Game Development Giant

The entire video is a demonstration of a hunter hunting a subspecies of Chimera that is ten or twenty times larger than him.

The operator flexibly avoided the attack of the subspecies Chimera, and then used the stiff time to attack. The whole battle process was very long, lasting about ten minutes, and the whole process was spent in a very tense battle.

There is little time for the operator to stop and take a breath.

During the whole process, the operator made a mistake. When attacking, because he was too greedy with the knife, he was hit by a claw of the hunted subspecies Chimera. Then you can see that the health bar is basically To bottom out, if the operator hadn't taken a recovery potion immediately afterwards and made no more mistakes since then, the hunt might have failed this time.

After the video was played, the audience burst into extremely enthusiastic cheers.

Jester returned to the stage. After the cheers of the audience died down, he said, The video is pretty good, right? This is just a DEMO, but my new game is going to be this epic. Combat, when you play this game, you will definitely feel the same as when you saw this video. Believe me, when you successfully hunt a powerful...for example, a powerful dragon, that kind of achievement The feeling is indescribable.”

After the pre-show press conference, Jester met a familiar reporter when he was leaving.

The reporter immediately surrounded Jester after seeing him. Jester signaled to his bodyguard that there was no need to be nervous, and then asked the other party what happened.

The answer I got later was that I wanted to be interviewed.

But Jester refused.

I have said enough today. I even said a lot of things that were not in the original plan of the press conference. Therefore, I think the interview is not interesting. Although Jester said this, The reporter still didn't give up, and he immediately said: I don't want to ask about your new game, but you said before that everyone's inspiration will dry up. Is it true that your future games will not be like this? Now after such a game is finished, what happens when you start developing the next one?

Hear this question from this reporter.

Jester also smiled: This question is not very friendly. But you still asked it, let me tell you that no one has endless inspiration. In fact, all the content of the game Monster Hunter. If you carefully If you look at it, there is nothing new. It is basically a recombination of several systems that have been very mature in terms of technology and gameplay.

And I think this should be the new direction of game innovation or development in the future. You want to be like what you did seven or eight years ago. Innovate a brand new game type, such as the RTS I made and Carmack made. An initiative like FPS may be difficult to achieve, or even impossible. In that case, why not think about what kind of chemical changes will happen if I combine the two types of RTS and FPS into one game? ?”

“Will this change be good or bad?”

After hearing what Jester said, the reporter's eyes immediately lit up. He felt that he had once again found big news.

So, he immediately asked: Mr. Li, do you have any new ideas? Is it a new game that combines RTS and FPS? When asking this question, the reporter's tone was excited because of the excitement. After all, if he can be the first to know about Jester's new game and report it, his fame and bonus will definitely be extremely generous.

But Jester didn't get what he wanted.

No, I don't have any new ideas, but the combination of RTS and FPS games is what I said casually... When he said this, Jester seemed to have remembered something. He paused for a moment, and then continued. . However, I do have two pieces of news that I can tell you, and I can't let you go back without success, actually. This is also because these two games are our common knowledge about my idea.

New ideas?

The reporter didn't react for a moment, but after thinking about it in a flash, he figured it out.

Are you talking about this new game developed by combining elements of different types of games?

Yes.

This time Jester nodded. I have participated in both of these games, but they were not developed by me. One of them is almost completed. It will probably be announced at the carnival at the end of the year and will be released next spring, and another one is already in planning and design. Just yesterday, we had a discussion meeting about this game.

It’s just a discussion about how this game should be designed.

Can you tell me something? the reporter continued to ask, with a hint of joy in his tone.

Jester nodded directly.

Of course, I have no intention of hiding these two games when I mention them. In fact, for the game that is going to be trialed at the carnival, we will invite some of our loyal players and some important media to us after a while. Headquarters to participate in the trial - this game is called Tomb Raider. The type of the game is an action-adventure game. The main gameplay of the game is an adventure game, but we have added a lot of action game elements into it. Of course, there are some other elements, the specific content of which I can’t reveal too much now, but after you try it out, you will know how great this game will be.”

tomb Raider?

The reporter confirmed the name again.

Yes, Tomb Raider is a brand new game, and the reason why we use this combination of genre elements is because we feel that this combination is very helpful in giving players a sense of joy when playing the game. Immersion.”

Jester nodded.

The other game... is an RTS. Jester hesitated for a moment before continuing, Yes, it's Warcraft 3.

After hearing Jester talking about Warcraft 3, the reporter's face quickly showed a look of disbelief, because although players want to know what the plot behind the Warcraft series is like, they also As we all know, the current RTS games have almost been dominated by StarCraft. This almost flawless RTS game really makes any developer who develops RTS games despair.

