Unlike games such as Kingdom Come or even GreedFall, however, ELEX’s ambitious premise was harder to sell. Not unlike a crop of contemporary western RPGs whose call seemed to beckon more long-standing, nostalgic fans of the genre’s prior decades. Regardless of how well it may (or may not) turn out, if developer pitches alone were award-worthy, Piranha Bytes that year would no doubt have been easy contenders for the prize.įast-forward a little over a year later to October 2017 and the game finally releases to a, let’s say, middling reception. The name of this new IP was ELEX and while specifics of that day are fuzzy, I remember the pitch being one of impassioned commitment to this bold idea. Set in a world where magic and technology alike persisted, if not co-existed. A new IP that was aiming to be neither fully sci-fi nor fantastical, but interestingly, an amalgamation of both. For it was in the baking heat of a certain gaming convention in June 2016 - specifically, the last appointment on the last day of the event - that I learned of an upcoming open-world RPG from developer Piranha Bytes. While that sentiment is something I can empathize with, it was also a year whose more positive, albeit interesting to look back on, highlights still stick out like they happened only yesterday (cliched a saying that so often is). In this case, half a decade’s worth of time. Five years might, in the grand scheme of things, not equate to much but as they so often say: a lot can happen in a short span of time. To some, 2016 may feel like ancient history.
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