The Secret World: New Trailer Surfaces

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IGN is featuring a new trailer from Funcom's The Secret World. Called "Everything is True", the video gives a sneak peek into the story behind TSW and the raging conspiracies that run rampant throughout the world.

Regardless of your faction choice, your story arc, Tornquist informs us, will have a beginning, a middle and an end. Sort of. "Players will have an arc to follow, through the story mission that begins with the origin story and the first visit to their hub city, and carries on through every location in the game, leading to an epic conclusion...and cliffhanger."

Read more and check out the video at IGN.

Butch808

THE BEE'S ARE RETURNING!

-_-

lol

yorkforce

Awesome!

Katilla

thank you for ruining my day with a nothing but text trailer....   thumbs down....

EndDream

Originally posted by Katilla

thank you for ruining my day with a nothing but text trailer....   thumbs down....

your day can easily be ruined it seems

just1opinion

I think this game has the potential to take sane people and make them crazy.  It's going to provide phobias and paranoid delusions that will rival those of the truly mentally ill.  (I can say that, since I'm mentally ill. :P) I hope I'm being treated  with enough medication to keep me from falling in and not coming back out.......

O.o

Styij

If they thought their flash card video would impress me they have failed. Don't get me wrong I think this title has potential,however it is clear that their marketing people do not.

Shoju

I don't see what is worth getting overly hyped up over a video which is primarily made up of words on a screen.  Its like they have taken every conspiracy theory that has emerged over the past 100 years to use as a marketing tool.

National Enquirer Online.

twodayslate

Originally posted by Styij

If they thought their flash card video would impress me they have failed. Don't get me wrong I think this title has potential,however it is clear that their marketing people do not.

I thought it had potential too, until that EA logo flashed across the screen.

MMO.Maverick

Originally posted by Shoju

I don't see what is worth getting overly hyped up over a video which is primarily made up of words on a screen.  Its like they have taken every conspiracy theory that has emerged over the past 100 years to use as a marketing tool.

National Enquirer Online.

... except that they're supposed to be all implemented in TSW.

 

Without even contemplating and standing still at it, I spotted i think already 5-7 lines that caused an aha-erlebnis because of some screenshots, interviews or footage of TSW that those lines linked at. I'm pretty sure if I look up the official forums that I find that some lore gurus and puzzle sherlocks have made connections to another handful of quotes from the video with some event or reference in TSW.

lectrocuda

They said "a city on the moon", that means we may potentially be able to quest on the moon, and atlantis....sweet.

WSIMike

Originally posted by Aramanu2

THE BEE'S ARE RETURNING!

-_-

lol

Bees had quite an important role in various mythologies throughout history, associated with various gods, etc. There's a lot of symbolism associated with them.

I'm sure it's one of those mythologies that remark refers to, and not your common garden-variety bumble-bee .

Elikal

Hey, that was fun.

WSIMike

Originally posted by Shoju

I don't see what is worth getting overly hyped up over a video which is primarily made up of words on a screen.  Its like they have taken every conspiracy theory that has emerged over the past 100 years to use as a marketing tool.

National Enquirer Online.

-whoosh-

No, they use those words on the screen to give insight into what the game's setting evolves around... all these things taking place.

If you didn't get that and seriously thought it was all just "for marketing"...

Well... nevermind .

Suffice to say that the different responses anything about this game gets makes it very clear which people will be able to fully appreciate the setting of the game, and those who probably won't understand it, much less appreciate it.

wootin

Not that I'm a fan of text trailers, but it's good to see that they're going with the "MIB" approach ("it's all real, but normal people just don't know it"). That's going to make for a pretty fun game.

Now if only they could make it darker and more scary - I think the MMO-ization is going to kill a lot of the atmosphere they could have had going.

ThomasN7

Looks good but gameplay matters most so we'll see.

MMO.Maverick

Originally posted by WSIMike

Originally posted by Aramanu2

THE BEE'S ARE RETURNING!

-_-

lol

Bees had quite an important role in various mythologies throughout history, associated with various gods, etc. There's a lot of symbolism associated with them.

I'm sure it's one of those mythologies that remark refers to, and not your common garden-variety bumble-bee .

 

Where have the bees gone?

 

12th June 2009 - In recent years there's been a lot of buzz about a worldwide phenomenon that threatens to derail the world's food supply.

Suddenly and uncharacteristically, for reasons scientists and beekeepers couldn't explain, adult honeybees were abandoning their hives en masse as though deterred by a mysterious repellent.

