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New Ryse screenshots and story details from SDCC 2013

Microsoft and Crytek released new details and screenshots about Ryse, their new game set in ancient Rome.

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Festano3926d ago

The trailer at E3 impressed me a lot, I've always liked the story about Rome. Definitely take it to the launch in the hope that it is a good title.

Aery3926d ago

I don't get any excitement from this game ...
Anywway, something is changed here ... Now looks like the Xbox supporter (not fanboy, *supporter*)are more "vocal" here on N4G.

creatchee3926d ago

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Aery3926d ago

@creatchee :

No, I don't say that.
I use the word *supporter*, not fanboy, so I never mean something bad. :)

FATAL1TY3926d ago

characters = good
eyes = ugly
environments = mud
gameplay = boring

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JokesOnYou3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

Aery yeah that's only because there is a lot of excitement for the new X1 console with people wanting to learn and see everything about it. I know that's why I frequent this site a lot more often only to get the news about it, once I get my hands on it, I'll likely visit this site a lot less, usually leading up to each big event especially E3, again I visit more for news on new games.

On topic, Ryse looks f**king sweet, and the story background sounds very interesting but only downside I wish the combat system was less scripted, I hate when devs hold your hand, instead of letting you fight freely.

Aery3926d ago

@JokesOnYou:
I have a good news for you : one of the dev said to us that Ryse it's not a bunch of QTE and there is a lot of "real" gameplay to enjoy.

That's what he said and only the future (final release) will show us what Ryse really is.

Muffins12233926d ago

I think Fatal1ty just described the average killzone game.

Andreas-Sword3926d ago

Two current RYSE news:
1. http://www.allgamesbeta.com...
2. http://gamingeverything.com...

I hope Ryse: Son of Rome comes also to the PS4.

BallsEye3925d ago

Coz they were busy playing awesome games all this time on their 360. Now they came back waiting for XO.

FlunkinMonkey3925d ago (Edited 3925d ago )

It's because they've let the dust settle with how horrible MS was treating their fanbase, and have returned with their goldfish like memory.

Not to mention the 100's (it seems) of new 2nd accounts of blatant trolling.. Classy.

@BallsEye - Yea? what games would that be? must be ones from 2-3-4 years ago, because that's about how long it's been since they've released anything decent.

"In June 2012, Phil Spencer, corporate VP of Microsoft Studios, maintained that the game was still in development. When asked whether it was still a Kinect game, Spencer replied "Kinect will be part of the game, absolutely" leading to speculation that it was no longer a Kinect-only game, and was instead part of the "Better with Kinect" series of Xbox 360 games.

In May 2013, after the announcement of the Xbox One, Ryse was confirmed to be an exclusive for the new console. In June 2013 at the E3 Microsoft Conference, Crytek showed a gameplay video. Kinect is no longer part of the active combat but has a diminished role by providing squad commands through speech and gesture."

Another failed Kinect game... Smoke and mirrors.. Awesome.

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LackTrue4K3926d ago

Lol... With the E3 tailer, they should change the name of the game too.

"Saving Pvt. Cesar"
Lol...!!!!

Colzer013926d ago

Then Driveclub should change into Intitial D Stage 8, the physic looks similar

Omegabalmung3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

@Colzer01

That would actually be pretty awesome if they did lol.

I'm totally up for another Initial D game on the consoles.

WarThunder3925d ago

The game is full of Quick time event.
So the gameplay is gonna be booooring....

Ogygian3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

I loved the premise of the game, as historical games aren't nearly as common as they should be and Rome is awesome, but it seems to just be a button masher with awesome graphics. The gameplay actually reminded me a fair bit of Viking: Battle for Asgard, but obviously with far better effects.
It really should have done something innovative if it wanted to really succeed. Right now it appears to have zero replayability. Why not have some form of mission randomiser? Perhaps accompanied by RPG elements which allow intrigue as you attempt to try and rise in rank to become a Legatus? Perhaps you could choose your expansion/defence path with a system similar (but far superior) to the Dynasty Warriors Empires series? Perhaps battles could give you spontaneous objectives depending on how it turns out?
This is 2013 and I'd like to believe that devs are trying to push gameplay alongside graphics. Not that I'd be able to play this button-masher anyway, being on a PC, but I had really hoped that the new IP's would bring gameplay innovation/advancement alongside the graphics improvements. At the moment, Rome 2: Total War is the only game I'm looking forward to.

The graphics are great, but I fear you'll just be buying a tech demo with a storyline.

