I was just over at Funcom interviewing some developers for a documentary and i managed to beg myself a small demonstration of the game. Im not sure how much i am able to say but the game looks to be tons of fun, especially the combat looks very engaging and promising, not stationary and boring. The UI was also very smooth and intuitive while also adressing tons of little problems and irritations i've had while playing for example wow.

The main thing here for me is the game looked like alot of fun to play, i saw it and wanted to try it, to play it. I dont get that feeling with alot of games i see, like for example CoD has 0 pull on me.

All in all looks to be a pretty fresh take on the MMO and RPG genre in several ways and i hope it does really well.

I guess i can answer questions from people about things they've already shown.

BrTarolg

United Kingdom3574 Posts

February 21 2012 15:58 GMT

#47

I can't wait for an open beta or closed beta or something mainly haha

Been looking for something to sink my time into for a while

StorkHwaiting

United States3465 Posts

February 21 2012 17:57 GMT

#48

dude this game looks fucking AMAZING. I am soooo damn hyped for this. The lore is awesome.

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

March 23 2012 14:51 GMT

#49

Ragnar Tørnquist knows what he's doing. He has won several awards in the past for games he's made, like The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.
Age of Conans Gaute Godager has nothing to do with The Secret World, and Funcom have learned from what happened back in 2008, so I do not think a similar scenario will occur.

I've followed this game closely for some time now, and I gotta say that it looks very promising and pretty polished.
Still 2-3 months to release but theres gonna be a public display of it at PAX the 6th of april, and I don't think they would show it unless it was finished.
(which it is, from what I've seen on the beta tests)

Anyway, I invested A LOT of money in Funcom about a year ago, and its grown almost 150% since then...but I think its gonna go at least twice as that..if its a success, it'll be insane.
Anyway, if you have money, and want to make more, you can invest in it at the norwegian stock marked at "Oslo Børs".

http://www.thesecretworld.com/
Here you can sign up for the beta, which would be really nice of you to do ;-)

B.I.G.

3251 Posts

March 23 2012 15:01 GMT

#50

On March 23 2012 23:51 Epicfailguy wrote:
Ragnar Tørnquist knows what he's doing. He has won several awards in the past for games he's made, like The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.
Age of Conans Gaute Godager has nothing to do with The Secret World, and Funcom have learned from what happened back in 2008, so I do not think a similar scenario will occur.

I've followed this game closely for some time now, and I gotta say that it looks very promising and pretty polished.
Still 2-3 months to release but theres gonna be a public display of it at PAX the 6th of april, and I don't think they would show it unless it was finished.
(which it is, from what I've seen on the beta tests)

Anyway, I invested A LOT of money in Funcom about a year ago, and its grown almost 150% since then...but I think its gonna go at least twice as that..if its a success, it'll be insane.
Anyway, if you have money, and want to make more, you can invest in it at the norwegian stock marked at "Oslo Børs".

http://www.thesecretworld.com/
Here you can sign up for the beta, which would be really nice of you to do ;-)

dunno if i should take financial advice from someone who calls himself epicfailguy...

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

March 23 2012 15:01 GMT

#51

Well if someone called epicfailguy can triple his money, just imagine what you can do!

Daray

6006 Posts

March 23 2012 16:42 GMT

#52

The lore looks amazing but the graphics look kinda outdated. I don't judge a game by its graphics but it will have a huge impact on the success overall since for majority good graphics = good game

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

March 23 2012 17:03 GMT

#53

They're using the same engine as age of conan.
I've watched some high res videos on youtube, and I think it looks good.

But then again, I haven't played a lot of modern day computer games, so they might be outdated.

NukeD

Croatia1612 Posts

March 23 2012 17:19 GMT

#54

Never again will i buy a Funcom Product!!!! NEVER!

GGTeMpLaR

United States7226 Posts

March 23 2012 17:55 GMT

#55

The premise of this game looks amazing and all the videos are really interesting. Signed up for beta, hoping it's as good as it looks but I'm skeptical.

+ Show Spoiler +

Also, can anyone find a separate video for the last 3 minutes of this one?

edit: nevermind it's here:

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

March 23 2012 22:44 GMT

#56

Does anyone know if this game is talked about in korea or any other asian country?

fishbowl

United States1575 Posts

March 24 2012 02:44 GMT

#57

Looks interesting. Will definitely be following.

Slikk

Norway81 Posts

April 01 2012 01:17 GMT

#58

Here is a longer developers diary video from GDC:

The game looks great.

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

April 03 2012 13:38 GMT

#59

http://www.funcom.com/news/the_secret_world_now_taking_pre_orders_includes_guaranteed_access_to_exclus
Pre-order tsw and get access to beta testing. (Starts 10th of may)

Lots of news the comming days...stock value increased by over 7% today. People obviously believe in this. :D

Zorkmid

4410 Posts

April 03 2012 13:40 GMT

#60

That monster reminds me of The Maxx.

The guy in the second pic reminds me of Adam Jensen.