Luzur
Good Sir
Has there ever been a start like that since Eye of the Beholder 2?
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KickStarter Mooncrest, an INCLUSIVE new action RPG from ex-Bioware devs - Cancelled
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Has there ever been a start like that since Eye of the Beholder 2?
msxyz
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Kickstarter is like betting. Same rules apply:
-invest your money knowing you may never get it back
-don't bet on the winning horse thinking it may be safer. In the lonr run, it pays more to pick riskier challenges
Dorateen
Arcane
Icewind Dale has the party starting gathered at the local inn.
Luzur
Good Sir
hmm, yeah you are right, now that i think back.
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Renevent
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Holy mother of god...
It's not exactly compelling. Still, 22 people, at current count, must be pining for a game like this. $10 less and even I might have pitched in, but whilst I like to help nerds achieve their goals I think I'll pass on this one.
Edit: Linux port a stretch goal?! I'm ashamed to besmirch the good name of nerds by using it to refer to this lot.
Renevent
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So, 400K for a AAA game with Souls inspired action combat, heavy emphasis on narrative, voice acting, cinematic cut-scenes, puzzles...basically the works...that's some pretty heavy ambition for not a lot of mula. In the KS they actually acknowledge this and say they are reducing costs and have already completed over a year of pre-production, yet they basically show nothing but some concept art and pictures of magazine articles?
Even if they manage to get funded, and whoever watched that ridiculous pitch video and thought pledging was a good idea can eat shit, but even if they do, there's a very strong chance this will absolutely be a fiasco. I actually hope it does get funded in a way just to watch what happens when it does go south lol.
Even if they manage to get funded, and whoever watched that ridiculous pitch video and thought pledging was a good idea can eat shit, but even if they do, there's a very strong chance this will absolutely be a fiasco. I actually hope it does get funded in a way just to watch what happens when it does go south lol.
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Immortal
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Ex-Bioware Developers
Pandering Kickstarter Video where two girls talk about being Old School Gamers and they want a game with a strong female character.. (While the manlings fervently take notes because women are where all the good ideas come from.. Men are just the weak willed labour force who do the grunt work)'
Yeaa I'll Fucking Pass. I don't wanna playBaldurs Anti-Gamer Gate
Pandering Kickstarter Video where two girls talk about being Old School Gamers and they want a game with a strong female character.. (While the manlings fervently take notes because women are where all the good ideas come from.. Men are just the weak willed labour force who do the grunt work)'
Yeaa I'll Fucking Pass. I don't wanna play
Quite likely the strangest, creepiest pitch vid I've ever seen on a KS project---borders on sinister somehow like a Fargo pitch gone wrong to a degree I'd have never imagined beforehand. Clearly a fair bit of work went into it at that, so at no stage did somebody stop and think that they were veering way on out there? I guess being unnerving will make it far more memorable going forward than just shooting for nostalgia. The written assortment is competently detailed even!
What a horrible, horrible pitch.
I'm even for fully inclusive stuff, fuck those anachronistic fools shouting betrayal whenever they see their oh-so-holy manhood threatened.
But that pitch... they do not even talk about the game in it!
WTF?!
What is on the page sounds like they wrote maybe 20 pages of game design and that's it. It's a nice idea, sure, but every fool and their mom have nice ideas, it's the implementation that matters.
A few concepta (nicely drawn, though) and some ideas are not even remotely enough to tell me if they are capable of anything. Having worked at BioWare means you had a job in the industry before. Well, congrats. They are not noobs. But that is not enough any more to get cash on KS.
Another big minus for slapping a big Unity logo on it. What do they want to prove with that, other than "we use what most people use, because Unity can do everything best, right?" ?
And if they use Unity, they could at least have had the decency to show some alpha footage of something. There is one thing Untiy excels at, and it is fast prototyping.
Nah, I'm not going to support any more Kickstarters where people are not capable of showing actual proof of the product. And yes, that means that they have to invest some of their own money into developing something to a state that is presentable on KS.
Oh.. and yes, the pitch is creepy as hell.
I'm even for fully inclusive stuff, fuck those anachronistic fools shouting betrayal whenever they see their oh-so-holy manhood threatened.
But that pitch... they do not even talk about the game in it!
WTF?!
What is on the page sounds like they wrote maybe 20 pages of game design and that's it. It's a nice idea, sure, but every fool and their mom have nice ideas, it's the implementation that matters.
A few concepta (nicely drawn, though) and some ideas are not even remotely enough to tell me if they are capable of anything. Having worked at BioWare means you had a job in the industry before. Well, congrats. They are not noobs. But that is not enough any more to get cash on KS.
Another big minus for slapping a big Unity logo on it. What do they want to prove with that, other than "we use what most people use, because Unity can do everything best, right?" ?
And if they use Unity, they could at least have had the decency to show some alpha footage of something. There is one thing Untiy excels at, and it is fast prototyping.
Nah, I'm not going to support any more Kickstarters where people are not capable of showing actual proof of the product. And yes, that means that they have to invest some of their own money into developing something to a state that is presentable on KS.
Oh.. and yes, the pitch is creepy as hell.
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Doktor Best
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Yeah, a shitty pitch. Wanna sport a female protagonist? Fine, then fucking do it and stop making a fuss about and try to sell it as the one selling point to the customer, because well thats just... sexist? Borderline retarded? I dont know.
I mean i can see their intention. They want to farm cheap PR done by feminist nuts who go preach the word about the pitch, because finally someon makes a game about a womanly woman, who is so womanly strong and independent, cause you know, shes a woman, and not a man at all.
I mean i can see their intention. They want to farm cheap PR done by feminist nuts who go preach the word about the pitch, because finally someon makes a game about a womanly woman, who is so womanly strong and independent, cause you know, shes a woman, and not a man at all.
Jack Dandy
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THat fucking pitch
Animal
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I don't give a fuck that it has 2 chicks as main characters (I'd prefer customizable, but if the story demands it, oh well...)
I do give a fuck about REAL TIME combat.
I mean, what the hell is up with that?
Blah, blah, blah oldschool NWN modules and then *WHAM* - Stamina bar?! It will play like what, Skyrim?!
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I do give a fuck about REAL TIME combat.
I mean, what the hell is up with that?
Blah, blah, blah oldschool NWN modules and then *WHAM* - Stamina bar?! It will play like what, Skyrim?!
....
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Perhaps you haven't heard, Dark Souls has made it okay for oldschool RPGers to admit they like action combat now
Ninjerk
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What a diverse team.
The Dev team involved in thispiece of shitfine game
I was going to write some play on words about inclusivity, but really, res ipsa loquitur
I spilled my drink!
Immortal
Arcane
Don't they know Feminists don't actually play games.. who the fuck is gonna fund this?
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