The strange phenomenon was dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder, and befuddled the custodians of these busy bees. There were no piles of bee corpses writhing around near the hives -- they were just inexplicably, gone.

Young larvae and pupae were left to fend for themselves, resulting in the full collapse of entire colonies and massive die-offs.

But why is the fate of honeybees increasing the anxiety and drawing the attention of lawmakers worldwide?

Because insect pollinators such as honeybees are responsible for one-third of the western world's food supply.

"One-third of every bite of food you take, you can thank a bee for," said Todd Yakimishen, president of the Manitoba Beekeepers Association.

Three-quarters of the world's flowering plants rely on animal pollinators like bees -- plants that give us apples, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, nuts, broccoli, pumpkins, pears and berries.

Half a dozen theories have been posited on the cause of the die-off that resulted in a 36% loss in the U.S. last year.

One German study, for example, blamed cellphone radiation for interfering with the bees' homing and communication abilities.

A team of Israeli scientists identified a virus they named the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus as a possible cause of the mass exodus.

Other experts say trucking bee colonies from crop to crop to pollinate -- a practice more common in the U.S. -- is to blame, and others still point the finger at the incremental impact or "sub-lethal effect" of pesticides and herbicides.

But most experts agree that what's happening to the world's bee population is the result of multiple, interacting stressors.

"It's a death by a thousand cuts, which reduces their lifespan and ability to navigate," said Stephen Pernal, president of the Canada Association of Professional Apiculturists and a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. "It's a perfect storm of multiple stresses."

While beekeepers in Canada haven't experienced the CCD phenomenon like their counterparts in the U.S., we've suffered significant losses in other ways, Pernal says.

"We've experienced heavy losses as well but we see it as dead bees after winter," Pernal said from his office in Beaverlodge, Alta.

Higher levels of wintering and spring mortality in Canada may be related to the same causal factors as CCD losses in the U.S., Pernal said.

Over the last two years, losses in commercial beekeeping rose sharply to nearly twice that of long-term trends. While the normal overwintering mortality rate averages 15%, last year 26% of colonies were lost across Canada, and 29% lost in 2007.

During the winter, colonies are moved indoors where the bees form clusters to keep warm. It will be another month or so in Canada before beekeepers will be able to disturb the hives and determine how many survived this winter.

Terry Greidanus, president of Alberta Beekeepers lost 40% of his own bee colonies last year mostly to the Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that has developed resistance to traditional chemical killers and has no natural predators.

"The last couple of years we've experienced abnormally high winter losses," he said.

Nosema parasites and starvation are also major bee killers in Canada.

Meanwhile, extreme weather patterns around the world are exacerbating the problem, say some scientists. Drought and unexpected deep freezes are thwarting normal flowering patterns, leading to malnutrition and starvation among bees.

Experts also warn that the decimated bee populations could translate into rising food prices.

For example, fruit and vegetable producers rent beehives every Spring to pollinate their crops. But in British Columbia, blueberry pollination contracts went unfulfilled last year because of a shortage of hives.

The estimated value of honey bees to crop pollination in Canada is $1.3-$1.7 billion. Honeybee pollination contributes $1.7 billion annually in increased agricultural production in Canada.

Bees are also instrumental in the pollination of hybrid canola plants, Pernal said, a high-value crop for Canada valued at $13.8 billion to the economy, that produces a higher yield than traditional canola plants. They also pollinate alfalfa plants, which are used in cattle feed.

But little credit is given to these armies of hardworking, busy bees, Greidanus said, often overlooked by the public and governments alike.

"We're a very small industry and governments don't like to send money this way," he said. "They're more likely to send it to the cattle industry in Alberta because they're more visible."

 

Conspiracy theories and mysteries ftw!

 

- Albert Einstein once said “If all the Bees were gone, humans would be gone within 4 years.”   (edit: correction, just found out that it wasn't Einstein who said that )

WSIMike

Originally posted by MMO.Maverick

Originally posted by WSIMike

Originally posted by Aramanu2

THE BEE'S ARE RETURNING!

-_-

lol

Bees had quite an important role in various mythologies throughout history, associated with various gods, etc. There's a lot of symbolism associated with them.

I'm sure it's one of those mythologies that remark refers to, and not your common garden-variety bumble-bee .

 

Where have the bees gone?

 

12th June 2009 - In recent years there's been a lot of buzz about a worldwide phenomenon that threatens to derail the world's food supply.

