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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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that looks horrrrid

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I don't think this looks as bad as everyone says, but I'm still not too interested.

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I'm intrigued enough to keep an eye out for more trailers/articles about Betrayer.

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The art style isn't that great. I feel like I'm watching Chivalry with just a black and white filter on it. And it doesn't look very much like a horror as much as just a FPS with some generic skull head things and armored guys to shoot.

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

Agreed, though I think you missed the point I was making. :)

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@minipato said:

@wewantsthering said:

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.

I also agree. The real "horror" here comes from the extremely harsh contrast. It actually seems to make the game feel less scary.

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That could be neat. I have a feeling the art style would give me a headache or make me nauseous or something.

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The art style is cool to look at, but it seems like it'd be awful to play more than 10 minutes with.

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the skelly at the end had me spooked

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Interesting.... Love the look.

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This doesn't seem scary.

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@sooty said:

Should have given us NOLF 3 instead.

Totally

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i could make out about half the stuff in that video

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That just makes me wanna play The Unfinished Swan again.

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Love the art style, and the droning quality of the score. here's hoping that carries over into actual gameplay and not just the trailer. Don't know how long this game has been in the works, but it really evokes the tone of "A Field in England" for me, both visually and aurally. Check out this film by the way, it's awesome.

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@sammo21 said:

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

Well, there you go. If you thought this game looks creepy, you're wrong. This guy nails it.

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Looks different! Since acquiring a Vita I'm now more interested in whats coming to the PS Store rather than Steam though.

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Thanks for the nightmares, creepy moving/looking skeleton ghost dudes. Thanks a fucking lot!

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And here I was getting excited about a new game by the people who made NOLF. This just looks completely unappealing.

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Ugh, jesus christ. If that's how the game actually looks then someone needs to go back to art school. You don't just turn a colour image into black and white and call it done. Black and white requires very specific composition to work well, but this? This looks like pure shit.

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i dig the art style and it looks really awesome, but as a game i think i would get really tired of looking at it really fast

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@fram: That's what it reminded me of. A Field In England: The Video Game

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Never has a video tag line given such promise, and the video itself given such disappointment.

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...meh?

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Oh, no, this doesn't look good at all. Looks like they're trying to hide something boring by making it black and white. (and red).

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Something old school about the aesthetic, I like it.

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FEAR == Monolith == Condemned == Interested!

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Edited By GERALTITUDE

Cool, looks interesting. Read an interview or something about how the art style helps make the game chaotic because it's harder to distinguish objects in black and white.