Ol_G3925d ago

@spartanlemur
yeah what you are describing is a way better game then what they probably will pull of but one can dream

-Superman-3925d ago

This game looks great. I dont have money to buy 2 different consoles. So, i have to pick one and which is PS4 becuase Playstation Plus gives us more free games, and Sony has so many developers who make great exclusive games.
Yeah, sure, if Xbox One was cheaper and more exclusive games and not screwed us with always online, then i may have picked Xbox One.

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u got owned3925d ago

This game is looking really good.

Gamer19823925d ago

Nothing can save this game for me its a QTE fest and QTE in games should be outlawed or at least used no more than a couple of times. There was about 20 QTEs in the E3 demo alone.. Doesn't look fun at all.. Press A to counter, Press X to attack..

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iamnsuperman3926d ago

I don't understand the positivity towards this game. They showed off a QTE galore demo and the developers has described the game as "We have this concept we call mashing to mastery. The idea is that anyone can play it and they can mash the buttons and fight, but if you get the right timing you're able to actually master it" and it seems you don't need to get the buttons right from people playing the E3 demo

It is a good looking game but shouldn't we worry about the gameplay. I see people here hating QTEs and the description of "Mashing to mastery" doesn't exactly sound positive. What happened to games. It used to be gameplay over graphics but now this game highlights a common trend where it has gone the other way round

Gamingisfornerds3926d ago

The only reason I'm getting excited is because this game is showing what next-gen will bring us at the very least in terms of visuals and imo it's awesome!

The visuals kind of remind me of some of the earlier Project Offset techdemo's. There's just a certain appeal to the visuals in terms of motion blur, shading, lighting etc that genuinely gets me excited for what next-gen has in store for us.

Alexious3926d ago

True, graphics seems really good but that should be a given since it's Crytek. Gameplay is still very much up in the air, though

Sevir3926d ago

These last few years Crytek has only been pushing graphics... Beyond that fact the demo shown at E3 was filled with more QTEs than Ninja Gaiden 3... I won't lie the game is amongst the pretty batch, but it seems like a poor but pretty rip from 300...

The game went from being a First person on rails Kinect game to a 3rd person pretty but generic hack and slash that's overly dependent on QTEs... And this Mashing to Mastery? I guess!

Gamer19823925d ago

All next gen titles will bring these visuals outside of indies. To say your excited for this game because of visuals? God people really need to actually play games and stop looking at them..

SirBradders3925d ago

@gamingisfornerds why dont you just watch it all on youtube then because you'll be wasting a hell of a lot of money buying games to just look at them and not have fun.

Im not trolling you im being serious i have actually done it myself in the past to games i didn't enjoy the gameplay.

Gamingisfornerds3925d ago (Edited 3925d ago )

@Gamer1982 and SirBradders

You both misunderstood. That's not what I'm saying at all.

I'm not excited for this game specifically, I'm excited for the fact that next-gen games will have this kind of visual fidelity.

This game just shows what -at the very least- is in store for us in terms of next-gen graphics...

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awesomeperson3926d ago

I'll admit when I first saw the game, the beach landing, I was highly impressed with how it looked. Then came the actual combat, and I was disappointed.

It seems that unless the E3 demo wasn't representative of the full game, it will be a mostly linear QTE, albeit a pretty one.

I'm hoping the gameplay turns out better than what it looks, because although I'm not getting an XB1 at launch, I plan to get it down the track, and I wouldn't mind Ryse if the gameplay proves to be decent.

Jughead34163926d ago

This was originally supposed to be a Kinect game. The original trailers actually show a person playing it by swinging their arms to attack. They changed it before E3. My guess is, all the QTEs are because they threw together a combat system at the last minute. If this game didn't have so many QTE's, then I would be really impressed with it. God of War's QTEs are mainly for finishing off a boss which is much more acceptible.

joe903926d ago

"it will be a mostly linear QTE, albeit a pretty one"

God of War springs to mind

awesomeperson3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

@edterry

Ahh, that makes sense.. I did hear how it was meant to be Kinect focused, but never really connected the dots there.

That being said, I'm happy they changed it - if there's one thing I'ld find less appealing than constant QTE would be flailing my arms around D:

@ Joe90

QTEs in God of War were mostly finishing off bosses or harder enemies. It seemed nowehere near as prevalent as in the Ryse demo. I am a bit tired of the God of War franchise though, I hope Santa Monica give Kratos a break for a while.

I don't hate QTE by any means, I enjoy games which employ them in cinematic instances (such as Heavy Rain), I feel as if a game like Ryse needs a tad more player input.

Skips3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

@joe90

Because God of War's gameplay is completely brainless like Ryse's.... /s

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Get out. -_-

That one Ryse demo had more QTE than an entire GoW game combined, considering you only need it for boss fights, as awesomeperson said. lol

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theWB273926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

QTE's usually mean you have to press the correct button in order to finish the cutscene or animation right? Like chase scenes in Shenmue or how Heavy Rain was built. If you didn't press the correct button then you had restart that scene over again.

