What did you think about the Dev Diary Format ?
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Would you prefer "PRODUCTION FOOTAGE : BUT WE ARE MAKING YOU WAIT ANOTHER 6 MONTHS - #DEALWITHIT"
I agree with Factabulous. I felt the Dev Diary #1 was quite slick but it was a promotional / trailer video aimed at drawing in new people rather than aimed at the existing core commander that's been here for a while.
What rang alarms for me was the use of the term "Pre Alpha Development Footage" when they showed us 'in game video'. Surely they have something by now that's a bit closer to actual release candidate video, if not of actual game play that they want to tease further, but of the vista's shown.
It Was good to see DB OBE interviewed but I wasn't at all impressed with the rest of the followup livestream. The only additional information given was the reveal of the 'Exo-Biologist' rank, (this is an old term as it is now known as Astrobiology according to Wikipediea).
And finally I was left thinking.....is that it.....is that all we're going to see today, that doesn't bode well for the future as looks like it's going to be a long grinding reveals process.
What rang alarms for me was the use of the term "Pre Alpha Development Footage" when they showed us 'in game video'. Surely they have something by now that's a bit closer to actual release candidate video, if not of actual game play that they want to tease further, but of the vista's shown.
It Was good to see DB OBE interviewed but I wasn't at all impressed with the rest of the followup livestream. The only additional information given was the reveal of the 'Exo-Biologist' rank, (this is an old term as it is now known as Astrobiology according to Wikipediea).
And finally I was left thinking.....is that it.....is that all we're going to see today, that doesn't bode well for the future as looks like it's going to be a long grinding reveals process.
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Being fair, the bits flying over the new planets were nice.
Lot of flash, not much bang.
By which I mean that it was all good looking and well produced, but I expected more details and information from a Dev Diary. It was more a Marketing Diary.
Still any information is better than none.
By which I mean that it was all good looking and well produced, but I expected more details and information from a Dev Diary. It was more a Marketing Diary.
Still any information is better than none.
Eat yer greens first.
Dev diary was actually more polished than i expected, as thought would be very basic due to covid restrictions.
As for the Discovery Scanner. I think it was a breach of trade descriptions to call it that. Instead it was just Stephen gushing over things with the occasional snipet from the designer. I personally felt a bit insulted by its banality.
Previous Discovery scanners were a great insight into the work the devs do and gives people an appreciation of their skills and the complexity of actually developing things.
At the very least i would have liked the Designer to have been given time to explain how the design process has been working for Odyssey and what their goals are. We got none of that.
As for the Discovery Scanner. I think it was a breach of trade descriptions to call it that. Instead it was just Stephen gushing over things with the occasional snipet from the designer. I personally felt a bit insulted by its banality.
Previous Discovery scanners were a great insight into the work the devs do and gives people an appreciation of their skills and the complexity of actually developing things.
At the very least i would have liked the Designer to have been given time to explain how the design process has been working for Odyssey and what their goals are. We got none of that.
Dev Diary Format... Good idea, it would free up space for more stuff!
I liked the second teaser - sorry "Dev Diary" - but thought it a little light on Dev insight. The Livestream 'Deep Dive' I felt to be a little less than that, although the Braben interview was welcome.
I hope the next issue of each is improved over this one - but have no real criticism allowing for the restrictions currently in place.
I hope the next issue of each is improved over this one - but have no real criticism allowing for the restrictions currently in place.
Apart from seeing DBOBE, I enjoyed that .. it's been ages.
Probably should be called Developing Diaries and we've had deeper technical delves but this did remind me of the more expansive, 'this is our thinking' of the pre-alpha days.
The Dev Diary, slicker than I expected under current circumstances, was little more no more than another trailer with some Devs talking nebulously over it. My personal feelings are that when Dr Kay is on screen the whole world should shush for a while and learn some interesting stuff ( other Devs are included in this but Kay always delivers for me.) So to see what I assume is the reveal roadmap limit us to these snippets is a real shame - perhaps we’ll benefit from the Devs being given more time in the future but this one was just frustrating.
The stream; went along all too familiar lines for me. I’d love to see the CMs learn the art of allowing others to speak rather than filling any momentary silence with lots of words.
I don’t mean this to be any kind of personal attack. Its a plea for more of an interviewing style, ask a question that your guest can answer, elaborate on and allow them the time to do so. Too often ( television shows included) we get a presenter asking questions in such a way that they virtually answer for the guest leaving them with little else to say.
In terms of what we saw - I’m suckered in, I thought it looked great. Even though I spent the whole time thinking (and I will say this ) “I‘m going to spend my whole time playing this wishing I could do it in VR.” There, said it - to hell with you all
Also, I simply cannot wait to achieve ‘Hand-scanner‘ Elite so I can look with pride on my right hand panel. *Please recognise this for being the cheapest sarcasm I could muster. I’m not against the activity or the codex entries but filling our UI and so on with more and more stuff doesn’t fill me with excitement - system maps filled with FC soon to be joined with ‘Cmdr Whatshisface stopped to water the flowers’ on every other planet.
