DISTORTION - Another ambitious project from a noname Russian studio

[Yankee Zulu]

DISTORTION is a profound story-oriented game that reveals an innovative authorial neo-middlepunk setting.

Game Art Pioneers – a game studio and publisher formed by industry veterans in 2021. The company's mission is to create breakthrough projects aimed at the development and improvement of the global gaming industry. The studio’s flagship project is the action RPG game “DISTORTION”, in addition to which the company is developing other promising games and projects.

https://m.youtube.com/@DISTORTION_G-A-P?cbrd=1

[Yankee Zulu]

I dont even know what to think of this. I think there was a ****** in the video and naturally the female protagonist carrying a baby. I get these Jemisin vibes, you know that ****** fantasy woman who won 3 Hugos in a row. Obviously the devs are oriented towards the West.

[1998]

Budget breakdown:

• $1.4 million — prototyping;

• $2.5 million — creating a vertical slice;

• $50.4 million — main production;

• $8.4 million — content creation;

• $26.6 million — promotion (including offline);

• $5 million — PR.

No, for real: https://app2top.com/money/the-russian-r ... 61018.html

[wndrbr]

It looks like a cheap asset flip with little to no cohesion between various elements. And the description... what a mess. Reads like something that was written by a 12 yrs old.

[Oyster Sauce]

authorial neo-middlepunk setting

what

[Finarfin]

I dont even know what to think of this. I think there was a ****** in the video and naturally the female protagonist carrying a baby. I get these Jemisin vibes, you know that ****** fantasy woman who won 3 Hugos in a row. Obviously the devs are oriented towards the West.

I think you are ******* blind ******. Where is the female protag carrying a baby? In the video you posted, she was carrying a boy because he hurt himself and in the video thumbnail she is carrying a bunch of barley or wheat. The "******" you think you saw was a tan ****** because men and women are always depicted the same way (Women pale, Men Tanned) he also has the classic slavnigger hairstyle that is slicked back.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Interview with the developers, but only in Russian, need some kind of tool for translation.

[Xenich]

Female protagonist, strong jaw...

Looks like more modern slop to me.

[1998]

Female protagonist, strong jaw...

Looks like more modern slop to me.

Can't really make out her jaw line too clearly, and yeah she is a bit chubby, but still she could have never made her way into a nu-obsidian game

[Yankee Zulu]

I just hope this wont turn out to be another THE DAY BEFORE. Those devs had a huge ****** face on their games cover and the whole thing took place in the US of A. We all know how it ended.

[Xenich]

Female protagonist, strong jaw...

Looks like more modern slop to me.

Can't really make out her jaw line too clearly, and yeah she is a bit chubby, but still she could have never made her way into a nu-obsidian game

I mixed her up with the other female in it, she looks more narrow jawed based on the facial structure. Still, I am tired of the female protagonist games.

[KnightoftheWind]

All these realistic games are starting to blend together, it's ridiculous. Can barely tell one apart from the other anymore. I'm assuming even larger companies are just buying stock UE5 assets at this point and hoping no one notices, indies for sure since I doubt any small team has the time or resources to create their own hyper-detailed assets.

[Xenich]

All these realistic games are starting to blend together, it's ridiculous. Can barely tell one apart from the other anymore. I'm assuming even larger companies are just buying stock UE5 assets at this point and hoping no one notices, indies for sure since I doubt any small team has the time or resources to create their own hyper-detailed assets.

You know, I don't mind stock assets IF used for a proper reason. If they decide that graphics aren't the focus and spend all their time perfecting the systems, I can accept the visuals. Problem is, they phone in the assets and then do the same on the systems and mechanics. It is like a bunch of business grads grabbed an IT guy and said... "lets make a game, we can make bank!".

[Vergil]

Female protag is DOA

[wndrbr]

I thought this would end up being another dead on arrival project cuz it looked like both a grift designed to embezzle funds, and an overly ambitious visionless mess. However, the devs just announced a deal with Kinopoisk (Yandex subsidiary). I assume the corpo would have done a proper investigation into the company to see if it's a legit game or a grift. Plus the corpo managers should be better at overseeing projects than the gubermint clerks who usually don't give a crap.

[UltraFan123]

Female protagonist should only be accepted if she's hot and showing curves since that's what the market wants. And I don't mean coomer bait like gachas, but rather proper action games like Bayonetta, Nier, Stellar Blade, and the like.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

[rusty_shackleford]

We need a complete shutdown on women in video games until we can figure out what the hell is going on with the ***** issue

[UltraFan123]

We need a complete shutdown on women in video games until we can figure out what the hell is going on with the ***** issue

I personally think that this is just another form of petty "revenge" from the side of the libtards; they think that "sexual minorities" were being actively excluded from videogames - when the simple fact was that non-straight stuff never even crossed the minds of game devs back then - so now these freaks are actively excluding normal stuff and shoehorning themselves as if they were the normal ones instead. The character creator of the new Dragon Age is a prime example.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Female protagonist should only be accepted if she's hot and showing curves since that's what the market wants. And I don't mean coomer bait like gachas, but rather proper action games like Bayonetta, Nier, Stellar Blade, and the like.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

The eastern gaming market does this and more often than not make bank, I may not like coomer bait but I can’t blame them in how effective it works in selling games.

[rusty_shackleford]

make it a capital offense to be a coomer or produce coomer content