Hello everyone, I am Dr. X.
Mobile games are rampant, end games are nostalgic, how long have you not played a new end game that is fresh and interesting? Especially in the big dyeing vat of martial arts immortals, the cookie-cutter MMO gameplay has become a common disease, and players urgently need a new era online game with novel concepts and unconventional gameplay to wash away the increasingly tired aesthetic.
The current popular "open world" is an opportunity to break the game, many manufacturers have set up their own open world MMO new products, or on the basis of the original game to open up an open world RPG test field.
This naturally includes NetEase, which is as fast as lightning, and today, NetEase's first open world martial arts terminal game "Shooting Eagle" in the true sense of the word is officially announced, which uses the Unreal 4 engine to create a 3D seamless open big world shooting eagle jianghu, whether it is the theme or background has an absolute attraction to players, but also NetEase's S-level flagship martial arts new work.
Heavy weight, no doubt for this mysterious archery game new work stacked with expectations BUFF, Dr. X is also the first time to contact the R & D team behind NetEase, got the first-hand exclusive information of the game, and then I will combine the content that has been published so far, to talk to you about what medicine is sold in this gourd?!
Key point one: The real sense of NetEase's first open world martial arts terminal game? Archery Trilogy Genuine Licensing!
Where there are Chinese, there are people who read Jin Yong's novels, countless generations have been planted by Mr. Jin Yong since childhood a martial arts dream, RPG games are undoubtedly the best form of expression of the jianghu, players are eager to incarnate in the game as a chivalrous guest who can quickly kill the revenge.
But the strange thing is that Jin Yong's Tianlong Eight Parts, Laughing Pride Jianghu, Lu Dingji, these masterpieces have been changed to the experience of the same name Duanyou, but the "Shooting Eagle Trilogy" that laid the status of "Martial Arts Supreme" for Jin Yong has not been released in real-time large-scale role-playing duanyou, which has always been a pity for fans.
Therefore, the official announcement of NetEase's "Shooting Eagle" will undoubtedly arouse the curiosity of Jin Yong fans of various ages. Enough to make fans happy, at this stage, the major labels and concepts thrown out by "Shooting Eagle" still look very attractive, and there are distinct differences with traditional martial arts games.
(Huang Rong disguised as a beggar)
First of all, the "open world" tone is not just a sight to reach, there is no air wall restriction between the maps, this kind of common setting. It places more emphasis on bringing players "a complete and self-consistent world framework", followed by providing a variety of open and free play that satisfies the logic of this framework.
Therefore, the game "Shooting Eagle" is different from the main gameplay of the traditional MMO heavy group team, and it will emphasize the sense of single-player adventure and immersion in the personal plot and exploration experience.
Dr. X is curious, will Archery break through the traditional role-playing category? How will the player's relationship with the Archers be set?
(East Evil West Poison Harp Contest)
In the game, players can also collect (pick up?) in various crunching corners. To all kinds of martial arts secrets in the Archery Trilogy, from a nameless pawn to a generation of masters who can integrate various martial arts, and at the same time master the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, the Nine Yang Divine Gong, the Qiankun Great Shift, and other peerless divine skills, what is the experience? What is it like to take the holders of these martial arts secret books to swim in the rivers and lakes at the same time?
It depends on how "Shooting Eagle" is reasonably and self-consistently adapted.
If Archery as a whole is moving closer to a single-player game experience, how to deal with the consumption of strong PVE content has become a major key. Just like "Original God", by constantly adding new characters and opening new maps to expand the boundaries of the main line and the world, and then enriching the content of the game through various activities and side lines, but sometimes it still can't escape the spread of the long grass period.
As for Archery, although I feel that it is difficult to satisfy the player's long-term desire to explore in the shaping of the new map, in terms of plot line, "Shooting Eagle" obviously has a natural advantage and fan base.
Judging from the effect and difficulty of the film games adapted by the ip of the past generations of martial arts, Jin Yong Wuxia has always been relatively easy to adapt because of its rich and durable characteristics of settings.
And NetEase has won the genuine authorization of the "Shooting Eagle Trilogy" for many years in one go, and can more focused on interpreting the magnificent "Shooting Eagle Trilogy" process of up to 150 years.
At present, as far as I know, NetEase has planned several large-scale era processes, including almost all the major events in the "Shooting Eagle Trilogy". Players can meet the archery heroes, experience historical changes, and even change the fate and regrets of some people with their own hands.
(Mu Nianci in "Shooting Eagle")
For example, Dr. X, I am very curious about the whereabouts of Yang Guo xiaolongnu after retiring to the jianghu, Guo Xiang has been looking for Yang for nearly thirty years, where he has gone; some of the characters with a bumpy ending in the original work, the emergence and rise and fall of the Wulin sect, maybe there will be a new interpretation in "Shooting Eagle".
