Reboot the age of gaming

Chapter 414 Shaking M's Party

Guanghua City, Shimmer Game Experience Store.

Tang Ying wore a mask, but still pressed down on her peaked cap, for fear of being recognized by passers-by.

Tian Yuan patted Tang Ying's shoulder from behind: "Sister, what do you mean by this attire? Are you burdened by an idol?"

Tang Ying was taken aback, and was slightly relieved when she saw that it was Tian Yuan: "What an idol burden, it's not because you chose this place for the meeting."

Although Tang Ying's popularity and popularity have been on the rise after becoming a pillar of Shimmer's live broadcast, and she is now at the apex of her live broadcast career, but her influence is still far behind those real stars.

A more obvious gap is that walking on the street, not many people will recognize her, which is very different from those big stars who are followed by paparazzi 24 hours a day.

But if it is in some special places, it will be completely different, such as... Shimmer game experience store.

Most of the people who come to this experience store are players, and many of them are players of Shimmer Studios' games. It takes only a few minutes to recognize Tang Ying.

That's why Tang Ying added a cap and a mask to completely cover her face.

"Didn't we agree to go shopping? Why did we make an appointment at the entrance of the game experience store?" Tang Ying looked at the groups of players at the entrance of the experience store and said helplessly.

Tian Yuan smiled "hehe": "Sister, don't you know? The trial version of "Attack on Titan" will be released today, of course I want to experience it."

"Oh..." Tang Ying said that her heart was not fluctuating, and she even wanted to laugh.

"Attack on Titan"?Already experienced it!

As a pillar of Weiguang live broadcast and a dedicated demo player, Tang Ying has a special internal account on her GS1, which can directly update the game under development simultaneously. Since the game "Attack on Titan" has a demo, Tang Ying has Already experienced it.

As for the results of the experience...

Of course it is very pessimistic.

So when I heard that Tian Yuan came to the experience store for this reason, Tang Ying silently prayed for her in her heart, and at the same time followed Tian Yuan into the experience store with a mentality that watching the excitement was not a big deal.

The Weiguang Game Experience Store in Guanghua City is currently one of the largest experience stores, and new experience stores of this size are opening almost every month.

With the growing volume of Weiguang Interactive Entertainment, similar hardware + game experience stores can be opened in major cities around the world, and some cities in the West are naturally within the plan.

Although it is the first time to start the trial of "Attack on Titan", there are not many players in the host area. Most of the players are queuing behind the UV1 simulator, waiting to experience "Fortune Speed".

As for the reason, it is self-evident.One is suffering, the other is pleasure, the choice of most players is so real.

Tang Ying and Tian Yuan came to the host area and found that the layout had been made in advance to promote the "Attack on Titan" experience event.

Various promotional materials are hung on both sides of the host area, including the "Wings of Liberty" flag, large posters and some figures.

Even part of the GS1 equipment in the host area has been replaced with the "Attack on Titan" linkage model, and the color scheme and pattern are all closer to the uniform style of the Survey Corps in "Attack on Titan".

There are not many players lining up in the host area, but all of them have smiles of happiness and anticipation on their faces.

"Wow, these people are all perverts." Tang Ying muttered softly.

She could see a certain expectation from the eager eyes of these people, it was the expectation of "death" and "suffering"!

Tian Yuan poked her head out and looked at the screen of the game that the player in front was trying to play.

"Whoosh!"

A figure flies past.

"Whoosh!"

A figure flew over.

"Crack."

The figure flying around was slapped on the ground by the giant, and a huge, bright red word "death" appeared on the screen.

"Oh!"

The players who were shot to death didn't care at all, and continued to start all over again with great interest.

Tang Ying couldn't help feeling secretly: "Sure enough, those who came here because of the reputation are all severely addicted to "Sekiro", and they are all a group of Shaking M!"

If it was any other game, the players would have slammed their controllers and left long ago, but here, the players' eyes were shining brightly, with an expectant expression of "hurry up on me".

