Dune: Awakening - The Final Preview
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- In our final hands-on Dune: Awakening preview, we found a combination of solid mechanics that put a twist on the usual scenarios, and a deep deep obsession with the work of Herbert that strengthens the world building beyond the abilities of most narrative designs. Check out our Dune: Awakening impressions and lots of new Dune: Awakening gameplay! Previewed by Rachel Weber.
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Im sorry did the player phase through the floor in the beginning
I think it was janky way to get sucked into the sands lol
it happened twice within the first 30 seconds lmao
they got eaten by the worm. Just unfinished/unimplemented animation
0:25 insane.
lol.. welcome to Beta!! 😆
"...instead of the little twink we know and love, Paul Atreides." Bro, what? lol
A nipple twist
I came here to say the same. What the heck? Not funny or anything very distasteful.
"The opening isn't meant as a nipple-twist to fans" Who the fuck wrote this shit!?
@@90Deyon I mean, Paul *is* a little twink that we know and love.
@@90Deyon you see paul? dude's a twink at the start
is it me or is the narration unhinged at times?
There's definitely some choice writing 😅
'little twink Paul Atreides' and 'nipple twist to the fans' made me doubletake.
"Broke-ass Arrakis hobo."
It does have some needlessly sexualized comments.
"The giant phallic cretin", "broke-ass Arrakis hobo", " the little Twink we know and love", and "nipple-twist to fans" are WILD.
The narration regularly caught me off guard with some impressively aggressive comments.
The melee combat is looking kinda underwhelming, which is dissapointing considering it should be more the focus with dune
WoW quality animations indeed. Agreed this was either running on a potato pc or it just downgraded from prev trailers. Old school floaty avatars &canned animations. Not grounded or connected to the world at all. Doesn't feel dune. They clearly didn't make use of the new ue5 animation tools
@@willboyko Or they clearly did but wanted a full stable version for the demo ? I mean, they did Conan Exiles on UE4, which has far better animations, so it's not a matter of skills.
The focus in Dune is melee combat ? The focus, on the planet where you can't use shield outside of cities is ... melee combat ?
As they stated 500 million times they are going to polish the fucking melee combat! Again this is a fucking closed beta still!
@@6Alucard6Tepes6 I guarantee you they won't polish anything before the game releases lol
melee combat looks very bad for a dune game
It's a closed beta and they stated it millions of times they are going to polish melee etc!
@@6Alucard6Tepes6 Yeah man, just like they totally polished Conan's Exile combat over time and it's definitely still not a piece of shit even now, right?
@RioFordays the melee combat runs smooth dumbass theres a difference between polished versus combat that you don't like!
@RioFordays running is smooth correct? Swinging the weapons is smooth correct? Rolling is smooth correct! Lists goes on! So yes the fucking melee combat is polished you are just too damn stupid to comprehend it.
@RioFordays are ya'll only recent conan exiles players or something? When the game first game out it didn't even have the melee combat system it has now. So we appreciate it a lot more, I'd rather have what we have now than what we had before
1:36 “instead of the little twink we all know and love” LMAO
the game looks as if it was developed 10 years ago .. from both combat perspective to graphics .. hard pass
SOLID passing this one
Just like every survival MMO
Bro at least with graphics it definitely wasn't possible to get this detail 10 years ago
It looks like someone said “you know what was a real good time? kotor!”
@@absence9443 we definitely had games on par if not better graphics than this one 10years ago.
As for the combat, I mean look at it man, like seriously it needs so much work!!
After I watched the superb crimson desert combat, this feels soo basic man..
If they release it like this, barebones, the game will suffer alot.
That's my opinion. But I know there are people out there who aren't like me, they don't care about the combat nor the graphics much, they just want to play a game in the dune universe.
Game developers just don’t try anymore man. They base you buying stuff off the hype
Funcom isn't like that though
That's just society now sadly, it's in every industry
Nah, man, I thought it was great.
It blow my mind that they decided to make a goddamn basic ass open world sandbox multiplayer, with an IP with vast of lore and epic story like Dune.
It's all there, and what we got is spending hours gathering material and mindless grinding.
what things should they have included?
@@kangaroo-jr2up well since we're talking about vast things, probably your mum.
@@kangaroo-jr2up The great combat of the Dune universe for starters, which is glorious melee.
exactly, this game looks so unoriginal and boring, a copy of so many other games, and its not even pretty, everything feels empty and rushed, no love for the dune universe
The drug phase? Its just a small map of the baisc assets of the game with some violent and red fog and lights here and there with a weird voice... wtf
it looks even worse than what i imagined after the first trailers!