These are not QTE's. They're button prompts that lead to better finishers in order to gain more points and health.

http://www.oxm.co.uk/56186/...

People complaining about this are hilarious. This system of easy to play hard to master isn't new. It doesn't take a genius to pick and kill a few guys in God of War. That series is legendary and it's filled to the brim with true QTE's and simple button press gameplay. Same with Batman..it's a button masher but it can mastered once you learn to string together hits.

Sometimes people just want to pick up a pretty game and kill a few guys to let off some steam. Not every game has to be chess, some can be checkers.

On another note...this game is simply gorgeous.

XabiDaChosenOne3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

Are you serious? No where in that article does it eliminate the notion that it's QT mashing fest. It even says right there in the article that you can "mash away" if you want. You can not do that in God of War. It even says in the article: "you'll still polish the enemy off if you fudge the timing" lol what? You can't do that in either the Batman series nor the God of war series. Your comparison to Heavy Rain is pretty flawed also since Heavy Rain is a story driven game as opposed to Ryse which is supposed to be a combat game. It's funny because the people praising this game is the same fanboys belittling Knack even though Knack technically has deeper gameplay mechanics lmao!!!

Electric-flamingo3926d ago

Does this type of gameplay make it any less appealing than lets say God of war, assassins creed or heavy rain ? I don't think so. You must really not like this game because your last 3 comments were all almost the same identical paragraph about it.

iamnsuperman3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

Firstly it was two comments. Secondly I said:

" It used to be gameplay over graphics but now this game highlights a common trend where it has gone the other way round".

Key words highlights and common. Other games do it but this seems to have taken it to a new level and I showed my disappointment (as gamers we should) at this

Wingsfan243926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

He actually make a good point about assassins creed. Think about it, when you kill a group of enemies all the work is done for you by either just clicking square and seeing a new animation or by watching a sick cutscene for a double kill etc. Ryse at least gives you control of the kill and gives you more to do for cinematick kills other than clicking one button over and over again.

Aery3926d ago (Edited 3926d ago )

edit.

B-radical3926d ago

qte is only if u want bonus's

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d_dogg20073926d ago

Lair all over again! A game that was made specifically for Kinect and at the last minute was changed. Mark my words this game will get panned universally for it's lousy gameplay. You can already tell!

Eldyraen3926d ago

From what I've seen and read of this and played of Lair... Ryse looks the better of the two. It might not play better though but we have to wait and see.

Lair sort of kicked itself although I would love a similar game that was much better. Dragons are just awesome and premise was great but didn't live up to it. Hope Ryse doesn't fall as short.

Fireseed3926d ago

Crimson Dragon. That is all.

Gamer19823925d ago

@Eldyraen Your comparing the graphics of a PS3 launch title in lair to a Xbox One title? Seriously?? "Ryse looks the better of the two"

Just blown away by how stupid some people are. They buy there games because they LOOK better than last gen games. Forget if there any good.. I bet you bought Doom 3 eh?

Eldyraen3925d ago

@Gamer1982...

Wow... you want to talk about stupid people?

If you watch a trailer you can see what a game 'looks' like without talking about graphics. Gameplay and even story can be guessed at by seeing a game in action...

Lair looked and sounded great but in the end didn't live up to the expectations by far (due to actual controls mostly). If you couldn't understand that then you need to look into a mirror before you post.

Have a good day.

Neoninja3926d ago

was waiting for more info on Ryse. Don't know why people are complaining about button prompts, they're only for finishers.

Now I really hope they show off some of that coliseum multiplayer they were talking about, and some of the strategic things you can do with your squad.

Einhert3926d ago

The game just looks far to simplistic, the melee system does not seem fun at all.

I would have thought devs would have looked to games like chivalry for melee combat.

Alexious3926d ago

Chivarly has a pretty hardcore combat. Obviously, they are going for a mainstream target instead.

Einhert3923d ago

and that is exactly why it is bad

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15 Best Ancient Rome Games of All Time

From underrated Xbox One launch titles to absolute emperors of the strategy genre, history heads will love these games based around Ancient Rome.

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Leeroyw362d ago (Edited 362d ago )

There's fifteen ancient Rome games?

LG_Fox_Brazil362d ago

Shadow of Rome was so freaking good

Sashamaz362d ago

I'm still waiting for the sequel.

HyperMoused361d ago

Ryse was awesome, i have no idea why it wasnt recieved well and why we havnt seen another, Rome conquered so much, you could take the action anywhere, and it looked great when xbox one came out, now would be even better.

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Ryse: Son of Rome Deserves a Second Shot

Ryse: Son of Rome was an Xbox One launch title that has been left to collect dust, but Crytek should set aside Crysis and give Ryse another shot.

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AngainorG7X617d ago

It was a great game, it had issues but it can only go up from here.

crazyCoconuts617d ago

It was just ok. Looked really good for an Xbox game though

Snookies12617d ago

"for an Xbox game"

Way to subtly throw shade there. It looked amazing compared to any game at the time it was released.

Never played it myself though, wasn't really interested in it personally. Plus it came at a time when I didn't own an Xbox console. But it was at least different than the usual copy/paste games we get. So I hope it gets another chance sometime soon.

Crows90617d ago

It was a crytek game though

1nsomniac617d ago (Edited 617d ago )

It was a stunning game on all basis. One of the standout games for Xbox as a whole. I ended up buying on pc as well… and yes nothing looked better than it in PC at the time either. Nothing just ok about it, definitely needs a sequel.

fr0sty617d ago

@snookies12, don't pretend like the Xbox One didn't struggle with being gimpled by its tiny pool of ESRAM as a frame buffer. It was significantly weaker than the PS4.

crazyCoconuts617d ago

Metacritic 60, user score 6.4. I'm not alone in putting it into the "ok" category...

VenomCarnage89616d ago

@snookies
Haven't played it but at least you know enough to defend Xbox over it. The game did look good, for an Xbox game. That's not some "subtle shade," it's full on reality.
I remember it being nearly the only graphically decent game on the Xbone for like the first two years after launch, and graphics were that games strength

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CrimsonWing69617d ago

I really enjoyed it. Bought it at launch even.

ManMarmalade617d ago (Edited 617d ago )

The qte's were disappointing though. God of war was doing it back in the ps2 days. As gorgeous as the game was, the gameplay needed to be updated.

annoyedgamer617d ago

I really liked the original Ryse but Crytek doesn't have the funds. The mismanaged their properties and let EA raid them with Crysis for the duration of their relationship. Right now they are working on Crysis 4, I doubt they can spare resources to work on a Ryse sequel.

gamer7804617d ago

It would have to be funded by MS, I really liked Ryse sure it got repetitive but the setting visuals and story were good

moriarty1889617d ago

MS should have funded a sequel to Ryse and Sunset OD. Two good franchises they definitely needed last gen.

annoyedgamer617d ago

MS is too busy trying to become the next EA, Ryse wont be on their list of titles to finance unless it gets a hipster makeover with lootboxes.

darthv72617d ago (Edited 617d ago )

I recently bought it for the steamdeck and have to say... 60fps is a game changer. I really wished MS had gotten a one x patch or series boost mode option but sadly, nope. Other games that definitely deserve a second chance (esp on steamdeck/pc) are quantum break and sunset overdrive. Both deserved 60fps support on one x / series but you have to go to PC for that.

Rumor has it Crytek had plans for a Ryse 2 but due to the low turnout for XB (at the time) it was shelved. They really should give this another shot. i dont care if its multiplat on PS and XB and PC and Switch... just so long as part 2 gets made.

babadivad617d ago

The game is automatically boosted on Series X

darthv72617d ago

sorry... but it's not. It still runs at the same fps the XBO did.

lelo2play617d ago

Game was good enough, not great.
Graphically it was top notch. Still holds well till this day.

Crows90617d ago

It only needed more enemy variety and few more movesets or weapons to use. That would have made the experience tons better.

MadLad617d ago

It was a good game.
Only time I saw quick time events actually make me feel engaged.

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Here are the new Xbox Game Pass Quests for August 2022

Xbox Game Pass Quests recently reset for the month of August. So if you try to collect as many Microsoft Rewards points as possible, there's a new set available now.

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anast623d ago (Edited 623d ago )

This is not what I would call value for money spent. They give you quests in liveservice games to get you "re-engaged" with the monetization schemes or to get you hooked or so you at least spend some extra on skins and loot boxes. Then they dole out paltry points after you have already paid extra for whichever liveservice within a liveservice that you are already paying for. My worry is people can't actually be that stupid to fall for this, can they?

littletad622d ago

Absolutely nothing in this comment makes sense. At all.

anast622d ago (Edited 622d ago )

How does it not make sense? O thy god of reason, shine some evidence upon us. Ryse of Rome, ESO,and AC: Origins are all live service games, between them you can get 275 points. Liveservice games are made to keep people spending. Therefore, Gamepass is a live service and the points are for playing live service games.

It is not my problem that this does not make sense to you, it is absolutely your problem. I mean it is all your problem.

Julion0715622d ago (Edited 622d ago )

Hate Xbox but comments in every Xbox article 😂 without making sense smh

anast622d ago

Bring the evidence and then your emoji might make sense.