Never heard of Bastion? Never heard of Supergiant Games? Well neither had I.
Bastion is an action rpg from new studio Supergiant Games made up of ex-EA people who worked on titles such as C&C3, Battle for Middle Earth and C&C:Red Alert 3. Giant Bomb has been giving the game some coverage, probably because Greg Kasavin (ex-Gamespot executive editor & EA employee) is a part of the team designing it.
Apparently the game is playable at Pax, so I expect there to be some more coverage coming forthwith, but for now I leave you with the debut trailer, and links to a hands-on article and 4 minutes of gameplay.
Gotta say, I'm liking what I see and hear.
I really, really dig the narration voiceover. Love the old school style, I think this looks really promising.
Tagging. I love the art style.
Wow. This looks like a welcome addition to the action-rpg genre.
Interesting.
agreed the VO makes the trailer. sounds very old western, but with none of those trappings present in the art style or the game play. Interesting.
Art style looks pretty cool. I can't seem to find specifics; is this a downloadable for PSN/XBLA?
Bookmarked. Always interested in more RPG goodness.
Pics: Wow, more ARPGs for me to love.
Video: Does love.
I stopped the game play demo thirty seconds in. That was enough for me to be sold on the concept and short enough for video game virgin status when I first play it.
Looks promising. I'll keep an eye on this.
One of the first games we played on the show floor. I'll talk more about it when I'm not half drunk and tired.
Very positive impression though. Seems cool!
The VO narration stuff is really cool. This wasn't even on my look-at-list for PAX, and now I'm comepletely hooked on the idea. Still a ways off it seems, but I'm for sure interested.
One of the first games we played on the show floor. I'll talk more about it when I'm not half drunk and tired.
Very positive impression though. Seems cool!
Only half drunk? You sir have work to do.
You guys have to remember that he's Canadian. Half-drunk is a really good job for those guys!
I need to hire that voice-over guy to follow me around during the day narrating the events of my life. I mean, my life is pretty epic, don't get me wrong. But it couldn't hurt.
The concept reminds me of old Enix games like Soulblazer and Terranigma. Interesting.
It'd be great if co-op had two narrators trying to talk over one another, getting progressively louder, perhaps occasionally telling one another to shut up, no you shut up.
agreed the VO makes the trailer. sounds very old western, but with none of those trappings present in the art style or the game play. Interesting.
This is the part that most confused me, though. Why the ranchero guitar and the western VO? I didn't see a point present in the gameplay, so it felt incongruous. Maybe the full game will flesh that out more. Still, looks quite interesting.
In case you haven't been following this game, or Giant Bomb, they've hosted some somewhat interesting behind-the-scenes footage, as well as the game's development progression (which they're done with).
http://www.giantbomb.com/bastion/61-...
And the finished build's first ~20 minutes, in the first 20 minutes of the show.
http://www.giantbomb.com/whiskey-med...
Looks like this game might give a nice challenge when the difficulty is increased. Something looks a bit off with the final look to me. The game's art all looks very clean, but the art itself is vivid, expressive. Seems a little at odds in my mind, but only if I focus on it.
Thanks for bumping this up, cyrax, I've been meaning to do it for months.
Me too, lazy high-five!
Hmm, I think I'm doing it wrong.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3...
All good things must come...later to PC.
edit:
Oh, and I should mention this week's Happy Hour on Giant Bomb will be free, and include another Supergiant Games interview.
Oh, and I should mention this week's Happy Hour on Giant Bomb will be free, and include another Supergiant Games interview.
And it's up.
http://www.giantbomb.com/building-th...
It's great to finally see a diversity of emenies and weapons, and it sounds like the same will apply to most other gameplay aspects.
http://www.vg247.com/2011/07/19/bast...
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/...
http://twitter.com/#!/bradshoemaker/...
Hey, now that the embargo's up I can say that Bastion is a fantastic game and you would be out of your fool mind not to play it.
hype meter: pegged at 11.
This is just XBLA, right?
Which pretty much sucks..
xbla now, pc later, ps3 never from what I gather.
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