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ELEX

Posted: 2 Jul 2015, 17:34
by TG
Piranha Bytes and Nordic Games have announced an "edgy, dark, uncompromising [and] complex" open-world role-playing game called ELEX for PC and "current gen consoles". It's due out winter 2016/2017.

A vertical slice build of the game will be shown at Gamescom next month.

Piranha Bytes is the German studio responsible for the Gothic (not number 4) and Risen series of fantasy role-playing games. In other words it's been doing this for a long time. But Piranha Bytes won't develop it alone: ELEX is described as a collaborative project with Nordic Games. Nordic hasn't made a name for itself in development yet but has been making some noise snapping up old game licenses from sunken publishers THQ and JoWooD.

Nordic's business development boss Reinhard Pollice described ELEX as "edgy, dark, uncompromising [and] complex". Piranha Bytes' game director Bjorn Pankratz called ELEX "a completely new game experience with a fresh setting".

The press release blurb described a "post-apocalyptic science fantasy universe that puts players into a huge, seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action".

Oh and ELEX, incidentally, looks like it stands for Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating and Xenial. Cringe.

Piranha Bytes most recently put out Risen 3: Titan Lords on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, at the end of 2014. It was "almost a really good game", we wrote in our review. There's a spruced-up version of Risen 3 coming to PS4 in August.

Piranha Bytes split from the Gothic series it created following a dispute with then-publisher JoWooD. That's when Risen came into being. Oddly enough, though, Piranha Bytes now owns the maltreated-in-its-absence Gothic IP (it always did - it was on loan to JoWooD), but for whatever reason it's chosen to do something new.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... d-rpg-elex

Să-mi trag palme, cel mai neintutiv și non-expresiv titlu pe care l-am citit de multă vreme. Când citești ELEX nu te gândești la absolut nimic. What the feck?

Re: ELEX

Posted: 2 Jul 2015, 18:12
by Stokkolm
"post-apocalyptic science fantasy"? Sunt curios deocamdata.

Re: ELEX

Posted: 3 Jul 2015, 07:37
by ola small dickie
"edgy" :lol: "edgy" a inceput sa-mi sune a cocalaresc, de prost gust

Re: ELEX

Posted: 3 Jul 2015, 17:18
by TG
Yeah, but it's just a buzz word that doesn't mean anything. Sunt curios ce va ieși, practic tot Risen-like pare și până la urmă PB nu au nevoie decât să facă jocurile cum le fac ei pentru a mă ține captivat, dar tot nu pot trece peste nume. Mi se pare stupid să critici numele unui joc, însă asta chiar e o situație absurdă... cplm înseamnă ELEX?

Re: ELEX

Posted: 3 Jul 2015, 17:36
by .chester
Trebuie neaparat sa insemne ceva?

Re: ELEX

Posted: 3 Jul 2015, 17:53
by TG
Trebuie măcar să semnifice ceva, zic eu. În fine, nu știu de ce mă irită așa tare. :lol:

LE:
Piranha Bytes have announced they’re making ELEX [official site] in collaboration with Nordic Games. They refer to it as “Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial” and I honestly can’t tell whether that’s an earnest acronym or they’re copying MDK with its “Madonna Dates Kylie?” silliness.
Nvm, era mai bine când nu semnifica nimic.

Re: ELEX

Posted: 4 Jul 2015, 17:32
by McWilliams
Daca ti-a trebuit sa scormonesti rahatul, TG... What has been see cannot be unseen.

Re: ELEX

Posted: 4 Jul 2015, 17:54
by MC
McWilliams » Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:32 pm wrote: What has been see cannot be unseen.
Asta am citit prima data inainte sa ma aventurez in deep web. :twisted:

Re: ELEX

Posted: 8 Aug 2015, 22:17
by Angra Maynu
Va avea probabil un iz de Darksiders 1 , printre putinele jocuri post-apocaliptice fantasy.

ELEX first look

Info :

- In development since ~ 1,5 years
-third person RPG like Risen or Gothic
- post apocalyptic, people having different levels of technology ( a bit like Horizon)
- Enemies won't level with you
- one big continent instead of Islands like in Risen
- Going to have of different regions (desert, woods, ice and swamp mentioned)
- Player is going to have a Jetpack !
- Every player starts at the same place
- Elex is a Substance from space and came to the world because of a meteorite
- Game plays hundreds of years after crash
- Elex changed fauna and flora
- By consuming Elex you get stronger and Magic abilities, But you "degenerate" and Loose Emotion, acting more like machine (acting based on logic, not emotions) than a human being. Elex consumers also have different skin color (white/gray)
- wrong usage can result into mutations
- Thats why Moral System is not simply about whether you are good or bad, instead it's about whether you are a human or more like machine. Beeing more like machine isn't necessary a bad and being human a good thing
- in the word of the game Elex is a wanted resource, you consume it or put in machines ( eg. Jetpack) the Some guild can use it without the side effect and calls it Mana. Elex is essential and you have to youse it in some way
- is inspired by Star Wars (by having Fantasy and Sci Fi Elements)
- Player was someone who heavily consumed Elex, was a commander in a military Group which are Elex users. before the game starts his glider got shots and he lies some were for three weeks, so without Elex he is more human again when the game starts. For the first time he feels Emotions and sees the world different, similar to the Movie Equilibrium
- Normal people don't like him because he fought against them when he was part of the military group, but he also have problems to connect with his old group