@Dhieen boy its Arrakis a fucking desert planet! I take it you've never read the fucking books!
did she say it's from "the studio of Conan Exiles *_dong slider_* vein" ?
Fame
Honestly can't emmeber ever laughing out loud during one of these sizzle reals.ign does. I like the new lady they hired she's funny and informative
@@willboykoMore like trying too hard to use petty sexual innuendo to make the content more interesting. It’s very contrived.
@@johnhill762 you're very contrived.
@@johnhill762You people are never happy with anything, goddamn! I feel like you're the kind of person that's trying too hard, trying too hard to complain.
lol this game is going to fail so hard........
The devs are cashgrabbing with this game, they will not know the Lore well enough to truly fill this game out, and it's going to die in no time.
First Year, this game is done.......MAYBE half way into year 2.
You can play this single player lol. It’s marketed as a mmo. But it has a solo mode. Don’t need players
They've been working with Legendary and members of Denis Villeneuve's crew, as well as loremasters from the books. Don't doubt the lore will be accurate. The gameplay simply doesn't look fun.
That's what people said about Conan Exiles ... yet it still there, getting updates several times a year. Haters are going to hate no matter what heh ?
@@nightgardheal niche game
@@Keldaj Conan exiles still has it’s dedicated fan base just as this game will as many Conan players have been waiting for this game
WHY IS THE MELEE COMBAT CHEEKS, THE WHOLE POINT OF DUNE IS THAT THEY DONT USE RANGE WEAPONS. yall dropped the ball
Ark literally has better melee combat
@@anthonyd55 devs have said that melee combat is the first iteration of the system and it isn’t the final product they want it to be
This is very untrue. Yes in the dune universe they used Shields, which negates projectiles, but if you read the books they mention how using shields in the desert is very dangerous as they attract worms. The Fremen very commonly used maula pistols and artillery.
Not true at all. They limit the use of shields on Arrakis because they attract worms. They use ranged weapons. You’re just complaining to complain.
@@SheepSlayer if you read the books arrakis is the ONLY planet in the universe where ranged weaponry is used due to the fact that shield usage is minimized. Obviously im being petty but I was hoping for a deeper hand to hand combat system than the focus they’ve shown on shooting.
@@TheCanadianNextDoor if you were actually cultured. In the rest of the imperium shield based combat is the standard. I get that we play in arrakis where shields are less used but to see a bare bones melee combat system is sad and pathetic.
This looks HORRID!
I love dune so ill give it a try but I am skeptical
The alternate timeline doesn't make any sense either. The reason the Bene Gessarit wanted Jessica to have a daughter was to have her and Feyd marry to end the feud and strengthen the genetic line.
Neither the Daughter nor Feyd would be able to reject the plan.
You're over estimating how certain the Bene Gessarit's plan was to succeed.
As demonstrated by it not succeeding as planned and leading to a thousand year tyrannical dynasty that killed trillions and was never fully recovered from for another thousand years afterwards.
This reality where two families that already didn't like each other still; don't like each other seems like the better one to be in.
@bobson3014 they're capable of full blown mind control. I'm not over estimating anything. The ONLY thing that made them fail was one of them being born from rebellion and a million coincidences aligning perfectly to defeat them.
@@liammaloney13 They couldn't use their mind control because the victim knows you did it once the affects pass and they needed to keep the program completely secret.
Also it wasn't a million coincidences, it was one woman deciding not to follow orders.
It's part of the point of the story that the Bene Gesseret were wrong.
They overestimated how smart they were and it led to the ignoble deaths of the women directly involved at the end and almost destroyed their entire Order.
@bobson3014 that's not true. Find me a quote from Frank's books that say otherwise. Jessica says in the first book that she could've made Leto marry her and even make him believe that he did it of his own free will. If what you're saying is true then what Jessica said isn't possible.
It was a million coincidences. Do you think it a trifle that Arrakis somehow had a secret religious society of Reverend Mothers that had developed enough training to basically be as good as the BG in many aspects? How about the BG idea planting of messiah being a son despite the fact that the BG only have daughters besides Paul and perhaps the Count (his birth and parentage aren't mentioned. He could've just been adopted into the BG school) Pieter mentions that Jessica is the only BG that he's ever heard of having a son to the Baron when discussing his accuracy as a Mentat.
@@liammaloney13 The Messiah was always supposed to be a son.
