It's truly impressive to see that Frontier Developments Ltd. is working to push the perspective of narrating to a whole new level. This is one of the biggest ways that I see the industry will grow to greater heights, if The Outsider is successful. From looking at what The Outsider will offer, I think that the development is coming together well and that, in the end, this will be one of the biggest games, at the time that it is released. I've been a supporter of various video games on forums and I'm pleased to have myself join this forums because of how much potential it seems that The Outsider & Frontier have.
I recall there being a time when one of the team's members said on Games Industry's website that Halo 3 & Bioshock are not "next-gen" titles, which seems pretty clear to me, for the most part. Sure, those two titles can be regarded as one of the best games of all-time, but they didn't have very many new things to offer. I'd say, from the perspective of Bioshock, that it was most unique in the story & the artistic style of the graphics, but the gameplay felt still very much like that from System Shock 1 & 2, which also are hybrid shooters by incorporating more than just guns for you to use as you're in a first-person perspective. As for Halo 3, it offered possibly a better multiplayer than the previous Halo games and offered the ability to make your own shots of playing the game as well as the new game mode "Forge," but the rest of the gameplay still was very much that of the previous Halo games. Infact, Halo 1 is the best one, as in accordance to Game Rankings, being one of the top ten best games of all-time, while Halo 3 is below Halo 2 and is even below that of both Bioshock and Gears of War. Bioshock is also a part of the top 10. In order to drive a genre much further, there needs to be very important and new key elements added to a game. Other wise, just as a previous Atari employee said, on Kotaku, "games are just about the same things, except that they make it more improved and better, nothing more. He said that Halo 3 is just Doom, hiding under a mask.
The Outsider is a different story. After all, its developer is trying to make video games feel apart from movies, which will make it less limited and will help evolve the way that developers are to make their video games. This will provide less linearity, something that hasn't been seen very much in the majority of games. Although a game must present a story, just as every form of media does, it needs to focus on its main purpose, which is "play." It show change to such lengths that make it less of something to watch (cutscenes, intros, etc.) and more of something that can be played. I'm very happy about the process that Frontier is taking for driving the story forward. It will, hopefully, be the biggest impact towards the narrative side that we've ever seen. Thus, I look forward to this game.
I recall there being a time when one of the team's members said on Games Industry's website that Halo 3 & Bioshock are not "next-gen" titles, which seems pretty clear to me, for the most part. Sure, those two titles can be regarded as one of the best games of all-time, but they didn't have very many new things to offer. I'd say, from the perspective of Bioshock, that it was most unique in the story & the artistic style of the graphics, but the gameplay felt still very much like that from System Shock 1 & 2, which also are hybrid shooters by incorporating more than just guns for you to use as you're in a first-person perspective. As for Halo 3, it offered possibly a better multiplayer than the previous Halo games and offered the ability to make your own shots of playing the game as well as the new game mode "Forge," but the rest of the gameplay still was very much that of the previous Halo games. Infact, Halo 1 is the best one, as in accordance to Game Rankings, being one of the top ten best games of all-time, while Halo 3 is below Halo 2 and is even below that of both Bioshock and Gears of War. Bioshock is also a part of the top 10. In order to drive a genre much further, there needs to be very important and new key elements added to a game. Other wise, just as a previous Atari employee said, on Kotaku, "games are just about the same things, except that they make it more improved and better, nothing more. He said that Halo 3 is just Doom, hiding under a mask.
The Outsider is a different story. After all, its developer is trying to make video games feel apart from movies, which will make it less limited and will help evolve the way that developers are to make their video games. This will provide less linearity, something that hasn't been seen very much in the majority of games. Although a game must present a story, just as every form of media does, it needs to focus on its main purpose, which is "play." It show change to such lengths that make it less of something to watch (cutscenes, intros, etc.) and more of something that can be played. I'm very happy about the process that Frontier is taking for driving the story forward. It will, hopefully, be the biggest impact towards the narrative side that we've ever seen. Thus, I look forward to this game.
Then I tried Elite Plus (89) some time in the 90s. Got hooked. Got Elite 2 Frontier, hooked again. FFE, hooked again. These are some of my all time favorites. So kudos to your development history sir!
