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Wouldn't a Conan RTS just be Bronze Age Total War or Age of Empires 1?
Yes, but Paradox purchased the rights to the Conan IP shortly before it expired and has since been acting as a copyright troll by threatening to sue anyone else using it.Isn't it in the public domain at this point?
Weird. Is it because the character rights passed to the people writing the fake Conan stories, like L. Sprague De Camp?It's weird. Conan the character is copyrighted, but the books are public domain.
i mean, funcom's Secret world had some really great quests. Although, i'm not sure they are capable to replicate this without Ragnar Tornquist.No developer can deliver on this though, because none of them can deliver on the open world aspect and write well thought out adventures and quests that will immerse players in the setting.
People want a game where they play as Conan exploring most of Hyboria getting into random adventures. Not a MMO, not a RTS, or any of this shit.
No developer can deliver on this though, because none of them can deliver on the open world aspect and write well thought out adventures and quests that will immerse players in the setting. Not to mention a satisfying combat system.
i mean, funcom's Secret world had some really great quests. Although, i'm not sure they are capable to replicate this without Ragnar Tornquist.
Ragnar wrote cutscenes in TSW - I did the quest design with the team. In fact 90% of the work on quest design was trying to find interesting ways to take the prewritten cutscenes (yes many of them were written before the actual quests) and turn them into good missions. That's not to take away from the great worldbuilding RT did, but he was hands off on the quests.i mean, funcom's Secret world had some really great quests. Although, i'm not sure they are capable to replicate this without Ragnar Tornquist.
On the side note it would be hilarious if someone make game or movie true to source material and all SJWs would loose their minds
Wouldn't a Conan RTS just be Bronze Age Total War or Age of Empires 1?
And ape men and winged things and a few marauding kozaki.Wouldn't a Conan RTS just be Bronze Age Total War or Age of Empires 1?
With the occasional elder god/unnameable thing from the murky depths of the abyss thrown in for shits and giggles.
Isn't it in the public domain at this point?
What I remember last time I checked is that the stories are public domain, but the license for producing video games is in the hands of Paradox.
Man, I always wonder if it's just me being an illiterate retard, which I am anyway, or if anybody else understands this kind of stuff. How the fuck can anything ever enter the public domain at any moment if a character created by someone who's dead 100 years ago is copyrighted today?It's weird. Conan the character is copyrighted, but the books are public domain.
A Conan RTS is, in fact, a fresh and an intriguing thing. It has a higher chance of being true to the source material than a shitty action game.
It's not exactly what I want to play though', what I really want to play is an RPG where I create my own party in Conan's world since playing as pregens is boring (in RPGs).People want a game where they play as Conan exploring most of Hyboria getting into random adventures.
Basically you can write stories about the Hyborian Age if you like, but woe betide you if you use Conan in it.How the fuck can anything ever enter the public domain at any moment if a character created by someone who's dead 100 years ago is copyrighted today?
Exactly they also want well I want anyway attractive ladies to plough while on said exploration :D (I literally have no life outside gaming).People want a game where they play as Conan exploring most of Hyboria getting into random adventures. Not a MMO, not a RTS, or any of this shit.
No developer can deliver on this though, because none of them can deliver on the open world aspect and write well thought out adventures and quests that will immerse players in the setting. Not to mention a satisfying combat system.
Like forever? Don't copyrights expirate at one point, and in that case why is it different from the books?Basically you can write stories about the Hyborian Age if you like, but woe betide you if you use Conan in it.
It's Evil's doom.mastroego said:[citation needed]
CONAN UNCONQUERED
AVAILABLE ON
PC
PUBLISHER & DEVELOPER
Funcom / Petroglyph
GAME RELEASE DATES
PC: Q2 2019
Conan Unconquered, by C&C’s remaster studio, coming in 2019
Petroglyph, makers of Star Wars: Galaxies at War, is developing the RTS for Funcom
Funcom’s next Conan game is Conan Unconquered, a strategy game being developed Petroglyph Games — which was recently tabbed for the remaster of the RTS classic Command & Conquer series.
A news release from Funcom touted Conan Unconquered as a fast-paced strategy game “where players face wave after wave of enemies in ever-increasing numbers and difficulty.” Players will have to build and fortify their strongholds to withstand “savage hordes,” and they’ll be able to summon gigantic units (see above) to crush their enemies, see them driven before them, and hear the lamentations of their women.
Conan Unconquered will be inspired by Black Colossus, one of the original short stories by Conan’s creator, Robert E. Howard. That was published in 1933 and later adapted in MarvelComics’ classic Savage Sword of Conan magazine and Conan the Barbarian book in the 1970s.
Conan Unconqured will launch on Windows PC sometime between April and June of 2019, Funcom said. The company also developed the MMO Age of Conan, which launched in 2008, and the survival adventure Conan Exiles, which launched in May. Another single-player Conan game is expected to be announced later.
“where players face wave after wave of enemies in ever-increasing numbers and difficulty.” Players will have to build and fortify their strongholds to withstand “savage hordes,”