I don’t doubt I’m in a minority.
The stream; went along all too familiar lines for me. I’d love to see the CMs learn the art of allowing others to speak rather than filling any momentary silence with lots of words.
I don’t mean this to be any kind of personal attack. Its a plea for more of an interviewing style, ask a question that your guest can answer, elaborate on and allow them the time to do so. Too often ( television shows included) we get a presenter asking questions in such a way that they virtually answer for the guest leaving them with little else to say.
In terms of what we saw - I’m suckered in, I thought it looked great. Even though I spent the whole time thinking (and I will say this ) “I‘m going to spend my whole time playing this wishing I could do it in VR.” There, said it - to hell with you all
Also, I simply cannot wait to achieve ‘Hand-scanner‘ Elite so I can look with pride on my right hand panel. *Please recognise this for being the cheapest sarcasm I could muster. I’m not against the activity or the codex entries but filling our UI and so on with more and more stuff doesn’t fill me with excitement - system maps filled with FC soon to be joined with ‘Cmdr Whatshisface stopped to water the flowers’ on every other planet.
I don’t doubt I’m in a minority.
I felt it was too focused on the visuals, all praise and not much show. Needed more content reveals and discussion on the technical aspects.
I like the 4 minute Dev Diary (Trailer).
The live stream with DB OBE was fine -I always like to hear what he has to say.
Unfortunately the rest of the stream was disappointing (actually I found it damn annoying) - too much 'ooh it's really great', 'what's your favourite colour' sort of stuff, and not a lot of depth.
It's the first one, so hopefully they will improve - if not, I'll be fast forwarding through it again, which would be a shame, as important little bits of info may get missed.
The live stream with DB OBE was fine -I always like to hear what he has to say.
Unfortunately the rest of the stream was disappointing (actually I found it damn annoying) - too much 'ooh it's really great', 'what's your favourite colour' sort of stuff, and not a lot of depth.
It's the first one, so hopefully they will improve - if not, I'll be fast forwarding through it again, which would be a shame, as important little bits of info may get missed.
Honestly? I don't care.
Call it professional bias but anything less than: "we have added X feature (screenshot/short vid) and currently performing tests. And yes, it stays in game." I treat as pure marketing and wishful thinking. I could count on one hand (while holding a beer) cases where developers announced something and delivered exactly as promised. Otoh there are numerous evidence of pure marketing , grand plans that turned as usual, wishful thinking and reality charming just to show how we are excited to introduce this and that and how it will be grand and revolutionary.
Until I get final product I'll remain sceptical and will treat dev blogs, diaries, updates and whatever it's called as a marketing speech.
Call it professional bias but anything less than: "we have added X feature (screenshot/short vid) and currently performing tests. And yes, it stays in game." I treat as pure marketing and wishful thinking. I could count on one hand (while holding a beer) cases where developers announced something and delivered exactly as promised. Otoh there are numerous evidence of pure marketing , grand plans that turned as usual, wishful thinking and reality charming just to show how we are excited to introduce this and that and how it will be grand and revolutionary.
Until I get final product I'll remain sceptical and will treat dev blogs, diaries, updates and whatever it's called as a marketing speech.
The Dev Diary, slicker than I expected under current circumstances, waslittle moreno more than another trailer with some Devs talking nebulously over it. My personal feelings are that when Dr Kay is on screen the whole world should shush for a while and learn some interesting stuff ( other Devs are included in this but Kay always delivers for me.) So to see what I assume is the reveal roadmap limit us to these snippets is a real shame - perhaps we’ll benefit from the Devs being given more time in the future but this one was just frustrating.
The stream; went along all too familiar lines for me. I’d love to see the CMs learn the art of allowing others to speak rather than filling any momentary silence with lots of words.
I don’t mean this to be any kind of personal attack. Its a plea for more of an interviewing style, ask a question that your guest can answer, elaborate on and allow them the time to do so. Too often ( television shows included) we get a presenter asking questions in such a way that they virtually answer for the guest leaving them with little else to say.
In terms of what we saw - I’m suckered in, I thought it looked great. Even though I spent the whole time thinking (and I will say this ) “I‘m going to spend my whole time playing this wishing I could do it in VR.” There, said it - to hell with you all
Also, I simply cannot wait to achieve ‘Hand-scanner‘ Elite so I can look with pride on my right hand panel. *Please recognise this for being the cheapest sarcasm I could muster. I’m not against the activity or the codex entries but filling our UI and so on with more and more stuff doesn’t fill me with excitement - system maps filled with FC soon to be joined with ‘Cmdr Whatshisface stopped to water the flowers’ on every other planet.
I don’t doubt I’m in a minority.
This was the problem: substance.
FD should have had the trailer / dev thing but actually have a deep dive into what we just saw- we have devs saying 'its new and improved!'- well how? Update the 'building a World' deep dive from before and go through how EDO makes EDO better- its adding value to what we have seen and not spoiling anything.