Intro Story Video For TLF

[Teal_Blue]

Wow!  Totally Awesome!!     You all are doing a fantastic job, looking forward to seeing how it plays.

-Teal

[Walter Sullivan]

I really liked this intro, good job! The art and the voice are very good indeed, and the story itself is pretty cool.

thanks! as a suggestion, you could think about adding subtitles to video for release, if not 100% final

I would like to second that. While most of the time I could understand what was being said, there were some words that I had to see on the transcript to understand, because english isn't my first language

[mrhanman]

I know it's nitpicking, but wouldn't they have seen the moon coming and have been able to evacuate at least some of the populace?

Anyway, it's an incredible visual!

[x4000]

I really liked this intro, good job! The art and the voice are very good indeed, and the story itself is pretty cool.

thanks! as a suggestion, you could think about adding subtitles to video for release, if not 100% final

I would like to second that. While most of the time I could understand what was being said, there were some words that I had to see on the transcript to understand, because english isn't my first language

I've added closed captioning in English to the video -- should help quite a bit if you opt to turn it on!

[x4000]

I know it's nitpicking, but wouldn't they have seen the moon coming and have been able to evacuate at least some of the populace?

Anyway, it's an incredible visual!

These are really awesome rockets.

[mrhanman]

Yeah, I guess they'd HAVE to be! 

[echo2361]

Nicely done intro movie! I got chills at the end when the Hydral was talking about leaving a legacy to stand the test of time.

[x4000]

Sweet.

A lot of people have told me that about the chills on that line.  I wrote it, and I still do, too, which is really unusual for something I wrote.  Jeff's delivery is just awesome, and Pablo timed the music absolutely perfectly.

[Cyborg]

But if you're feeling vengeful, it's certainly possible to engineer the death of almost any race, or even all of them except one, etc.

Yes, only the Acutians will be allowed to survive.

[x4000]

But if you're feeling vengeful, it's certainly possible to engineer the death of almost any race, or even all of them except one, etc.

Yes, only the Acutians will be allowed to survive.

That will be very difficult to achieve and still win the game, but it can be done.  There will be an achievement for doing just that, too.

[PokerChen]

A Federation of just one race and still win the game?

That's actually a little surprising.

[Teal_Blue]

I think in order to pull off the 'one race win', you have to like get rid of all the others, not simple, but i think that is how chris said it plays out with one. 

[tigersfan]

I think in order to pull off the 'one race win', you have to like get rid of all the others, not simple, but i think that is how chris said it plays out with one.

Yep, that's about how it works... but... good luck trying it and not getting yourself wiped out in the process....

[x4000]

I think in order to pull off the 'one race win', you have to like get rid of all the others, not simple, but i think that is how chris said it plays out with one.

Yep, that's about how it works... but... good luck trying it and not getting yourself wiped out in the process....

Yep, exactly.  And it's not like "you" can just directly do whatever.  None of your direct actions can destroy a race.  So you have to engineer one race killing the last of all the others, but not you, while already being in the federation, to win.  You can't form a one-race federation, either; so all the allies of the race who WERE in the federation have to have already been killed, too.  So that's doubly hard, because races in the federation will support one another.  That means that your target race has to have been fighting a foe who was superior enough to overcome the entire federation EXCEPT that race, and then that race turned things around and won.

Of course, your hand would be evident in that from start to finish, but still.

[Cyborg]

That's what I plan on doing. Long live the cyborgs.