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brian · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:52 pm Post subject: PotS Information

I've been holding on to this for a while, but I figure I can let loose now.

So, I went on a trip to Cyan last month. I signed my life away in a giant NDA but I can tell you that I did get to play PotS. I got to see quite a bit of it, actually.

From what I saw,

it rocks.

The story is MUCH more involved than To D'ni. I got to see a bunch of the puzzles and even solved some of them and they are very engaging and interesting. There are some that will eat your brain, though, so be careful.

The new ages are awesome. I don't want to give any spoilers but there are some deep connections. The scenery is every bit as good as you could imagine, and for the most part everything just fits in very well with the story.

To summarize, it just makes sense. It manages to recapture the spirit of Prime. I'm anxious to get my hands on it again and dive in. I only got to scratch the surface before.

Wish I could say more, but... NDA.

(P.S. - Thanks GD)
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Professor Askew · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

Once again, the GT is in the know......from personal experience!! And really, isn't that the way it should be? Laughing

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CuzinJohn · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

Well, color me jealous.

You rock Brian!

Thanks for sharing what the NDA allowed you to. It was just enough to make the rest of us drool in anticipation.

Well, maybe not ALL of us... but I know that I'm drooling. Cool

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NSymon · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

Hi Brian

It's great to hear from you and so cool that you got to play tpots and even if you can't tell us all about it Smile

it's just cool that you got to see and play it Very Happy

Halvor · Explorer Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 29

:drool:

Congrats Brian. I hope you had a nice time. Wink

Tehl Nava · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:27 pm Post subject:

Well, I may not have a way into Cyan, but I am typically patient.

I preordered my PotS from Amazon, so I guess I'll have to wait until it arrives.
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Mystlander · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:33 am Post subject:

Wow! Didn't know you'd planned a trip to Cyan, but happy to know what little you could share with us.

Any chance that Cyan added a Peer-to-Peer feature, so we can gather in small groups and play POTS together... hmmmmmmm? Wink

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Kehrin · Veteran Explorer Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 81

Thanks for the report, Brian! Will you be able to tell more after TPOTS launches? It would be fun to hear about who you talked to at Cyan, and all that sort of thing.

July 7th. Download. 12 days and counting. I don't know where that download is going to be hosted, but wherever it is, they'd better be prepared for the onslaught!

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brian · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 2:28 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I guess I can talk more about PotS after it launches, but that would probably be it as far as what I saw goes. I did get to meet just about everyone there, though, which was really cool. Had some fun conversations with Rand and Ryan and Ryan and Bill and others about Live and how the story progressed and how much of it was driven by the explorers and things like that.

Got to go on a coffee walk with GD and Bill and some other devs which was fun. Very interesting cleft-like scenery on the way.

I used to be able to talk for hours about all of this stuff, but I'm at the stage where it's fading. Lots of good memories, lots of difficult memories..
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