Games that did not live up to the concept art

Destiny is that game for me

All of them

Jesus fuck.
>tfw no retrofuturistic fantasy settings.

I think the main problem is you just never see other people walking above ground
Tokyo just feels really empty

Someone post the Horizon ones and laugh at Sony

could of been so much more

They changed it mid production though didnt they?

Biggest one HAS to be guild wars 2.

Here, lets look.

This is some art of a thief, its a loading screen that you see IN-GAME.

What game?

And this is what it looks like in-game. Fucking atrocious.

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I really wish Galaxy had some giant planets like this.

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it looks like neverwinter 2

All Mario games are shit, senpai. Why did you have any expectations this would be good?

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Wow I wonder what game this is for

I dunno but it looks like Warframe.

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Shin Megami Tensei 4!

Destiny's concept artist is pretty good

you ever notice none of the girls on gta promo art ever show up?

Wasn't there some controversy because one of the bikini girls in the gta v art was actually traced from a copyrighted photoshoot or some shit?

As someone who never saw Destiny concept art, I really like the art direction they got for it right now.

Dante's inferno

I'd kill for an artbook of it, but the game itself was meh

Wow didn't expect this to be the first reply. Good work Cred Forums

Not sure if you're joking but here you go.

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the game was supposed to take place in a derelict disneyland with the enemies being half-broken down animontronics of characters from the theme parks and stuff like that, but Disney didn't want their park and characters presented in any kind of negative fashion so like the good AAA devs they were they saw the interesting and unique ideas that the designers had made and fucking torched them.

Its too safe for my liking. The Hive and Fallen are interesting enough but the Cabal and Taken were seriously underwhelming.

I haven't played it at all since like April.

The best thing to come out of this game was the art book published by darkhorse. God bless that book

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Yes but the lawsuit was recently ruled in favor for Rockstar

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Even though it's a mediocre game I think it did a good job of living up the the aesthetic

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"Brink will bring Mirrors edge free running and the GPS genre together"

This game fucking fooled me. I was thankfully working at Xbox at the time. I got to watch all these people fall into this shit trap while I nimbly dodged it.

I was unable to dodge the depression of watching a games development for 6 months to be greeted by complete shit at the end.

Fuck you brink.

literally all of them

this isnt concept art

Sweden needs mechs for icefishing?

>World gets into a nuclear shitfest and everthing gets blasted with magic radiation like it always does.
>things eventually get back to some semblance of order and the world is on the road to recovery
>but people gotta eat
>people in Sweden are no different
>Gustaf wakes up one fine day
>gets ready for work at the docks, kisses his wife, daughter before leaving the house
>meets up with his crew at the same spot like always
>get in the fuckingg mech and spend the day catching giant mutated shark monsters whales and shit like that with massive harpoon guns
>just another day in the life

would play the fuck out of it.

Nothing ever lives up to its concept art.

This thread should've been about games that did not live up to their initial ideas, like any Valve game.

tfw no open source mechs

>fallout 3

>all of them

>tfw fell for Brink
>tfw it hurt just as badly as Spore

It still hurts, honestly.

>watching a games development for 6 months to be greeted by complete shit at the end
I always wonder what it's like for the devs.
At what point do they realize they've created garbage but continue to work on it to break even?
It must be heartbreaking.

They were just a rip off of the Thing

of course they were "realized decently"

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When does body horror move into ripoff the the thing territory?

thinkgen of fast.jpg

dota 2 design is a major disappointment coming from someone who loved the fuck out of Wc3 aesthetics.

Lindsay Lohan did the suing, by the way

what game is this?

post new vegas, holy shit what a disappointment.

RM is a real jem.

Literally all of Bioshock. Maybe not so much the first one, but Bioshock Infinite is up there with Destiny and Epic Mickey in terms of concept art not matching the game.

>mfw I learned that destiny was supposed to have this amazingly deep and intricate plot
>mfw producers told lead writer that "we're making cod+wow here, pal"
>mfw lead writer left the project assblasted and the lore\plot was reduced to what it is now

Grimoire gives us a peak into how good the in game lore could have been but Destiny ultimately became a shell of what it was going to be.

and they restarted on making the game 1 year before release, and made around 3 versions of the game before then.

