Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom Update

[aldo]

IGN has the latest with new pics and video.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/711/711533p1.html

 

[scooby_dooby]

Pretty crappy, the redesign of teh main character is alot better but still, it looks worse than Kameo, a 2005 xbox1 port, what's up with that? i know it's still in development, but really I expect alot more from a late 2006 title.

 

[_phil_]

Pretty crappy, the redesign of teh main character is alot better but still, it looks worse than Kameo, a 2005 xbox1 port, what's up with that? i know it's still in development, but really I expect alot more from a late 2006 title.

Hey ,it's SOE ,no miracle is to be expected

 

[Bad_Boy]

looks better than it did before, but still looks very iffy. im probably one of the few who enjoyed the psp version, if they offer more things to do in this one i can see myself picking this up a few weeks after launch.

 

[Ben-Nice]

Yep still looks like poop although I don't think too many people think this game would be setting any new standards in graphics and gameplay.

 

[aldo]

Yep still looks like poop although I don't think too many people think this game would be setting any new standards in graphics and gameplay.

I agree and this is not a game that I'm presently interested in. My only real concern... getting this news posted before Titanio posted it.

-aldo

 

[TrungGap]

I don't know...Either you guys have really high standards or I have really low, but this doesn't look that bad. It improved a lot...It's one of those filler game, I'm willing to pay $30 for.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

It's not bad looking, but it lacks almost all next-gen features! The grass doesn't sway with the character walking through it, the lighting is very current gen and static, and generally it looks like a PS2 with more poly's and higher resolution. It lacks anything special. Which is a shame as I'm a fan of this sort of game coop.

 

[MasaC]

Remember this is a "just-to-get-out" title according to Josh Robinson.

 

[Bad_Boy]

Untold Legends: DK dev blog
http://darkkingdom.station.sony.com/
regardless if you are interested in the game or not, it's a very good read.


*thx to backbreaker over at e-mpire.

 

[Platon]

While the PS3 is nearly hardware complete...

I really hope this refers to the BR drive or something and not more essential stuff like RSX/cell...

 

[Gradthrawn]

I really hope this refers to the BR drive or something and not more essential stuff like RSX/cell...

Final dev kits, RSX/Cell/Controller/BDROM, shipped out after E3. Well, they were suppose to have shipped out after E3, towards the end of May. I have no reason to assume they didn’t, since there has been no complaints of delay.

By the end of March, Sony will update current loaner development kits with the "DEH-R103X" rev, which offers final versions of the Cell and RSX along with prototypes of the controller and the Blu-ray drive. In mid-May, loaner kits will be updated to the DEH-R104X kit, which finalizes the controller and Blu-ray drive.

 

[one]

Untold Legends: DK dev blog
http://darkkingdom.station.sony.com/
regardless if you are interested in the game or not, it's a very good read.


*thx to backbreaker over at e-mpire.

Really interesting, thanks!
So they chose the safest way to make it to the launch by building the engine only with PPE and offloading things to SPEs after most things are done.

And on the programming front, we’re really beginning to realize just how powerful the PS3 SPU’s are. The latest element that we’ve moved from the PPU (main processor) to an SPU has been our flora system, which is what generates all of the grass, schrubs, and other ground cover. By doing so, we essentially made our flora *free* (the asterisk denotes a programmer assaulting me after reading this), from a processing standpoint. Other things that will be moved to SPU in the near future are particles (spells and such), audio, and our animation system.

 

[Ben-Nice]

Not that it's an excuse but I can kind of see why the game isn't so great. They are making this game in a little over a year. Don't most "good" games take a little longer than that or is that usual the turn around time?

"Well, there you have it. Ten months of blood, sweat and empty pizza boxes, summarized in a few paragraphs"

 

[slider]

Are the pics here new?

http://blogs.ign.com/Untold-Legends/

Characters definitely look better. Or maybe it's the resolution. Still wish the ground was more alive though!

 

[Bad_Boy]

Yeah theres a update on the blog.
http://darkkingdom.station.sony.com/

With the increased memory of the new PS3 hardware,

Dont quite understand that statement though, I thought the PS3 always had 512mb. Maybe they mean going from PS2/PSP to the PS3 the memory has increased.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

It's similar to GuildWars in look. They've finally got some normal mapping going on, and I presume there'll be specular maps and similar. As for using the SPE's, from what we've seen of the game thus far there is no physics, so maybe they're revamping the engine and gameplay quite a bit? And radial foliage? Lots of billboarded flowers to me. Are they chaging that, or have they just added a silly name to an old idea?

 

[liverkick]

And radial foliage? Lots of billboarded flowers to me. Are they chaging that, or have they just added a silly name to an old idea?

I'll take "The Later" for $200 Alex.

 

[one]

All those 720p images on the blog seem to have the relatively high AA level.
Are they
1. touched up PR shots
2. rendered in 1080p
3. with 4xAA
?

 

[Ty]

from what we've seen of the game thus far there is no physics, so maybe they're revamping the engine and gameplay quite a bit?

Havoc is being used.