Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Two new videos have been released within the Vanguard forums and on mirroring sites.

Beta Tester Vid(HUGE 450mb, res=1000x800):

http://www.kalyper.com/TesterVid3_1200x800.avi

Dev Walkthrough (by far the coolest yet):

http://www.fileplanet.com/169885/160000/fileinfo/Vanguard:-Saga-Of-Heroes---In-Depth-Walkthrough

I'll keep posting these as I see them if you'd all like.

This has to be THE most un-enthusiastic dev commentary I have ever seen. They sound like like they were high or suffered from extreme sleep deprivation.

The char creation part did not impress. Chars don't look "real" enough to be impressive nor "cartoony" enough to be stylish. A lot of them kinda seemed to be out of proportions.
The boat, world, dungeon part was ok.
But they will have to work on fighting fluidness and animation A LOT. Watching it was almost as sleep inducing as listening to commentary.
Swing
*yawn*
Dodge
*this sword is really heavy, lets take a break*
Swing
*wake me up when it's my turn*
Wait, it's not turn-based combat?

Well i watched only the SOE one because i don't like the popups i got from the other.

After watching this ,it didnt give me any different impression than i got from screenshots.This game looks alot like what happened to dark and light.In saying this i mean it looks to have a ton of potential,but that game engine is horrible looking.If ever a game that looks like ultima online with a MU flavour needed an UNREAL engine this is it.

I would fire the team that worked on the texture useage for this game because it is a throwback to 8 bit garbage.I'm not sure why they got the game looking so BLAND,perhaps its exspansiveness won't allow it to handle better texture useage,without calling for high end computers.This coulda been easily fixed by having two different texture packages for the game ,one with hi res and one with low res.

I was happy to see the speed of the battle is more realistic and not this asian 500 swings a second craziness.

I still feel the ideals and concepts of this game are great,it's just that it will be very hard for me to buy a game that looks like im playing ultima online from 15 years ago.

I would say that just about everything is kinda neat about this game ,but its bland looks will hurt this game ALOT.Even the player meshes look very old school,i'd really like to know just how old this game engine is because it looks very old.There is that game where 90% of the players are dragons ,that also reminded me of the way this game looks.The two game engines look VERY similiar.

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Originally posted by Wizardry

Well i watched only the SOE one because i don't like the popups i got from the other.

After watching this ,it didnt give me any different impression than i got from screenshots.This game looks alot like what happened to dark and light.In saying this i mean it looks to have a ton of potential,but that game engine is horrible looking.If ever a game that looks like ultima online with a MU flavour needed an UNREAL engine this is it.

I would fire the team that worked on the texture useage for this game because it is a throwback to 8 bit garbage.I'm not sure why they got the game looking so BLAND,perhaps its exspansiveness won't allow it to handle better texture useage,without calling for high end computers.This coulda been easily fixed by having two different texture packages for the game ,one with hi res and one with low res.

I was happy to see the speed of the battle is more realistic and not this asian 500 swings a second craziness.

I still feel the ideals and concepts of this game are great,it's just that it will be very hard for me to buy a game that looks like im playing ultima online from 15 years ago.

I would say that just about everything is kinda neat about this game ,but its bland looks will hurt this game ALOT.Even the player meshes look very old school,i'd really like to know just how old this game engine is because it looks very old.There is that game where 90% of the players are dragons ,that also reminded me of the way this game looks.The two game engines look VERY similiar.

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