There's a good kotaku article(the only one) about the shitshow it became.

Destiny and Guild Wars 2 will forever be some of the worst offenders of this.

>epic
Epic...Simply epic...

but dota 2 is tastefully designed and warcraft is not

I thought brink was fine, it was just super dead and had nobody playing it

The guy you are talking about is Joe Staten, he wrote most of Halo's lore. If you haven't read any of the halo novels they are actually pretty good.

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Consoles and the engine were too shit for all that.

You guys want to play some multiplayer on the pc?

Maybe you should get something other than the default armor you start with you fucking retard.

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Honestly the threads fanwanking to the concept art prior to the reveal were so good I regret nothing

Epic Mickey

>Wacky concept are with badass moth people and frog mounts
>Actual game is generic robots and blue emo humans

What the fuck happened?

Fuck, I've been wondering if that was still alive. is it?

I love Joseph Staten and I'm butthurt to this day that the Activision+Bungie merger fucked him out of giving us the Destiny we all wanted. I would have loved to see what the game would have been like had it not all gone to shit.

Hell, i have fun with it as it is, but I also acknowledge that it's hot garbage. Even if just the Grimoir content had made it into the game in some fashion, it would have been better.

Activision

I came here to post this, but you gave a terrible fucking example dude, you're comparing a woman wearing the starter medium armor set to a man wearing a set that isn't even in the game.

Here is a much better example, both pics are male Charrs wearing the Scrapper gear. The concept art looks incredible and in the in game screenshot highlights exactly what is wrong with GW2 armor models. Floaty, badly proportioned armor pieces lazily mapped over the character model. 75% of all armor looks fucking terrible on the non-human races because they just map the armor model over the player model instead of building the set from the ground up for non-human player models. It fucking sucks.

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Is that concept art procedurally generated?

>the new vegas strip could've looked like this

Here's an album of Adam Adamowicz's concept art for Fallout 3:
flickr.com/photos/47857688@N08/albums/72157629320774861/page1

>we will never get fnv in frostbite, it could look as good as that image.

I just remember playing some flash RTS game and it introducing me to Ukitakumuki's work back in my junior or senior years in high school. Got super fucking hyped for Nuclear Dawn, only for it to take a shit on all the concept art and original models with ultra generic boring visor soldiers.

It's a pretty great board game, m8. Nothing to do with this thread.

>Storm clouds gathering across the dam
Bravo Obsidian.

It's not out yet, but it's made in Unity soooo

Is that even any good?
Must have gone through DS2 like, 5 or so time, but not once did i try the MP.

I had fun with it when I had it on PS3, sadly it's pretty dead now, can't even get one player on there.

I wish there was someway to revive it.

>Child survivors wearing brownies and boy scout uniforms

>tfw the concept artist for Fallout 3 died of cancer

Every Bioshock game. None moreso than Infinite.

Halo 4

That pretty much goes for Bethesda games as a whole

Adam gave them gold and they pissed all over it, Only Bethesda could fuck it up so badly

RIP you bugger you didn't deserve this

nope, a city could never be that detailed on the engine it was running on

More

Geniunely awe-inspiring shit right here

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>we will never get to experience the sheer size of these insane megastructures in any halo game because they're reverted to 2D skybox elements that don't even look good

woah hey buddy moth people sound like really complicated models and animations just mae blue humans and pump them out

gotta make some wacky dance animations for the streamers to show off to the sheep woah

proof that video games are a flawed concept

Bioshock Infinite. Every fucking time.

>cue 2010/2011 E3 trailers

Now, just think of all the amazing concepts, ideas, and artwork produced for videogames. It's truly the worst thing ever created when people use it for wrong. Games should be about GAMEPLAY.

maybe one day. Technology is still getting more advanced, it only seems to reason that eventually we will get absolutely insane shit that can live up to the feeling that some concept art can evoke.

Except that design is in game

Did these guys even make it into the game?

Game?

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If the filename is anything to go by they used to be the Hive
So no, they don't appear in the slightest.