Of course, this description is not very accurate. More precisely, it should be an expression of "the difficulty of this game is really good, and it is worth studying".

The hell for some handicapped players is a paradise for hardcore players who like to challenge themselves.

Soon, Tian Yuan arrived.

Pick up the controller and reset the game to the state it just started.

"On that day, mankind finally recalled the horror of being dominated by giants... and the humiliation of being imprisoned in a birdcage..."

Accompanied by the low and sad background melody, an impressive scene appeared on the screen.

White smoke and dust floated from the 50-meter-high wall, and a huge giant with no skin and exposed muscle tissue appeared behind the wall, staring at everything inside the wall, with despair in his eyes.

The camera looks over the bustling crowd, over the buildings of the small town inside the wall, over the 50-meter-high wall like a mountain, over the giant who is grabbing the wall and raising his leg to kick, and comes to the blue sky, and quickly becomes black screen.

"Cheer up! If you can't even use the three-dimensional mobile device well, you don't even have the qualifications to serve as food for giants!"

The instructor's roar rang in the ears, and the screen lit up again, and Allen flew past the camera using a three-dimensional mobile device.

Apparently, the city walls and giant giants he saw just now are all memories in Allen's mind, and at this time he is conducting the assessment task of the training corps.

As two different art carriers, games and anime have slightly different narrative rhythms.As a game, "Attack on Titan" must allow players to get in touch with the combat system and basic gameplay at the very beginning of the game, and not arbitrarily add too many cutscenes and real-time calculations in the early game.

Combat, exploration, and decryption are the core fun of the game. Although the plot is also one of the highlights of the game, it must be skillfully interspersed with the previous gameplay, otherwise players will feel very impatient.

Therefore, the first act of the game allows players to experience the unique combat system of "Attack on Titan", and the plot sequence has been adjusted to a certain extent.

According to the prompts on the screen, Tian Yuan continued to carry out the corresponding operations, using the three-dimensional mobile device to continuously move, replace the gas tank and blade, and perform operation training on attacking giants.

Because it was training, what they encountered in the battle were not real giants, but wooden signs in the shape of giants erected one by one.

These wooden cards cannot fight back, but they can simulate the effect of the sudden appearance of giants, and at the same time test whether the trainers have mastered the attack method and attack timing.

The first wooden sign that pops up from the ground seems to be a regular guidance content. The system will guide the player through a series of processes including shooting iron wires, circling, sprinting, slashing, and breaking away. Each step will enter the bullet time, and at the same time The corresponding buttons will be prompted on the screen, so that players can clearly grasp the process of each step.

When slashing, there will be an auxiliary ring similar to the audio game. The ring will shrink continuously. When the ring shrinks to a specific position, press the attack button to perform a perfect slashing effect.

Of course, this is just routine training content, and there will be no such prompts in real battles.

After killing the first target, the game entered a period of free training.

In the training ground full of tall trees, players need to control Allen to use the three-dimensional mobile device to move continuously, and kill the giant wooden card that suddenly rises from the ground to obtain points.

At the same time, players should also pay attention to their own gas and blade status. Once they consume more, they must find nearby supply soldiers to obtain supplies.

Other members of the training corps will participate in this competition in the form of AI. Their abilities are basically similar to the settings in the game. A few outstanding students such as Mikasa will have strong combat effectiveness and high AI. will have a clear advantage over others.

"This combat system is really interesting!"

"Besides, it doesn't seem that difficult."

Tian Yuan controlled Allen to fly around with a three-dimensional mobile device, beheading one "giant" after another, and gained an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.

Well, it's like playing "Sekiro", the feeling of slashing mobs when you first get the weapon.

It has to be said that using a three-dimensional maneuvering device to fly quickly in the air has a unique pleasure. It is different from the "flying" experience of general games, with a more rhythmic sense and good controllability.

