In December 2023, Nekki announced a cool new game called SPINE. Ironically, a lot of folks thought that it was a fake trailer with pre-rendered footage. As such, Nekki decided to release a new trailer showing actual gameplay. So, let’s take a look at it.
Now as I said back then, SPINE reminded me of Wanted: Dead. And yes, this latest gameplay trailer proves me right. Players can shoot their enemies and dodge their attacks. Then, they can initiate some finishing moves. These finishers are scripted, so they look a bit more polished than everything else in the game. Still, I don’t see anything that can be described as pre-rendered.
SPINE is a single-player game where you play as Redline, a rebellious street artist. Redline will also have a smart combat buddy, Spine. Together, you’ll take on the autocratic AI regime of Tensor Corporation. While you’re fighting the bad guys, you and Spine have to learn to trust each other. As you progress, Redline will get faster and learn new awesome moves. The game even has special camera tricks and cool fighting scenes designed by action movie experts, making you feel like “the hero in your very own action movie.”
As Nekki noted, this gameplay footage is from a really early development build. As such, it does not represent the quality of the final product.
SPINE seems to have an amazing art style and graphics. And the finishers look actually great. However, the melee combat looks rough, and it needs A LOT of work. Right now, your punches and kicks do not seem to properly connect with the enemies. Your melee attacks feel floaty and bad.
Compared to its debut trailer, this new trailer looks EXACTLY the same. Nothing has been downgraded. So, again, I don’t know why people believed this was pre-rendered. All they showed back then were the finishing moves which are scripted events (that occur whenever you kill an enemy).
Anyway, enjoy the trailer and stay tuned for more!
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Not looking good bruv.
Pure Dark released a free Nvidia Frame Generation mod for Dragon’s Dogma 2. Download is on the patreon.
Link
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dragons-dogma-2-100837988
What, are you an affiliate for his patreon?
Jolene Wick? did they kill her cat?
I like this sort of game when it is done well, but this looking as disappointing as Wanted: Dead.
Wanted Dead looks better than this.
Looks like shït!
Suyu emulator taken offline by DMCA takedown. Release build 0.0.2 works well so is probably still out there somewhere to download.
Edit: The site is back online. Confusingly it’s reverted to stating they have no release builds available to download.
When you don’t know how guns are supposed to work, you get a game like this.
High hopes for this game, looks awesome. Add some nice story and skill progression and you got a modern Arkham game!
when i saw the trailer without the hud and it was not gameplay i was interest, reminded me of ps2 style action games and max payne, but then they showed the actual gameplay and it has a lock on system as if its a ps2 game instead of letting you aim manually and do headshots, after the third gunshot on a unarmored enemy and using a john wick takedown, i lost all interest
White Man Bad, Feminazi Good: The Video Game
How do we know she’s a feminist?
Her hair is obviously dyed in a way feminist way. Have you seen that “Big red” meme? That’s how feminists usually dye their hair.
Imagine the hysteria, a men protagonist killing only women in a game.
The universal bad guy in media is white men. You won’t find games that do exclusively non white men or only woman (and a white man killing non whites or women exclusively).
yep, it’s all equal opp this equal opp that but that’s only for non white men, hypocrits. And the state legalizes discrimination all over the place further hypocrisy. On native american lands they can discriminate, veterans aka mercenaries they discriminate, all the other legalized crime by their own systems definitions. Babel, confusion.
Well there’s not really any reason to make a game like that. Because what you probably have in mind is a game which caters to the whole KKK/Nazi/sociopathic ideology.
Unless you’re able to come up with a very convincing premise that allows you to play as a white man killing nothing but minorities/women without making it morally twisted and somehow he ends up being the hero, then it’s just silly for anyone to even have that thought in their mind. RE5 could have been that game but beyond that I can’t think of any other concept.
Games like Far Cry 2 or Resident Evil would be perfectly fine with only black people as enemies, but the neurotics on your side would never leave those devs alone. it was quite revealing when cod devs allowed black people as natzes, some jewish “comedian” cried “they ruined my white killing simulator”.
Saying that a game which revolves around the idea of a white saviour killing all the black natives is immoral doesn’t mean I’m taking a certain side here. It’s called having blatant common sense and humanity for others. Alternatively I don’t see the point of a black saviour or whatever if their job is just to eliminate as many white people as possible, just because? If people are advocating for those things then why stop there? Why not complain about the lack of a proper high budget school shooting or grape simulator?
