If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the
FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to
register or
login before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| 16 JUL 2009 at 8:27am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Looks like the interior of a Versace Hotel.
|
| 17 JUL 2009 at 6:09pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (16 JUL 2009 8:27am)
Looks like the interior of a Versace Hotel.
Only moreso...
I'm more interested in the game than I expected to be when I first heard of it. There's a part of me that admires and appreciates the way that they're going overboard on the visuals -- holding nothing back from all the glitz.
|
| 17 JUL 2009 at 6:29pm |
| Deleted User | Wow. They sure stuffed a lot of scenes in that trailer. Strange, near the end of the video:
NOW AVAILABLE ON PC DVD ROM.......SHIPS 9/1/09
I probably missed something, as usual.
|
| 17 JUL 2009 at 6:30pm |
| Deleted User | ..not to mention the barbie-doll girl with high-heeled boots, heavy make-up, bee-stung lips, and revealing corset. (Btw, did you see the somersaults she can do?) Hey, the angel Michael is not half-bad either, with his rippling muscles and all...
|
| 17 JUL 2009 at 7:00pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6693
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 JUL 2009 6:29pm)
..not to mention the barbie-doll girl with high-heeled boots, heavy make-up, bee-stung lips, and revealing corset. (Btw, did you see the somersaults she can do?) Hey, the angel Michael is not half-bad either, with his rippling muscles and all...
I've always thought they should just call that game Ken and Barbie Die and Go to Fairyland.
Cheers, Terry
|
| 17 JUL 2009 at 7:02pm |
AubstopperIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 85
Joined: 19 MAY 2008
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Terry_Penrod (17 JUL 2009 7:00pm)
.
Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 JUL 2009 6:29pm)
..not to mention the barbie-doll girl with high-heeled boots, heavy make-up, bee-stung lips, and revealing corset. (Btw, did you see the somersaults she can do?) Hey, the angel Michael is not half-bad either, with his rippling muscles and all...
I've always thought they should just call that game Ken and Barbie Die and Go to Fairyland.
Cheers, Terry
wow...i think you hit the nail on the head, terry.
"Man's greatest tragedy is that he can perceive of a perfection that he can never attain."
|
| 18 JUL 2009 at 2:12am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | great eye candy. I look forward to it.
Thanks for the link.
|
| 18 JUL 2009 at 4:44am |
KoriSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 399
Joined: 27 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | When you consider the time and work that goes into the making of any adventure game, you have to wonder about the state of mind of the creators of this game. But . . . I’ll buy their game if they will just include a game token. (whatever they were taking when they came up with this game idea). :
|
| 18 JUL 2009 at 7:15pm |
avatar_58Private Detective
Posts : 403
Joined: 27 MAY 2008
Status : Online | What in gods name did I just watch? I saw two weird looking characters throwing magic bolts around a large room while doing somersaults, all the while surrounded by lion monsters really expensive china.
:-?
Am I missing something here?
|
| 18 JUL 2009 at 9:24pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6693
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
Originally Posted By avatar_58 (18 JUL 2009 7:15pm)
What in gods name did I just watch? I saw two weird looking characters throwing magic bolts around a large room while doing somersaults, all the while surrounded by lion monsters really expensive china.
:-?
Am I missing something here?
Evidently, that's what you get when you combine ponderous amounts of blind faith and fundamentalist thinking with lots of time, money, technology and the imagination of a five-year-old girl.
Cheers, Terry
|
| 18 JUL 2009 at 10:19pm |
KoriSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 399
Joined: 27 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | We may soon have a new game to list in the Worst of the Worst. :
Of course if it’s silly enough, it might be real funny and it might make it as an adventure comedy.
|
| 18 JUL 2009 at 10:55pm |
| Deleted User | Well, like people have rightly pointed out, the Christian Mythology is one of the few that has not been used as the backdrop for a game, so from that point of view the game is rather interesting. I had always imagined Heaven, you know, to be a lush and beautiful spot in Nature. If you think about it, before humans messed it up, Earth really had a lot of beautiful and heavenly spots (and still has a few).
Therefore, not having a good knowledge of the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible, I was at first rather taken aback of a vision of a heaven so... sterile, artificial and man-made; until I read a bit more and found out that the scenario is indeed based on the conception of heaven as put forth in the Book of Revelation.
Now that I find pretty strange and interesting. In fact, I think it will be a revelation in itself, of a certain mindset, to actually play this game, and I'm leaning more and more towards actually trying it out. I'm not prepared to pay the current price, though. We'll see if it goes to the bargain bin.
|
| 19 JUL 2009 at 5:10am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6693
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
A real revelation would be if more people (including the makers of this game) admitted that commercialized fairytale depictions of Heaven are just figments of very limited imaginations.
It never ceases to amaze me just how pedestrian most human minds are when it comes to envisioning an eternal existence beyond this mortal plane.
Heaven, if it exists, could not be a physical place occupied by beings bound to the restrictions of finite earthly life. Think bigger and think outside linear time, three-dimensional space and crass, hedonistic yearnings. Imagine pure energy and light flowing free of such mundane trappings... fueled perhaps by something as simple yet powerful as love.
