Elex 3 May Have Been Canceled, Developer Piranha Bytes Possibly Closed Down (twistedvoxel.com)

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Piranha Bytes’ upcoming science fantasy-themed action role-playing game, Elex 3, may have been canceled, and the studio possibly closed down.

Absolute shite news tbh, even if I wasn't a fan of anything after Risen 1 it still sucks to see them go.

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[-] avater@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

oh no :(

As a german this is really hitting me. One of the last "legendary" game developers here, with a very particular style and history. Gothic was also one of the first games I have ever played which got me into the hobby.

[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the Gothic series was, and still is one of my favorite game series ever made.

[-] Keegen@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Unrelated to the article but did you try "The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos" already? It's basically a spiritual successor to Gothic 2, using it's engine but with a different main character and in a different part of Myrtana. It's absolutely incredible and a must play for anyone who enjoyed Gothic 1 and 2.

[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yep, have played it fully like 3 times.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Hard to imagine that we had some great developers in this country once

[-] Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

Saw the headline, wondered what had happened, and then saw that they were owned by Embracer. It's a shame to see them go. Gothic has been on my list of series to try for a while now and the Elex games looked interesting.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The good old embrace of death...

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

This hurts to read.

Their games were rough around the edges but sure as hell showed a lot of passion. The lore and attention to detail that went into their worlds were unparalleled, especially in the open world genre where lots of content is just generic copy-pasted fetch quests or mindlessly following the Ubisoft formula.

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Well shit :( I really liked the Elex games, jank and all!

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I never finished the first Elex (the combat was way too unforgiving imo; it took me like 5 minutes just to kill one of those river raptor looking things) but I loved the trailer for Elex 2. I thought it went really hard.

[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

yeah, for me the games after Risen 1 were pretty meh for me. But the Gothic series was part of my childhood, with Gothic 1 being my first ever RPG. (probably one of the best games to start with)