Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Brian "Panda" Choi

Aight, Ninja Theory.  Dis some HAWT STUFF.

I MEAN LOOK AT THAT (screenshot I took)


LOOK AT THAT


LOOOOOOK.

It's $30 people,  I highly encourage a buy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJ0ifVtK5c

This is some Coen Brothers levels of brevity yo.  Or Villenavue

Brian "Panda" Choi

Anybody else playing this weekend?

JamesArk

Gave it a shot this week, really cool game. The sound design is stunning - I strongly recommend playing with headphones, in the dark.

Kinda turned off by the "permadeath" system they have, although I haven't played enough to suffer the consequences, but it seemed like a really weird choice for such a narrative focused and thoughtfully paced game.

Marshkin

Probably one I'll add to the shelf pretty soon, but I need to learn more about the permadeth part of it. I understand why they want to do it. It is a good way to increase the tension within the game, however, I also don't think it is very respectful of the player's time. The issue is, I'm not 15 anymore ( and haven't been for a long time). I simply do not have the time I once did to spend on games. The idea that I might lose all progress concerns me.
Darksouls had a good balance where the penalty for death made me a lot more cautions then I ever an in any other title, but also didn't set me back too much.

But damn that looks gorgeous. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

If you guys are worried about permadeath, you have to be really bad at basic combat in games to die.

The dodge in this game is very forgiving.  Just spam it if you don't want to get hit all the time.

Marshkin

That's comforting  

Brian "Panda" Choi

My real issue oddly enough is that I think the game broke when I loaded into a mutlistep puzzle I left one evening4.

Wondering if this is documented.

pmiller001

Man, Ninja theory went ahead and did it again. I'm looking forward to this one. 

walter

Any technical informations on the Senua character are released ?
Polycount, Number of Batchs, Textures size, etc..

Hito

great facial animations. is it purely performance capture?

beefaroni

This game was awesome. So so so awesome. Loved the pacing and the openness of development.

Plz everyone buy it. $30 at this quality. Yes yes.

They were also very open about development pipeline. Videos are here!

swann

I love it. Instant classic. It just feels like a complete experience.
Good job Ninja Theory.