As it turns out 3d models take more time and rendering power to put in games than 2d sketches.

Gee, who would have thought

More destiny. God damn, it hurts my soul to think about how much potential this game had, and then how fucking SHIT it turned out to be.

Just goes to show, never get your hopes too high for any game, even if it's from a developer who has made enjoyable games in the past.

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You see them walking on SMTIV Apocalypse.

WHAT THE FUCK

Post the "there has to be more to life" variant of this concept art.

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rly makes u think

Okay now something about these are horrifying

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i thought the HL2 concept art was pretty awesome

i'm alright with the HL2 we got instead anyway but i would've loved to see some of this stuff survive to retail

Allegedly the L4D concept art and early models were so disgusting and gory that Valve told the guys to tone it down a dozen notches.

You're remembering it, but you're remembering it wrong.

Lindsey Lohan tried to sue, but Rockstar actually traced over a photoshoot from some model. They legally paid to do so, btw.

It's an fps/MMO hybrid with only the shittiest parts from each genre and none of the good ones

Oh yeah and it's specifically designed to peddle DLC and microtransactions to suck as much cash from a player as possible.

Seriously, rest in peace bungie. Whatever makes up that studio now is not the same as before.

Jesus christ these are god damn nightmare fuel

It's worse. They had a "beta" version of the plot on a showreel and showed it to Activision.

Activision hated it and SCRAPPED THE ENTIRE THING.

Funny story but my sister was the model for the bikini girl. Completely serious.

Did u fug

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LMFAO

i don't believe you

ok what the fuck

We're not that close.

That's fine but it's the truth. Not sure how I can prove it other than knowing her identity and history and such.

>This is literally in the install screen of the game, but NOT IN THE FUCKING GAME

Artbook the only worthy thing coming out of this one. Was a prime example of the fact Spicy Horse should be a third party art-department team that gets hired by other companies, since they cant really do good fully fleshed out games themselves.

They actually mentioned those during one of the early showings of the game and said something like

"Oh yeah, and here's the flying pyramid ships." *crowd laughs* "You'll have to wait until release to find out what those are!"

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I know that feel harder than anyone else brother

ken levine must die

Destiny concept art looks amazing though. Is there an artbook?

But we did find out what they are
cut content

>Detroit 2216

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just post a pic of her lower face, or blot out the eyes. no one gives a shit

I could just tell you her name, Shelby Welinder. Any pic I get is going to come from facebook.

fuck you weren't joking

Its such a fucking shame what happened to infinite
all those trailers, the concept art
end product's only redeeming factor was the atmosphere which was just barely preserved from earlier builds
that and Elizabeth porn

Looks like the Cabal Empire. I was genuinely interested in the potential Cabal expansion, since they're vastly more interesting than the fucking Taken or Hive. But no, let's re-skin some Fallen and release it for $30.

half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_original_storyline
Here's a good read for ya'.

He just needed somebody to tell him "no" at the right point. Guy has serious George Lucas syndrome.

dragons dogma did pretty well. actually attempted to be different. Also the creatures look identical to the designs they were originally created for. i dont know wat you on man

Yeah, there was a big hullabaloo for awhile where people thought it was Kate Moss and not her who did the model for it, and then Lindsay Lohan tried to sue and stuff.

The funny thing is, besides payment for it, Rockstar also offered her a lot of swag for the game, and she turned it down knowing that we (rest of the family) would have liked it.

So yeah, sister is the bikini girl, but I've never actually played GTA5

was levine responsible for the shit gameplay?

Him wanting the game changed entirely like 5 times before deadlines is a heavy part of why everything got so simplified compared to the trailers. Even despite bringing people in (as others left due to arguing) to tweak numerous combat-balancing problems.

I remember the stupid hype surrounding it as well. Like how dialogue among NPCs "last for hours" and "the world feels more alive than in any game!". Brings the good old "trees grow in real-time" Fable hype to mind.

>Rockstar also offered her a lot of swag for the game, and she turned it down knowing that we (rest of the family) would have liked it.

she turned down free stuff because she knew her family would like it?
what a psychotic bitch.

