I disagree. Bastion for example did a great job with this. The game starts you with minimal information (World blew up, stuff floats in the air!) and then you learn more of what happened by talking to NPCs, examining objects and progressing in the story. Fallout: New Vegas is an another example. In the beginning a man shoots you but you don't even know his name, much less why he shot you. The story is very interesting the first time because you need to figure it out by playing. A good intro makes you want to know more. A good game gives you that info inside the game itself. Also mysteries unexplained feed curiosity.
Maybe it will work fine, maybe it won't. For me only when i am in-game and experience it i can know that. For now the story of the giant tentacles destroying earth confuses me a bit, i agree with what a friend said, somehow it doesn't feel right to me. Humans have so many ways to blow each other to smithereens and they can't fight some tentacles while they have space tech? That makes me watch this intro and say "Okaay....", got a bit confuse. I will wait to see something more final.
maybe this happened before they had necessary tech to fight back? but remember as noted in this intro that still in work in progress... we can see that no human suspected about this attack that was stealthy and deadly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle Just saying. I like the plot of tentacles taking over the earth as much as any other, but just saying.
Yup they could expand that intro more, the same thing but with more details, because in the video the guy talking is in the 3rd person, like some Book Author, telling a story, what also confuses me since this said we start in our home planet in some story intro / tutorial, wondering where this video takes place in the middle of that since it looks it already happened when it ended, and didn't happened when it started.
My take away from the intro is that it's Lusca destroying Earth because NCSoft shut down City of Heroes. . . . *tear*
I don't know if i should play the video or avoid getting spoiled and enjoy the game 100% when it comes out....ARGH MY MIND!
wow nice i hope when you first start the game and after you choose a race there should be a story about them and what happend to there planet you guys feel me?
There will also be a main storyline to follow in game... Maybe if you complete that some things will fall in place and make sense? That's how stories work, right?
But something grew in the darkness Something powerful Tentacle pron No wonder why humanity fled Earth.
"Every race is the opposite of its stereotype" "Earth is a place of peace and enlightenment" My God, it fits!
Why be critical of something that's not finished yet? It's quite obvious we don't have the full picture. I am sure they have a vision of what they want to do, and you may not be able to see what that is until the product is finished. If you are still not satisfied at that point, or it doesn't line up with how you think it should be, then I'd suggest making a video game of your own, with your own vision of what should be done. But if you had a forum for said video game, I'm 100% positive there would be several Bacon's posting what you should do differently with your WIP. Vicious cycle ftw.
I hate to play the devil's advocate, but the "if you don't like it, make your own instead of complaining" argument is one that's never really sat right with me. A lot of people are personally invested in seeing this game succeed. Everyone that's preordered, knowing that the game is still in development, has basically gave Chucklefish money to buy this game, sight-largely-unseen. We all want to make sure that we get our money's worth. Further, it doesn't take experience in making a game in order to tell what you do, and do not, want to play. Insisting that someone have such experience before offering (constructive) criticism would mean that criticism never happens. Good critics make good developers, I've found - every bad game I've ever played has come from companies that actively take steps to censor their critics. I agree with you that "wait and see" is something we should all take to heart here. This intro cinematic is thirty seconds long, there's no way it consists of the entirety of the game's intro experience, of that much I'm confident. I highly doubt you'll be thrown, sink or swim, into the sandbox with this as your only hint as to what's going on and what you should do. However, insisting that someone who's dissatisfied 'make their own game' instead of offering criticism is counterproductive.
