. You're free to think that's a big problem with the industry as a whole, of course. But again, not the intent of my post.
I thought bloodborne was crafted (though not very intricate) and procedurally stitched together and it's always the same because you use a seed to access it. Granted that included static enemy placement and loot. Outside of the loot and enemies the idea seems the same to me, just executed differently.
Idk I enjoyed chalice dungeons as an extra layer to BB.
New gameplay and story details revealed in moving Kena: Bridge of Spirits trailer
Standard and digital editions detailed, plus a first look at pre-order bonuses.
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This is also true. The normal Chalice Dungeons were handcrafted but the root ones were randomized based on the handcrafted ones.
Answered above, the only handcrafted ones were the non-root chalices.
Man that sucks, I remember there being a lot of talk on this site about that being a thing.
Kena looks incredible <3 I absolutely can't wait. Will be pre-ordering the deluxe addition 100% as soon as I'm able to.
August 24th is such a massive delay considering many were hoping, myself included, that it'd be a March PS+ game. Game will absolutely be worth the wait though and Emberlabs can take all the time they need on it.
August 24th is such a massive delay considering many were hoping, myself included, that it'd be a March PS+ game. Game will absolutely be worth the wait though and Emberlabs can take all the time they need on it.
New gameplay and story details revealed in moving Kena: Bridge of Spirits trailer
Standard and digital editions detailed, plus a first look at pre-order bonuses.
Gotta admit, I thought Kena would be $30 tops, haha.
But perhaps it's a bit meatier than I was thinking. I certainly wouldn't complain about that.
So they're basically scrapping it all aside from Asobi? Everything else now managed from their global rather than local functions.
At least there's a confirmation of more Astro Bot, that's great news.
Hopefully future Astro games will get some decent budgets, really loved Playroom. Hoping for a PSVR2 launch game and normal flatscreen game.
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