1. Video art made using well-composed in-game footage that may not be entirely representative of the general experience. Most of the official promotional videos fall into this category. Since Eve is a visually sumptuous game, it lends itself well to this form. It is practically machinima, although I'd be surprised if anyone has modded the engine as many machinima artists do.
great examples include:
"Dreams of Yasur" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ_UiIYarhg
"Lacrimosa, Tortuga" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYEaPLCCIrY
"Empyrean Age Trailer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKdTJjDnYzE (official promo)
2. Capture of a real battle. Here lies the real nostalgia. Unfortunately they tend to be less visually sumptuous and more hundreds of variously coloured & labelled objects in a highly technical 3D HUD that is almost incomprehensible without some Eve experience. They also tend to be long. Ideally accompanied by fleet voice battle chatter because otherwise they are not only dull to watch, you'll have no idea WTF is going on.
recent good samples include:
"the Battle of Asakai" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLqb-m1ZZUA
"Anatomy of a fight" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMFahR4wXTg
"Everlasting II" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMU2SsF0IZk
and just to compare and contrast the fleet battle experience, here's an early Titan-class ship kill, from two opposing perspectives:
"Bhaalgorn vs Nightmare". Must be from around 2004. Two vicious-looking and rare ships duke it out for a few minutes in what looks like a high-stakes stand-up fight. At the end it becomes apparent that this is, in fact, a promotional sales brochure and both ships are on the market. The realization of what that meant for the whole structure of the game is what attracted me to Eve in the first place. http://dl.eve-files.com/media/09/Bhaalgorn%20vs%20Nightmare....
1. Video art made using well-composed in-game footage that may not be entirely representative of the general experience. Most of the official promotional videos fall into this category. Since Eve is a visually sumptuous game, it lends itself well to this form. It is practically machinima, although I'd be surprised if anyone has modded the engine as many machinima artists do.
great examples include:
2. Capture of a real battle. Here lies the real nostalgia. Unfortunately they tend to be less visually sumptuous and more hundreds of variously coloured & labelled objects in a highly technical 3D HUD that is almost incomprehensible without some Eve experience. They also tend to be long. Ideally accompanied by fleet voice battle chatter because otherwise they are not only dull to watch, you'll have no idea WTF is going on.recent good samples include:
and just to compare and contrast the fleet battle experience, here's an early Titan-class ship kill, from two opposing perspectives: But in truth the two I was looking at were much older. They were the two movies that persuaded me to try Eve in the first place:"The Fallen". Apparently from 2005. You will have to forgive the typos and grammatical blunders to get to the somewhat emotional core, because the whole thing is touching "I miss you" letter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmKB-LlIdMI and read http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=485027 afterwards.
"Bhaalgorn vs Nightmare". Must be from around 2004. Two vicious-looking and rare ships duke it out for a few minutes in what looks like a high-stakes stand-up fight. At the end it becomes apparent that this is, in fact, a promotional sales brochure and both ships are on the market. The realization of what that meant for the whole structure of the game is what attracted me to Eve in the first place. http://dl.eve-files.com/media/09/Bhaalgorn%20vs%20Nightmare....