Paul was just meant to be his mother.
By coming a generation too soon he put their plans out of whack and they lost control of the situation.
As to the matter of the Voice, it's said multiple times in Frank's books that once the affects wear off the victim will know what you made them do.
If it didn't it would be over powered and the BG would rule in the open.
In the case of what Jessica said, she either wasn't talking about the Voice or Frank made a mistake.
He was a great writer but no one is perfect and he hadn't fully fleshed out the ideas in the first Novel.
People that are complaining about the graphics looking like it’s from 10 years ago, probably weren’t alive then.
@Aranenesto ouch..
Tf does that have to do with anything? It looks like garbage 😂
Ironic, because Crysis 3 was released in 2013 and still looks better than most games that come out today
@ It does not, i have lived through so many graphical improvements in the gaming industry, and for me it looks amazing- especially for an mmo
@@JABelms yea crysis was always one to push the graphical limitations :) Same goes for rdr2
I played the beta it’s pretty enjoyable
Give it a couple of years or so of updates, and I'll consider it
Funcom has lost the plot - it's honestly just a copy/paste reskin of Conan
Is this review Ai generated? "the little twink we know and love, Paul Atreides."
That's not an…inaccurate description.
It's a shame that Dune Awakening became a massively multiplayer online RPG instead of a story-driven game. The world-building, characters, and lore were so good, it would've been amazing to explore them in a more in-depth way. it feels like they were following a path that Warner Bros took for suicide squad smh
Even in their MMO, Funcom is always very story oriented. Lots of lore, lots of in-game cutscene, they love storytelling
Why gunplay and combat is so stiff and blant? where is fun?
Now we just need the final Final preview
Its Funcom 😂.What do you guys expect?
An new experience instead of generic copy paste game we usually get. All their games have inovative mechanics and storytelling is always a big focus...
@@nightgardhealhaha, nothing about this looks like original gameplay.
@nightgardheal an open world survival game based on the lore of dune. With souls like combat and maybe the ability to unlock different fighting styles for different enemys...is palworld could literally use and repackage old game machines but still add enough to make it fresh and intresting so can they.
Dune would be a great space survival game where the goal is to make allies and maybe enemies to fight the lord emperor.
They littraly had every opportunity to make this a boring game. Part of me wonders if the Devs are even survival gamers.
A video preview should have gameplay and impressions about the game. This feels more like a written interview narrated. Plus the text is very bland and doesn’t have character. Same goes with the narration. Feels like AI even if it isn’t.
yeah you can tell because the AI makes mistakes like "abilities you can unlock as you gain experienced"
This could have been a deep story rich single player experience exploring the expansive lore of the Dune universe but now instead we get this janky ass open world mmo with no style, no charm, no personality it just looks basic as fuck and like it should have released 10 years ago. It’s really sad to see bc this is gonna get monetized to shit, bleeding the very few players this game will have dry. It’s a complete waste of this amazing IP.
why the graphic so ugly ? the last year gameplay video was good , but I think they lied about it
I don't want to ever hear you complain about how expensive games are getting nowadays. Everyone complains about how new games are more focused on being pretty than substantial. But here we are.
@Schmeeda-wt9wm speaking of complain i am also software engineer i know how much hard to develop a game but it is true walking and jumping and fighting are so ugly , thank you
They took a more stable version for the media to be sure it's bug-free ? It's UE5 and they've been working with UE4 for 8 years now... Conan Exiles is a beautiful game, I'm not worried
Do you play a game to experience it or do you just sit still staring at "how pretty it looks"? Pathetic.
These games is what we get in 2025 !? Can you belive this s**t ?
My god if this gets more than a 3/10 it’s proof IGN gets paid off.
Yikes, already saw some visual bugs. Hope they fix it. And melee looks boring, it looks and feels stiff.
worst video presentation ive seen in a while
Definitely not a cash grab to capitalize off of the popularity of Dune. It’s really unfortunate because it could be great.
This game looks like it had potential, but if this is the f i n a l preview, the game is gonna suck. World looks empty, graphics look mid, combat seems dull and clunky. World and character building look dead too. Just seems like an empty desert, with small 'camps' of enemies, and some large worms that will make you phase through the floor.
Well apparently not everything the sandworm will eat, that’s your dirty underwear. 😂
This company has a history of releasing buggy games. This company's track record isn't good just try Conan Exiles you'll see.
