The Astérix Gaming Guild: xxl

Mr.Rubinshtein

from all these trailers the only interesting thing is the 3d ish combo bar and the helmet count with enemy amount

Mr.Rubinshtein

i have a feeling they were designing some kick ass UI design

Mr.Rubinshtein

but the black boxes were left due to lack of time probably

Mr.Rubinshtein

i believe that they might have wanted to make the UI design like in XXL2

Mr.Rubinshtein

so like instead of black boxes some neat graphics

Mr.Rubinshtein

cause in todays state the vanilla XXL UI looks unfinished or i would say unpolished

Feurus Fuchsus

i would say that these trailers make the game even look better than the romaster but i think we've shit on the romaster enough now

Mr.Rubinshtein

these trailers have nothing to do with romaster what they are offering is alternative look on vanilla game itself

AdrienTD

It shows how the UI is given low priority during development, and is finished at the last minute.

AdrienTD

Because other than the UI and some weird object placement, the game looks close to the final release.

AdrienTD

I bet Beta Rome was already removed at the time, especially when we only see parts of final Rome but no beta.

PegPeregoGaucho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbrWwPfWso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyAfd1UkKgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIkcpB_4iz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7rzNMHl_Yc

PegPeregoGaucho

btw you can tell that the GBA version was based of the version in this video as the tornado combo does not rapidly reduce the enemy count and the UI here shares some similarities to the one of the GBA

PegPeregoGaucho

also for some reason the sfx were edited in afterwards :PES_Think:

Mr.Rubinshtein

told ya GBA has a lot in common with XXL

Mr.Rubinshtein

they made lot of stuff they didnt manage to finish in XXL in GBA

PegPeregoGaucho

yes but for that some stuff in GBA was "cut"

PegPeregoGaucho

like less combos, some mechanics, basically the entire fight system :PauseChamp:

PegPeregoGaucho

XXL GBA is like diet version of XXL

Mr.Rubinshtein

well yea but i mean more from perspective of beta rome and such

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