It goes both ways. Right-wing activists who loathe fictional violence, sex appeal and edgy humour have always attacked developers since the early days. Jack Thompson is a prime example of that. So it’s nothing new. I’m sure you’re aware of IGNs recent critique of RE5 and the overwhelmingly amount of dislikes they got from it. The average consensus has always been indifferent about what these people have to say but they just continued to gain more influence over the years. Thankfully we have a better idea of why that is and I’m sure we’ll learn more about all the nuances of why the industry is so troubled as time progresses.
“Saying that a game which revolves around the idea of a white saviour killing all the black natives is immoral doesn’t mean I’m taking a certain side here.”
Far Cry 2 is a morally grey game about hunting a weapons dealer and Resident Evil 5 is a horror game about zombies and monsters, it woudn’t matter if they changed the demographics to be more black, the story woudn’t change.
“Right-wing activists who loathe fictional violence, s3x appeal and edgy humour have always attacked developers since the early days.”
And who really cares about opinion of powerless groups? Show me a game affected by these critics…
“I’m sure you’re aware of IGNs recent critique of RE5 and the overwhelmingly amount of dislikes they got from it.”
RE5 had the same criticism back then, in fact it was worse, they criticized the game for a scene of a black zombie killing a white girl, and they quickly folded. They are hyper aware of race and it’s implications while you brag about being ignorant about it, curious.
And that’s fine. It would be cool to see more games like those but I guess after the criticisms these games had, especially RE5, Africa has become a taboo continent to use as a backdrop for any action-based games or movies, with the exception of things like Black Panther. Which is a shame really because it does cut down on all the creative possibilities. FC2 and RE5 simply wouldn’t have had a chance they were being made today. Or maybe they would but a lot of things would have to be changed to appease the modern standards.
I’m pretty sure Islam isn’t a powerless religion and they’re more right wing than most self-proclaimed Christians these days. We’ve seen what happens when a company or a mere individual with influence becomes emboldened and decides to mock it. They’re not affecting the industry at this moment but I do believe there will be a time when that comes. But fair enough, you are right about right wingers not having any profound control over the medium.
Okay, so the race the infected villager was swapped for the scene featuring the helpless white girl in RE5. Now what? Obviously it shouldn’t have happened in the first place but it is what it is. The end result doesn’t make or break the game. It doesn’t change the dynamic of the scene at all. Assassin’s Creed 2 had cutscenes where the NPCs changed every single time it was replayed. I remember having to replay the flying machine sequence a few times and it always showed a guard yelling out the same line at the start but with a different looking NPC each time. I found that to be extremely bizarre but it didn’t ruin the continuity of the plot.
We live in a time in which interracial crime is heavily underreported AND misreported as in concealing racial motif, so long as the perpetrator is black. So in that sense the outrage over a RE5 cutscene is more interesting than the scene itself because it exposes one of our society dogmas.
lmao
One thing i find curious in those ethnic movies/games (black panther, GTA San andreas, etc.) Is that they don’t make the white guy the ultimate villain, for some reason. Even that kill whitey movie, Django Unchained, the final villain is the household slave.
One thing i find curious in those ethnic movies/games (black panther, GTA San andreas, etc.) Is that they don’t make the white guy the ultimate villain, for some reason. Even that kill whitey movie, Django Unchained, the final villain is the household slave.
That’s Hollywood for you. It could be a coincidental thing or it could based on some written rule. Who knows. It’s not something I care too much about so long they’re able to make a good story and decent characters. The majority of the bad guys in the Avatar movies are white English speaking men but it’s not something I try to take any notice of. The movies are fun to watch for me and as long as they aren’t shoving any divisive messages in our faces and aren’t demonising any ethnic or religious groups then it’s all good.
“The movies are fun to watch for me and as long as they aren’t shoving any divisive messages in our faces and aren’t demonising any ethnic or religious groups then it’s all good.”
They do this all the time with the “universal villain” term i just coined, lol, you even provided examples such as Avatar. Don’t brag about being blind or ignorant, because i’ll see right through it.
The “universal villain” trope isn’t demonising an ethnic group though. I guess you can say it’s stereotypical. Kinda like how every time they feature a black character in a trailer or whatever they gotta have some hip-hop music playing in the background or have them wearing a hoodie or speak in Ebonics. But I get it, there’s no consistency to be found when it comes to villainous portrayals. Again, that’s the culture of the modern industrial complex.
