10 Minute Greyhawk preview in PC Gamer

08-18-2003, 06:07 PM

Just to let everyone know, the latest issue of PC Gamer has a 10 minute preview for TOEE on the DVD that comes with the issue!

08-18-2003, 06:26 PM

Oh, nice indeed! The american issue I gather? And more importantly... what's in the preview?

smoret · 08-18-2003, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by Whipporowill
Oh, nice indeed! The american issue I gather? And more importantly... what's in the preview?

I believe it is supposed to be a walkthru of the Moathouse filled with "Director's Commentary" style dialog from Huy, Sean, and Craig. From what I understand you may urinate with laughter if you listen to it. I have not yet had that pleasure, but I assure you I'm on my way to the newsstands now with my Portable Urinal.

08-18-2003, 06:33 PM

It starts out with the Atari logo, then a few brief glimpses of the intro, followed up by gameplay narrarated by a few of the guys from Troika. It's the american issue, & unless there's multiple covers, it has the Doom 3 marine & Gordon from Halflife 2 on the cover. There's also a 1 page preview in the issue.

08-18-2003, 06:54 PM

Wow, thanks for the heads up! Good thing, too. I had the issue, and if you didn't let me know, I would have never known.

For those who don't have/can't get the issue, heres a breakdown:

Its basically a walkthrough with a low level party. A couple of the Troika programmers and artists explain things as they go through. Huy seemed to like to comment on how huge the monsters were and how cool everything was for every single encounter.

The encounters were actually pretty cool, however. I especially liked the frogs, and how they could use a ranged attack grapple with their tongues, and swallow you the next turn. The encounters have a nice quick pace. Those who were afraid of the turn-based combat being too slow can rest easy.

I have to say that the graphics look spectacular. All the models look good and have very fluid animations. I said on the Bioware boards once that if a developer were to implement cloaks that looked good and didn't have clipping problems, that I would be impressed. Well... I am impressed.

The backgrounds are Infinity Engine quality, only there are lighting effects that make them seem more 3d-like. For instance, the fog of war is based on line of sight rather than a radius around your character. Very cool.

And at the end of the movie: "Thanks for watching, guys. Hope you enjoy the game, it comes out in September."

Lachoon · 08-18-2003, 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by Bentley Burrows

And at the end of the movie: "Thanks for watching, guys. Hope you enjoy the game, it comes out in September."

Joking?!

08-18-2003, 06:58 PM

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Originally posted by Bentley Burrows

And at the end of the movie: "Thanks for watching, guys. Hope you enjoy the game, it comes out in September."

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See!!! Not october like some of you were saying. God I wish I could have seen this movvie. Can't one of you put it on the internet to download?

olaf · 08-18-2003, 07:15 PM

So are we gonna get a September release...? That would rock. I had pretty much resigned myself to late October.

olaf

fleabitfox · 08-18-2003, 07:16 PM

Those magazines (and the content on the CD I would gather) is done about 3 months prior to the magazine coming out, from what the editors of CGW say (I imagine it is the same for most computer game mags). So certainly the game could indeed have been delayed since then.

Regardless, if all I have seen from my geeze.. I guess 18 years or so of computer gaming is standard for the biz, expect it not in September.. or October, but maybe November.

Really.. I will be PLEASED if it comes out in October. I very much doubt we'll see it in September. I would be willing to stake someone else's life on that in fact!

FleabitFox

08-18-2003, 07:21 PM

Another thing I noticed was that critical hits get a special combat animation. One of those hits resulted in a very squishy bandit death.

Gulshog · 08-18-2003, 07:24 PM

Very cool, another reason to blow more of my money, lol. I'll probably toss the mag in the garbage without even looking at it.

troika_hnguyen · 08-18-2003, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bentley Burrows
Its basically a walkthrough with a low level party. A couple of the Troika programmers and artists explain things as they go through. Huy seemed to like to comment on how huge the monsters were and how cool everything was for every single encounter.

hehe, yeah, i got the role of "omigod lolololol cool!", not that i minded

anyways, we ourselves haven't seen this final cut, i'm kinda curious how it turned out, because we did a couple of "takes", and they mishmashed them together (i'm assuming).

08-18-2003, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by smoret
I believe it is supposed to be a walkthru of the Moathouse filled with "Director's Commentary" style dialog from Huy, Sean, and Craig. From what I understand you may urinate with laughter if you listen to it. I have not yet had that pleasure, but I assure you I'm on my way to the newsstands now with my Portable Urinal.

Is that Craig as in Matchett? As I need a last name for my news post over at EoT, I thought I'd ask. The other two there's no misstaking though...

Huy, you are a natural at your "new job" it seems!

08-18-2003, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Whipporowill
Is that Craig as in Matchett? As I need a last name for my news post over at EoT, I thought I'd ask. The other two there's no misstaking though...

