CC = Bland?

xTybaltx · 2003-09-18, 09:48 PM

I would just like to share some first impressions I've had of CC - impressions formed solely from the screen shots, concept art, and what SOE is saying about the game.

I think it looks pretty bland. There will be indoor / close quarters fighting; well great, but I don't enjoy fighting indoors right now. What I really really love about PS is the beautiful outdoor scenery we get to fight in: the swamps of Hossin, the forests of Foresal, the rolling hills and north American style of Amerish, the Volcano of Searhus, and so on. CC seems to just be dark, grey, underground caverns.

The experience of fighting under the forest canopy of, say, Hossin, with Reavers hovering low overhead, bumping into enemy troop formations at just 100m you didn't even know were there, tanks zooming in and out seemingly from nowhere, is just awesome.

Why would I want to exchange that for some caverns and tunnels?

Transporter · 2003-09-18, 10:21 PM

yea i hate fighting indoors b/c of jakehammer ppl and gref points there is no way to shot down a hall and not hit a firendly

JetRaiden · 2003-09-18, 10:25 PM

well obvious you hate the jackhammer you have a VS and TR character....

sniper4evr26 · 2003-09-18, 10:30 PM

i think u fruits need to go play under the rainbows and butterflies somewhere else.... planetside is obviously not for u if the first thing u notice is the "beautiful scenery." as hamma once said: its an FPS, you kill people, you blow shit up... what more "content" do you need?

Headrattle · 2003-09-18, 10:35 PM

But I wanna kill the butterflies! I wanna destroy the Rainbows!

It is nice to kill people in a beautiful setting, don't you think?

ZionsFire · 2003-09-18, 10:37 PM

Originally posted by sniper4evr26
i think u fruits need to go play under the rainbows and butterflies somewhere else.... planetside is obviously not for u if the first thing u notice is the "beautiful scenery." as hamma once said: its an FPS, you kill people, you blow shit up... what more "content" do you need?

WOAH there! watch it man we dont need insults or flames where we dont need em

Transporter · 2003-09-18, 10:56 PM

ehh fuck you and my comp lags so i almost die instintly indoors its not that i like outside its just that i cant fight with out dieing over and over again sory if that pisses you off

BuzzCutPsycho · 2003-09-19, 02:07 AM

as hamma once said: its an FPS, you kill people, you blow shit up... what more "content" do you need?

Which is exactly why DOOM is still being played online by millions of people 24/7!!! I mean, WHAT MORE CONTENT DOES A GAME NEED IF ITS AN FPS?!?!?

Flammey · 2003-09-19, 02:16 AM

And why that idiotic Half-Life is still being played by over 40000 people every hour.

Happy lil Elf · 2003-09-19, 02:48 AM

He's got you on that one, Hammer

Now then to the matter at hand. Why not at least wait until the expansion comes out before you start complaining about it?

Nawchoz · 2003-09-19, 03:21 AM

Originally posted by xTybaltx

I think it looks pretty bland. There will be indoor / close quarters fighting; well great, but I don't enjoy fighting indoors right now. What I really really love about PS is the beautiful outdoor scenery we get to fight in: the swamps of Hossin, the forests of Foresal, the rolling hills and north American style of Amerish, the Volcano of Searhus, and so on. CC seems to just be dark, grey, underground caverns.

... Have you ever SEEN a real cave? They tend to look that way. Something about being made entirely of rock tends to limit the color pallete.. heh

shadowseed · 2003-09-19, 04:05 AM

Originally posted by Transporter
yea i hate fighting indoors b/c of jakehammer ppl and gref points there is no way to shot down a hall and not hit a firendly

Yeah, hitting friendlys is a real hazard when using the pounder indoors.

Madcow · 2003-09-19, 10:54 AM

Originally posted by Nawchoz
... Have you ever SEEN a real cave? They tend to look that way. Something about being made entirely of rock tends to limit the color pallete.. heh

I'm not sure what bearing that should have on a game set in a non-existent fantasy world. I actually agree that the screenshots I've seen thus far underwhelmed me significantly with the caves. It looks like a very uninspired area done quickly. I'm hoping those are early screens and that changes have been made since then, but only time will tell. With the obvious 'crystal' theme they're hanging on to they have an opportunity to use quite a few colors and a lot of cool lighting, I just hope that there's a lot more than what we've seen so far which is probably a pretty good bet.

Jagd · 2003-09-20, 03:22 PM

Yeah, most of those rock formations looked like quake1 engine crap. Here's hoping they at least improve the textures if they can't do anything about the ghetto poly counts.

Acaila · 2003-09-21, 11:17 AM

They promised us ice caverns and other things that I can't remember. All I remember was it put me in mind of underground places in a Tolkein novel, that's what I want it to be like.