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[GigaBowser]

this has exploded my happiness

 

[SpiceRacz]

This is a nice surprise. Loved the Endless Ocean game on Wii.

 

[GigaBowser]

felt in a dream when you play you get swim with whales in real life I am a whale my friends could be GOTY

 

[bender]

I'm having Aquanauts Holiday flashbacks and it's crazy ass story.

 

[Zannegan]

I'm more excited for this than I probably should be. Loved Endless Ocean on the Wii, and the co-op focus sounds great.

 

[Raven77]

Hell yes. I love ocean exploration games.

 

[Salmon]

Jesus Christ, this is dated as hell. Looks like it was built during the Wii era for sure.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Yeah I'll be buying it day one. I assume it'll be digital only.

 

[Same ol G]

Endless ocean on Wii was addictive, definitely buying this

 

[daclynk]

Another game i never thought would come back. Thanks Nintendo. Now where is Golden Sun?

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Blue World was my jam back in the day. I wonder if this will support motion controls.

Not sure I like the idea of a different world each dive, as I liked to come back to certain places and see how they've changed. Depending on time of day things were also different and it gave the game a cool nature documentary vibe which I loved.

For example, I once found a brood of shark eggs (never knew how they looked until discovering them in the game - transparent sacks with hooks and all!), and upon returning to the same spot a couple dives later, they'd hatched and little sharklings were swimming around. Loved moments such as that.

 

[Woopah]

Yeah I'll be buying it day one. I assume it'll be digital only.

Getting a physical release in Europe and Japan.

 

[darrylgorn]

This would have been an excellent Switch 2 release.

 

[StueyDuck]

Not sure how I feel about having the screen littered with gamer names in a game about slow relaxing exploration.

Hopefully A you can turn all that shit off and B restrict it to friends only

 

[RoadHazard]

Not a fan of the randomly generated environments. I love the way the original Subnautica did it, where a lot of it is obviously generated (at least I don't think they handcrafted all of it), but it's always the same, so you can go back to earlier places and go deeper and deeper.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Getting a physical release in Europe and Japan.

We lit. Where's the pre orders at?

 

[Woopah]

We lit. Where's the pre orders at?

Should be available to pre order soon hopefully!

 

[Trogdor1123]

Loved the Wii games. This sounds great. I wish it was a locked map though. I wonder if they are going to have separate areas for deep sea like they did on the first.

I wish there was a vr version too

 

[Zannegan]

Jesus Christ, this is dated as hell. Looks like it was built during the Wii era for sure.

If you think this looks bad, you should see the Wii one. Still managed to be a great game though.

 

[justiceiro]

It seems this is developed by the same studio responsible for the first two, arika. They were also behind games like Tetris 99, so this gives you an idea of what to expect of online.

Also, the game supposebly will come with a free 7 day trial of Nintendo switch online. Pre order seems to be already up, but I dunno the price in USA dollars. $50?

 

[Chastten]

Pre-orders for physical are up on Nintendo's website as well as the first online stores in Europe. (For Dutchies --> https://www.nedgame.nl/nintendo-switch/endless-ocean-luminous/6489071669/ )

Never played the Wii games as I disliked that thing but always have been curious about these games so I'm gonna give it a go this time.

 

[GigaBowser]

peeceful my friends

 

[Kuranghi]

peeceful my friends

Wait a minute... are you videogamedunkey?

 

[Hudo]

can you drown other players?

 

[Alexios]

Fuck off with your Oceon, couldn't find a thread about this in the search.

The marine life looks nicely detailed, textures, materials, polycounts, animations, but the art style does appear to have a more cartoony vibe than the Wii games seemed to go for (and those also looked beautiful though Arika is no AAA studio, Idk what trolls are on). No boat/land stuff seen, hmm...

Also maybe the old school applied texture or whatever water caustics (?) on top of everything when relatively near the surface (so not seen in the abyss etc.) were more convincing or at least prettier than with the new lighting system where they aren't as prominent?​

 

[Alexios]

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