Wipeout Pure Japanese Website!!

I noticed those S-es as well! 8O
they do look Fiiine!! *karbonis anyone?http://www.geocities.com/zargz/leenden/phm.gif
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Praeterea censeo autopilotum esse delendam]

Droool!!!! but happy :lol:

stevie :D

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Originally Posted by zargz

they do look Fiiine!! *karbonis anyone?

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That's what I thought at first, but then the Pure esses seem more regular and longer. Either way, it's going to be hard work (read: fun!) pushing a Qirex through these turns at Phantom. :)

Ben

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bloody hell! it looks like i'm going to have to actually work my a$$ off to buy a PSP for this game
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Same here. If there is any way I can afford it I will buy a PSP as soon as possible, even though I thought I'd wait until the price goes down considerably. That is, of course, assuming Pure is going to be the game we are hoping for.
What's funny is that I only realized today it was 2097 that made me buy my first 3D accelerator card. It was all of the first three Wipeouts that made me get a PSX. Later I had to have an XBox for Quantum Redshift as well as an N64 for WO64. It never occured to me how much of a system seller this kind of game is for me, because I never haunted down new hardware right upon hearing of a new Wipeout like release. It more or less just happened that way.
Now, should I start worrying about the not-so-subtle grasp Sony holds tightly around my neck/wallet? ;) And on a side note: Too bad Microsoft doeesn't seem to have another Quantum Redshift in the hole when XBox 2 hits the market at the end of this year. *whistles innocently* *g*

Ben

The "Team" section on the Japanese website has been updated.

Looks like some of them have little movies as well, although not all of them worked when I tried.

Goodness.

Cod

Niiice!

You let them load - particularly like the Feisar! Auricom looks tasty too.

Mmmmmmm 8)

I like the look of the new and more streamlined qirex. Now edgey, as opposed to the brick of previous games.
Best in show? AG-Sissies. And it hurts me to say it, but it just looks the most dynamic craft ever to appear in any wipeout.
Worst in show? Piranha. It looks like a frikkin footprint!
Also unhappy about the feisar having its wings clipped, but what ya goin to do?

Yeah qirex looks sharp literally but I personally think that AG looks bad - from the back.
Piranha looks decent again from the back to me but I agree with you about Feisar's wings. I still think it looks fabulous - a lot like the intro ships in WO1

edit by Lance: unnecessary quote of immediately previous post was removed
how many times do i have to say this?: do not quote the entire immediately previous post; it is unnecessary, it is irritating to the readers, it is time wasting. it even looks ugly to an aesthete. and it adds to the clutter when i feel it necessary to make a public notification within the post in an attempt to eliminate this kind of abuse of the readers. don't do it.

omfg these ships just look freakin awesome! i LOVE the new feisar, sweetest ever, and now even the harimau, which i didnt like from previous screen captures, absolutely rocks! the quirex is sharp as can be, and the piranha is great, too, i think it's just the perspective that makes it look a bit awkward in this picture.
i am a bit disapointed with the auricom and the triakis, they somehow look a little bit like they were built with lego bricks (well, for the auricom it fits, but the triakis was supposed to look slick i guess, didnt really work out - and it's just gray...)
AG looks GREAT from the side, but i also dont like its bulky behind...
also the assegai is not as sleek as it used to be (well it's gotta have stronger shields now!)

all in all, GREAT work there, Studio Liverpool, absolutely love the textures on the ships!

Looks good!

But the Assegai looks like they've stolen the back of the ship ;)

The Qirex is very cool and AG-5Y5: wow!

Feisar also looks okay, but
1. not like it does at the cover
2. the thing with the wings is not bad, but it could look better.

I've just had a look at the ship design. I must tell i’m a bit disappointed on a few points :

- Why do the all the ships look like aluminium painted in watercolor (see what i mean ?) ? Those textures make them more an everyday car painting than a racing one. WO3 bright colors were far more efficient and realistic in a race context. How would you recognize teams when you're in the crowd waiting for pilots that run 400mph ?

- Second point : i know the Pure cover might not be definitive but why always make ships ingame slightly different ? The same happened on 2097 for Qirex (looked great in red, but with a strange piranha on its left wing, though)
http://www.playright.dk/covers/wipeout2097_psx_eu.jpg
Make a comparison with Pure cover AG-S and Feisar. The first one looks far greater in red and white than in the game, wheras the Feisar looks heavenly more agressive with this painting, black cockpit window, and enhanced shape.

Hey Lance - sorry for quoting someone who was before me :oops:

I never know how long it will take to write my post and sometimes it's clearer in busier forums that way.

I too hate it when there are massive quotes all over the place on forums and I think it's great that wipeoutzone is so disciplined in this regard. I will endeavour to reduce my superfluous quotes.