So many screeching brainlets. Games like Ark and Valheim look like they were made 10 years ago but are wildly popular. It doesn't need to look like or play like Red Dead 2, it's a survival MMO lol. Stop overreacting to a tiny fraction of the early game in small clips.
yeah that combat looks like it really needs a galaxy brain, it definitely isn't just a shit cash grab with mid-2000s movie tie-in tier animations
@@sundowner5884 Wahhh wahhh wahhh that's all I hear from you losers. How can it be a shitty cash grab when they are working with the Herbert estate's blessing? Think before you speak
Please don't build square bases. The goddamned cube based need to stop.
Not launching with sandwurm riding is a catastrophic error. Why would I spend time and money on a Dune game if I am unable to do the iconic Dune thing? Whatever funcom rep is reading this: push the game back if you have to, it is not a complete game without sandwurm riding.
this looks like an early test build, a big NOOOO
@@killzonegaming8727 What are you trying to say? What part do you think doesn't look well put together so far?
@BrohammerInc combat and the graphics
7:55 This is a bit disconcerting. Constantly respawning enemies feels very immersion breaking. Hoping at least more variety in enemies is added before release.
It's an MMO.
@@NJglorifiedcrew I understand but I'm not a fan of enemies that have very short respawn timers that are identical. If they're going to rapidly respawn some variety at least would be welcome
@ Hopefully they find a happy medium. Even a 5 minute respawn would be nice
Just because Dune did great in theaters doesn't mean you make a game and think you get the same results, which is ehat this looks like the thought was lmao
The narration is mind-blowingly cringe, guys. Easily the most uncomfortable video I've seen on this channel.
The alternate timeline isn’t meant as a nipple twist to fans lol
I just had this on in the background, and I had a few "wtf did she just say?" Moments.
As a norwegian, I feel like I have many things to be proud of. Funcom is not among those things.
Sad because you should. In an industry full of copy paste and visual over content oriented industry, Funcom always comes with innovative (sometimes bad, but innovative) gameplay + they put a lot of focus on storytelling in their MMOs and in their Solo game.
Been a fan of their style for almost 20 years now.
@@nightgardheal Innovative dont make me laugh
@@nightgardheal I was a fan of Funcom when they launched Age of Conan, the MMO. And I was a fan when they launched Exiles. But from what I've seen of Dune, they're obviously taking the path of least resistance, making Conan Exiles, but in Dune. When CoD or Battlefield are copy-pasted like that every year, at least they manage to squash most of the bugs.
i wouldnt play this slop if they paid me
The game doesn't even have a release date, so everything is going to change.
Looks like a generic Unreal 5 game
Favorite IGN review in a while. Nicely done, Rachel.
Why are you RUNNING across arrakis?? Lol this proves yall dont know anything about the shit yall review..
Calm down? It's a video game lol
@@TheVentrexianthe ign lady doesn’t care about you
@anthonyd55 is the internet full of children now? Ya act like kids lmao
You attracted all the 3 players of this game
@@JABelms lol
Awesome. Edit: guys stop hating.. this game is awesome.. yes the combat needs work, jank and underwhelming but they said they was focusing on overhauling it. Hopefully they do. But excluding the combat gathering materials and loot to build weapons, transport and other things like dungeons and worms, base building, etc. Its a good game, fun, and yea its funcom game, Conan exiles but.. Its good. Give it a chance.
I enjoyed the reviewers' narrating.
Mum! Do you mind doing some narration for my friends game??
Yeah they need to work on the phasing through ground thing when the player gets eaten
Sandworms are the worst.
How long has ign been making these reviews so funny?
I don’t know why I felt they would have gone for Crimson Desert level of detail and design gameplay given the vastness of Dune lore world.
But oh well, still excited to see what this has to offer.
This looks generic. It’s nothing unique
If you're going to showcase BAD gameplay and clearly ignore basic game mechanics... of course people will think the game is not good. I mean, come on, content creators have put more effort into their presentations, it's your bloody job to do it right. But I guess when it becomes a job, getting paid no matter what, then I suppose you don't need to like the game or put any passion in what you're doing. And it shows.
It looks cool. The combat looks very unhinged, it's not focused and seems very nauseating. Animation and movements seem stiff, however visuals look amazing. Very nice. Thr story I'm not too keen on, i wish it could be seet sometime in the past, you know. You could be a young and up-and-coming fremen warrior fighting against the harks while learning stuff from a mentor/teacher. I'm skeptical at best so I'll just pass on buying this game and probably just watch someone do a walkthrough video.
