Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is the forthcoming third-person survival game by Panache Digital Games. Patrice Désilets, the game director, has recently given an interview to Stephen Totilo of Kotaku.
Patrice Désilets has worked on numerous games but he is most known for working on Assassin’s Creed one to three. He also worked on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of these games were pretty good, especially the second Assassins Creed, which it might be my favorite of them all.
The game takes place million years ago. In the game you play as a primate, actually a whole clan of primates. As you play you evolve and you acquire new skills. You also clash with other creatures, like disgusting huge centipedes, freaking gross.
“If the player’s character dies, they take control of another member of their primate clan, hoping to bring the evolutionary advances to their offspring.”
It looks OK, I guess. I will be honest, I have seen better. Of course this is not a triple-A game (Jim Sterling’s voice), it is a game made from a team of thirty or so people. Still, it is far from impressive, at least in my humble opinion.
“‘A’ is all about the reflexes”. “‘B’ is about the communication, ‘X’ is about the senses—the smell and the hearing—and ‘Y’ is about analyzing with your intelligence. The bumpers are your two hands and eventually the trigger is about your emotions.”
The game will probably have no regular story, dialogues or even voice actors. This might be good, or not, but definitely no talking monkeys, I hope. The combat looks bizarre, like QTE based and nine out of ten times this equals dreadful. Either way we will have to wait and see, I am hoping for the best.
“You won’t be able to make fire”
The game is set to be released on August 27th for PC and later on for consoles. This is quite unusual nowadays and my spider sense is tinkling. Let’s hope we won’t be BETA testing this title, for the later release on consoles.
Thanx Kotaku
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Will this game contain Desilenuvo???
We don’t know yet.
This is EGS only for PC i think
assassin’s creed one sucked, why are we listening to this guy exactly?
dont forget guys this is a E.G.S exclusive keep the ships sailing
Devs jumped at that lack of user reviews because they know their trash game would get slammed on Steam
don’t forget guys keep being whiny b**ches promoting piracy because you don’t like EGS.
This guy is a proper game dev. His old games are some of the best ones I’ve played. EGS or not, give this guy a break and buy this game. Support the devs that are actually trying to create something new, something other than your typical EA, ActivisionBlizz, Ubisoft, etc. games. The fight for games is bigger than in mere store-front exclusives (bad but waaay lesser evil). Know your enemy.
Yeah… i don’t think so.
Steam is a sewer. McGabe is the rat king. Guess who’re the rats?
Steam is a sewer. McGabe is the rat king. Guess who’re the rats?
If steam is a sewer, then Epic is a toilet. Timmy is the big turd. Guess who’re the little sh*ts?
the people whining about EGS ?
No. The people shilling for EGS. And the EGS users in general.
Uhh, ya know where turds from toilets eventually end up right? See I knew from your opinions you couldnt reflect on stuff.
See I dont give a rat’s a*s about epic let alone steam. GOG anyday. But i aint no fanboy, let alone the hyperventileting kind.
Sure. You don’t care about steam, yet, you hate it in the comments. You’re a walking contradiction. The average EGS user. Braindead and with no arguments.
Friggin hell, you really are some job. Alrite.. woohoo steam.. yayy. Now go to sleep.
No thanks. I’ll enjoy your tears a little more.
Shhhh… shh.. thats a good boy. Daddy’s logging into his steam account now. Go to sleep little one.
Dude. I really don’t understand why you’re trying so hard. You’re not cool just because you’re acting like a r**ard.
What, need mommy too?
Very mature, kiddo. Back to Fortnite.
I will support him when it will be available @Steam or @GoG
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/641b031a939476e0d9a5526667b6741105c90845ee253ea87a993deb2228c403.jpg
Another worthy, consumer-focused, and real choice would be GoG, absolutely not EGS.
I agree. But anti epic inadvertently or not becomes pro steam. And I do not like the future of that proposition since we’ve seen the incompetency from steam dev side.
I won’t. Any games involved in store exclusivity deals on pc are being put on my blacklist forever. Plenty of other great games to play.
>give this guy a break and buy this game.
No, F*ck off patrick.
I’ve never understood steam fanboyism. Slithering up in bed with McGaben. Worthwhile to unclench the hole sometimes kid, pull Gaben out and let a bit of sun and humility in.
You mistake Epic antagonism with Steam fanboyism. I fully support healthy conpetition like GOG, but Epic and Tim Swiney can burn in hell.
Epic Hate, Steam Love, Same Expression . You Lose . Owari Da!
Steam is an all devouring beast. And evil begets evil. It was steam that gave birth to epic. GOG and itch.io I support whenever my choice of games are there but that still gets them nowhere. Healthy competition is a myth in this economy.
You played FEAR? Theres a guy called Harlan Wade and he says this right at the end of the game – It is the nature of man to create monsters and it is in the nature of monsters to destroy their makers.
Epic is a natural consequence of Steam.