Huy, you are a natural at your "new job" it seems!

Yes, it was Matchett.

08-18-2003, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by Bentley Burrows
Yes, it was Matchett.

Thanks a bunch!

Now if I'd only get my hands on that pesky video.

KenM · 08-18-2003, 10:01 PM

What issue was it in? What Month? What was on cover?

08-18-2003, 10:11 PM

Its the October issue (WTF? October?), with the Doom guy and the Half-Life guy on the cover.

08-18-2003, 10:36 PM

Do we know if this movie is going to make it either online or into another publication? I only ask because my chances of getting an American Issue of a magazine that I believe also comes out in a localised version here is very slim...

BleedTheFreak · 08-19-2003, 02:23 AM

Does anyone have info on when this issue will be in stores? I'm guessing the folks that have the issue and CD are subscribers, is there a street date yet?

08-19-2003, 02:34 AM

Come on with the .mpg already!

08-19-2003, 03:22 AM

Yes please ! Us foreigners need a glimpse too !

08-19-2003, 05:05 AM

Mmm...
I'll be waiting for it then.

Where I live, we get both the US and UK versions.
Hee.

olaf · 08-19-2003, 12:09 PM

Is this video on the net anywhere yet?

olaf

08-19-2003, 07:51 PM

I went to the nearest Borders to buy the mag and they didn't even have it... Just one copy of an old issue with a vampire on front and no plastic cover.

08-19-2003, 10:25 PM

Well, I got my DVD that came with the PC Gamer. It has the demo, but guess what the one file I can't get off the DVD is? That's right! The only one I really wanted... :sigh:

It's a 100 Mb .mpg, and I'd really like it if someone would post a link to this file somewhere. Maybe Troika can host it in their files section? Whatever the case, I can't wait to see it!

08-19-2003, 11:17 PM

I only find the issue that has Vampire on its cover. Where can I buy the issue you are talking about?

08-20-2003, 10:37 PM

the issue with bloodlines is so far the latest one i guess, unless there's an october issue already avaliable for subsribers

i bought the magazine today (i almost never do that) only hoping to see the preview

BleedTheFreak · 08-22-2003, 04:23 AM

Not sure when it came out, but it was in newsstands here in Iowa. It *must* be everywhere else by now.

On a side note, it was AWESOME and had lots of cool details I didn't know and some fun stuff about the map they were playing on and such, but for a 100meg mpq file the quality was pretty bad. Pixelated to the point where you couldn't read any of the text. I was viewing it under WMP Series 9. *shrug*

Good stuff, love the frogs, scared of the crawfish.

CrowDog · 08-22-2003, 04:52 AM

I just got it here in Oregon at the grocery store. I have no dvd drive in my comp though, and it wont play in my Xbox

lol.....oh well....time to buy a dvd drive

08-22-2003, 05:17 AM

I'm going to go hunting for this tommorow, so can I just get the details of the issue?

like.. who is on the cover?
Is the cd version or the DVD version?
What month is it?
What is the full name of the publication?

Thanks all.

08-18-2003, 06:07 PM	#1
azgar Guest Posts: n/a	10 Minute Greyhawk preview in PC Gamer Just to let everyone know, the latest issue of PC Gamer has a 10 minute preview for TOEE on the DVD that comes with the issue!

08-18-2003, 10:01 PM	#16
KenM What do you want?- Morden Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mass. Posts: 221	What issue was it in? What Month? What was on cover? __________________ What do you want? - Mr. Morden.

08-19-2003, 02:23 AM	#19
BleedTheFreak I like colby jack cheese Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 244	Street Date? Does anyone have info on when this issue will be in stores? I'm guessing the folks that have the issue and CD are subscribers, is there a street date yet? __________________ -BleedTheFreak

08-22-2003, 04:23 AM	#28
BleedTheFreak I like colby jack cheese Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 244	Not sure when it came out, but it was in newsstands here in Iowa. It must be everywhere else by now. On a side note, it was AWESOME and had lots of cool details I didn't know and some fun stuff about the map they were playing on and such, but for a 100meg mpq file the quality was pretty bad. Pixelated to the point where you couldn't read any of the text. I was viewing it under WMP Series 9. shrug Good stuff, love the frogs, scared of the crawfish. __________________ -BleedTheFreak

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08-18-2003, 06:26 PM	#2
Whipporowill Guest Posts: n/a	Oh, nice indeed! The american issue I gather? And more importantly... what's in the preview?

08-18-2003, 06:33 PM	#4
azgar Guest Posts: n/a	It starts out with the Atari logo, then a few brief glimpses of the intro, followed up by gameplay narrarated by a few of the guys from Troika. It's the american issue, & unless there's multiple covers, it has the Doom 3 marine & Gordon from Halflife 2 on the cover. There's also a 1 page preview in the issue.

