ELEX 2 - Gameplay and first impressions
 

Karak (ACG) gives his first impressions on a 28-minute gameplay of Elex 2.

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Is it just me or are all faces very weird?

I thought tired faces are trademarked by Bioware. :)

A little but the reviewer suggested that some of them may be placeholders. We'll see. I like the face s from Elex1 better at this point.

Other than the faces, the beta is looking great. Really looking forward to this.

Who cares for faces, I want early access now!

Big no for me about launching on Early Access. Just announce the release date already.

Maybe AI is somewhat unfinished too. (but I saw different video)

It's funny to me that they could have such great lip-syncing but allow some of the characters to have butt-ugly faces. :)

I want to know who the five joinable factions are. There's been a lot of speculation about that.

Oof. In attempting to be more detailed in the character models and animations, they've made things so much worse. This is like Oblivion crossed with cheap animatronics.

Have they confirmed that we'll be able to stay independent for the entire game? I must have missed that. I also wonder if staying independent counts as one of the five choices or if it creates a total of six.

I think PB said two of the three factions from Elex 1 would be joinable in Elex 2. So one of those factions should still be joinable since it's obvious the Berserkers are the other.

I eventually hope they remove factions as being a requirement to progress the main story line. They should be highly desirable though i.e. providing power and maybe direct assistance for the main story line. Having more factions sounds good, it could be interesting to perhaps have some that are non-exclusive (minor factions) in a future PB game. I'm thinking along the lines of - Join the beserkers and join the theives guild (Claws) or similar. Would be nice if factions like the claws had their own mid-tier armours etc.

I think they look like the Fallout talking heads of yore. They look all a bit "pronounced". :p

Not a game-breaker for me, though.

During the Fextralife stream I heard Herbert on the radio. You know, the Clerics propaganda guy from Elex 1. He said he's "broadcasting from orbit", so maybe they found a way to finish Calaan and went into space. Maybe even built a space station with their fairly advanced tech once they stopped fighting Albs.
Or it's just propaganda and they simply stopped existing as a faction.

I can see Risen 3 all there. Except Risen 3 had amazing almost naked women. In ELEX 2 I only saw ugly female models. Soo.. this game is worse!

At least that clarifies a lot about your standards of game quality.

Maybe I should have put this erotic RPG Kickstarter in the news after all.

You should Steam sells hundreds of adult games but the sites TOS prevents that. I'm just kidding but you'd be surprised how much money some of those developers make.:lol:

Anyway don't disregard Mercy's point it has some truth in it. PB used to have naked women and other stuff that's now deemed unacceptable by modern review sites.

Does anyone not remember the RPS articles criticizing the slave girls from Gothic?

No, but I remember an awkward discussion about that in P&R (was it in the Avellone thread?)

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you - and hear the lamentation of their women!

Well it was a prison colony and it was just two slave girls for the warden.:biggrin:

The Risen games if I recall had prostitutes but it's been a while since I played them myself. Anyway PB games have always been made for male power fantasy.

I'm not defending them just facts.:)

As far as I remember he claimed that sending from space thing already in Elex 1, where it was untrue.

1 - scalable (or just huge) UI
2 - pixel art
3- nekkid women!

I bet you can't get anyone in this forum to all say exactly the same things for what makes a good game.

Sounds like rune_74 might be putting forth our next poll question, perhaps? =)

It's already been asked multiple times already on various threads and polls. His point is we have no consensus on anything. As everybody has different tastes and ideas.

Heck we can't even define what exactly is an RPG either on a site called RPGWatch.:(

Yep, "Orbit" was the name of his broadcast which led some people to think he was actually broadcasting from orbit, but you can find Herbert and his radio equipment somewhere in the Abessa region I think.