Bionicle General Discussion

[Trijhak]

Glatorian Arena Info on BZP.

I'm looking foward to it... except that Spikeball challenge, mainly because B6 himself couldn't figure out how to play.
Four areas... the Outskirts... the Arena... what looks like a hub where you upgrade your character... and the spikeball match.

I'm thinking that this is one of the bestest games on LEGO.

[Hansolo996]

ohh..... I want to play it!

[Trijhak]

So do I... MUST PLAY... as Gresh...
3D and sounding awesome, I want to play it.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Same here, I hope this has online play. I want to play against you guys. I'll probably defeat or be defeated, but hopefully, since it's the same idea, with my Bleach: Dark Souls training I can be good at this =)

[Trijhak]

Crud... I have no experience at Fighting Games...
If it is online play, then I'll be Gresh against whoever you are. (And if it's Gresh... GRESH V GRESH, lol)

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Crud... I have no experience at Fighting Games...
If it is online play, then I'll be Gresh against whoever you are. (And if it's Gresh... GRESH V GRESH, lol)

=P Gresh vs. Gresh it is =P Oh, I hope this includes customizable stuff, like interchangeable weapons.

[Trijhak]

And you can upgrade your character as well...

Why must we wait, when we can't? Most updates come on Mondays... and I have to go back to school monday.

Those that designed GA are WIN.

[The Host]

If its online vs matches then I'll play as Strakk. And if it gets upgraded in summer I'll be Strakk, Gelu or Vastus

Guess which two I won't be in summer


Skopio rider's helmet appears to be a spikit head on backwards...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

1. Yeah, that's win. ZLS: Kiina and the one I'll be playing as? =P

2. Yeah... =/ Ah well, I have to wait for a game I want anyway...

3. I agree very much.

ZLS4. Really? Interesting...

[Trijhak]

Skopio's pilot has a Spikit head on backwards? Aw. And I thought he had a new one.

Guys, Crotesius and Scodonius from RotGB will be in sets. I'm betting Crotesius is piloting Cendox and Scodonius is in the Kaxium.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Cendox... That's the one that has similarities to Vultraz, right?

Thanks for the good review, B6 smile.gif

A couple of clarifications, just so you don't expect more than what's there.

    * The stairs won't lead anywhere.
    * We initially wanted to put blockers in the game, but decided against it for performance reasons. We wanted the game to be playable by as many people as possible, so we're using a subset of the Unity features and keeping the on-screen resources as clean as possible.
    * As B6 surmised, each character has their own fighting style. The first league starts easy on purpose... trust me, it gets more challenging in later leagues smile.gif
    * Once you unlock a league, you get another character to play. The only Glatorian you won't be able to play as will be Skrall, since he's the boss for each level. But if you do the math, you get to play as five characters against the other five characters. By my math, that's 125 unique matches for you to play, so if you want, you can keep busy with this for a while.
    * Glad I'm not the only one who had problems with the Spikeball game. The developer and our QA department both thought it was fine. Guess time will tell.
    * The game delivered to LEGO World and Toy Fair is basically the full game, the final version will have some minor bugs fixed and some other things cleaned up, but no new features.
    * The game will initially be launched on BIONICLE.com and BIONICLE.co.uk in English, and within a few weeks it will be released on all local language web sites. At that time, a downloadable version with all languages will be available for Mac and PC. (The translations are taking a little longer than expected.)
    * The online version will require a Unity plugin. It's 3MB and takes 1 click to install - easier than installing Flash, actually. But we realize not everyone will want to install Unity, so we'll have the downloadable versions, which don't require you download the plugin.
    * The final web version was just delivered a couple of hours ago. Now it goes through implementation and final testing for launch next week with any luck.

... Some of that is good, like the web version up by next week hopefully, but something tells me there won't be the stuff we were expecting, and that the stairs won't be going anywhere, which is a little bit of a downer.

Now, excuse me, I have to go figure out where I can get this plugin...

[Trijhak]

Yay, I already have Unity player.
I wish the stairs went somewhere, like you could view replays of Matches you have fought there and there could be the summer Agori there(in the summer update, if there is one).

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah... But who knows, maybe if they update it eventually, maybe it'll be part of the updates...?

[Trijhak]

Those who don't have Unity can dowload it as well for offline play.

Which is good, considerring not everyone wants to download unity.

[Hansolo996]

I just got completely lost...

[Trijhak]

About what? Glatorian Arena? Info is on BZP.

They shoulda put Blockers in the game... that would have been useful in the later stages, such as silver and gold.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah, but they didn't want to decrease performance, but really, I doubt many would have minded four things on the screen at the same time.

[Trijhak]

Well, there is four things on the screen at the same time in the Spikeball match.

Please GA come out next week, please...

[The Host]

About the Skopio rider head thingy, I can now get Skopio and a Spikit head for MOCing. Still dissapointed that its not a new head though... but that means the head pieces is reversable like the Mask of Life on Vezon

GA is finally coming. And it doesn't look like its coming with an mln update (ha!)

[Trijhak]

It would be nice if Raanu awarded you something for being in the 'Gold Status' in GA.

Thornatus's Tan and loads of Vorox and Zesk... I can imagine a Tan and Black Titan now... and the Pilo colors go better with the Vehicles this year... except Baranus'...