Sacrifice
by Shawn · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 06/27/2001 (11:56 am) · 8 replies
Have you tried this RPG game yet www.sacrifice.net, I was quite amazed with it. It seems that games like this do not get very much attention, although they are of better quality than most. Have you also tried Drakan www.drakan.net? It is also an excellent game in my opinion, why do they not sell well, or did they ?
#2
06/27/2001 (1:59 pm)
I suppose games are somewhat like movies, in a sense that the more publicity they recieve and the more advertisement they produce, the less quality is included. But these games seemed to have great quality and even some awards much like movies as well. Only good movies win awards. If only there was an award for excessive and vain advertisement...
#3
I like Sacrifice, but it feels rather inconsistant. The missions/quests go from being resonably easy to complete to being nearly impossible without any real middle ground to speak of. Still a fun game though :)
I've never been quite sure what grabs market share for a new game. Drakan had advertising out the wazoo, I remember it being hard to find a gaming mag without at least one full-page color ad for it and demo disks could be picked up for free at allot of game retail stores, same goes for Sacrifice (all demo disks weren't so easy to come by). Both recived great reviews, and yet niether seemed to really hold their spot so-to-speak. And yet when another mindless FPS hits the market (Serious Sam, Quake versionX,) it seems to nearly become the market. I guess it's all powererd by the mood of the consumer at the time.... Either that or the consumer base is as mindless as the games they seem to love so much. I hope it's not that second one, because if it is then none of my games are going to sell well. LOL
06/27/2001 (4:33 pm)
IMHO, Drakan was and is a great game. It's been the only game I've missed being able to play since I removed my Voodoo5 and switched to a GeForce2 and is one of the very few games that I have ever played that became an obsession for me. I guess I could download a Glide wrapper, but for me the vid card switch has been a thing of walking forward and never looking back.I like Sacrifice, but it feels rather inconsistant. The missions/quests go from being resonably easy to complete to being nearly impossible without any real middle ground to speak of. Still a fun game though :)
I've never been quite sure what grabs market share for a new game. Drakan had advertising out the wazoo, I remember it being hard to find a gaming mag without at least one full-page color ad for it and demo disks could be picked up for free at allot of game retail stores, same goes for Sacrifice (all demo disks weren't so easy to come by). Both recived great reviews, and yet niether seemed to really hold their spot so-to-speak. And yet when another mindless FPS hits the market (Serious Sam, Quake versionX,
#4
06/27/2001 (7:52 pm)
Well I am baffled, I gave my daughters the choice of playing Serious Sam, Quake3, Ants, Alice, Diablo 2, and a few other new games. They chose Drakan over all of them. The other games held their attention for maybe 20 minutes. That is the only game they want to play at the moment. Serious Sam has a gorgeous engine, but like you said it's totall mindless doom again, what gives ? This is bothering me a bit because as an indie developer I am wondering if I should make a mindless copycat FPS game just to make it. I can play Drakan on my GEFORCE 2 card, but you can not ?
#5
Maybe It's because it's late, but what is Ants? I don't think I ever heard of it.
06/27/2001 (9:11 pm)
Shawn,Maybe It's because it's late, but what is Ants? I don't think I ever heard of it.
#6
I'll have to reinstall it and give it a go.
06/27/2001 (9:24 pm)
Actually I haven't even tried, that game just managed to get stuck under the sub-heading "Glide" in my brain (my brain is easily distracted by shiny objects, and when that happens it just tends to stuff things in the first available file drawer LOL)I'll have to reinstall it and give it a go.
#7
The other game they really seemed to gravitate to is Black and White, but we have not tried it yet. No playable demo yet.
06/27/2001 (10:49 pm)
Sorry about the name, the game installs as Ants but is really called "Empire of the Ants" www.3dfiles.com/games/empireoftheants.shtmlThe other game they really seemed to gravitate to is Black and White, but we have not tried it yet. No playable demo yet.
#8
And it didn't recieve much attention? Is that why it recieved strategy game of the year, not to mention best PC game of the year by major Pc magazines?
Sacrifice in my mind wasn't that great, in a large battle it was impossible to manage anything, and its warm praise was because crap all for PC games came out that year after Tribes 2 and Black and White were pushed back.
07/03/2001 (7:43 pm)
Sacrifice was an RTS at a crappy camera angle, not an RPG.And it didn't recieve much attention? Is that why it recieved strategy game of the year, not to mention best PC game of the year by major Pc magazines?
Sacrifice in my mind wasn't that great, in a large battle it was impossible to manage anything, and its warm praise was because crap all for PC games came out that year after Tribes 2 and Black and White were pushed back.
Matt Aufderheide