This experience is a bit like the "Spider-Man" game, of course, players in this world have not played it.

In the process of using the three-dimensional maneuvering device, the iron wire is shot and pulled up quickly, and then slides in the air for a period of time by virtue of inertia, and the iron wire is shot again when falling.The movement will always be carried out according to this relaxed rhythm, so that the player will not fall into chaos due to crazy acceleration.

In battle, there are both strategies and skills: players need to choose to hook the giant's body parts, avoid the giant's attack by rotating, or cut off the joints of the hands and feet to weaken the giant's action, and finally cut off the back of the neck. Time to press the attack button at the right moment.

Whether it is moving or fighting, the rhythm is very good. This combat mode will not make the player feel tired, but it can always keep the player's high concentration and strong enthusiasm for the game.

"Strange, I thought it was a suffering game." Tian Yuan murmured in a low voice, and the elder brother who was playing next to him glanced at this ignorant little girl and said nothing.

During the training process, Alan played by Tian Yuan will have some plot interactions with other trainees.

For example, when you want to attack a giant, you are suddenly rushed out by another trainer and snatched it away. At this time, there will be a plot dialogue, and what the other party says will also match the character's personality.

Tian Yuan doesn't know these people yet, but she will gradually become familiar with them soon.

After the training content is over, a cutscene is entered.

"This is... a cinematic approach." Tian Yuan still understands these things very well.

Movie games are also a relatively novel type of game, mainly telling the story of the game through film methods.

In the past, the game plot was limited by the skills of the equipment and the content of the game itself, and it was often relatively blunt. For example, in some games, a large number of avatars + dialog boxes were used to express the plot dialogue, supplemented by a small amount of character model actions, or It's dubbing.

The advantage of this approach is that it has less investment, but the disadvantage is that it is not true.

The movie game is to make the game move closer to the direction of the movie as much as possible, the actions, language, expressions, and details of the characters, including the storyboard of the entire screen, the narration of the script, the BGM that matches the plot, the transformation of the scene, etc. , all are required by movie standards.

Zhong Ming's "Uncharted Sea" in his previous life is the best among them. Even when the player is playing the game, UI information rarely appears on the screen. The actual game screen of the player is perfectly connected with the real-time calculation of the plot. Let players get an immersive gaming experience.

"Attack on Giant" also adopts this method. The transition after the training will connect the city wall being breached for the second time and the trainers' first battle with the giant. At the same time, it will play the role of background and character introduction. The process will be presented in a cinematic way. In addition to some mobile operations for players, most of the plot content is shown through movie-like storyboards.

Different from the original game "Attack on Titan", this version produced by Zhong Ming will show the movements and expressions of each character in great detail, and at the same time, all their lines will be filled in.

For example, some trainees will excitedly think about life after entering the Gendarmerie, some will feel annoyed because they did not perform well in the exam and failed to enter the top ten, and some will not say a word and do not understand what they are thinking.

At the same time, all the discussions in the original work are reproduced.For example, 4 years ago, human beings invested 2% of the population to attack the giants in order to regain the territory, and the results were lost. Most people have no confidence in defeating the giants and so on.

So far, the game has planted many doubts in Tian Yuan's mind.

Like, what exactly is a giant?Where did it come from?What is that super-giant giant in the first act?Allen has a deep-seated hatred for giants, what is the reason?
These questions will be answered as the game progresses.

In the subsequent intensive fighting process, the content of memories will be constantly interspersed to uncover the players' questions.

In the early days of "Attack on Titan", it was this weird, grotesque but authentic worldview that attracted players to continue to understand.

The plot continues.

On the city wall, the trainers were chatting and laughing.

Sasha stole a large piece of meat and wanted to share it with everyone. Alan stood on the city wall, confidently expecting the human counterattack against the giant.

But at this moment, a violent light suddenly appeared behind him, and the head of that super giant appeared on the city wall again!
(End of this chapter)