Trinity Announced

Trinity screenshots
http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.jsp?channel_id=73&object_id=552313&adtag=network%3Dign%26site%3Dxbox%26genre%3Dfirst-person%26genre%3Dshooter%26object1%3D552313%26object2%3D25004viewer%26pagetype%3Darticle&page_title=First+Person+Trinity

Okay, some evil stuff has wormed its way into the Shack ad rotation. Yesterday some punch the monkey equivalent, and today a "TAKE A SURVEY!" popup from questionmarket.com

Y'know, I'm not very excited about this. The setting is slightly original, but I'll frankly be surprised if Gray Matter can pull off anything above mediocre (which is where I rank RTCW, multiplayer aside [as it was developed by nerve]).

The production of RTCW was little more than a point-and-shoot spamfest. The graphics were decent, but the gameplay brought little-to-nothing to the table. I wasn't impressed.

Lessons can be learned, however...but I doubt we'll see anything new from this game, thus it doesn't excite me. That's why I lust for games like Half-Life 2 so much, as it's the epitome of a great game. It's so different from everything else, bringing so much new stuff to the table.

Don't get me wrong; I love a solid, respectable shooter, but you can't slap some enemies and some levels together with a weak storyline and expect me to remain interested. It takes more these days. Games are getting increasingly more complex (compare Pong to Wolf3D to Doom to System Shock). Some of these game developers need to catch up if you ask me.

sounds a little matrix influenced to me...super human abilities...trinity...yah. and yes, bullet time = flashtime i bet. that was my first thought at leats,a nd i didnt even play max payne!

48 Hour Madness special here we come!

The thoughts that popped into my head as I read the article:

...deadly plague...
Red Faction, *shudder*
...bio-technically enhanced...
Deus Ex ripoff, *sigh*
...special "Flash" powers that enable the character to jump, run...
GAAH! BACK, DAIKATANA! BACK!!
..."FlashTime"...
Max Payne, ugh.

Yeah, not too optimistic, but nowadays a good game seems to get released with zero fanfare, someone reports that it's good, and then it all washes over. Seems pointless announcing them years ahead of time.

screenshots? where are you screenshots?
should be illegal to announce a game without screenshots.

New Orleans already has a deadly plague, it's called alcohol.

one of the most rank cities I've ever been in. Burbon street smells like ass 24/7

There were previews for this a long time ago...

Original codename for the Quake3 engine during development was also Trinity.

Nerve is developing the id idea.

Nerve was responsible for the RTCW multiplayer (the only redeeming part of the game), and Nerve is the one suspected of developing quest. Taken from http://www.nervesoftware.com :

The project being developed by Nerve is based on an original design by id Software. The game is still in the early stages of development with more details to be announced later this year. Nerve Software was co-founded by ex-id Software employee Brandon James.

Of course, we haven't had that announcement. :P I think most people still suspect it will be Quest.

yet another unoriginal fps. yay! see you in the bargin bin 2 weeks later!

here comes the shack hype.

yay another fps on the PC. Shocker

Is this the game that Joe Eigo is doing motion capture for, i dont think grey matter has much else in dev so it must be. some crazy cool shit
http://www.joeeigo.com/multilevelmoves/index.html

there's no room in my brain for any more games!

This sounds just like every other futuristic fps i've heard of :/ you never can tell from these silly pr blurbs though. Am i the only person who isn't particularly interested in the special powers or abilities in games and looks more for the story and the gameplay.

I just see stuff like these "flash" powers (sounds a lot like jedi powers from jedi knight to me, which lets face it, in itself is just a fancy name for magic powers like those found in any other game...) and "flashtime" (brings back thoughts of bullet time from max payne, which is nice but nothing to build a game around.) as gimmicks to hide the fact your playing an ordinary game.

I'm not a huge fan of grey matter. Kingpin was pretty, but a huge rampaging poorly put together cliche from begining to end.

RTCW held my interest for the first couple of levels, but i suddenly realised i was playing a game i could have completed a hundred times before. yawn.

Hey heres hoping they'll push the boat out and do something trully interesting, or they may fall into the category that raven currently hibernates in, "Dull repetive developer of samey average games."

but hey they're texture artists are great.
/rant over

it... must... USE... THE SOURCE ENGINE!!!!!!!!! :)

I wonder what other games that shoule be coming out might use.. DNF?!

After Wolf I'm not expecting much out a SP game from these guys. Wolf had so much potential and the first part of the game was sweet and then it just petered out into a dull repetitive shooter.

You play Nightstalker, "a bio-technically enhanced one-man vigilante force", and you're supposed to prevent the disaster from happening.

Wow, looks like they really went all out on the premise. pfft.

sounds like deus ex with bullet time...wonder if it'll hold a candle to deus ex 2

sounds interesting....any relation at all to the original id title that was mentioned wayyy back I wonder.

this game sounds 80s

guess grey matter hopes that most gamers forgot about flash bullet-time in max-payne. to be honest i managed that game in ca. 10 hours without doing any time thingie... elsewise grey matter always had good ideas when making games and sureley did some great work, maybe keep up the story-going to the end this time not like rtcw.

Wasn't Gray Matter working on a project with id Software? Is this it or am I just out of my mind?

Anyone remember when JohnC talked about his "trinity" engine before quake 2?!

Bet you guys a dollar it's using Doom III.

I still want to know what's going on with Nerve Software, and the game they're working on with id which may or may not be "Quest".

Please don't make New Orleans completely fucking stupid. Every time N.O. is in a movie or anything it is a giant fucking cartoon. I'VE NEVER MET ANYONE IN N.O. THAT SPEAKS FUCKING FRENCH ALL THE TIME AND NOT EVERYONE IS A MORBIDLY OBESE VOODOO PRACTISING SEX FIEND. Just some.

Good game by Infocom way-back-when
http://www.infocom-if.org/games/trinity/trinity.html

Don't know what the hell to think of this. Guess they figured Trinity was a big name thrown around id a few years back that they would use it for the name of a game?

Need more info, what engine it uses, and screenshots.

Sounds mighty interesting.

So hey guys what can we call bullettime in our game?

How about 'Flashtime (tm)'?

That sucks.

Can you think of anything better?

No.

Sounds like Deus Ex with bullet-time. *shrug* I wasn't crazy about RTCW's single player. I've got a wait-and-see demeanor on this one.

So what is new and interesting about this game? super human speed? sniper rifle? what?

uhmm... does this have any relation to the old 'next-gen' nickname for quake 3's technology?

for those who don't recall, carmack initially called it 'trinity.'

.... this sounds fucking weird

Reminds me of Starcraft Ghost a little. Hope it works out, dodging and stuff in first person.