|HERO|
1.There will be no character customizatioN
2.The character will have a background story
3.He will have a name and won't be nameless
4.Will be male
5.Will be third-person for sure
6.Our decisions will have a big impact on the game
7.It isn't sure if our character will be human
8.We will or we will be able to do some kind of "jobs"
9.We will be able to do some kind of "housing"
10.Main protagonists was a former member in a military faction

|WORLD AND ATMOSPHERE|
1.World is planned to be huge
2.The atmosphere is dark and Science-Fantasy
3.It will be little futuristic at some places
4.There will be mutated creatures
5.Around the world you will find small settlements
6.Elex is a kind of drug that people take, they also use it to make magic( Source: Thread " ELEX Updates)
7.There will be large, lonely creatures similar to trolls
8.Easter Eggs!!
9.There will be dungeons but not as much and not the kind like in Risen
10.There will be factions that reject technology and some that run around with guns (German Forums)

|COMBAT|
1.Combat will be direct and will have strategic elements
2.You will use modern weapons as well as swords and other medieval
3.Magic will find it's way into the game. Details on that later
4.One handed swords will not be placed on the back, it will be like Gothic 1/2
5.Completely new combat system redesigned from the bottom

|EQUIPMENT & LOOT|
1.There will be modern and medievel weapons
2.Armours will come in pieces (pants,chest plate,gauntlets, etc.)
3.Developers are implementing books
4.Jetpacks!
5.Exosceletons!

|GAME MECHANICS|
1.There will be lockpicking system
2.Levelling won't be like in Risen 2/3 (no glory points)
3.Every single chest in the game is handfilled(loot isn't randomly put there)
4.Minimap isn't mandatory( isn't necessary at all cost)
5.There will be different puzzles in quests, dungeons, etc.
6.World will react to our character progression
7.No minigames(drinking, shooting, etc.) like Risen 2/3
8.Quest system will be like in Gothic series where the recordings will be written on 1st person preview.
9.Almost all NPCs will be killable

|FACTIONS|
1.Four factions are present
2.Bandits faction- some kind of modern terrorist faction that uses Elex
3.The Alb- modern military faction using ELEX
4.Two medievel factions- one using ELEX, one not using it

Re: ELEX

Posted: 27 May 2016, 14:27
by Magicake

Re: ELEX

Posted: 27 May 2016, 16:34
by Semyaza
I''m hyped

Re: ELEX

Posted: 20 Aug 2016, 22:34
by joonior_bmf
phpBB [video]

Re: ELEX

Posted: 20 Aug 2016, 23:14
by McWilliams
Arata... ciudat. Adica zone de exterior sunt in stil Gothic/Risen (lush shrubbery, with a scent of old and decay), insa cele din interior, acolo unde sunt camere, parca ar fi cubicles. Daca stau mai bine sa ma gandesc, parca ar semana cu FarCry 4. Sau, na, poate gresesc numarul - cel din India. Wild animals & machetes on one hand, laser rifles, jet packs & guard/radio towers on the other.

Nu comentez gameplay-ul din motive evidente de stadiu alpha. Insa miroase... ah nuuu cheeki breeki!

Re: ELEX

Posted: 20 Aug 2016, 23:17
by Stokkolm
Gothic with guns. Ceea ce nu e neaparat rau, cum zice TG:
TG wrote:până la urmă PB nu au nevoie decât să facă jocurile cum le fac ei pentru a mă ține captivat

Re: ELEX

Posted: 21 Aug 2016, 02:42
by Magicake
Arata interesant if you ask me. Are si ceva vibe de STALKER, nice. Sper sa le iasa.

Re: ELEX

Posted: 22 Aug 2016, 13:14
by stef
Din ce-am vazut in gameplay-ul de mai sus, parca ar fi un hibrid din mai multe jocuri: relieful, padurea si peisajul cu apusul de la inceputul filmuletului mi-a adus aminte de primul Crysis, unii monstri seamana cu mutantii din STALKER, ideea cu sabia-drujba e luata din Warhammer, sunetele de la arme parca ar fi din Star Wars, iar jocul per total ca gameplay si modul de action & combat imi aduce a Witcher.
Momentan, nu m-a entuziasmat cu nimic. Totusi, as vrea sa-l si joc, sa simt si sa vad cum e in realitate.

Re: ELEX

Posted: 22 Aug 2016, 13:19
by DarthZombie
Stokkolm wrote:Gothic with guns. Ceea ce nu e neaparat rau, cum zice TG
Vorbim in acelasi timp de opinia unui notoriu fan Diablo, asa ca nu m-as grabi sa-l ascult prea tare

Re: ELEX

Posted: 22 Aug 2016, 23:26
by McWilliams
Ma, eu nu tin minte ca Gothic sa aiba auto-level-up.

Re: ELEX

Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 19:52
by Magicake
phpBB [video]

Re: ELEX

Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 21:27
by Ferrrrrrrrrdinand
Cam naspa tbh :(