Pure Chess: It's Time To Get Hype
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First thought as well. Fail to see what's impressive about the trailer, someone took Sims (-like) music and panned the camera over and around a chess board. The above mentioned AoE trailer actually gets me more pumped for a chess game than this.NZpablo said:
If you used the point system, losing your queen would lose pretty much all your clothes straight away. Definitely easier to use one piece = one item of clothing. Plus your average person doesn't know the numerical value of each piece anyway.Rutskarn said:
Did I blink and miss the part where the trailer got awesome? Can someone please point out that part to me? I seemed to have missed out on that part.
Entirely.
Entirely.
Uh... it was swooping pictures of chess pieces with (pretty) strings in the background. Hardly the amazing trailer you were hyping it as, and certainly not what it'll take me to buy yet another version of the admittedly classic board game.
Also, the Saxon-style playing pieces reminded me of a certain game intro...
Also, the Saxon-style playing pieces reminded me of a certain game intro...
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I can't have been the only one who heard that soundtrack and suddenly got an inexplicable craving for The Sims.
Damn you Maxis, and your malevolent proxy releases!
I can't have been the only one who heard that soundtrack and suddenly got an inexplicable craving for The Sims.
Damn you Maxis, and your malevolent proxy releases!
But it's chess!
Ok so we see a video with some high poly models and great visuals - but that doesn't mean the game will all of a sudden become awesome. BattleChess was awesome, because you actually wanted to see the pieces kill each other, often the animation was funny, but always impressive.
That video shows high poly models, that don't move, they just have to sit there looking pretty. Big deal! - give me a chess game like that thing in Star Wars, we have all played chess to death, and visual appeal is not really a factor in how the game plays. They had it right with Battlechess, that brought something to the table. All this video shows is that they got an artist to make some models - that is not enough to make me want to play chess again. Sorry, but as certain I am that I'll be buying a Vita, I won't be buying it to play chess! - no matter how long they've spent on making it pretty.
Ok so we see a video with some high poly models and great visuals - but that doesn't mean the game will all of a sudden become awesome. BattleChess was awesome, because you actually wanted to see the pieces kill each other, often the animation was funny, but always impressive.
That video shows high poly models, that don't move, they just have to sit there looking pretty. Big deal! - give me a chess game like that thing in Star Wars, we have all played chess to death, and visual appeal is not really a factor in how the game plays. They had it right with Battlechess, that brought something to the table. All this video shows is that they got an artist to make some models - that is not enough to make me want to play chess again. Sorry, but as certain I am that I'll be buying a Vita, I won't be buying it to play chess! - no matter how long they've spent on making it pretty.
Someone else remember that opening?NZpablo said:
Damn, that was a good game. I wonder if I installed it on this pc...
God damn, that's some sexy high res chess right there.
Needs more lense flare though, preferably blue.
Needs more lense flare though, preferably blue.
The chessmen in the video look like they are styled after the Lewis chessmen. (image from wikipedia)