Here’s my opinion on individual ships (did I say I loved the overall WO3 ship and logo design ? I will take it as a comparison) :

- AG-S : great shape (loved the XL split nose, too) but needs the Pure cover painting, actual one beeing too neutral. Doesn't fit the cool logo.
- AURICOM : strange, but i like the idea of an old-war-plane-shaped cockpit; Logo OK but classical.
- FEISAR : oldfashion style (i know there are 2097 CG intro lovers). I pray for the box cover design. Great logo update.
- HARIMAU : looks great like this (with bright colors maybe ?). Good logo.
- PIRANHA : interesting shape but painting far too complicated (as for the logo, i would only keep the two biggest chevrons. It is too descriptive.)
- QIREX : surprising but i like it. Reminds me of an artwork from Fusion. Logo OK.
- TRIAKIS : the grey one. Good sharp design, interesting with this all-rounded logo. I would like to see a great black and white design (WOstyle), that would be classy ! Maybe for a new team.
- ASSEGAI : prefered the original external cockpit in WO3, but this design follow the new carateristics of the ship. Logo not as good but not too bad either. Love the font.

That's it. I’m now waiting for secret teams to show their wings (Van Über, Goteki…)

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Van Über

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Thruster 2097 - What is your favourite team? I'd just like to know that to make up a new name for it, equivalent of AG-Sissies. In other words - :evil:


As for the design - It seems that these are no loger areodynamics that play a significant role in the design. I always thought that fins are for the stability of the craft while flying, that they have some actual purpose, that's why i like previous designs. Pure ships? What are the fins for? To attatch some airbrakes to? A wierd design, i cannot figure it out...


Anyway - I choose Piranha. it's maybe too smooth, but it's agressive enough. Qirex is like a knife (but it's kinda short). Feisar is.....Feisar. AG-Sys - I like W3O design the most, this one fits Piranha. Triakis should have been painted blue and called Auricom. The best part of Auricom is the logo. Harimau - better be fast, because it looks slow. Asseqai - why not, isn't that too small? Nice to know that this team is still around.

(and imagine, this could have been a nice - non-cynical post, if it weren't for Thruster's AG-sis....)

It would just be cool to have a Wipeout with the ability to design your own caft "mabye put the disc in your computer and plug in your memory card some way". To tint your windows anyway you want, to design you logo and colors, and it would actually be tested for the actual ability of speed and handling. It could be too bulky, thus heavy. It could be too light, thus weak. It could be slick and light, thus fast. And to design the engine, the possibilities seem endless. Mabye once racers become really good, they can be smart enough to design real crafts!! :lol: Ya right!!
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I'd also like to welcom tapioca since I haven't been around that often lately. Welcome to the zone, my friend!! :wink:

I actually like all of the designs, but that Harimau is tops in my book. But I'll wait until I can see how it handles. Looks aren't everything you know.

I've been more enamored with the slight glimpses of the tracks we've been getting. You can see the edges of the green and orange tracks here. (Green/Feisar, Orange/AG, I think). Which is awesome because I thought that crazy neon track we've seen in trailers was going to be zone. But no! Mega Mall 1000x, baby! You can also see some really cool stuff going on in the background of the cities (that spotlight was tight).

Very cool stuff.

Oh, and I liked pretty much all the designs. Although I prefer the edgier stylings of the olden days, these are head and shoulders above the WF ones.

Is it possible that these are the eight main tracks we're seeing as well?

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FEISAR : oldfashion style (i know there are 2097 CG intro lovers). I pray for the box cover design. Great logo update.

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Indeed there are, vehement ones at that... :lol:

Having finally seen all the teams up close I must say none of them are dissapointing, except Piranha, ohwell, 7 out of 8 isn't bad. :wink:

F.E.I.S.A.R.: best since 2097, not as good as 2097 CGI version, but then nothing new really could be could it? LOL At least it's not as bad as the cover art, I must say I really didn't like the purE CGI version.

AG-5Y5: Awesome design, and the freshest one in the lineup, it'd be nice for AG to get a settled design but they are the most experimental team so I guess being unpredictable is in character for them. One thing I would have preferred is the brighter half-white/half-red paintscheme from the CGI version which just looks totally nang.

AURICOM: Best design since 2097, I really didn't like the forward swept w3o design and absolutley despised the lego-brick Fusion design, but I really like this version, it's a bit more substantial, the w3o version looked like it was slouching down, this fixes that nicely.

QIREЖ:Very nice design, again fresh like AG, but still keeping the traditional layout, and they seem to have made it less like an Eldar Falcon Grav tank since I saw the early pics ;)

PIRANHA: I agree with Thruster it's a bloody footprint, with 2 malformed fins, I really can't think of much positive, I really liked the 2097 and w3o versions, this is too rounded and weirdly proportioned.

ASSEGAI: beautiful, this is a real triumph, I especially like the angled forward hulls, remeniscent of the 2097 era angular ships I like so much, a little bit stumpy at the rear, maybe a pair of small fins there could have helped but viewed from above this does actually have pretty good proportions.

HARIMAU: looks pretty cool, a nice variant companion to the AG-5Y5 craft, but with a more proportioned rear section, the front hull seems very tall in the shot we're given which is a novel feature. The team name looks like it says λArimAu

TRIAKIS: looks too similar to the Auricom - which isn't necessarily a bad thing but could have been differentiated a bit more than just giving it a pointy nose and grey paint.

Hmm, I think too much about this I'm sure, I'm gonna watch some reality TV to dumb myself down a bit. :lol: