Mechanoids 3: What can go wrong?

For cultural people who prefer to read – the text version below)

I, of course, I just love mechanoids. The games were just fantastic for their time:

Cool original universe. So lively sandbox that the plot is simply not needed! Any flight from point to point was the same adventure as the mission. Literally. AI caught you in ambush, wrote some insults to you in the chat, a bunch of Luta, random battles, etc.

And all this was insanely cool balanced! T.e. No police leave you, just ordinary bots were completely comparable to you.

Living world! Cool balance! + Curious ENT!

Already 2020, but there is still no analogues of this game.

But. Today play this is already dumb. First graphics. Well, understandable.

Secondly-the plot is almost entirely for reading. T.e. Fly – read, fly – read, fly – read, fly – read. This is annoying.

But! Good news, author of the game, Bulat Dautov, understands everything!

I watched all the interviews with him, re -read about the mechanoids 3 everything that I could find, and now I will briefly tell you what awaits us.

The first fear.

The author of the game is not a stupid and experienced person. It pleases. He understands that the game should become dynamic and more modern from the point of view of the mechanic. He has already promised that he would revise the approach to dialogues. Living people will appear in the game, the plot will rotate around them and conversations with them will resemble a normal dialogue system, and not some unimaginable walls of the text, as before. But! In addition, the author wants to recover the combat system and make it, straight, cool. With a positional battle, distant and medium distances, with new heavy struers who walk on their feet and.T.D.

That it is alarming me in this?

Any action is always good as much as its technical implementation is good. Nobody likes the shooters with oak animations, unreasonable control and stupid enemies, which are easy to exploit to IT.D.

Well t.e. Making a good shooter is difficult.

Mechanoid 3 has a very peculiar production model, let’s say so. The game on an ongoing basis makes literally 1-2 people. The rest of the work, as I understand it, is the author to outsources.

Asset store is used, some models are remade and.T.D. This is good in itself! It’s just unusual. I have never played a high -quality large -scale action made in this way.

If the authors succeed, chic. I will applaud standing. This will mean that we can make cool single plot games, Russia gets up from the knees, we will soon populate Mars and.T.D. But for now – I have a fear that you get a broken shooter with plugs.

But, if not, then generally super! I believe in the best, cheers, forward!

The second fear.

The second fear is connected with the strong, seemingly, side of the game: with Lor.

LOR METHINEDICS The creator of the game really https://nonukcasinosites.co.uk/review/velobet/ likes. And this is good on the one hand, but on the other, not very. Because when you drag a lot from one of the elements of your work, it may turn out that there will be a skew towards this element, which will not allow you to enjoy the rest of the experience.

The events of the game will take place on one locations (40 by 40 kilometers, in other way) in one time period. And on the paper, the author has already painted the whole history of mankind: who fought with whom 100 and 300 years ago, who broke away from whom, who flew where … The plot has clones, telepathy, who realized himself and 10 types of aliens ..

Here put yourself in the place of the designer: how to convey all this huge tank of Laura to the player?

That’s right, the oceans of the text. And this is not even the whole problem!

The real problem is that without all this you can not understand the motivation of the main characters and lose the opportunity to empathize with local dramas. And in the end, either score on the plot and amuse yourself with shootouts (about which my previous fear), or to suffer and develop reading the clock from the screen for a clock.

I’m not saying that it will. I repeat, the author is an experienced designer who understands the weaknesses of the original well. This inspires hope. But everything happens.

I will give a vulgar example of good work with Lor: Star Wars (the very first episodes).

You first looked at the personality of the hero (a dreamy kid who looks at the sky and wants adventure), then came across his personal drama (about the murdered father, killed relatives, a princess who must be saved and.T.D.) and already by the ceiling, if it was hooked, I went to Wikipedia to read about where the aliens came from, similar to Satan.

You understand what I mean, yes?

On the project page, from the first words, some Synigr superclusters, quasi-tagging are mentioned … that this is all that?

But what if I have not played mechanoids for the past 15 years?

This is not a claim. I understand that the page is made for fans who will figure it out. But if such an approach to the narrative will be in the game itself, this may scare away many.

And I want everything to play the mechanoids! Fans for 30 years, in the end, for them this experience will not be new. And modern players could get a lot of pleasure from such a game.

The third fear.

The third fear is associated with the fate of Mora 2. Many are already in the know: one third has been released from the game (script for the Guruspik), and what will happen next is not clear. We hope, of course, for the best, but with mechanoids everything is also not yet obvious.

The author says that he focuses on the Long Dark game model, where first the survival mode with the main mechanics came out, and then the developers began to add blocks with the plot. And this is not bad, the main thing is that these blocks come out!

Here everything is again clinging to finances. Long Dark immediately sold out hundreds of thousands of copies in Steam, and sales were constantly growing.

What will happen to mechanoids – while the riddle. The game is made at the expense of the patreon, so in a sense it can be developed forever. But in the event that the first released piece, she does not hook the audience, maybe everything will die out on this. God knows him.

I, again, hope for success. I would like to see the explosive growth of the number of studios working according to this scheme and a bunch of original projects.

I’ll tell you about what I’m delighted with.

The design of gliders is beautiful. I like Straiders. They seem to also fly will also be able to fly that it is very cool.

I like music. She is completely in the spirit of the game: as if lifeless, alien, but bewitching. Maybe there are not enough some aggressive notes, but we have not heard the whole soundtrack yet, so we will wait.

I like the modality of gliders. If you also manage to do a clear damage system, then it will be generally shine.

Perhaps the game will have a garage with several types of technology for different tasks. Does this mean that tasks will become more diverse? It would be fine!

In short, I’m waiting with all my might. All urgently go to the page of the game in the patreon and get!

Go to the subway, to the city squares, call the neighbors’ apartments, advertise the game to all friends and good luck!

Instead of a positive:

Interesting fact: in the game „Mechanoid 2: Clan War“ there is naked female breasts. Try to find it at the next passage!

The best comments

I thought for a long time where I saw this game! I had to see the vidosik, in one of the old gaming magazines! I remember then I looked at the systems, and then at my calculator, sighed – turned over the page! Eh, nostalgia!

A few words, about the design:

What a special love for the reduction „and t.D.“? And Mars than you didn’t please you? Well, and read the text again.

And now in content, I personally liked the text and video version too. But let me indicate some points that have become incomprehensible to me:

Here put yourself in the place of the designer: how to convey all this huge tank of Laura to the player?

You are aware that there is a narrative not only text, but also visual, when the environment conveys part of the story to you? And it is not necessary to write thousands of pages of pages to describe this or that event.

On the project page, from the first words, some Synigr superclusters, quasi-tagging are mentioned … that this is all that?

It seems to me that you are a little panic. The task of scriptwriters and directors (well, or persons who perform these functions) to introduce any unprepared person to the course of business, I will further explain to you in more detail.

You first looked at the personality of the hero (a dreamy kid who looks at the sky and wants adventure), then came across his personal drama (about the murdered father, killed relatives, a princess who must be saved and.T.D.) and already by the floue, if it hooked you

My friend is not, at first you were put up with the big in such letters for the entire screen at the very beginning of the film, remember? Then, the main tie was presented to you: Dartika, Ley, two robots and some kind of some! And only then, a dreamy guy, etc. romance. And it is in this order that you are entering the course of business in the ZV. And who said that it would be different with furs?

The real problem is that without all this you can not understand the motivation of the main characters and lose the opportunity to empathize with local dramas. And in the end, either score on the plot and amuse yourself with shootouts (about which my previous fear), or to suffer and develop reading the clock from the screen for a clock.

In truth, I did not really understand the meaning of the paragraph. You say that tons of text will make you lose the thread of the story, score on the characters? It’s strange, because if the plot itself is dull and uninteresting, then no matter how many pages are 1.2 or 900 in it! You can score on the plot and with its proper presentation, just because it will not be interesting to you! To take, for example, a masterpiece (that which is Reternes), there are tons of text, but it is interesting, you sit and read, read, read, read! And, for example, some (some) dialogs in the same witcher can skip, just because of uninteresting! This is the main question, whether the plot will be interesting, and not how it will be submitted.