08-18-2003, 06:54 PM	#5
Bentley Burrows Guest Posts: n/a	Wow, thanks for the heads up! Good thing, too. I had the issue, and if you didn't let me know, I would have never known. For those who don't have/can't get the issue, heres a breakdown: Its basically a walkthrough with a low level party. A couple of the Troika programmers and artists explain things as they go through. Huy seemed to like to comment on how huge the monsters were and how cool everything was for every single encounter. The encounters were actually pretty cool, however. I especially liked the frogs, and how they could use a ranged attack grapple with their tongues, and swallow you the next turn. The encounters have a nice quick pace. Those who were afraid of the turn-based combat being too slow can rest easy. I have to say that the graphics look spectacular. All the models look good and have very fluid animations. I said on the Bioware boards once that if a developer were to implement cloaks that looked good and didn't have clipping problems, that I would be impressed. Well... I am impressed. The backgrounds are Infinity Engine quality, only there are lighting effects that make them seem more 3d-like. For instance, the fog of war is based on line of sight rather than a radius around your character. Very cool. And at the end of the movie: "Thanks for watching, guys. Hope you enjoy the game, it comes out in September."

08-18-2003, 07:15 PM	#8
olaf Community Veteran Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 612	So are we gonna get a September release...? That would rock. I had pretty much resigned myself to late October. olaf

08-18-2003, 07:16 PM	#9
fleabitfox Community Veteran Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 178	Those magazines (and the content on the CD I would gather) is done about 3 months prior to the magazine coming out, from what the editors of CGW say (I imagine it is the same for most computer game mags). So certainly the game could indeed have been delayed since then. Regardless, if all I have seen from my geeze.. I guess 18 years or so of computer gaming is standard for the biz, expect it not in September.. or October, but maybe November. Really.. I will be PLEASED if it comes out in October. I very much doubt we'll see it in September. I would be willing to stake someone else's life on that in fact! FleabitFox

08-18-2003, 07:21 PM	#10
Bentley Burrows Guest Posts: n/a	Another thing I noticed was that critical hits get a special combat animation. One of those hits resulted in a very squishy bandit death.

08-18-2003, 10:11 PM	#17
Bentley Burrows Guest Posts: n/a	Its the October issue (WTF? October?), with the Doom guy and the Half-Life guy on the cover.

08-18-2003, 10:36 PM	#18
PlatinumWeaver Guest Posts: n/a	Do we know if this movie is going to make it either online or into another publication? I only ask because my chances of getting an American Issue of a magazine that I believe also comes out in a localised version here is very slim...

08-19-2003, 02:34 AM	#20
RiderOfRohan Guest Posts: n/a	Come on with the .mpg already!

08-19-2003, 03:22 AM	#21
DeathDealer Guest Posts: n/a	Yes please ! Us foreigners need a glimpse too !

08-19-2003, 05:05 AM	#22
Ryzier Guest Posts: n/a	Mmm... I'll be waiting for it then. Where I live, we get both the US and UK versions. Hee.

08-19-2003, 12:09 PM	#23
olaf Community Veteran Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 612	Is this video on the net anywhere yet? olaf

08-19-2003, 07:51 PM	#24
Vaeron Guest Posts: n/a	I went to the nearest Borders to buy the mag and they didn't even have it... Just one copy of an old issue with a vampire on front and no plastic cover.

08-19-2003, 10:25 PM	#25
Malatar Guest Posts: n/a	Well, I got my DVD that came with the PC Gamer. It has the demo, but guess what the one file I can't get off the DVD is? That's right! The only one I really wanted... :sigh: It's a 100 Mb .mpg, and I'd really like it if someone would post a link to this file somewhere. Maybe Troika can host it in their files section? Whatever the case, I can't wait to see it!

08-19-2003, 11:17 PM	#26
Ilya Guest Posts: n/a	I only find the issue that has Vampire on its cover. Where can I buy the issue you are talking about?

08-20-2003, 10:37 PM	#27
ziggen Guest Posts: n/a	the issue with bloodlines is so far the latest one i guess, unless there's an october issue already avaliable for subsribers i bought the magazine today (i almost never do that) only hoping to see the preview

08-22-2003, 04:52 AM	#29
CrowDog Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 50	I just got it here in Oregon at the grocery store. I have no dvd drive in my comp though, and it wont play in my Xbox lol.....oh well....time to buy a dvd drive

08-22-2003, 05:17 AM	#30
PlatinumWeaver Guest Posts: n/a	I'm going to go hunting for this tommorow, so can I just get the details of the issue? like.. who is on the cover? Is the cd version or the DVD version? What month is it? What is the full name of the publication? Thanks all.