Cheers, Terry
|
| 19 JUL 2009 at 6:32am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Yes Terry.... all very high falutin' but pleasure as we know, is what Believers of all faiths are looking forward to in the Afterlife. No fun in sex if you're just pure energy now is there? One needs flesh and nerves and stuff to have a really good time ... oh and lots and lots of big busted friendly women. See? I know the formula. [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
Now, how many followers do you think your vision of heaven would have brought in - given the times when these religions were formulated?
btw, the music in the clip was good - but then they didn't make that did they?
|
| 19 JUL 2009 at 4:27pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6693
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
Originally Posted By Caroline (19 JUL 2009 6:31am)
Yes Terry.... all very high falutin' but pleasure as we know, is what Believers of all faiths are looking forward to in the Afterlife. No fun in sex if you're just pure energy now is there? One needs flesh and nerves and stuff to have a really good time ... oh and lots and lots of big busted friendly women. See? I know the formula. [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
Now, how many followers do you think your vision of heaven would have brought in - given the times when these religions were formulated?
btw, the music in the clip was good - but then they didn't make that did they?
True Caroline.
If I was a con artist looking for suckers to buy my brand of snake oil, I'd tell them what they want to hear.
Cheers, Terry
.
|
| 19 JUL 2009 at 8:45pm |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Its just a game peeps, dont over analyize. I think it looks like it might be fun. [smiley=shrug.gif]
Ill certainly give it a try (at a reasonable price or trade of course)
|
| 19 JUL 2009 at 9:07pm |
| Deleted User | Just admit it Helen, you like the look of all that shiny gold and pearls! [smiley=laughing.gif]
Yes, I might also be tempted to try it out of curiosity and for the eye-candy. (If they have a demo, I might try that - I wouldn't be prepared to buy it at the current price... who knows, it might turn up at my friendly thrift shop sometime :
However, like I'd said before; I prefer more natural surroundings with lush plant growth and so on. Who knows, maybe Heaven might also have a touch of Paradise in it, and they're just not showing it in the previews... :
How about you buy the game first, and let the rest of us know...
|
| 19 JUL 2009 at 9:36pm |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (19 JUL 2009 9:07pm)
Just admit it Helen, you like the look of all that shiny gold and pearls! [smiley=laughing.gif]
yeppers, your right, I can sometimes be a bling bling kind of gal.
|
| 19 JUL 2009 at 11:39pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Sounds like you all like "Heaven". I'm hoping to pre-order it on Aug. 2 (my birthday) for $36. In Fact, I have $36 in my piggy bank that's left over from buying this new MacBook Pro that I'm using now.
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
|
| 20 JUL 2009 at 12:10am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I'm looking forward to hearing what this game is like from the gamers on this site. Their opinions will make my decision for me. But as someone who owns a fair amount of bling - lol Helen ... if it's a fun game then why not.
One of my chief gripes about Uru was the limited jewellry available for my avatar to wear. :
|
| 20 JUL 2009 at 12:48am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (19 JUL 2009 9:07pm)
Just admit it Helen, you like the look of all that shiny gold and pearls! [smiley=laughing.gif]
Yes, I might also be tempted to try it out of curiosity and for the eye-candy. (If they have a demo, I might try that - I wouldn't be prepared to buy it at the current price... who knows, it might turn up at my friendly thrift shop sometime : )
However, like I'd said before; I prefer more natural surroundings with lush plant growth and so on. Who knows, maybe Heaven might also have a touch of Paradise in it, and they're just not showing it in the previews... :
How about you buy the game first, and let the rest of us know...
If you haven't already Traveller, check out the Paradise Island gallery and especially the video where Joshua meets Axis. Perhaps more to your liking?
I agree with others that the current price is not set to reflect current market conditions and that will have to change. Other than that I'll just have to keep listening to others comments for now. :-/
One thing though.
Genesis Works, whose mission is to "create interactive games that stimulate Christian spiritual growth.
Have to admit I'm rather curious as to how well this will handled by the community in accordance with forum policies etc. Reading what just happened in Off-Topic.....
|
| 20 JUL 2009 at 1:37am |
HalcyonSchattenjger
Posts : 1652
Joined: 17 NOV 2006
Status : Offline | To me it looks like tired mythology, glam-girl avies, worn-out sterotypical music, with a bit of gymnastics and the usual winged creatures set in a humorous version of Las Vegas of the '60s. And what of the story?
I'm not in heaven. Pass.
_________________
Exercise your vision.
|
| 20 JUL 2009 at 6:24am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Years ago I played S.P.Q.R. which I discovered while looking for hints, was created by Christians to awaken people's sensitivities. Gosh.... I didn't get any of that from the game. Which is precisely my sort of Evangalising.
If Heaven is well made, with intriguing puzzles and fun graphics and doesn't sermonise too much, it might just be acceptable to the godless among us. Afterall, GK had religious themes and people talk about those games okay.
|
| 20 JUL 2009 at 7:50am |
Lurker01Private Detective
Posts : 411
Joined: 23 JUN 2004
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Camaroboy1968 (20 JUL 2009 12:48am)
One thing though.
Genesis Works, whose mission is to "create interactive games that stimulate Christian spiritual growth.
Have to admit I'm rather curious as to how well this will handled by the community in accordance with forum policies etc. Reading what just happened in Off-Topic..... I take it you weren't around the last time a thread on this game was started. Some things appear to have improved, for example, their website is now set up in such a way that you can get past the introductory video on the main page to something that could actually be useful, although having said that, their web page design and coding is still awful.
Unfortunately I can't remember enough to comment on whether the model for Axis character has improved, but I still thinks she looks more like something out of a male fantasy than an actual woman. As for the rest, well if I ever have a couple of days to spare and can bring my self to check out the website in detail I'll get back to you.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
|
