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Betrayer Comes From Ex-NOLF And F.E.A.R. Developers

A first-person horror game set in colonial America, home of the black, white, and red. And ghosts.

Aug. 5 2013

Posted by: Patrick

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Betrayer

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More first person horror is always a good thing.

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Awful art style

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This trailer looked remarkably uninteresting.

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How about Shogo? Any Shogo vets on that team?

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For the longest time now I operated under the assumption that I could not play another FPS ever again, then I see something interesting and realise I'm just done with what an FPS has become. I just wish someone uses FPS as a verb instead of the whole book.

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Black metal the game??

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I didn't see a single appealing thing in this trailer.

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Looks kinda crap.

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At least it's not pixel art.

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Am I crazy? I thought this looked pretty decent. Definitely has potential.

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Ghosts? just like gone home!

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The art style looks much nicer on the HD setting of the video player. I'm somewhat interested.

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I keep hearing people say "this looks creepy"...but it does not; it looks like an unfinished game from 5-6 years ago.

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Mad World was at least composed as a black and white game where you could make out enemies and shapes; this looks like they threw on a filter and clamped the values to be a noisy mess.

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Fuckin A.

Now I want to look up whatever the hell NORF is.

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Very cool music, but everything else seems very Kickstarter-ish. Hopefully it'll prove me wrong.

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Interesting...

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Nice pedigree, but this looks garbage.

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It looks pretty good but I'm not so sure I could actually play it. Reminds me a lot of Madworld

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The game is supposed to come out on the 14th of august but I cant find the game from steam.

It seems to be a bit of a bad sign when a game is supposed to come out next week and you cant find anything about it on steam.

Update: Okay seems that this is actually early access to the game.

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I rather like the art style, even though it's extremely evident they use it to hide some pretty outdated graphics.

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Patrick Klepek, I have to applaud your writing in the description. When I first read it I immediately thought of the three "coloured" peoples in the colonial era.

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Croatoan all up in.

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Should have given us NOLF 3 instead.

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@sooty said:

Should have given us NOLF 3 instead.

This.

Betrayer looks potentially interesting, we need more games set in the 17th/18th century, but I'd REALLY like NOLF 3, or at least digital re-releases of the original games.

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Looks interesting but remember the last black and white and red game to come out? Yeah... didn't set the world on fire sales wise.

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Wow. I'm into games with unique art styles, but this is an overdone art style done poorly.

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Betrayal!!!

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Pretty..kinda

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Fuckin A.

Now I want to look up whatever the hell NORF is.

NOLF = No One Lives Forever.

As for this trailer, the art style is unique...and annoying. I would not pay money for something where everything blends together so easily.

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What is there to it beyond the art direction? It seems you run around and shoot people standing still or running straight at you? What else?

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I'm in to it.

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This looks like F.E.A.R. in the 19th century... come on, those flying enemies are lifted directly from F.E.A.R.!

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God dammit. Just seeing NOLF makes me want to replay them.

Also this trailer is kinda goofy.

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Conquistadors?

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nothing about that was scary. Also, that colour scheme is going to bother the shit out of me.

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You know, some of these guys also worked on Condemned which I loved, and would argue has THE BEST first person melee combat of any game, ever. I would really like to see these guys do a game in that vein during this time period. Anyone ever see Ravenous? Oh God, just imagine.

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I will definitely be purchasing early access.

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So these developers were obviously tired of being dicked around by Warner Bros. and left Monolith to make this. Trailer is not great but I will give it a go.

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Ravenous was quite good. This doesn't seem to have any similar vibe though.

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Colonial America, right? Why the dudes in the armor?

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Not sure if I am sold on the art style. Will check out more footage of the game though and see how it turns out.

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@harabec said:

Not sure if I am sold on the art style. Will check out more footage of the game though and see how it turns out.

Yeah. I wouldn't mind if it actually seemed designed with the whole high-contrast black and white thing in-mind ala MadWorld, but (at this point at least) it just looks like a bad ENB mod. Not appealing in the least, and actually kind of painful to look at and try to distinguish what's what.

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this just makes me sad... remedin me that there will never be a new NOLF game

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Yikes, doesn't look too good, does it?

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Wow. I'm into games with unique art styles, but this is an overdone art style done poorly.

Agreed. If they want to do the whole black and white thing, they need to actually tailor the graphics for it instead of slapping a black and white filter over. For one, they need to tone down the texture quality. It's pointless to have extremely granular and bump mapped textures if your game isn't going to have any color. Cause then you just get lots of black and white speckles and dots that makes it look overly busy as opposed to stylistic. Though I suppose bright and busy is a style. Just not one that's particularly easy on the eyes.