Stiff capes
No sand Running Animation to avoid attracting the worm
Horrendous lighting
Overall outdated graphics
Yikes, looks super generic in a world which is the exact opposite
Oh no. They did not follow the story line perfectly. I can already see the negative reviews on steam.
idk what u guys are saying, i dotn even like dune so much, but a game like this , open world, good mechanincs, grind, and the faction and building thing, that will make it like a true civilization and not just anormal mmo makes be looking forward
Wow I'm impressed how crap this game looks like
Is it completely multiplayer or is there an optional single player?
I think this needs serious polishing
First flop of the year. They should really place a gamer in the board rooms.
So the original "gameplay" trailer was a complete and blatant lie? Yea not surprised... Seems to be the norm in the game industry these days
Never in my life would i think id hear the words broke ass hobo come from ign please do more
“JUNE awakening”
I'm tryna figure out who this is that's reviewing the game 😂😂😂 she's awesome! I love how smooth her insults are.
lol it feels like this voice actor did NOT write this review.
I think it would be a lot smarter for them to have water gathering come from different moisture traps scattered around the desert as in the books there are no plants that would capture water well enough to allow a person to survive, in this way it would make the nearness to water sources a part of survival and that creation of water sources an absolute necessity, every player should start the game with a stillsuit that allows them very basic survival but over time without replenishment of the body's water will lead to their death. Stillsuits should also be easily damaged so that it becomes imperative for survival that a person have the resources to craft and repair Stillsuits. I think the game should have more of a rogue like approach to these systems. Water is the most valuable resource on arrakis next to the spice. A good moisture collector should be a difficult thing to craft and perhaps a water source something to fight over.
What happened to the epic rtx 4k graphics we saw in the prev trailers??! This looks like ass, the animations are crap the shadows look like ps3 era quality. Huge downgrade. This looks so bad I could run it on my phone. Reminds me the kotor mmo quality looks.
The graphics look fine, people like you who want developers to prioritize graphics over anything else are the reason why UE5 games and most AAA games feel so bland. You people pressure a fine looking game into having complex graphics and needless effects just so it runs like ass and requires DLSS+Frame Generation and for what? Some pretty reflections and lighting? If the game runs like crap y'all are gonna be forced to use Dynamic Resolution and in turn it's just gonna look bad anyways.
Is this game coming to PlayStation?
Ah yes DUNE, known for being a shooter series
Projectile weapons were really common on dune because shields would attract worms. Every fremen had maula pistols.
Projectile weapons were really common on arrakis because shields would summon a worm. No fremen would wear a shield in the desert. But I agree the melee need to work
The Sand mechanics is beautiful
"little twink" ok ign wtf
I would appreciate it if those type of games would start to make a more realistic movement. It look very stiff.
How do I dislike this video twice?
Just animate the bloody worm eating the player,this gaminng era is really lacking
7:50 Best combat ever!
You had me at dong slider
It’s been a while since got a halfway decent MMO I’m hoping this will be entertaining
First time hearing: Twink, and Exsanguinate. Twink u can google but here's the Exsanguinate meaning: means to drain blood from a person or animal, and can also refer to the state of being drained of blood.
This looks NOTHING like what they showcased months back
Sandbox. The game.
Mass socialization of video games is the end of the industry
this looks like a cash grab to me. sorry but its a pass.
I love this previews because now I know I won’t be buying this game and it’s good to save to an actually good game. Like this game I’ve already saw a thousand
June Awakening?
Bri’ish
It looks more cartoonist now than what it was shown ...
this reminds me a bit like RUST except in Dune universe. sounds DOPE. i hope it has dope weapons
I already hate it, do these people not read the books there are so many story out of all the side story’s the son finished, why do these people feel the need to twist it up so much like that whatever, I’ll still try it when I get a chance but probably will never happen
hope this gets a ps3 release
This game looks like shit haha
I only really care about the Benijezeret. But im looking forward to learning more about this game.
It sucks that it has so much shooting, considering the whole lore and whatnot
Is there any particular reason why sand worms don't like my underwear :(
falling through the floor is crazy in a preview game is going to flop
A showcase using in-development footage for a game that's still in development is....BUGGY?!?!? NO WAY!!!
@@SevKast_7 Kinda crazy how a the game releases early 2025 with bugs and has mid graphics NO WAYYYY
I don’t think base building and resource grinding should be a prominent feature in this game, very unfriendly to the lore and pacing. Should be extremely minor
you dont like hitting rocks????
What if I like being a brokeass hobo?