New installment of the Lionheart screenshot of the week

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 11:33 pm

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<a href="http://rpgvault.ign.com" target="_blank">RPGVault</a> have slapped up their latest "Lionheart screenshot of the week" - and here it is:<blockquote><center><a href="http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage ... %3Dpartner" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.duckandcover.net/news/lionhe ... e>Although the last four or five "screenshots of the week" have looked similar, I assure you they are different. This one has the blue-stuff inside the circle of fire!

Stay tuned for next weeks screenshot!

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 12:33 am

oooh more dark pinch your eyes goodness

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:09 am

Here's next week's amazingly awesome screenshot of goodness:

I love the spell effects in this one. Simply jaw dropping.

bloodbathmaster2 · Post by **bloodbathmaster2** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:01 am

If you dont like the screenshots dark, then turn your gamma up, you whiny little whores.

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:49 am

LOL MM

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:52 am

Hey Mad Max! No spoilers! :shocked!:

TheReaper · Post by **TheReaper** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 6:05 am

LOL BB

Red · Post by **Red** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 6:31 am

I'm sorry but my screen is perfectly normal and I have no trouble with it and I shouldn't be toying with gamma just because a game was poorly implimented.

I don't know what's up with games being too dark lately... Used to be I left everything at the default gamma level.

Then again I only really have 2 examples of games being too dark, and one of them isn't even released yet... (The other being Arx Fatalis for those who'd like to know).

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 7:42 am

bloodbathmaster2 wrote:If you dont like the screenshots dark, then turn your gamma up, you whiny little whores.

Why should I fuck up the brightness for everything else just to see a shit screenshot for a game I'll never play?
When Lionheart comes out 90% of the people who "buy" it will complain about it being too damn dark. Remember I said that. You're probably gonna be the first person bitching at Black Isle to release a gamma correction patch.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:19 pm

Well, I think these screenshots are darker than in reality for some reason. If you look at the small pics here you notice they're a lot brighter than the actual screenies. I think that's also the gamma-level in-game. Or maybe they're testing how it looks at night. But on the other hand, I'm only guessing. :roll:

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 8:23 pm

That's strange. The thumbnails on that page are a lot brighter than the actual screens.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 4:04 am

Black Isle is going for the extremely dark look because they don't want people thinking Lionheart is another Bladder's Gate spinoff. Because that's all it really is.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 9:30 pm

Well, Baldur's Gate 2 was quite dark. At least compared to Baldur's Gate 1. Darkness is the last thing that worries me though. I'm sure there are gamma settings you can tweak if you don't like the darkness, but on the other hand I do think it gives a game a more atmospheric look like it did to PS:T.

MM, you should give Lionheart a chance. It's obvious you don't like it because it's not Fallout 3, but I don't consider it as a Baldur's Gate spinoff either. Stuff like a dark, renaissance setting, the SPECIAL system and non-Infinity engine make it more interesting than other BIS titles, like let's say IWD II. :roll:

Red · Post by **Red** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 9:36 pm

It being real-time is what irritates me the most personally. You can be sure the game will feature a "gamma slider" anyhow... That's pretty standard. I just hope I don't have to fiddle with it.

I'll still give it a try personally, see how it fares out. I hope they make a demo so I don't have to actually buy it.

Constipated BladeRunner · Mon Oct 14, 2002 9:43 pm

I have been looking at a few screenshots recently, and besides the obvious darknes, I am rather impressed.
Though this is the person who's draw still drops when playing Thief 2.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 10:13 pm

VasikkA wrote:
MM, you should give Lionheart a chance. It's obvious you don't like it because it's not Fallout 3, but I don't consider it as a Baldur's Gate spinoff either. Stuff like a dark, renaissance setting, the SPECIAL system and non-Infinity engine make it more interesting than other BIS titles, like let's say IWD II. :roll:

No, I never expected them to make a Fallout 3 and never will. It's disappointing, but I won't let it effect me. The Lionheart fans are those people who are easily distracted by all the smoke and mirrors the developers place in order to make you think the game is something new.
Dark lighting = smoke and mirrors
renaissance setting = smoke and mirrors
SPECIAL system = smoke and mirrors
A swords and sorcery game is a swords and sorcery game is a swords and sorcery game. There's no way to get around this fact. Maybe for other people who are live in a happy world where everything is perfect and they sing songs and dance in the streets. But not for me.

Constipated BladeRunner · Tue Oct 15, 2002 12:23 am

Arcanum had swords&sorcery. Does that mean that it might as well be set in the Forgotten Realms setting? Of course not!
PS: T had swords and sorcery. Does that mean that it might as well be set in Grawhawk? No.
Please, be careful.
Just because a game has swords and sorcery, do not jump to the conclusion that it it is set ca. 1130, with grotesquly mediocre level desingn (Wow! More gray castle walls) is foolish.

Quinn · Post by **Quinn** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:23 am

If the screenshots thus far are any indication, it seems Lionheart is heavily weighted in favor of the "Circle" school of spells. I had really hoped to be a Rhombus Mage, or maybe a Triangumancer like my L99 "Isosceles" character on Geometry Online. Bummer.

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:18 am

Mad Max RW wrote:Dark lighting = smoke and mirrors
renaissance setting = smoke and mirrors
SPECIAL system = smoke and mirrors
A swords and sorcery game is a swords and sorcery game is a swords and sorcery game. There's no way to get around this fact. Maybe for other people who are live in a happy world where everything is perfect and they sing songs and dance in the streets. But not for me.

It's not swords and sorcery, it's Galileo & Goblins!

bloodbathmaster2 · Post by **bloodbathmaster2** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:28 am

Lol. FREE GALILEO!

Back to the whiny bitches, personally, I don't see anything unbearably dark about the screenshots and I haven't messed with my gamma since I got this computer. Supposing even that my gamma is way higher than average (which I know its not 'cause I still get capped by people in the shadows in CS) its supposed to be a little dark simply because its set in the dark ages.

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New installment of the Lionheart screenshot of the week

New installment of the Lionheart screenshot of the week

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