Agni's Philosophy

[Edge7]

This is awesome, let's talk about it.

[ShinGundam]

Yeah, it looks really cool. Here is survey about it : https://form.square-enix.com/a.p/933

I told them i liked MC but it would be nice to tune down shaky cam and arabs with AKs and combine classic fantasy with these visuals.

[Edge7]

I said I liked pretty much everything (especially the friggin' hyena), but I didn't like that Agni's essentially part of a cult where the leader wants their god to kill the Muslim terrorists outside. That's cause for discomfort.

[Mirage]

I didn't dislike the arabs with the AKs at all. It was a cool magic vs technology thingie.

[Loony BoB]

Arabs? Muslims? What, did they use those words or something? Last I checked it was a fantasy world where neither of these two things exist. Also, something tells me the head dude was not exactly the good guy in all of this, even if the protagonist looked up to him on some level.

But the graphics, I mean, just... wow!

[Edge7]

Eh, the imagery just made me uncomfortable. People of a different religion (which only seems to have white members, from what we've seen)* commencing some sort of ritual to a god that involves them destroying their enemies, who happen to be of darker skin, and wear turbans wrapped around their head. I could be overreacting; I realize that I might be making harsh generalizations, but this is strictly from my observation. I guess it's that feeling you get when you have to ask yourself how seriously you should take something.



All things considered, it was still an amazing demo, and I would love to see this concept applied to an actual game. I'd probably buy this regardless of my personal suspicions; it looks interesting enough to warrant that much.

[Loony BoB]

Eh, the imagery just made me uncomfortable. People of a different religion (which only seems to have white members, from what we've seen)* commencing some sort of ritual to a god that involves them destroying their enemies, who happen to be of darker skin, and wear turbans wrapped around their head. I could be overreacting; I realize that I might be making harsh generalizations, but this is strictly from my observation. I guess it's that feeling you get when you have to ask yourself how seriously you should take something.

I would be far more worried if it were a bunch of people of darker skin, dressed similarly to Arabs, that were the ones wanting to "rain down destruction" on white skinned people. I think this is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[JKTrix]

Thanks for bringing this up, saved me a little bit of trouble!

[Mirage]

If anything, Edge7, this looks like a group of evil white people who attack poor dark people, and if you're playing the white main character, there would probably be some plot twist somewhere where the main character realizes she's been brainwashed into doing pretty mean stuff all along and perhaps changes sides.

[Jinx]

Brought to you buy Coca-Cola!

[Mirage]

But that's not what it said on the label.

[ShinGundam]

For techy people, dynamic beard rendering:
Square Enix Luminous Engine demo 2 iPhone - YouTube

[Freya]

Besides the actual plot nonsense everyone is already ranting about, this looks gorgeous!

[Edge7]

If anything, Edge7, this looks like a group of evil white people who attack poor dark people, and if you're playing the white main character, there would probably be some plot twist somewhere where the main character realizes she's been brainwashed into doing pretty mean stuff all along and perhaps changes sides.

I had figured as much, in fact, I was about to say that in my previous post, but I had decided I would be guessing way too much, especially from a concept trailer.

Watching it again, I feel like I have overreacted a tad, the setting would be a HUGE breath of fresh air for an RPG. I guess all I really mean is that if they're going with a Middle Eastern setting, and having the protagonist fight the locals, they might want to be delicate about it (not saying they aren't).

[chionos]

Frankly, I'm pretty sick of the magic vs. technology thing. Video games do such a horrible job of it. I want my sci-fi and my fantasy separate, at least as far as video games are concerned. That said, I'd get over it real quick to see more Agni.