Chapter 808: The Interview That Followed
The whole video is a demonstration of a hunter hunting a subspecies of Chimera, which has always been ten or twenty times larger than him.
The operator flexibly dodged the attack of the subspecies Chimera, and then used the hitstun time to attack, and the whole battle was very long, about ten minutes, and the whole time was spent in a very tense battle.
There is little time for the operator to stop and catch his breath.
During the whole process, the operator made a mistake, when attacking, because he was too greedy for a knife, he was hit by a claw by this hunted subspecies Chimera, and then you can see that the health bar is basically going to bottom out, if the operator didn't eat a recovery potion immediately afterward, and then did not make another mistake, maybe this hunt will fail.
When the video ended, the audience erupted in extremely enthusiastic cheers.
Jester returned to the stage, and after the cheers of the audience had subsided, he said, "The video is not bad, right?" This is just a demo, but my new game is about such epic battles, and when you play this game, you will definitely feel the same way as you see this video, and believe me, when you successfully hunt a powerful ...... For example, when the dragon has always been strong, the sense of accomplishment is indescribable. ”
After the pre-show press conference, while leaving, Jester met a reporter he knew well.
The reporter immediately gathered around Jester when he saw him, and Jester signaled that his bodyguard did not need to be nervous, and then asked the other party what was the matter.
The answer I got was that I wanted an interview.
Jester refused, though.
"I've got enough to say today, and I've even said a lot of things that weren't on the original plan of the conference, so I don't think the interview was interesting." Although Jester said so. But the reporter still didn't give up, he immediately said: "I don't want to ask about your new game, but you said before that anyone will run out of inspiration, is it not like the current game after the end of the game and start the next development work?" ”
Hear this question from this journalist.
Jester also smiled: "This question is not too friendly, but you still ask, I'll talk about it." No one has endless inspiration, and in fact everything in Monster Hunter is a game that is nothing new if you look closely, and it's basically a recombination of several systems that have been very mature in terms of technology and gameplay. ”
"And I think this should be a new direction for game innovation or development in the future, you want to innovate a new game genre like you did seven or eight years ago, such as RTS that I did back then. Carmack's FPS feats can be difficult or impossible to do, so why not wonder what kind of chemistry would happen if I made RTS and FPS into one game? ”
"Will this change be good or bad?"
After hearing Jester say this, the reporter's eyes immediately lit up, and he felt that he had dug up the big news again.
Therefore, he immediately asked: "What about Mr. Li." Do you have any new ideas? Is it a new game that combines RTS and FPS? When asked this question, the reporter's tone was excited and there was a hint of trembling. After all, if he could be the first to know about Jester's new game and report it, then his fame would have increased and the prize money he received would have been extremely rich.
Jester didn't get his way, though.
"No, I don't have any new ideas, but the combination of RTS and FPS games is also something I casually said......" Jester seemed to remember something, and he paused slightly, then continued, "However, I have two pieces of news to tell you, and I can't let you go back in vain. Actually, it's also because these two games are our first common sense about this idea for me. ”
"New ideas?"
The reporter didn't react for a moment, but after thinking about it in a flash, he figured it out.
"You're talking about this new game that combines elements from different genres?"
"Yes."
This time Jester nodded, I have participated in both games, but neither of them was developed by me, one is almost finished, and it will be announced at the carnival at the end of the year, and it will be released next spring, and the other one is already in the design of the project, just yesterday, we also had a discussion meeting because of this game.
It's about how the game should be designed.
"Can you reveal that?" The reporter continued to ask, with a hint of joy in his tone.
Jester nodded directly.
"Of course, I didn't intend to hide these two games, in fact, the game that is going to be offered as a demo on the carnival, after a while we will invite some of our loyal players, as well as some important media to our headquarters to participate in the trial - this game is called Tomb Raider, the genre of the game is action-adventure games, the main gameplay of the game is adventure games, but we have added a lot of action game elements to it, of course, there are some other elements, I can't go into too much detail right now, but you'll know how good the game will be when you try it out. ”
"Tomb Raider?"
The reporter confirmed the name again.
"Yes, Tomb Raider, a brand new game, and the reason why we use this combination of genre elements is because we think this combination is very helpful for players to create a sense of immersion while playing the game."
Jester nodded.
"Another game...... It's RTS. Jester hesitated a little before continuing, "That's right, it's Warcraft 3." ”
After hearing Jester talk about Warcraft 3, the reporter's face quickly showed a look of disbelief, because although players wanted to know what the plot of the rest of the Warcraft series would be, they also knew it. Now that RTS games have been almost dominated by StarCraft, this almost flawless RTS game is a desperate sight for any RTS developer.
It is said that Mars Entertainment still had the sound of developing "Warcraft 3" before, but since the advent of "StarCraft", this voice has gradually decreased.
Later, basically no one mentioned it.
