Technomancer - action-RPG by Spiders (Mars War Logs, Bound by Flame)

[abnaxus]

Long but interesting article en français about Focus Home Interactive and how they managed to survive in the business.

They're even more succesful than I had imagined.

http://www.gamekult.com/actu/focus-la-fourmi-rouge-du-jeu-video-francais-A109031.html

 

[toro]

Long but interesting article en français about Focus Home Interactive and how they managed to survive in the business.

They're even more succesful than I had imagined.

http://www.gamekult.com/actu/focus-la-fourmi-rouge-du-jeu-video-francais-A109031.html

In how many croissants is success measured?

 

[LESS T_T]

http://www.incgamers.com/2015/04/spiders-games-announces-the-technomancer

Spiders Games has announced cyberpunk-y post-apocalyptic RPG The Technomancer, slated for a 2016 launch.

The Technomancer puts you on Mars during “the War for Water.” As an aspiring Technomancer you’ll be dealing with your past secrets in an attempt to secure your future as you explore tribal communities, lost cities buried in ice, and dystopian shantytowns spread across the red planet, all while fleeing from the secret police.

I don’t have much in the way of details but you can expect companion characters, a crafting system, four skill trees, three different fighting styles, quests with multiple possible endings, and “dynamic conversation dialogue” that’ll put as much emphasis on talking your way through situations as it will on forcing your way through them.

The Technomancer is due to hit PC in 2016, and will be published by Focus Home Interactive. You can see a gigantic piece of art and a couple of early screenshots below.

http://thetechnomancer-game.com/

 

[glass blackbird]

Game of Thrones, Styx etc are Cyanide games but Spiders collaborated on them too. Cyanide and Spiders work together a lot, which is good because the results are much better than their solo games (Bound by Flame, for example, or the Cyanide-only Confrontation)

 

[DeepOcean]

Their low production values aren't even their worst problem, imagine a bunch of those low production value games but with a gameplay like Thief, System Shock and other classics, it would be awesome. What makes those games shovelware for me isn't the graphics but the gameplay they are really derivative popamole action games of low quality. If their games look like shit, I wouldn't mind that if the gameplay tried something truly new and awesome but both Mars War Logs and Bound by Flame are really only action games of questionable quality. They are just low production values AAA popamole games that don't bring anything intereting.

 

[LESS T_T]

And it's pretty funny that "niche" titles like D:OS and WL2 has sold more than these wannabe popamole games (even with console sales). I hope that they learn something from this, but well. I don't know. Maybe is this their passion, where their hearts are at?

 

[glass blackbird]

It comes across that way in Spiders's case, like they really do like big 3d action rpgs and want to make their own but they just fucking can't.

 

[pakoito]

There's also Vampyr by DONTROD

 

[Abu Antar]

No amount of praying will help make this a good game. (I'll pick it up during a sale.)

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

No amount of praying will help make this a good game

r u shure

 

[Fitz]

More screens.

 

[abnaxus]

No waifus?

 

[Fitz]

No waifus?

Those come later, you don't start by showing off the best parts of your game, if you frontload your hype machine you run out of things to escalate the interest with later towards release.

 

[Siel]

 

[Alfons]

makers of Bound By Flame and Mars War Logs

 

[Viata]

What is sad in this is that the people trying to make different settings for rpg games are the ones that makes games I don't feel like playing it.

 

[Explorerbc]

Combat looks exactly the same as in War Logs and Bound by Flame.

At least let's hope the story is better.

 

[undecaf]

What is sad in this is that the people trying to make different settings for rpg games are the ones that makes games I don't feel like playing it.

What's even more sad is that while the aesthetics change, some more some less, all these games regardless of the developer look and play alike.

Mostly lke shit.

 

[thesheeep]

I seriously pity those who cannot enjoy these games.
Sure, they do not have Witcher 3 or Mass Effect levels of production quality, but IMO they are fine for medium budget games.

 

[Viata]

Sure, they do not have Witcher 3 or Mass Effect levels of production quality

This is not a problem for me. I don't like ME and though I have both Witcher 1 and 2, I have yet to play it(and may not even like it). It's the gameplay itself that kills these games for me.

 

[yes plz]

I couldn't really get into Bound by Flame but I liked Mars War Logs, if only for the setting, so I'll probably check this one out. The most damaging thing for both games was that it was very obvious they had a shoe-string budget yet tried to make a AAA style RPG, making both feel very truncated and ending right as they were getting interesting.

 

[Parsifarka]

Reading this thread remembered me I still have to finish The Cursed Crusade (it's the better looking but even more retarded brother of The First Templar, which is quite enjoyable). Say what you want, but someone must provide barely bearable quality shovelware to fill bundles and 90% discounts at digital stores, and our eurobros are up to the challenge

 

[toro]

Your link is broken.

Try this one:


Also:

 

[Azarkon]

When I was a kid, I had the great idea to combine techno- and -mancer to create the portmanteau technomancer, a class that, instead of using magic, uses technology to accomplish the same effects. I thought I was being very clever.

Later, I learned that Steve Martindale published the term in a short story, but by then, I had gotten over the novelty of the term, and thought it rather brought to mind a hipsterfag who danced to electronic music.

And now, I have come full circle in the endless cycle that is life. What was old and lame, is now new and lame again.

 

[Infinitron]