It is said that Mars Entertainment had some internal voices developing Warcraft 3 before, but since the release of StarCraft, this voice has gradually become quieter.

After that, almost no one mentioned it.

I even value this series very much. Even Jester, who personally designed the world structure plot outline from the beginning of this series, and even produced novels, comics and even animations simultaneously, had no idea of ​​restarting this series for a while.

But here we are today. He unexpectedly heard such shocking news.

Will Warcraft 3 be restarted?

At this time, the reporter's inner excitement must be beyond words. After all, this is huge news for the entire industry. This not only means that one of the most famous IPs in the RTS series has revived again after two years of silence, but it also means that Mars Entertainment is definitely 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 it is currently developing the most important expansion pack for StarCraft, Brood War. All RTS players are looking forward to this expansion pack - and the expansion pack has invited some professional players to conduct an internal test, and the feedback received is that it will completely upgrade StarCraft to a new level.

Under such circumstances, he really couldn't understand why Mars Entertainment insisted on opening Warcraft 3.

I know you have a lot of questions, but because the game has not yet been developed, I can't say more specific information, but what I can say is that the new Warcraft and StarCraft will not be the same game. Although They are all RTS, but we are used to calling StarCraft a pure RTS game internally. And Warcraft 3 is not... I discussed with Pardo before, if I want to develop Warcraft 3, What should be done so that we don’t create a Warcraft that is called StarCraft in disguise.”

Pardo had several discussions with me. In the end we came up with a new idea, and this idea was unanimously approved by the Warcraft development team during our internal discussions before the pre-show conference. The plan is in production, and there will probably be a trial by the end of next year.”

Jester clearly didn't want to talk too much about Warcraft 3.

In fact, many people in the industry do not understand why Jester attaches so much importance to the Warcraft series of games. Of course, with 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 for the quality of the games, Jester will never let this series be used casually to make money in exchange for fame.

Many players even posted in the player community to express their attitude. They just want to know the next plot. As for whether the game is as fun as StarCraft, they simply don't care.

But Mars Entertainment doesn’t see it that way internally.

Jester also knew that his revelations about the content of these two games would cause quite a stir on the inside pages, and this was something he wanted to do.

After all, if you count the time, it is almost time to start promoting Tomb Raider. It will be promoted for more than half a year, and then it will be released next spring. It will just take over from Kojima's Metal Gear and complete a perfect connection. , after all, Kojima’s game has been scheduled for Christmas. This is also the most important game of Mars Entertainment this year and the most likely to win the Game of the Year.

Final Fantasy 7 was originally scheduled to be released in the middle of this year, but Hironobu Sakaguchi once again delayed the release.

Hironobu Sakaguchi's requirements for the visual effects of this game are too high, and the system is also very rich, which takes up a lot of DEBUG time. The QA test has just begun. For such a large project, QA testing is required for at least half a year, and FF7 It will take at least half a year of testing, and it will basically be completed in the spring of next year. It will be released at least in the summer, or even in the fall.

It was just as Jester expected.

This interview has just been reported.

It immediately exploded in the player community of Mars Entertainment. Of course, the most heated discussion was about Monster Hunter. The first time specific news about this game was revealed to players was Jester himself. It was mentioned through a blue post on the forum, so the players in the community have a very favorable impression of this game.

The second hotly discussed one is Warcraft 3. It is not about the plot. There is a special place for plot discussion. In the comprehensive discussion area, players are discussing what kind of medicine Mars Entertainment took to choose this game. It's time to make an RTS game to compete with StarCraft.

Then the author of this post quickly started mocking.

I am a fan of StarCraft, and my ranking is in the US server master group. I love this game very much. It can be said that there is no other game. This is also the first Mars Entertainment game I have played. Everyone knows it now. StarCraft is so good. If I were Jester, I would definitely not allocate people from the StarCraft development team to develop Warcraft 3, because who doesn't know what is happening now? This is when Pardo needs people the most!”

Furthermore, I have also played the first two games of the Warcraft series. 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 true at all. For games of the same level, anyone with a discerning eye knows Pardo's talent in this kind of strategic game. Whether it is his Invincible Heroes or the current StarCraft, no one knows how much better it is than Warcraft!

But, that's it, Jester has to allocate people from Pardo's development team to develop Warcraft that he only likes. I think this is disrespectful to StarCraft players!

This post quickly received support from many StarCraft players. After all, Pardo said in an interview before that several core members of their development team were transferred due to other projects, so The completion time of Brood War may be delayed by a few months, but because the main content has been completed, it will have no impact on the development of the game.

Because of this incident, StarCraft players criticized Mars Entertainment in the community. (~^~)