She didn't turn it down because she knew we'd like it, she just didn't care enough to go and pick the stuff up.

I said before but she's distant from us, so we didn't expect much from her then and we don't expect anything from her now.

That is a shame.

What we got felt too much like it was made for children in both the game-play and design.

thanks, I think that I've actually read over this a couple times now lol

so much that didn't make it to the final version, kinda makes what we got feel cut down a bit

Fucking Consoles

>implying gamebyro could handle that at an acceptable level of performance on any PC

LOL

Concept art always looks ridiculously cool, it'll still be decades before video games are as aesthetic as paintings

now i want to bang your sister

She's married now, good luck.

not on GAMEbryo it couldnt

did you fap to your sister user?
oh i bet you did. i would.

shelby sister is a pathological liar, and you know it

Nope, never.

Your wording is confusing there.

Trying to find any information on Shelby Welinder is impossible given the amount of bullshit the debacle spewed

Someone help me find Brother-user

that's candice swanepoel tho

Dude...what the fuck?

really??

That's a shitty example considering those exact spires made it into the game in not one, but two locations that aren't just in cutscenes/skyboxes, and both times it's really awe inspiring and it's almost an exact transition of the concept art to in engine

youtu.be/oKq5EFMjnSc?t=251
youtu.be/soxVezvR4WU?t=359

yeah man, it's completely normal to fap to siblings... I mean... spending so much time with each other... you had to have at least /thought/ about it...

Look up Au Ra from FF14

We shared a bunk bed for several years and it literally never crossed my mind. Plus, from the age of like 14 onwards, she was out of my life.

Why would you want to find me? I'm not famous or involved with the vidya industry.

maybe if your goal of videogames is to look as good as art, but most people play videogames as games

it hurts so much

No. In game it's pathetic. Especially once you look closer and realize half of them are 2D cutouts with pixelated edges.

And nothing in the game looks anything close to that concept art. The only similarities are "some big floaty towers" but in-game they're much less impressive

I know this is a thread for stuff that didn't but i think 90% of the concept art fromsoft makes for things in the "souls series" translates amazing well over to 3d.

guilty gear xrd is basically on another level.

It's the other way around tho you might thinking when you are really young, more like a childless harmless affection than you forget anyway. And then after spending years with say person you create a bound it becomes more like a person that I can freely trust rely on. Really, a stable man doesn't feel or see them that way. And I've seem families of really attractive people so.. You just fucking sick.

>implying Gamebryo could ever handle that
>implying more than like 10% of their audience on PC own a PC strong enough to run that at anything approaching decent levels
My Little user Can't Be THIS Silly

Don't play halo but i agree with you. They couldn't even implement some damn clouds to miic what was drawn. Looks way to "clean" and uninspired in game.

Game looked way better than this

Did you just say dead space isnt atleast 9/10?

Speaking of Dead Space, when is EA going to remaster it? It's been a few years and with the success of remasters in general, I'm sure they have been eyeballing it as a trilogy re-release or something. Not that I want to spend more money, but if they handled it the same way capcom did, they could release each game for $20 individually or all together for $50

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>get the fucking creator of Deus Ex to be the director of this new project
>fuck it up but the final game is still decent
>Epic Mickey 2 gets worse ala Rayman Legends
>Junction Point gets closed

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so that's how girls' anuses look like

what fucking game

dark souls 2

Goddamn.
I can only recognize the one area (Iron Keep obvs) and even that just looked like a legend of zelda dungeon instead of anything remotely atmospheric or interesting as the art.
Now I'm depressed thinking about what DS2 could have possibly been, in some alternate universe :(

it lived up to it as well as a ps3 game could

that's photobashing bullshit

Pro-tip
I am a concept artist in a small dev studio that knows concept artists in larger studios

90% of concept art is at least partially photobashing and tracing, at least on early stages when you just have to brainstorm the shit out of it and produce as much art as possible

Basically all of GTA's concept art is filtered photobashed photoes, even promo-art

>online game
>chara doesn't look like concept art
fgt

Never make a deal with disney. They care about their childish family-friendly image more than anything.
Absolutely no creativity.