Suddenly and uncharacteristically, for reasons scientists and beekeepers couldn't explain, adult honeybees were abandoning their hives en masse as though deterred by a mysterious repellent.

The strange phenomenon was dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder, and befuddled the custodians of these busy bees. There were no piles of bee corpses writhing around near the hives -- they were just inexplicably, gone.

Young larvae and pupae were left to fend for themselves, resulting in the full collapse of entire colonies and massive die-offs.

But why is the fate of honeybees increasing the anxiety and drawing the attention of lawmakers worldwide?

Because insect pollinators such as honeybees are responsible for one-third of the western world's food supply.

"One-third of every bite of food you take, you can thank a bee for," said Todd Yakimishen, president of the Manitoba Beekeepers Association.

Three-quarters of the world's flowering plants rely on animal pollinators like bees -- plants that give us apples, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, nuts, broccoli, pumpkins, pears and berries.

Half a dozen theories have been posited on the cause of the die-off that resulted in a 36% loss in the U.S. last year.

One German study, for example, blamed cellphone radiation for interfering with the bees' homing and communication abilities.

A team of Israeli scientists identified a virus they named the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus as a possible cause of the mass exodus.

Other experts say trucking bee colonies from crop to crop to pollinate -- a practice more common in the U.S. -- is to blame, and others still point the finger at the incremental impact or "sub-lethal effect" of pesticides and herbicides.

But most experts agree that what's happening to the world's bee population is the result of multiple, interacting stressors.

"It's a death by a thousand cuts, which reduces their lifespan and ability to navigate," said Stephen Pernal, president of the Canada Association of Professional Apiculturists and a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. "It's a perfect storm of multiple stresses."

While beekeepers in Canada haven't experienced the CCD phenomenon like their counterparts in the U.S., we've suffered significant losses in other ways, Pernal says.

"We've experienced heavy losses as well but we see it as dead bees after winter," Pernal said from his office in Beaverlodge, Alta.

Higher levels of wintering and spring mortality in Canada may be related to the same causal factors as CCD losses in the U.S., Pernal said.

Over the last two years, losses in commercial beekeeping rose sharply to nearly twice that of long-term trends. While the normal overwintering mortality rate averages 15%, last year 26% of colonies were lost across Canada, and 29% lost in 2007.

During the winter, colonies are moved indoors where the bees form clusters to keep warm. It will be another month or so in Canada before beekeepers will be able to disturb the hives and determine how many survived this winter.

Terry Greidanus, president of Alberta Beekeepers lost 40% of his own bee colonies last year mostly to the Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that has developed resistance to traditional chemical killers and has no natural predators.

"The last couple of years we've experienced abnormally high winter losses," he said.

Nosema parasites and starvation are also major bee killers in Canada.

Meanwhile, extreme weather patterns around the world are exacerbating the problem, say some scientists. Drought and unexpected deep freezes are thwarting normal flowering patterns, leading to malnutrition and starvation among bees.

Experts also warn that the decimated bee populations could translate into rising food prices.

For example, fruit and vegetable producers rent beehives every Spring to pollinate their crops. But in British Columbia, blueberry pollination contracts went unfulfilled last year because of a shortage of hives.

The estimated value of honey bees to crop pollination in Canada is $1.3-$1.7 billion. Honeybee pollination contributes $1.7 billion annually in increased agricultural production in Canada.

Bees are also instrumental in the pollination of hybrid canola plants, Pernal said, a high-value crop for Canada valued at $13.8 billion to the economy, that produces a higher yield than traditional canola plants. They also pollinate alfalfa plants, which are used in cattle feed.

But little credit is given to these armies of hardworking, busy bees, Greidanus said, often overlooked by the public and governments alike.

"We're a very small industry and governments don't like to send money this way," he said. "They're more likely to send it to the cattle industry in Alberta because they're more visible."

 

Conspiracy theories and mysteries ftw!

 

- Albert Einstein once said “If all the Bees were gone, humans would be gone within 4 years.”   (edit: correction, just found out that it wasn't Einstein who said that )

Ahhh interesting.

I didn't know there was a phenomena that recent involvign them. I figured it was something to do with a historical significance they had.

Who knows, maybe it's a combination of things.

Idta

Great trailer, me thinks. It's not like they didn't show ANYTHING. a good chunk of the video was showing the enviroments and cities which I always wondered about. The other half had all the conspiracies in the game flashing on the screen along some really powerful musical score. I don't want Funcom to start showing the game's every small detail because I want to find all that out and explore it for myself. 

