Vanguard Video. Oh My!

n2sooners

http://vanguard.ogaming.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=201

blacksac

Love it!

digitydarkman

that was even better then the paris hilton video.. then again that video wasnt very good.. ohh well game looks good

n2sooners

BTW, in case anyone missed it in the thread, this is what Brad had to say about the video before it was released.

 

A couple of notes to manage expectations:

First, the entire movie (other than the Sigil & Vanguard logo stuff) are from in-game. Our engine can render out individual frames as an option, which made it easy to put this movie together relatively quickly and then get back to work on the game. I also very much prefer movies that just show in-game visuals as anyone can spend the money to make some cool, pre-rendered FMV movie, whereas I'd rather spend the money now on building the company up and getting further along in development. The fact that we have a playable alpha with adventuring as sophisticated as most first and second gen games today, and crafting even beyond that isn't really depicted in the movie, although that's what I'm most proud of and what will truly matter in the end.

Second, the focus of the movie for this E3 was to show the epic scale of Vanguard and what a third gen seamless but still detailed world is shaping up to look like.

I do stress the following:

1. We're at alpha. This is our first movie. I think it's good, but it's just the beginning in terms of how good the world will end up looking. Our hope is to produce many more movies over the next year+ as the tech work we had to do to make this first one makes it easier to do future ones as well.

2. Some obvious tech isn't there, like shadows. We have released shadows in some screenshots and will continue to do so, and the next movie will have shadows, but when this movie was put together we were re-working them for the E3 demo and they didn't make it into the movie.

3. Again, the movie is mostly about high off the ground fly-bys, showing New Targonor, Leth Nurae, etc. We have a section with a dungeon shot, but don't expect epic battles. Combat is very far along, but we've been focussing on the actually mechanics, not the whiz-bang spell effects.

Anyway, enough disclaimer  Hopefully you all will like it, and please feel free to comment negatively or positively -- any and all feedback is valuable to us. I just wanted you to know what to expect, and where our priority was... what we can do with a seamless world, being able to soar high above cities and villages, to have truly flying creatures, etc. are features we wanted to emphasize because those are areas Vanguard already is pretty above and beyond other games; likewise, in areas where we knew MMOGs games coming out sooner were more polished we didn't focus on.

thanks,

__________________
Brad McQuaid
President & CEO
Sigil Games Online, Inc.

Justinian

Got to love that huge clip plane

hercules

Considering its all actual in game stuff then yeah its pretty good stuff.Not high enough graphics to require you to buy a brand new $500 Gcard and at same time very descent graphics.

Good enough for me now how does it play is the question

Ezikeil

Not bad, tho I think I spotted a new type of Borg Sphere at some point, they went with the blue lights instead of the usual green ones.....

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hercules

Hmm he seems to be hinting that many more movies will come out over 1 year + meaning we talking earliest date for vanguard- summer 2005?

Thats a long time

n2sooners

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Originally posted by hercules

Hmm he seems to be hinting that many more movies will come out over 1 year + meaning we talking earliest date for vanguard- summer 2005?
Thats a long time

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This game just hit the earliest stages of alpha. They just came out with a version the guys in the office could log into and play. It is probably more like 18 months out. Of course, to me that only makes the video that much more impressive. There are games releasing this year that only wish their graphics were that good (and probably some which will release that aren't much further along than this one either  ). I really believe Vanguard will be the next big thing.

Dekron

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Originally posted by digitydarkman

that was even better then the paris hilton video.. then again that video wasnt very good.. ohh well game looks good

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obviously you didn't see the whole video then, it was 48 minutes long

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Staunch

Actually, get ready for longer wait that summer.  It more than likely will be out just in time for a christmas stocking stuffer.....2005.

As far as the video goes, being it is all in game 1st alpha footage before all the add ins it does give us something great to look forward to.

Gnarled

I just can't get excited about a game that is 1.5-2 years out. Just imagine what a middle of the road system will be then, and what top of the line FPS's will look like. . .  2 years in this industry is an aeon. We'll be playing end-game EQ2 or WoW. . .

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Obiyer

I like the music more than I did the actual footage. The video was so random, it didn't have a clear purpose or story to tell or message. This sort of reminds me of the Face of Mankind trailer with the random gigantic monster always at the end - what the hell? The only trailer which I saw who did the whole suspenseful monster as a finale routine correctly was Doom III.

-Jan-

It was an early alpha footage so I guess that was ok. Warhammer online had a pretty good end of the level monster in their E3 vid...all you could see of it was its enormous belly lol.

digitydarkman

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Originally posted by dekron



Originally posted by digitydarkman

that was even better then the paris hilton video.. then again that video wasnt very good.. ohh well game looks good

obviously you didn't see the whole video then, it was 48 minutes long

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actually ive seen the full video, and its still not that great she doesnt even look that good