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Article #697933Re: GOG Summer Sale (and ELEK)
From: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:44
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:44
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: >They were also offering a pre-order for a new game - ELEK - that >caught my attention. It's apparently an open-world sci-fi game, but >what caught my attention was one of the screenshots; "Wow," I said to >myself, "That picture reminds me a lot of a screenshot from Gothic 3". >Turns out ELEK is being developed by the same team (Piranha Bytes) so >its no wonder there is a certain visual thematic consistency. Since I >quite enjoyed the Gothic titles -despite their later misteps with the >Risen series - I was very tempted to buy ELEK sight unseen and at full >price. Fortunately, the game isn't out yet, else I might have >forfeited the money. I heard about this game (actually called ELEX) recently but hadn't seen any screenshots. I was bit disappointed though that from the screenshots on GOG.com it looks like Gothic with Lasers, rather than the Gothic in Space that I was thinking of when I first heard of the game. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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