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Cryptic folk; whatever happened to this game?

thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
edited September 2015 in Ten Forward
Several years ago some concept art was released for a game that was in the works:

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Whatever happened to this game?

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  • borticuscrypticborticuscryptic Member Posts: 2,478 Cryptic Developer
    That artwork pre-dates my tenure here, so I can't comment on it directly.

    However, it's safe to say that a company like Cryptic, that creates and maintains multiple online games, is constantly in the process of trying new things, and prototyping new concepts, new games and sometimes whole new IPs. Some stick around longer than others. Most (in my experience) don't get to the point of being announced externally (or haven't gotten there yet).
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  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
    borticuscryptic wrote: »
    That artwork pre-dates my tenure here, so I can't comment on it directly.

    However, it's safe to say that a company like Cryptic, that creates and maintains multiple online games, is constantly in the process of trying new things, and prototyping new concepts, new games and sometimes whole new IPs. Some stick around longer than others. Most (in my experience) don't get to the point of being announced externally (or haven't gotten there yet).

    That's completely understandable. However, if this game died in development, it would be interesting to at least know what it was, as those screenshots look pretty interesting. If it is still being developed, I can understand not being able to discuss the details.
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  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    Concept Art is often overproduced with multiple samples to test out ideas and concepts. Most never see the light of day except in coffee table books years later. But I agree it would be cool to find out what they were going for with some of this design works. The first image looks more like SG1 or a visit to Skull Island than Star Trek.
  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
    I added 2 new pics to the OP that I found. Honestly, it looks like Cryptic was making something very similar to The Secret World.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Taco once posted some pics of something outside Champs and STO that he'd worked on. It looked similar. But he said it was like Bort said... a test concept that they had him make a mockup of.
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  • kinaenovkinaenov Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    thegrandnagus1 wrote: »
    I added 2 new pics to the OP that I found. Honestly, it looks like Cryptic was making something very similar to The Secret World.

    Yeah that was my thought as well.
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    Several years ago there was a thread about this game, or one similar to it. Apparently their were vampires involved at one point.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    yeah, IIRC, Taco said something like Victorian era steampunk/supernatural theme.
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  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    yeah, IIRC, Taco said something like Victorian era steampunk/supernatural theme.

    One of those screenshots look like a possible Victorian era, but 2 definitely do not.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Well, looking at your OP,
    1; in the lower left we see a group of humans dressed as if on safari. They seem to be headed for a temple that is choked with trees in the jungle. The main identifier, other than the lack of anything to obstruct the scenery, is the gear the people are carrying. slung rifles and other assorted things for a safari. Nothing that places it outside Victorian era. It's hard to set an era, but it is not futuristic and doesn't look like a swords and sorcery thing. The ruins look vaguely like Cambodian or Indonesian architecture. The village along the river matches that.

    2; jungle/forest scene, only feature is a massive automaton shaped like an idol.

    3; definitely looks Victorian-ish, but with Chthulu-esque monsters.

    4; the vehicle looks like an early model Landrover, one the left horizon we see what may be an Egyptian pyramid. then we have the people, they look about the same as those in picture 1. Oh and there's two things that look like skeleton robots.

    I'm not sure where the pics I saw earlier are.
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  • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
    They most likely were Neverwinter concept art.
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  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Well, looking at your OP,
    1; in the lower left we see a group of humans dressed as if on safari. Nothing that places it outside Victorian era.

    The gear/clothing those people are wearing and that gun are definitely *not* Victorian. They look like fairly modern explorers/mercenaries.
    lindaleff wrote: »
    They most likely were Neverwinter concept art.

    Definitely not. That giant stone guy could possibly be a D&D concept, but none of those other pictures fit into the Neverwinter world.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Yeah, the clothes aren't "Victorian" but they look like they could be 18th century.
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  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Yeah, the clothes aren't "Victorian" but they look like they could be 18th century.

    Do you have some picture you are basing that on?
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Well, what most people think of is the weird fashions worn by the nobility.... clothes that were too impractical for the other 99% of the populace.

    Stuff like this shows far more practical clothing in use.

    Also the guy in the first pic seems to be wearing a canvas backpack with a bedroll.
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  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Well, what most people think of is the weird fashions worn by the nobility.... clothes that were too impractical for the other 99% of the populace.

    Stuff like this shows far more practical clothing in use.

    Also the guy in the first pic seems to be wearing a canvas backpack with a bedroll.

    I'm not sure if you linked the pic you meant to, as I don't see any visible connection between that pic and the pic in the OP.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    The way Taco described it, he made it sound like a Sherlock Holmes/Jack the Ripper type world with monsters. I sincerely doubt this game got any further than the concept phase.
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