Achron - finally an original game idea?

[Pyritie]

YouTube - Achron Alpha Demo 1 - Time Travel Explained

WOW.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Sounds so complicated... bored me by the first minute.

 

[Zombie]

Indeed. I personally don't prefer anything more complicated than HL2 or WiC. The idea is quite original though.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

The graphics...

 

[GrandEnder]

I can't see it. What are they talking of?

 

[Sabertooth]

Thats pretty cool.

 

[3rgytr54]

WOW is right. It's so epicly over done in the first minute i got lost. but original!!

 

[HappyTauren]

It's fucking awesome.
@TDB: It's a fucking alpha.

 

[Gausslander]

I want to apply that to Dawn of War 2. I hate seeing all of my units being eradicated by grenades in the first 3 minutes and not being able to replenish them until 20:31.

 

[Just_Spectating]

That is the hardest thinking game ever

 

[3rgytr54]

seconded

 

[The_wand_mirror]

This doesn't make any sense to me how the fuck is this going to work in multiplayer?

Like you get defeated and you just travel back in time where you were not defeated to bring a massive army into the future to prevent your defeat?

Heh?

 

[TheDivineBoss]

This doesn't make any sense to me how the fuck is this going to work in multiplayer?

Like you get defeated and you just travel back in time where you were not defeated to bring a massive army into the future to prevent your defeat?

Heh?

Then I go back to the past and drop a nuke on your army.

Then you go back in time and set up a nuke-shield.

Then I counter it by placing a base there/doing a raid.

Then you bring a massive army.

Then I go back to the past and drop a nuke on your arm- Hey wait a sec..

 

[Gilles]

Cool idea, but it's far too complicated to be fun imo.

 

[LordDz]

Could be fun to test it in multiplayer..

Like 10-12 people all doing raids on each others in different timezones.

 

[Just_Spectating]

i dont see how it would work multiplayer.

you could go into the future and kill the player while hes still in the present, and then when he gets to the future what will happen?

 

[Hakeem]

This works by using a second time dimension, real time, that the game time dimension is embedded in. I would assume future travel is not possible since the present is a static entity. I would assume this game-time present would be the factor in determining a loss. The logic being that if you are destroyed in the present, the present version of you that is somewhere else in time is immediately destroyed, removing the possibility that you can change your past.


Incidentally, I challenge any of you to a duel.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I would assume future travel is not possible since the present is a static entity.

O rly D:

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Incidentally, I challenge any of you to a duel.

I wanted to kill your father by going back in time resulting you to disappear, only finding out that I am your father D:

 

[Vicboy]

I don't really care about originality...

It's how I enjoy a game.

And I find this... Weird.

 

[Squiggy]

Booooooring

 

[Masiah]

Way to complicated to work in my opinion. Simplicity does the trick in RTS.

 

[HappyTauren]

Noobs, you don't know how awesome this is.

 

[shadow3]

Didn't they say something about timetravel power or something, perhaps works like mana.

 

[Just_Spectating]

Go to the past.
Move all your units elsewhere.
Go to the present.
Build an army.
Go to the past.
Attack the enemy.
Go to the Present.
Wait for Time Lapse.
Attack base again with new units.

 

[Artins the Great]

I know I'm not buying that game when it comes out.

 

[Eleandor]

Awesome game. Thumbs up for innovation
(It does give me a headache, thinking about it)

I don't know how multiplayer will work, but it might be something like this: Everything happens simultanously, and if a unit dies in 1 time-window, it dies in all future time-windows, but is still there in the past. Through some portal system units can travel back in time, effectively creating copies of the same unit. But this also makes the unit more vulnerable (twice as much chance that it dies). The victory conditions are probably something like losing your main base in any time.

 

[Artins the Great]

Wait What?

 

[Just_Spectating]

if a unit dies, you can go to the past and prevent it. its like impossible to lose!

 

[HappyTauren]

Don't whine if this game's IQ requirements are too high for you.
JS: It is not, because the opponent will do that too, and you can't do it whenever you want, you have to wait for the time wave. Also, remember that doing any changes in past costs chronoenergy.

 

[Linaze]

Could be awesome to play as soon as you've gotten used to the gameplay.

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah, the chronoenergy regen is only really fast in the demo, for testing purposes.

 

[KYTON]

It has great potential....and could be an amazing RTS....but it will prob be overshadowed by simplistic RTS'es which has been proven to be a hit. People will rather play something familiar (like SC, WC, DAW etc) than something which is so unique that people won't know what they'll get from the game.

 

[Dreadnought[dA]]

Wow it's so complicated it doesn't look fun. The whole point of getting better is making less mistakes. This just looks like a lot of korean macro crap. kthxbai

 

[Anopob]

Looks ridiculously hard but fun though. Imagine if there were tons of players killing other players in different time zones... that would be epic right there.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Fun gameplay > originality

 

[HappyTauren]

And it seems this has got both of those!

 

[Mechanical Man]

I don't find it fun, pretty lame and unrealistic

 

[Pyritie]

I don't find it fun, pretty lame and unrealistic

As if very many games are realistic these days.

 

[Devine]

-sir?
*yes?
-the enemy is building a time portal.
*shit.
-Make one too?
*WHAT CHOICE DO WE HAVE?
-IDK -_______________-
*nuke dem past now!
------------------------------
-It was a trick, While we were using all out units and suplies on building a portal, they took us by suprice.
*damn you, Steven.
-sorry, sir.

Like this?
epic shit.

 

[Palaslayer]

bah, the game looks rather.... eh.... plain and boring. i hope they will change the terrain and the buildings.
the timeshifting idea is just imba and much too complicated in my opinion. i would never buy this.

 

[Pyritie]

bah, the game looks rather.... eh.... plain and boring. i hope they will change the terrain and the buildings.
the timeshifting idea is just imba and much too complicated in my opinion. i would never buy this.

It's called ALPHA VERSION.

 

[Palaslayer]

even though it is i do not like the idea

 

[Coolty44]

*waits for a paradox glitch to surface*

 

[cool_is_i]

i would love to get this game if the graphics imprioved.
which im assuming it will, as it is alpha.

damn, seriously, so....
if i destroy his army in the past, but he destroys my army in the present, in the future, my past army and his present[now past] army will battle?

interesting...
sounds insanely complicated.
but fun.

 

[Pyritie]

 

[HappyTauren]

rofl, grandfather paradox.

 

[reza sword2]

Like... what? It's original alright, but it's far too complicated to be fun. It will be like playing a fast-paced 12 player chess with time-travel thingies.

Original but completely insane.

 

[HappyTauren]

You've never even tried it. Hell, even wc3 would look complex until you try playing it.

 

[KYTON]

I agree with HappyTauren... And it actually looks a lot more complicated than it is....Its actually very simplistic.....There is nothing complex about the interface or the actualy gameplay....

Someone attack you...you go back in time and change something...The only difference is...instead of building stuff in the present your actually building stuff in the past....Your still reacting to their attacks like in warcraft. Instead of building stuff at your other base to make a last stand or attack the enemy you will now build stuff at the base that they will attack.

It won't get more complex with more players. You'll just have to keep your eye on the timeline more. If only they could give this game some better grafix I would buy it and be glad to play it online.