This is not only a special identity for the player to witness the transformation of the Archery Trilogy, but also a key part of the integration into the situation.
Key Point Two: An Open World Synchronized with Real Time? Will it take 150 years to finish the Archery Trilogy?
In order to enhance the fun of PVE, "Shooting Eagle" has designed a large number of multiple identity and casual gameplay such as simulated management and singing artists, but I think the most interesting thing is the setting of "complete synchronization with real time".
We know that most games tend to speed up the time flow of the game in order to allow players to experience the changes in the weather day and night and the different ecological scenery of the game, so that they can experience richer content in a short period of time.
The use of "real time" games for so many years is actually not much, but they are special enough, take the fire of the previous years of the "Animal Forest Friends", with the real time and the four seasons of the design is completely synchronized, so that players have the motivation to go online every day to see what is happening on the island, kohlrabi trading is also dependent on the reality and virtual synchronization of time, there is a feeling of breaking through the dimensional wall.
The use of this design in "Shooting Eagle" is also to allow players to experience the subtle details of Song Dynasty life more immersively.
Well-informed students may have noticed that the six hours of 卯, 巳, noon, unmarried, unitary, and 戌 appear on the official website of "Shooting Eagle" correspond to different scene CGs and character behaviors.
Morning bell twilight drum, midnight (5 to 7 o'clock) The monks of the Lingshui Temple just got up and sprinkled the bell;
At midnight (9~11 o'clock), the sun is just noisy in the streets, and some people take advantage of this crowd to compete in the street to recruit relatives;
At noon changqing restaurant, the kind and generous Guo Jingshe asked Huang Rong, who was dressed as a beggar, to invite him to dinner;
(Guo Jing Huang Rong first met)
During the unitary hour (around 17:00), the sunset sprinkled, and during the movement of Guo Jing, a teenager in Merlin, the figure paid tribute to the classic red sun of the 83rd edition of "Shooting Eagle"...
(Tribute to the 83 classic "Legend of the Archery Hero")
According to Dr. X's understanding, "Shooting Eagle" has made a lot of research on the original work and the characteristics of the times, and the professional cultural consultants alone have hired a bunch of heavy money, involving costume restoration, ancient architecture restoration, Song song song repertoire creation, character theme song production, etc., and strive to achieve "food, clothing, housing and travel, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are exquisite."
However, at present, it is only the concept of the kinetic forest, and whether such a novel experience can be realized in the open world dimension will not be known until after the test.
But Dr. X is curious that if it really follows the flow rate of real time, would it take 150 years to tell the story of the Archery Trilogy in the game?
Key point three: new Chinese style? Youthful and flexible painting style expression
In recent years, most of the new martial arts network drama TV series adopt the shooting methods of young actors and youth idol dramas, integrating elements such as youth, inspiration, blood, and action, so as to make the overall style more youthful, thus creating a young martial arts dream. While it is impossible to shake the status of those classic versions from decades ago, many of them have also received praise from new-age audiences.
NetEase's "Shooting Eagle" also starts from a young but classic point of view, first of all, in the painting style, it shows a different martial arts charm. Dr. X deliberately pulled a few screenshots of the game from NetEase, do you dare to believe that this is the real picture in the game?
This kind of painting brushwork that integrates the ancient rhyme of oriental culture has an extraordinary artistic conception like a work of art, and it gives people a sense of cinematic lens with a filter. If the screenshots in the game are really a dreamlike scroll wallpaper, then I will definitely blow up!
(Changqing Building when Guo Jing Huang Rong first saw him, refer to the Fan Lou of Fenjing during the Northern Song Dynasty)
In terms of human design, "Shooting Eagle" strives to give people a sense of "one sight and one mistake for life". And the shaping of the character image will be more inclined to restore the original work, such as Huang Rong with a white coat and gold belt, a clever smile and a strange spirit:
Ouyang Feng, the western poison Ouyang Feng, who is as quiet as a dancing prince and crazy and evil when moving, also gives people a sense of contrast:
I feel that this time I was pinched by NetEase's art again!
After-class summary: NetEase martial arts dream of another attack
In today's era of mobile games, NetEase can be said to have broken through the shackles of its "last terminal game" and once again practiced its martial arts dream on the PC platform.
However, at present, the information revealed by "Shooting Eagle" is very limited, and further gameplay can only be known after the exposure of the game's real machine demonstration and the first test, and Dr. X will continue to follow up with the latest news, so stay tuned.