Boycotting exclusivity deals on pc has nothing to do with Steam fanboyism m8.
Here’s an excellent opinion piece by Casey Explosion, explaining why supporting Epic is not a good idea:
https://www.vg247.com/2019/07/09/epic-games-wants-pc-games-market-to-itself/
Yea I’ll take a read of the article. Thanks.
I read it and it reinforces what i always believed. Its not epic that are evil but the system, the capitalist system, that is evil. Steam is not good. They run over indie devs like its the 4th of july. And poor GOG arent even a competiotion. So how are we to stop epic in an economy that encourages said behaviour? How are we to make steam care about the indie devs? Steam is a massive hit/massive flop store for devs which isnt sustainaible for indie devs. I always put indie devs first. Peter desilet left ubisoft to pursue creative freedom. They dont make novel games like these anymore. I will support these devs anyday.
Mate, no one gives a damn about your shi tty indie developers. Until epic came with their BS deals, literally no one talked about the money steam takes from the devs. Now is a thing. F*ck off Patrick.
Youre one slow learner. Here I’ll break the whole argument down as an insult so you’ll understand better in your mother tongue.
If you were a book, nobody’d read ya. However, if you were a used condom, McGabe wud keep putting ya on till ya break. Choices huh..
Ouch… the cringe hits me so hard. You’re honestly trying so hard to act smart and funny, but you fail so bad. I already told ya, you’re the typical EGS user. Braindead, and stupid.
Still makes me smarter than yer dad for havin made one hell of an ironic kid.
In my humble opinion, Steam needs to speed up their work on improving their discovery features. People need to be introduced to unknown or niche games, based on their personal preferences. Their recently introduced discovery tool based on machine learning is promising, but needs improvement. I also think the curators feature should be improved: curators should be rewarded for doing a good job and their suggestions should be combined with the machine learning tools.
Tldr: I do believe that personalized discovery features are the way to go, but they should be combined with (human) curators.
Totally agree. The only reason Im not completely agains Epic is cause they are actually helping devs with exposure and financial security. Im only miffed that the whole reason steam allows shovelwares and in droves, is that it rakes in more money for them that way. Taking care of the problem might cut quite an amount of profit for them. More products means more sales and more sales means more 30 percents from each. Hence the radio silence and letting the internet take care of Epic for them. This is the only reason Im not for steam. Doesnt mean im for Epic btw. GOG for the future!
I believe the shovelware problem on Steam will be solved if the recommendation tools are improved. People will use these tools to find the niche games that are actually worth it, instead of looking at the recently released games list. After all, the latter is the currently the only way to encounter shovelware on Steam.
You should also note that improved discovery and the lower cut for successful games ARE Valve’s answer to Epic. They are doing this to make Steam more attractive to both developers and gamers. There’s still much work to be done, but in my opinion this is the best thing to do. Valve moneyhatting 3rd party games as well would only make things worse.
I also prefer GoG because of their fight against DRM, and I’m using publisher clients like uplay and Origin as well. The reason why I won’t use Epic’s Store is only because of their anti-consumer strategy, which relies on forcing us to use their store by keeping games away from other storefronts – both on short term and long-term. This goes straight against my vision on healthy competition between storefronts on pc.
care to bring an alternative to the evil capitalist system? F*kin milenials with your entitled knowitall attitude and communist ideas. Intended effect achieved, now I can appologize for my language.
>I’ve never understood.
Well a perk of being a r*tard is this, you never understand anything.
>steam fanboyism.
I have nothing to say so i decided to threw a label and assume it is correct and continue the straw man. thats you. Hurr Durr, he don’t like EGS so he must be a Steam fanboy.
>pull Gaben out and let a bit of sun and humility in
Shove Tim a bit deeper and let him rott in there next to your mom.
Exactly, we can’t do that, we must jerk off to the EGS hate train. Hands on c*cks everyone.
I hate fkin steam, HATE IT!! Steam is so so repugnant. I hate it so bad that I can’t sleep at night because of the rage.
Oh, and I hate epic even more.
And gtfo, why would I ever touch you?
Also, as you might have guessed, i don’t hate Steam lol. I sleep like a baby every night. Gabe descends from the heavens in my dreams like a fat baby angel with wings and sings to me while playing the harp “discounts… large selection… increased functionality… lots of features…”
Sure, Steam needs competition, I agree with that, but not at the expense of the clients interests. This is where Epic failed, pun intended. And how could they not, when their approach to business comes from the chinese mentality “win at every cost, even if you have to cheat and walk over the bodies of the other participants in the game” Problem is, some of the “participants” in this game are the people that generate income.
Ask any chinese person and they will tell you how they were raised, the pressure that was put on them to succed no matter what. That’s the reason why so many cheaters are chinese. For them it’s not wrong to cheat, it’s just a different avenue that they have to take in order to win.
Competition? bring it on, but do it right, otherwise we will just change the Steam monopoly for an even bigger oppressor, a company that holds its clients hostage.
