That one is tricky, because it's such a gorgeous set of shots and I don't want to lose that wow factor at the start. In fact I actually had it set up differently before where that came even faster, and my wife is urging me to go back to that because it had more of an oomph at the very start of the game. I think she's right and I'm going to do that, and I hope that people don't get the wrong idea too much. Maybe I'll have a brief note in there slightly later... I'm not sure.
I understand that. The wow factor is kind of the selling point. Well if it's redone already. Point kind of moot. In any case, I think it's already planned that one of the KS "update" speaks in details about the grand strategy aspect.
The VA made it clear that the AI is playing chess and the player is playing grand strategy (paraphrasing). I think it is pretty clear you are not just controlling a few ships.
As far as I remember, it does, but around after 60 seconds or something. Early impressions are very important and I think it should be told from the start. Even a "dumb" subtitle like "AI War II, the next grand strategy title" could work, but could be very awkward "timing wise". When I made that comment I thought about what the voice-over stated, it says something in the likes of "your ships have to be hidden" or something, just changing this to "your faction" could work. Or not. I completely agree with Chris on the "it's tricky" part. Because it might just be that I, and I alone am wired to give myself this impression.
For example, I remember some thread in which some random guy complained about X-Com II character with cigars & cigarettes looking "cooler". My personal opinion is that they looked at best dumb and at worst sad (as did a part of the crowd that answered that topic), and that's due to personal history with that (aka family dying, becoming vegetables, or both). My point being that nothing's understood the same by 2 different people even if possible interpretations are generally close and the topic very clear.
I could go for long time on that subject but it's not the time, and I don't think it would interest anyone but me anyway.
That one is tricky, because it's such a gorgeous set of shots and I don't want to lose that wow factor at the start. In fact I actually had it set up differently before where that came even faster, and my wife is urging me to go back to that because it had more of an oomph at the very start of the game. I think she's right and I'm going to do that, and I hope that people don't get the wrong idea too much. Maybe I'll have a brief note in there slightly later... I'm not sure.
Back to that... as stated above and as tridus said, the KS has to be clear on what it is, but it's very short till the start - and it's probably better to have a "full" video than last modifications that don't work. The context is pretty clear as is the second half of the video I think. Maybe as the focus of one of the first updates ? (just throwing ideas around)
