Focus Home Interactive has released a new trailer for The Technomancer. The Technomancer releases on June 28th and this trailer focuses on the companions that players will meet in it. Furthermore, Focus Home Interactive revealed brand new information about those companions.
As Focus Home Interactive stated:
“Each companion has his own story. Get to know them because some will join out of loyalty, others out of mere opportunity… or as a result of a chain of unfortunate events. When you are out there, exploring or fighting, you may select up to 2 companions in your party to come with you. Choose carefully, as they all have their own unique fighting styles that should complement your own, including special talents useful for utility, such as crafting, knowledge in science, or lockpicking. Picking one companion over another thus has a significant impact on the way you play The Technomancer, as well as there is an impact on the story you are living.
Your companions all have their agenda or preoccupations. They regularly ask you for help or for favors. Should you decide to accept their requests, you will trigger a special series of missions that let you learn more about their past. These quests follow their unique scenario that enriches the main story. Completing these side quests will add numerous hours of gameplay, and will improve your relationship with your companions…
Your companions level up alongside you. Each one gets his own inventory from where you can modify their gear at any time. Equip them with new weapons and armour that you can upgrade with your crafting talents. Make sure to provide them with the best equipment, you will drastically increase their survivability and lethality. And, you can also make sure they look appropriately badass as they run with you around the deadly place that is Mars.
Each of your companions has his/her own behavior, opinions, and moral code. If you act too much against their beliefs, they might get so upset that they would go so far as to leave your group. On the contrary, shine and prove worthy of their trust, and you’ll nurture friendships… or even romances. All your decisions will have irreversible consequences on Mars and its inhabitants!”
Enjoy!
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so much word for something that can be sumarized in “you played any bioware RPG? well, it’s like that”
All the story nonsense is turning me off, and Hector is right, it’s starting to look too much like a Bioware game. I liked it when I thought it was somewhere between a Bioware game and traditional RPGs – more depth and less fluff. Now here’s a trailer filled with nothing but FLUFF 🙁 It turns out you have these companions you can customize visually like god damn Barbie dolls and they can even become “love interests” aka meaningless hookups romanticized. And as if all that’s not bad enough there’s even a token lesbian character with strangely dyed, short hair. What’s next, wooden characters breaking the fourth wall by preaching about first world problems in a desolate war setting? Optimism gone.
“token lesbian character with strangely dyed, short hair”? Where?
LOL, that 0:33 chick is the one that shown in the “romantic” scene in 1:23.
I love this.
no need for humans, a SP game is a SP game, no need for casual teenage MP crap
Seconded.
IMO any MP game is casual teenage crap (with exceptions like Souls games but its not real MP or Co-op its their unique variation on it), I dont play games to meet people or compete against them, I play mostly for story, exploration and some gameplay, thats why I never played any pure games after I grew up.
I like to start a game, finish it and move on to the next one, so many games to play, backlog is truly unlimited so no point wasting time on multiplayer.
These bioware companions are there for a reason, mostly to expand the story and to tell you about stuff.
Its much easier to tell provide gamer with information about something when you have a companion.
Also it gives YOU the gamer customization option.
When you play co-op your immersion drops to zero, all you do is talk with your friends, you dont explore the world in same way you do when you play solo, you miss tons of secrets and so on, because mostly you run and gun, who kills the most and voice chat, thats breaks the immersion.
Borderlands is pinnacle of teenage games: a shooter build from ground up to be by the numbers with young adult to teenage quality of humor.
P.S. Please dont take it like im trying to offend you or something, im not arguing or anything its just my 2 cents on MP and video games, i dont enjoy MP, simulators, nintendo, pokemon or games that look like they meant for kids.
The game looks OK, I like messing around with armor for companions and all that..
Me too. Plus, it’s not a major developer with Bioware/Ubisoft/Bethesda money working on it.
Everyone has to start somewhere, remember Witcher 1? What a mess! Now they making AAA games.
Bioware has them in every game.