Even attaches great importance to this series, and even personally designed the world structure plot outline and even the novel from the beginning of this series. Jester, who was produced simultaneously with the manga and even the anime, had no idea of restarting the series for a while.
However, here today, he heard such an astonishing news.
Warcraft 3 is going to be reopened?
At this time, the reporter's inner excitement must be indescribable, after all, this is a huge big news for the entire industry, which not only represents the most famous IP of the RTS series. The resurgence after two years of silence also means that Mars Entertainment must be sure to develop an RTS game that is even better than StarCraft!
However, at this time, the reporter immediately had a question.
You know, Mars Entertainment rarely competes with itself, and now StarCraft's most important expansion, Brood War, is in development. All RTS players are looking forward to this expansion - and the expansion has invited a select group of pro players to conduct an internal beta, and the feedback has been that it will take StarCraft to the next level completely.
In this case. He really couldn't understand why Mars Entertainment insisted on opening "Warcraft 3".
"I know you have a lot of questions, but I can't say much about the specifics because the game hasn't been developed yet, but what I can say is that the new Warcraft won't be the same as StarCraft. Although they are all RTS, we are used to calling StarCraft a pure RTS game internally, and Warcraft 3 is not...... I've talked to Pardo about what I should do if I want to develop Warcraft 3. will not make a Warcraft that is called a Warcraft in the skin of StarCraft. ”
"Pardo and I had a few discussions, and finally we came up with a new idea, and this idea, in our internal discussions before the pre-show press conference, has been unanimously approved by the Warcraft development team, and the project is in the works, and there will probably be a trial at the end of next year."
Jester clearly doesn't want to talk too much about Warcraft 3.
In fact, many people in the industry don't understand why Jester attaches so much importance to the series of games "Warcraft", of course, under the full promotion of Jester's novels and comics, this series can be said to be one of the most popular game series of Mars Entertainment, but Jester will never let this series casually go out of the game circle for the sake of the quality of the game.
Even many players post in the community to express their attitude, they just want to know the next plot, as for whether the game is fun or not StarCraft, they simply care.
But Mars Entertainment doesn't see it that way internally.
Jester also knew that his revelations about the two games would cause quite a stir on the inside pages, and they were something he couldn't ask for.
After all, calculate the time, it's almost time for "Tomb Raider" to start promoting, promoting it for more than half a year, and then it will be released next spring, just in time to take over Kojima's "Hidden Dragon Spy class", to complete a perfect connection, after all, Kojima's game has been set for Christmas, which is also the most important game of Mars Entertainment this year, and it is also the work that is most likely to get the game of the year.
Originally, "Final Fantasy 7" was in the middle of this year, but Hironobu Sakaguchi skipped the ticket again.
This game Sakaguchi Hiroshin's requirements for the picture effect are too high,And the system is also very rich,Occupy a lot of DEBUG time,Now it's just starting QA testing,Such a big project,QA testing for half a year is at least,And FF7 has to be tested for at least half a year,Basically, it will be done in Springfield next year.,To be on sale.,At least summer.,Even autumn.。
As Jester expected.
This interview has just been reported.
It exploded in the player community of Mars Entertainment, of course, the most heated discussion is the discussion about "Monster Hunter", the specific news about this game, the first time it was revealed in front of players was Jester himself said it through a blue post on the forum, so the players in the community have a very good impression of this game.
The second heated discussion is "Warcraft 3", not for the discussion of the plot, there is a special place for the plot discussion, in the comprehensive discussion area, players are discussing what kind of medicine Mars Entertainment took and chose to make an RTS game to compete with "StarCraft" at this time.
Then the author of the post quickly started to ridicule.
"I'm the seal of "StarCraft", the ranking is the American server grandmaster group, I love this game very much, it can be said that there is no one, this is also the first game I play on Mars Entertainment, now everyone knows the excellence of "StarCraft", if I were Jester, I would definitely not draw people from the "StarCraft" development team at this time to develop what Raush's "Warcraft 3", because who doesn't know that now is the time when Pardo needs people the most!"
"Moreover, the "Warcraft" series I have also admired the previous two games, with all due respect, the gap between these two games and "StarCraft" is probably as far as the gap between modern people and primitive people, this is not a level of game at all, people with a discerning eye know Pardo's talent in this kind of strategy game, whether it is his "Heroes of Invincible" or the current "StarCraft", I don't know how strong it is than "Warcraft"!"
"But, that's it, Jester has to pull people from Pardo's development team to develop his own favorite Warcraft, which I think is disrespectful to StarCraft players!"
This post quickly received support from many StarCraft players, after all, Pardo said in an interview that because of other projects, several core members of their development team were transferred, so the completion of "Brood War" may be delayed by a few months, but because the main content has been completed, it has no impact on the development of the game.
Because of this incident, StarCraft players have sprayed Mars Entertainment in the community. (To be continued......)