Grey Goo - Now wobbling on your Hard Drive

[Abelian]

The human ambient track reminded me a bit of the Dune 2000 soundtrack (electronic and sweeping strings). I liked the human and beta music themes than the Grey Goo one, but they're all well-executed. I'm glad Klepacki's on board.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I'm glad Klepacki's on board.

I think he's actually one of Petroglyph's heads, so it would be weird to not have him on board.

Cool musix tho, I approve very much.

 

[Abelian]

I'm glad Klepacki's on board.

I think he's actually one of Petroglyph's heads, so it would be weird to not have him on board.

Cool musix tho, I approve very much.

I hadn't realized he's been Petroglyph's audio director since 2004. I knew he worked with EA on RA3, so thought he joined Petroglyph more recently.

 

[thesheeep]

I thought he was an indie who just happens to always work with the Westwood & Petroglyph guys.
But anyway, his music is great at conveying specific atmospheres (I actually use it for PnP sessions), so it is always a great thing if he does the music score.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

It's good, but doesn't come close to some of Frank's older work, like Emperor: Battle for Dune.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://www.destructoid.com/make-like-the-goo-and-absorb-these-grey-goo-screens-275199.phtml

Screenshots showing the Goo.

 

[Abelian]

The units look cool. I was afraid they would be amorphous blobs of goo. However, I'm a little concerned with telling the units apart, since all have the Protoss dragoon shape. The small "zerglings" are easy to identify with that prism on top, but the others are not as distinct.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

They're gonna live-stream Grey Goo today at the Samsung stage for 20 minutes at 12:20 PM UTC-7. That's 21:20 CET for us civilized folks.
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/samsung-stage-3-2014/

 

[Jaedar]

They're gonna live-stream Grey Goo today at the Samsung stage for 20 minutes at 12:20 PM UTC-7. That's 21:20 CET for us civilized folks.
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/samsung-stage-3-2014/

If something good actually comes out of e3 then truly this is undeniably the year of incline

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/samsung-stage-3-2014/ starts at 2:30 or so.

Looks cool. And there's beta sign ups at their website.

 

[Stefan Vujovic]

Beside butt ugly UI, the game sure looks promising, especially goo faction...

Ohh and nice change to human faction, 1st time seeing them like a super hi tech force...

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I have that feeling this will be a bit too casual for my taste. Also a 15 missions campaign spread over three factions is too meager, considering a third of that is likely wasted on tutorial stuff already.

 

[Stefan Vujovic]

I have that feeling this will be a bit too casual for my taste. Also a 15 missions campaign spread over three factions is too meager, considering a third of that is likely wasted on tutorial stuff already.

I thought it was 15 per faction, meh...

 

[Cyberarmy]

Gooooooo

 

[Darth Roxor]

Gooooooo

THE MONOLITH! WE DESTROY THAT AND THIS IS OVER!

 

[Kane]

Unit under attack.

 

[Erzherzog]

It's impossible to not get stoked for this. Petroglyph designed above average attempts with Empire at War and Universe at War, then went into almost a decade of craptacular games. Now they're back with a game that at the very least has cool looking design and looks to be much more a true RTS than most out there.

Can't wait. I played the fuck out of EaW believing that good times were here to stay. I've been so disappointed for so long as a strategy gamer.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

"Unit under attack from.... Sir, I'm not sure"

"Let me see. Is this.... IS THIS YOU, BROBERT ???"

Bllgghhrrhgllllgrbrr

 

[Cyberarmy]

Darth Roxor
Did you play/watch this one at Gamescom bro? Should we start fapping?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Darth Roxor
Did you play/watch this one at Gamescom bro? Should we start fapping?

I only watched some streams of random people playing, and it didn't impress me at all :/

Maybe I'm spoiled by Dawn of War, but RTSes based only on building 9000 tanks and bumrushing the enemy simply don't do it for me anymore. I mean, ffs, even C&C games had those bonus pick-up crates on their maps, with cash or unit upgrades, but from the looks of it, Grey Goo's maps are not only small as hell, but also completely empty. They've got all those big-ass factories and machinery and shit, but they are just props, like in Starcraft. The only cool thing I noticed were some FoV shenanigans, like some of the bigger props blocking unit vision, or forests in which you can hide your units for quasi-invisibility. But the rest looked... not very cool.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Fapping denied.

 

[80s Stallone]

The name needs to be changed ASAP.

I'm still waiting for a true successor to C&C. They all play like StarCraft these days.

 

[Kane]

They all play like StarCraft DotA these days.

fixed for objective truth

 

[80s Stallone]

Well, partially too. But even classic C&C got Starcraft-ized with Tiberium Wars and Red Alert 3. The other new RTS games are like Total Annihilation.

I miss the true C&C style. Back in the 90s there were so many clones of it, Dark Reign, KKND and whatever but then StarCraft (and Age of Kings) came and all thoughts from now on RTS must be like that.

There is a new RTS coming out called Meridian. Made by one man. I played the demo, I liked it but it feels like a Starcraft 2 fork.

Also there is Act of Aggression, Etherium... so a new wave of RTS games is finally arriving but none of them seems to be based on classic C&C.

 

[Volrath]

Darth Roxor
Did you play/watch this one at Gamescom bro? Should we start fapping?

I only watched some streams of random people playing, and it didn't impress me at all :/

Maybe I'm spoiled by Dawn of War, but RTSes based only on building 9000 tanks and bumrushing the enemy simply don't do it for me anymore. I mean, ffs, even C&C games had those bonus pick-up crates on their maps, with cash or unit upgrades, but from the looks of it, Grey Goo's maps are not only small as hell, but also completely empty. They've got all those big-ass factories and machinery and shit, but they are just props, like in Starcraft. The only cool thing I noticed were some FoV shenanigans, like some of the bigger props blocking unit vision, or forests in which you can hide your units for quasi-invisibility. But the rest looked... not very cool.

Another one bites the dust...

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

https://www.greybox.com/greygoo/en/news/grey-goo-launch-date-announced/

January 23rd, 2015.

No Early Access or Open Beta shite. Just a good ol' fashioned launch. Still undecided on the game, though.