If the majority of heroes in entertainment are white men shouldn’t they be coined as “universal heroes”? If so, what’s the issue? I wasn’t complaining about the abundance of them but you are correct in pointing out how they almost never use ethnic minority villains in Western entertainment.
I remember Idris Elba playing a secondary villain in the movie The Losers which was a forgettable popcorn flick. Plus, like I said he was a secondary villain, the main one was still a white dude from what I recall. Casino Royale featured African dudes who also played as secondary villains that were essentially the bosses of the main villain but their role was minor.
They are scaling back white men as “universal heroes” tho, the new avengers game will have 3 black protagonists vs 1 white, but the universal villain remains. It’s interesting how the side most likely to call out genocide was domesticated to ignore or even incentivize their own genocide, though obviously some of them are subversive chamaleons, jews.
I’m aware of that. It was the first thing I picked up on whilst watching the trailer. But I was just talking about the overall representation up until most people began to notice the infiltration of the industry. If you round up all the main characters featured in story-driven games from the inception of gaming up until now, the majority of them are still white men, hence why we only have a “female protagonist” tag on Steam but not the male equivalent which I still think is ridiculous.
But nowadays I think we can all tell that it’s almost impossible to have a straight white protagonist without some token character/s aiding his side in anything that’s AAA and AA to some extent. It’s clear that this phenomenon is not sustainable based on everything that’s being reported so I don’t think it will be something they’ll be able to continue enforcing in the distant future but you never know.
Welcome to far cry 5
Kind of reminds me of Dead To Rights without all the max panye style slow-mo. I’ll gladly take this kind of simplistic yet actually fun to play type of game over all these recent ones that just feel like chores to get through with their overly bloated inventories to manage and fetch quests to complete.
This reminds me of Oni (that classic game from Bungie).
Looks fun, will keep an eye out for how it turns out.
when i saw the trailer without the hud and it was not gameplay i was interest, reminded me of ps2 style action games and max payne, but then they showed the actual gameplay and it has a lock on system as if its a ps2 game instead of letting you aim manually and do headshots, after the third gunshot on a unarmored enemy and using a john wick takedown, i lost all interest.
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Wow that looks exhausting really, better off going either full wrestler-fu or stealth or just rambo than all that mixed up. That ladyboy w the brazilbutt very cringe, the types that are hopeless as anything but showoff mooks of a sort who get some respectability in old age for some reason.
You’re doing great. It was a real pleasure to read your article. Awesome article.
Most of these comments are coming from those with low IQ. The game looks refreshing. It’s like something out of the sixth and seventh gen consoles. It looks linear, has an arcadey gun-fu combat with a protagonist who’s acrobatic and it appears to be story-driven which are components that rarely come by with these modern high budget games.
The protagonist seems fine so far. She has all her hair and hasn’t said misandristic things about white men just yet. When/If that time comes then yeah complain about it. But as it stands it looks like it could be entertaining if they deliver on what they’re showcasing and avoid doing anything that will piss people off as they often do.
Yeah I don’t get why people are assuming she’s a feminist
Well it’s easy to assume why. Because the vast majority of female portrayals these days are being enforced by feminists themselves. So if a certain game comes along and does the opposite of that people will have a hard time believing it.
There’s still a high probability that she may come off as yet another generic two-dimensional character written by a white-hating misandrist but I’m not going to judge it because of other examples that came before it. I’m just taking a wait and see approach. It’s being made independently by a company who have only made mobile games thus far, so to act like her being a female is the most concerning thing here is just silly.
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It looks pretty cool and I do like the art style and wick-style action. I’m a huge FPS fan and once in a rare while I’ll do third person games but the camera movements on this one while unique, is a little hard on the senses. Maybe actually playing the game would keep focus on the character but just as a spectator I can see it causing motion sickness.
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Why is everyone saying this game doesn’t look good? I thought it seemed pretty cool
AI needs work and maybe action sped up a bit.
Otherwise really good.
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You all sleeping on This game spitting nonsense, I got in touch with devs on X, they’re not involved with SBI, are cultured and want to make sure the game is done right. So the way I see it, it’s not some blockbuster propaganda game but a small indie but good one so I will fully support it. Here’s the protagonist’s design and she looks very cute. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b007fad4c9625836fa3a6aa6874602da2caf10a766ebd23e46c33cf82cf17fe7.jpg
An attractive female character?
There go those ESG points.
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