Stumbling through Drakkhen

[davidn]

Today, I want to present an experimental short film in which nothing at all happens for 40 minutes. Not really, it's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al7-W9gd1h8&hd=1

A boring video about a boring RPG, and if you enjoy it then you are a boring person! Actually I could sort of see that this game had some decent ideas, with the dungeons versus the free-roaming overworld and the potential of having to swap between characters to solve puzzles, but the whole thing feels so clunky as to undermine it.

Comments

[raptorianone.livejournal.com]

Oho? What are your thoughts on Chryssalids, then?

[kjorteo]

On what, now? *Googles* ... Oh.

Hmm. It needs to be at least somewhat humanoid to work! I'm a furry, not a ... what is that, that looks like some sort of attack robot from the waist down. Yeah, I'm going to go with Chryssalids aren't sexy for the same reason Omega isn't sexy. Not that they're revolting or anything, mind you, there's just ... nothing of interest there.

You know, they are kind of not bad from the waist up, though. Maybe swap out the Protoss Dragoon blade-stilts for some actual legs and feet (:3) and you might have something, there.

[davidn]

They look a lot more mechanical than the ones I'm used to - how about the stalking infectious black things from the original game?

[kjorteo]

Those look like Atlas dipped in tar!

[davidn]

Some people enjoy that kind of thing too :X

[kjorteo]

 

[davidn]

And why am I getting into this?

[kjorteo]