Colbalt From the makers of Minecraft

Jongo · 17 Dec 2011 at 00:05

So Majong is publishing a game which has just been released in alpha state, its the same sort of deal with minecraft in the way that you can buy it cheaper in alpha and still receive all the updates. Currently its 9.95€.

Admittedly i dont know much about this game apart from what i've seen in trailers and the like. So i thought i would create this thread to see if anyones picked it up.

Below i have included the trailer.

And heres a link to the cobalt site.

http://playcobalt.com/

So Anyone tried this yet?

Huw · 17 Dec 2011 at 00:08

It isn't really by the makers of Minecraft, they're just publishing it. (Sorry)

Looks interesting. I need to see a "WTF is..." though.

Jongo · 17 Dec 2011 at 00:13

Huw said:
It isn't really by the makers of Minecraft, they're just publishing it. (Sorry)

Looks interesting. I need to see a "WTF is..." though.

ah ok, i will edit my original post in a sec, yeah im also hoping that totalbiscuit will do a wtf is... can normally get a good idea of a game from one of those.

FrenchTart · 17 Dec 2011 at 02:19

Looks pretty awesome. I'll check this out properly next week I think.

Axleuk · 17 Dec 2011 at 02:27

I'll be honest. It looks crap! Just sayin. But then again so did Terarria and I LOVE that

Huw · 17 Dec 2011 at 08:01

Axleuk said:
I'll be honest. It looks crap! Just sayin. But then again so did Terarria and I LOVE that

Good point!

orderoftheflame · 17 Dec 2011 at 08:38

Watched a 10 minute gameplay vid for this ages ago (e3?), looked awesome then. Definitely getting.

Jongo · 17 Dec 2011 at 12:36

the yogscast have put up a video showing some survival gameplay.

Huw · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:31

Now that's more like it! Ta for the vid. I'm much more interested now.

Semiskimmed · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:42

not that impressed to be fair

Daichin · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:54

Looks fairly fun but I'm not exactly impressed by the complete lack of online multi player.

The "release an alpha early" model worked really well for minecraft due to the type of game it is but I'm not so sure about a game like this.

Also, I really hate the art style. Not particularly sure why.

Huw · 17 Dec 2011 at 16:39

Daichin said:
Looks fairly fun but I'm not exactly impressed by the complete lack of online multi player.

Yeah, local multiplayer only is a pretty glaring omission. What are they thinking?

Jongo · 17 Dec 2011 at 16:46

Daichin said:
Looks fairly fun but I'm not exactly impressed by the complete lack of online multi player.

The "release an alpha early" model worked really well for minecraft due to the type of game it is but I'm not so sure about a game like this.

Also, I really hate the art style. Not particularly sure why.

Yeah this is one big thing that ive just noticed is that it only has local multiplayer no lan or internet

i will most likely not buy it till the multiplayer is implemented since i was looking forward to doing co-op with friends over the internet.

OminousLatinNoun · 17 Dec 2011 at 17:36

Jongo said:
Yeah this is one big thing that ive just noticed is that it only has local multiplayer no lan or internet i will most likely not buy it till the multiplayer is implemented since i was looking forward to doing co-op with friends over the internet.

Same for me, looks neat but it isn't the kind of game I would play solo.

PoD · 17 Dec 2011 at 19:14

It is alright, but damn survival is far to hard!

tals · 24 Jan 2012 at 06:34

OminousLatinNoun said:
Same for me, looks neat but it isn't the kind of game I would play solo.

Was all ready on the preorder when I saw no online play - are they mad! dev has posted some ways they may do it but tbh it has to be embedded from the start to work easily, they'd have sold a ton with proper online support