I always see this picture I think: Isn't that car too narrow?

>who loved the fuck out of Wc3 aesthetics.
Well here's your problem

How does this make you feel?

Remember Me.

I think the he meant more variety in enemies. Infected animals would have been cool.

Oh fuck.

I have that game and still have yet to play it.

What could've been, though.

Just tell them to fuck off. That's what nomura did and he was able to make the game he wanted instead of the game they wanted.

Uh? Basically every game is shit compared to its concept arts.

I don't know what YOU'RE on, man.

The concept art is beautiful and yes the creatures ingame match well enough to the artist rendition but the concept art is about 80% cut content, which is depressing when you think about what could have been.

Pic related, a small snip of the book.

You sister is one big cunt user. Sorry to hear that.

You know with the current level of technology this could all be possible if the consumer didn't give a shit about grafixs so much if suddenly everyone was cool with going back to PS2 tier stuff.

Fucking EA ruining everything.

>the amount of bullshit the debacle spewed

What?

How long until games look like their concept art?

Movies can already do it because pre rendered but when gam?

At this point, never.

Why never?

Has there ever been a bigger letdown than SWTOR?

n-no user not this, this hurts my soul every time

Half-life 2 makes me sad-life 2

Skyrim
There's only 1 style of ancient construction in the final game and they're all filled with draugr

RIP Adam

that's actually a pre production painting by Craig Mullins

What a shame

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fug he needed to be on fallout 4

Tifa

I'm not sure what concept art there was for whiterun, but there's tons for Markarth.

The design was pretty much the same all throughout development but in the final game it was a lot smaller.

Cloud and Aeris(th)

>mfw people defend destiny saying its actually good
no
I will never play that abomination

Cloud and red 13

Francine got a nose job.

Lesbian couple

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can't remember the artist's name, but virtually everything he did was ruined by FF. His art and the games share almost nothing in terms of visual language and so on. Probably because it's a style that is almost impossible to make into a game (today you probably could, but that would take a AAA studio, and what kind of gameplay do you even accompany this style with).

Guy's fucking amazing though.

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Yoshitaka Amano

I wouldn't say all Bioshock.
1 and 2 defintely had cool concept art ideas that could have been implemented, but they were still good overall. Infinite however is another story.

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I don't think real life Vegas is that big?

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Infinite was suppose to have their own Big Daddies(if we don't count Handymen). Sad only Songbird was hyped up by the story in turn to be lackluster.

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probably because nomura is too valuable for squeenix to fire.

Infinite will never live up to its more interesting E3

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That turned into the big eyed disney princess copy we got in the final game.

Fuck that company.

>Boys of silence were made to force you to be quiet and not knock shit around.
>Final game gave them a fucking spotlight.

So much potential lost. It still hurts.

>How long until games look like their concept art?
A lot of these are old and doable now on top end pcs. I'd say a 5-10 years for more mainstream use.

If we get quantum computing in the next 30 years we can do whatever the fuck we want though

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Ffxiii

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When Booker went into another tear with Future Elizabeth?
That is what felt Bioshock to me. Boys of Silence scared me shitless with the vibes they were giving off.

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That isn't Alexis Texas?

Ff6 cast

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As you can clearly see terra does indeed have green hair(if you quint)

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One of the nearest replications is probably Kefka's final forms, especially when combined with that fucking music.

what?

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>Splicers were about to do Blood whips before the anime.

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>Bioshock 2 underwater fights.

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artstyle wise that game delivered all the way imo

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have you even played Dishonored, user?

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Yeah, and the shitty graphics don't make it look anywhere near as cool as the artwork

that's... pretty cool

get a load of this guy

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ur a fucking retard

reminds me of some stuff in Secret World

Vincent

If I had it I'd say Blade and Soul summoners
STILL MAD

>Warren Spectors founds studio
>is afraid of being bought/founded by publishers as he fears they might close the studio
>Disney buys it and sells the studio
Is like pottery, it breaks.

If they just went with Splicer Underwater fights with Bio 2.
wew, It would have made Deep sea transitions to levels much better.

Ffiv

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It's disappointing that they're not in the game

Tellah requestingto be drawn like one of your french girls.

K I L L I T

Who's the big guy between goldberg and zemus

is that an enemy? I don't remember it

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jesus I just died of laughter

The combine super soldier was supposed to be the final form of the combine overwatch troop.It was supposed to be a human equivalent to the strider or gun ship synths you see throughout the game.

God that looks amazing.

Also pic related is for Dark Souls 3.

Man, Mcree looked so badass

It's the leaper from Dead Space 3 which the concept art was made for

GW2 will always be the biggest disappointment in many ways, including this one. Not only was the concept art great, but they'd trickle it out little by little along with the tiniest bit of news to keep people on the hype train for years while they let GW1 die off.

Surprised Team Fortress 2 hasn't been posted yet.

fucking terrifying

I guess they look nothing like that in the game

Yeah. Weird.

Thats just the evolution of gimmicky products being offered into the game. There are a lot of good cosmetics that a bunch of us have strived to make the game fit....

Then there is the Banana hat...

You're carer finally let you on the computer?

Stupid cunt

In an earlier version of half-life 2 the resistance were supposed to be the remains of earths armed forces(including possibly the remains of the HECU from HL1)conscripted into the combines army(ranking below the metrocops).

Freeman actions(destroying a weather control station)would lead them and the rest of the citizens to revolt against the combine.

They were lead by Alyx's father captain vance who was later in production combined with Eli Maxwell to form the composite character eli vance.

If anonymous leaks are to be believed captain vance was supposed to have been the leader of the HECU from HL1 and adopted alyx as his daughter after he killed her mother during the black mesa cover-up(Hence why he's a different race then her.)

The conscripts were supposed to have AI simular to the security guards from HL1.

ORAS

Anything Blizzard

I want to try it, let's make a group on steam and play it

How much did Rockstar pay her?

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but we actually got that in dark souls 3?

cainhurst is my favorite level

Are you implying that Cainhurst doesn't look anything like the concept art?

Left 4 Dead

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That particular one I can understand not being in the game.
Swarms of tiny bastard enemies do not mix well with games where you need to conserve your ammo a lot.

only to release a game that has
1) no Guild Wars
2) hours of you fighting fucking Zombies, while the universe would have let them do so much more
fuck it still makes me mad
especially the PvP which they dumpstered

Clearly, you've never been to las vegas or watched movies about it.

It's not that TF2 didn't live up to it's concept art, it's the community and promo additions thrown onto it that did that.

Such is the price of working on fallout 3.

this, a dark city 17 would've been much better

CONCEPT art, not EXACT representation you fucking mongs. Concept artists know that the game isn't going to look exactly how the art depicts, it's a fucking GUIDE.

Only faggots complain about photobashing. I haven't come across a single competent photopbasher who wasn't also an accomplished illustrator.

Here's Skyrim's concept art
raylederer.com/
flickr.com/photos/47857688@N08/sets/72157629321466509/

As if the clicker weren't fucked up enough.

Do you mean just in terms of detail, or artstyle?

I personally want to see a 3D game with a painting aesthetic that doesn't look like trash.

It's one of the reasons why I liked the artstyle of Bastion and Rayman origins so much.

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>no sexy bar maids seducing me to buy drinks
>no drunken raucous laughter and singing
The taverns were comfy as fuck in the game, but they never fit the nordic stereotype presented in previous games.

Hunters do that better, shame they're not in base HL2.

I'm so happy that Gearbox is tanking right now

I feel as if Dante's Inferno could have expanded the lore of the circles of hell alot more.

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bionicle: the game

i played this game for about an hour and just couldnt get myself to finish it. i really wanted to like it because i thought it was visually interesting, but the gameplay was so uncompelling that i just really didnt want to continue.

W E

The "new" enemies in Destiny's DLC suck dick
>Dark Below
Here's some strong Hive. No new enemy models though
>House of Wolves
Here's some strong Fallen. No new enemy models though
>Taken King
Here's some pallet swaps of almost EVERY FUCKING ENEMY IN THE GAME
>Rise of Iron
Even more reskinned Fallen. Fuck you