No, we should suck their d*ck in all the comment sections on the internet even tho they don’t care about customers and do all the s*it practices that no customer will benefit from.
Have some standards mate and end yourself.
Nothing will happen. If Epic does well, it’s good because Unreal Engine does well, and Epic does great stuff for the industry all the time. If they succeed in lowering the standard cut, everyone wins. Small number of people will whine about launcher. No one will care. If Valve ‘wins’, it’s good too, because they’re great for PC gaming in general and Steam is the most feature rich. Most likely it will be something in the middle, and life will go on.
Most people won’t care. Some will constantly whine about it though, as if it’s the end of the world and Epic is the most evil company in the world. Lol. Have fun.
>Epic does great stuff for the industry all the time.
lol what ? can you shill a bit harder b*tch ? name those please because what are they doing is anything but great stuff.
>Small number of people will whine.
Small ? almost anyone is p*ssed but only a couple of well known shills.
>Most people won’t care. Some will constantly whine about it though.
If no one cares then why are you Epic shills killing yourselves to promote it ?
>everyone wins.
How ? this s*it is like saying if publishers put more MTX and lootboxes and s*it they get more money and they will make better games, did they tho ? huh ? no. less content, low quality games but instead we got more shills and dumb f**ks like you. maybe that’s why they need money, to pay you f*cking re*ards in every social media sites or comment sections.
>lol what ? can you shill a bit harder b*tch ? name those please because what are they doing is anything but great stuff.
Epic are the creators of Unreal Engine. If you want to make a big budget game and don’t want to build an in house engine, guess what engine you probably use ? Unreal Engine. Do I even need to give you a list of the games that have used UE3 and then UE4 ? UE4 is becoming powerful enough to compete with the best in house engines, and literally anyone can use it for free. It’s not just games either, it’s used in simulations, archviz etc. If you’re doing an art test to apply for a studio, you’re probably going to do it in UE4. It’s like, industry standard. Epic also just has a good reputation in the industry for this and investing and encouraging game dev and virtual entertainment in general.
It’s funny how out of touch so many of you are with the way you portray Epic on the whole.
>If no one cares then why are you Epic shills killing yourselves to promote it ?
Yes, yes, just keep calling people shills if they point out the stupid circlejerk-off that you are all having.
>How ? this s*it is like saying if publishers put more MTX and lootboxes and s*it they get more money and they will make better games, did they tho ? huh ? no. less content, low quality games but instead we got more shills and dumb f**ks like you.
lmao. Wait are you saying that the 88/12 split won’t make any difference because somehow the money will get misused or something ? lol. Broader profit margins across the PC gaming industry will obviously be very beneficial. If you’re a studio and you suddenly make about 20% more profit for every sale, that’s a big deal. And don’t somehow try to argue that greedy executives will take all of that extra money.
>maybe that’s why they need money, to pay you f*cking re*ards in every social media sites or comment sections.
I assume you’re not actually serious when you some of us shills and it’s more of an insult… but hey, never know. This community comment section is not known for being particularly intelligent.
>guess what engine you probably use ?
Unity, it’s also free. UE3 was good, every game that made by UE4 looks the same and all are garbage.
>how out of touch so many of you are with the way you portray Epic on the whole.
Sure dumb a**, EA was also a good company.
> just keep calling people shills.
You added yourself in Human category ? you and couple of re*ards are not humans.
> you saying that the 88/12 split won’t make any difference.
No, specially when you lose most of your core audiences. and it wont make any difference to me, so f*ck you and those entitled devs. they are not there because of the split, their games bought by epic to held hostage on that store, exclusively. and they can’t and will not do that forever.
> Broader profit margins across the PC gaming industry will obviously be very beneficial.
Name one of the benefits! i don’t get any, their game will sell less, also Discord doing the same thing but why all these poor devs won’t release their games there ?
>don’t somehow try to argue that greedy executives will take all of that extra money.
Why ? because you don’t have any answer to that or it’s just out of your paycheck ?
>This community comment section is not known for being particularly intelligent.
Looks like you know what you and your re*arded a** friends are. KIM is one of you.
NO! I will not support EGS (or any other store moneyhatting 3rd party games) no matter what game they’re holding hostage. The failure of store exclusivity deals on pc is much more important for me than any game out there.
There are plenty of great games on other storefronts that aren’t involved in exclusivity deals.
“You won’t be able to make fire”
This statement doesn’t fit in with the idea of learning skills. I assume it just means you won’t start out with fire-making, but you can achieve it eventually. Any way, I hope it doesn’t involve tedious inventory management or holding down some button for more than a second to perform context-sensitive tasks like chopping wood. These kinds of survival game tropes are absolutely dead tired and need to be REtired.
I don’t think so buddy. Take a look of what he said:
I need to edit that, thanx bud.
Can’t say I’m interested, when the game is held hostage.
Tim Swiney prefers that we call it surprise blackmail.