EA's new RPG: Project Grey Project

[DemonKing]

http://www.ea.com/official/projectgraycompany/

The site is pretty bare at present, apart from some brand new forums, a little art, and a completely inane video diary that tells you absolutely nothing.

EDIT: Apparently the game will include Sims2 tech! Yippee!

 

[roguefrog]

Looking at the OMG "Creators", there are an awful lot of asians.

 

[kingcomrade]

Asians make crappy games. Evidence: Splinter Cell 2.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

OH WOW THOSE ORCS SURE LOOK ORIGINAL. They might as well have just put the white hand of sauruman on them for fuck's sake. Look at the castle in the beginning, too. It looks like friggin' Saruman's tower! (can't think of the name right now)

The video interview was absolutely retarded, as is the website. Nothing concrete or of any interest, just the usual BS marketing speak. Of course, I guess I shouldn't have expected anything more from EA...

 

[Bosco]

OH WOW THOSE ORCS SURE LOOK ORIGINAL. They might as well have just put the white hand of sauruman on them for fuck's sake. Look at the castle in the beginning, too. It looks like friggin' Saruman's tower! (can't think of the name right now)

Orthanc. In the valley of Isengard. Mount Fang in Elvish, the Cunning Mind to the native Men in the area.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Nerd.

 

[butsomuch]

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow was developed by Asians?

No.

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow's single-player game was developed by Ubisoft Shanghai Studios, but Ubisoft Shanghai Studios is comprised of Europeans. Pandora Tomorrow's multiplayer game was developed by Ubisoft Annecy Studios.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps2/tom-c ... ow/credits

 

[kingcomrade]

I remember seeing nothing but Asian names in the credits after I beat the game. Weird.

By the way, I'm pretty sure they're Quebecois, not Europeans.

 

[LlamaGod]

Splinter Cell 3 was fun, hearing Quebec guys trying to fake Cuban accents.

 

[FaranBrygo]

If Orientals are designing the game then it will probably be some pseudo final fantasy or zelda. I bet the wapanese crowd will eat it up though.

 

[Old Scratch]

Fuck EA and their outsourcing bullshit.

 

[Jaesun]

I didn't see the fear in the Orks eyes as I kill them. I'll pass.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Damn that's a lot of people making their game. If it sucks, it proves that TOO MANY IRON CHEFS IN THE KITCHEN RUINS THE TV SHOW!

 

[Azarkon]

It only makes sense for Asians to make the games, since they comprise the largest population of game players (and it's proven that Asian companies know better what these players want). A pity game design principles seldom translate across cultures, but hell, if you were a mass market publisher like EA you'd want to appeal to the side with ten times the customers too.

 

[kingcomrade]

since they comprise the largest population of game players

No, the US is the largest market for video games.

and it's proven that Asian companies know better what these players want

Proven how?

 

[Kuato]

EA sucks they churn out crap as fast as they can to pay for the super bloated overhead that company sustains. The team for project grey already looks big and bloated and a breeding ground for the kind of low morale disconnected disjointed mismanaged development EA is infamous for.
and yes the concepts look very LOTR sigh!
Although they say this is an rpg I cant help but think in the wake of WOW they would actually be making another mmorpg

 

[FaranBrygo]

It only makes sense for Asians to make the games, since they comprise the largest population of game players.

"The four largest markets for computer and video games are the United States, Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom. Other significant markets include Spain, Germany, South Korea, France, and Italy." From Wikipedia

Oceania has always had a larger market that Eastasia

 

[Dhruin]

No way Australia is a bigger market than Germany. Don't think I have a soource to hand but I've figures for Germany being the 2nd largest market after NA.

 

[HotSnack]

Most of the asians are only working on the artistic side of the game, so don't worry guys, we're still going to get some of that anally serious, epic western rpg we all know and love!

Just saw the dev diary, a bit funny how they intentionally unfocused the camera when looking at the artwork. The video reminded me of a xbox360 booklet I once read, where hip game dev no. 345 (you could tell because he only wore one earring(!)) was trying to convince me that Ol' Gates is down with the kidz.

 

[sheek]

The sound effects on that website sound ripped off from Arx Fatalis. :

How the fuck do you download the video? Trying to get the quicktime and it tries to load up in a firefox window. You can't right click because they use stupid Macromedia Flash.

 

[Claw]

The wallpaper is cool, but I do notice that spikey towers are teh popular. They seemed more original when I first saw 'em in Gothic.

 

[El Dee]

How the fuck do you download the video? Trying to get the quicktime and it tries to load up in a firefox window. You can't right click because they use stupid Macromedia Flash.

I wouldn't bother with the video. You'll learn absolutely nothing new. They show some concept art, but they decided it would be funny to show the artwork out of focus.

But the creative director is really cool! He has long hair and tatoos!!!!111!

 

[sheek]

How the fuck do you download the video? Trying to get the quicktime and it tries to load up in a firefox window. You can't right click because they use stupid Macromedia Flash.

I wouldn't bother with the video. You'll learn absolutely nothing new. They show some concept art, but they decided it would be funny to show the artwork out of focus.

But the creative director is really cool! He has long hair and tatoos!!!!111!

Yeah I downloaded it in the end. Waste of bandwidth which could have been spent on feeding starving Africans.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

EDIT: Apparently the game will include Sims2 tech! Yippee!

For the AI, yeah. That means it should be hands down better than Oblivion's Radiant AI.

 

[DarkPhantom]

From the "Next Generation RPG" sentence, I think we'll be having another FPS with a "RPG felling".

I won't sit and wait for this one, considering, besides the above, that EA's behind it.