MMO.Maverick

Originally posted by WSIMike

Ahhh interesting.

I didn't know there was a phenomena that recent involvign them. I figured it was something to do with a historical significance they had.

Who knows, maybe it's a combination of things.

Naah, it was a real thing a few years ago, massive scale disappearances of whole bee colonies, leaving the colonies they came from to die. They were just gone.

It became enough of a fuss to lead to all kinds of wild speculations and conspiracy theory listings:

Disappearing Bees



All around the world, bees - particularly honeybees - seem to be disappearing. Beekeepers noticed it first, but ordinary people are now waking up to the fact that there are fewer bees around. What's going on? What started out as an internet conspiracy is now beginning to leak out into the mainstream media, with scientific phrases such as "Colony Collapse Disorder" being used. Some people blame a new virus or pesticide, while others suggest that radiation from mobile phones is interfering with bees' navigation systems. Much of our agriculture is based on pollination undertaken by bees, so the implications of bee disappearance is massive, with governments now spending millions of pounds on research.

 

The bee disappearance mystery was also referenced on shows such as Doctor Who and Shyamalan's movie The Happening.

Katilla

Originally posted by WSIMike

Originally posted by MMO.Maverick

Originally posted by WSIMike

Originally posted by Aramanu2

THE BEE'S ARE RETURNING!

-_-

lol

Bees had quite an important role in various mythologies throughout history, associated with various gods, etc. There's a lot of symbolism associated with them.

I'm sure it's one of those mythologies that remark refers to, and not your common garden-variety bumble-bee .

 

Where have the bees gone?

 

12th June 2009 - In recent years there's been a lot of buzz about a worldwide phenomenon that threatens to derail the world's food supply.

Suddenly and uncharacteristically, for reasons scientists and beekeepers couldn't explain, adult honeybees were abandoning their hives en masse as though deterred by a mysterious repellent.

The strange phenomenon was dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder, and befuddled the custodians of these busy bees. There were no piles of bee corpses writhing around near the hives -- they were just inexplicably, gone.

Young larvae and pupae were left to fend for themselves, resulting in the full collapse of entire colonies and massive die-offs.

But why is the fate of honeybees increasing the anxiety and drawing the attention of lawmakers worldwide?

Because insect pollinators such as honeybees are responsible for one-third of the western world's food supply.

"One-third of every bite of food you take, you can thank a bee for," said Todd Yakimishen, president of the Manitoba Beekeepers Association.

Three-quarters of the world's flowering plants rely on animal pollinators like bees -- plants that give us apples, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, nuts, broccoli, pumpkins, pears and berries.

Half a dozen theories have been posited on the cause of the die-off that resulted in a 36% loss in the U.S. last year.

One German study, for example, blamed cellphone radiation for interfering with the bees' homing and communication abilities.

A team of Israeli scientists identified a virus they named the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus as a possible cause of the mass exodus.

Other experts say trucking bee colonies from crop to crop to pollinate -- a practice more common in the U.S. -- is to blame, and others still point the finger at the incremental impact or "sub-lethal effect" of pesticides and herbicides.

But most experts agree that what's happening to the world's bee population is the result of multiple, interacting stressors.

"It's a death by a thousand cuts, which reduces their lifespan and ability to navigate," said Stephen Pernal, president of the Canada Association of Professional Apiculturists and a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. "It's a perfect storm of multiple stresses."

While beekeepers in Canada haven't experienced the CCD phenomenon like their counterparts in the U.S., we've suffered significant losses in other ways, Pernal says.

"We've experienced heavy losses as well but we see it as dead bees after winter," Pernal said from his office in Beaverlodge, Alta.

Higher levels of wintering and spring mortality in Canada may be related to the same causal factors as CCD losses in the U.S., Pernal said.

Over the last two years, losses in commercial beekeeping rose sharply to nearly twice that of long-term trends. While the normal overwintering mortality rate averages 15%, last year 26% of colonies were lost across Canada, and 29% lost in 2007.

During the winter, colonies are moved indoors where the bees form clusters to keep warm. It will be another month or so in Canada before beekeepers will be able to disturb the hives and determine how many survived this winter.

Terry Greidanus, president of Alberta Beekeepers lost 40% of his own bee colonies last year mostly to the Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that has developed resistance to traditional chemical killers and has no natural predators.

"The last couple of years we've experienced abnormally high winter losses," he said.

Nosema parasites and starvation are also major bee killers in Canada.

Meanwhile, extreme weather patterns around the world are exacerbating the problem, say some scientists. Drought and unexpected deep freezes are thwarting normal flowering patterns, leading to malnutrition and starvation among bees.

Experts also warn that the decimated bee populations could translate into rising food prices.

For example, fruit and vegetable producers rent beehives every Spring to pollinate their crops. But in British Columbia, blueberry pollination contracts went unfulfilled last year because of a shortage of hives.

The estimated value of honey bees to crop pollination in Canada is $1.3-$1.7 billion. Honeybee pollination contributes $1.7 billion annually in increased agricultural production in Canada.

Bees are also instrumental in the pollination of hybrid canola plants, Pernal said, a high-value crop for Canada valued at $13.8 billion to the economy, that produces a higher yield than traditional canola plants. They also pollinate alfalfa plants, which are used in cattle feed.

But little credit is given to these armies of hardworking, busy bees, Greidanus said, often overlooked by the public and governments alike.

"We're a very small industry and governments don't like to send money this way," he said. "They're more likely to send it to the cattle industry in Alberta because they're more visible."

 

Conspiracy theories and mysteries ftw!

 

- Albert Einstein once said “If all the Bees were gone, humans would be gone within 4 years.”   (edit: correction, just found out that it wasn't Einstein who said that )

Ahhh interesting.

I didn't know there was a phenomena that recent involvign them. I figured it was something to do with a historical significance they had.

Who knows, maybe it's a combination of things.

 WALL OF TEXT STINGS YOU FOR 102,450 DAMAGE

Aemi

Wow, this game looks amazing. It looks like it's a game with a deep storyline. Hopefully it's not boring walls of text over and over again though.

WSIMike

Originally posted by tshack88

{mod edit}

Ragnar Tornquist said some time back that he would be continuing on Dreamfall/TLJ after Secret World was launched.

Seems he's keeping to that schedule... especially given his important role on TSW (being the guy who dreamed the whole idea up in the first place and all).

{mod edit}

Jojin

Originally posted by Katilla

thank you for ruining my day with a nothing but text trailer....   thumbs down....

It might be a text trailer, but the insight provided into locations and what we might encounter is way more than any video trailer could offer in the same peroid of time.

For so long they have just mentioned about pulling from myths and legends, but now they actually gave us clues as to which ones.

MMO.Maverick

Originally posted by Jojin

Originally posted by Katilla

thank you for ruining my day with a nothing but text trailer....   thumbs down....

It might be a text trailer, but the insight provided into locations and what we might encounter is way more than any video trailer could offer in the same peroid of time.

For so long they have just mentioned about pulling from myths and legends, but now they actually gave us clues as to which ones.

Yep, that's what I was thinking too.

These textquotes are among the myths, urban legends and conspiracy theories that we can expect to see make their appearance ingame in some form or another.

 

The line up of text lines flashing by in the video, as someone on the official forums was so kind to post:

 

 

This Is How Our End Begins

Now

Powerful forces are on the move

And dark conspiracies converge

As a hidden world is finally revealed

We are in the Fourth Age

Powerful Cabals Rule the World

They Have Kept Us in the Dark

Signals Disrupt our Thoughts

The Host were Here Before Us

They are still here

There is a City on the Moon

Eleven days are missing

The Earth is hollow

The Wagtail has arrived

There are Portals in Time and Space

The Bees are Returning

The Eight watch over us

Solomon's Key unleashes Hell

The Tower of Babel never fell

The Old Gods are awakening

Atlantis rises

The Ark of the Covenant is an Engine

Stonehenge is a Beacon

The Fountain of Youth is Poisoned

Immortal Beings walk the Earth

The planets are aligning

The End of Days are here

Everyone must choose a side

The Dark Places are Crawling

The Filth will Corrupt us all

The Morning Light burns

Demons march against us

The Dreamers whisper

  A Blight befalls the Garden of Eden

We have dug too deep

Lillith's Children are unchained

Pandora's Box is opening up

There is a secret world

Everything Is True

Dark Days Are Coming

Orious

If people are saying the marketing team and trailer are a bunch of crap, they are the shallow gamer. While I'm not big on mystery games and things like that, even I had a smirk slide across my face as the "flash cards" flashed across the screen. The phrases give insight to what the game is going to throw at you. Those who have been following TSW know this and have already begun to decipher what is in store for the gamers that buy it. This is a great marketing tool for the people who want to use their brain while playing a game. It will do nothing to those who want mindless aesthetics. Very good marketing and a very good tease.