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Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms - ARPG with dynamic overworld - also MCA as a consultant

Discussion in 'General RPG Discussion' started by LESS T_T, Feb 24, 2017.

  1. fantadomat Dumbfuck! Dumbfuck Edgy

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    At least he will have an honourable job!
     
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  2. laclongquan Arcane

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    Video marketing failz~
    1. No female nekkid character avatar is a huge oversight~ Especially when you can not display what is unique and attention grabbing about your game.

    2. On video part, too many words. No one can read enough of them in the screen time they got. The video maker should just cut the words down to essential number. Like maybe 1/5 of them. Less words, more action/effect.

    3. Did i say no female nekkid before? The last hero versus big boss scene is illustrative of it. If there's a female with much bare flesh there I am sure the amount of critics would be reduced much.

    There's a reason "sex sells" technique still works and always works. The question is whether you have the marketing savvy to make use of it.
     
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  3. Merlkir Arcane Developer

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    This looks generic as fuck, but also the gameplay reminds me of Revenant a bit? The melee combat maybe?
     
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  4. LESS T_T Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    Codex 2014
     
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  5. Safav Hamon Self-Ejected Village Idiot The Real Fanboy

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    "We have a layer of randomly generated contents. We have a layer of handwritten contents. If you play straightforward it's at least an hour, two hours. If you play like an oldschool RPG it's at least, uh... a dozen"

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  6. OldNorseSaga Learned

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    Neverwinter nights meets Diablo! I like it.
     
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  7. OldNorseSaga Learned

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    Game might become another epic exclusive
    Acording to the devs.
     
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  8. Shadenuat Arcane

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    DD1/Sacred looks like.
     
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  9. Mazisky Erudite

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    Are you sure? Last time i've spoken with the dev (since he's from my city) he said that they'll probably take both Steam and Gog
     
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  10. Bester ⚰️☠️⚱️ Patron Vatnik

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    REEEEEEEEEEEE GAMERS RISE. EGS BAD, ORANGE MAN BAD. COMMUNIST CHINA IS TRYING TO STEAL MY INFORMATION THROUGH EPIC GAME STORE (=TENCENT!). NEVER EVER, CHINA!
     
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  11. OldNorseSaga Learned

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    "Game will be on GOG, unless somethign epic happens"

    when saying I won't buy it on epic, he said
    "let's see what happens"
     
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  12. Mazisky Erudite

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    Well, who cares anyway, i am not a sheep who need to follow hate trends, so it makes no difference for me whatever the store is.
     
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  13. Bester ⚰️☠️⚱️ Patron Vatnik

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    That's a polite way of saying "great, another one of those fucking retards".
     
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  14. OldNorseSaga Learned

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    Epic games strategy is money grabbing, anti-cosumer one. Hope they fail & after all these games are released on steam.
     
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  15. RatTower Arcane Developer

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    Reminds me of Nox for some reason. Can't put my finger on it though.
     
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  16. vortex Fabulous Optimist

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    Very much Nox-ish.
     
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  17. Tavernking Don't believe his lies Shitposter

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    The codex will praise this game

    EDIT: Just realized it's not turn-based......
     
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  18. Alberto Belli Gamera Interactive Developer

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    Hey mate, if you play the game straightforward it could be TEN hours, TWELVE hours. If you play like an oldschool DOZEN(S)

    It's really up to you (and it's up to us the way we are working on IA that could offer different challenges of course)

    It was interview number 23 of the day, my english was gone. Hope it could help!

    A.
     
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  19. Alberto Belli Gamera Interactive Developer

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    We prefer "high-fantasy" :D Anyway, we've just shown Edherest -> humans. Humans -> middle age-like stuff. Much more on the way
     
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  20. Safav Hamon Self-Ejected Village Idiot The Real Fanboy

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    I don't understand what you mean by straightforward and oldschool.

    How about if I only want to focus on the handwritten content and avoid all of the randomly generated stuff?
     
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  21. Alberto Belli Gamera Interactive Developer

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    You can do whatever you want :)
    The point is that you are on the hunt for 4 pieces of the artifact you need to enter The Fifth Kingdom and kill Alaloth. Each piece of this artifact spawns (randomically) in the four kingdoms (1 x kingdom). You have to look for these objects while the champions of the other races are doing the same. And you can theorically just "clean" all the fighting areas in the world without doing anything else. But if you want to take your time, explore, travel, do quests and so on, it's up to you. That's why we are saying in between old school & modern action :)
     
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  22. Alberto Belli Gamera Interactive Developer

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    Hello all!
    Alaloth just got a brand new 4 mins Story Trailer at E3, to know more about the back story behind the game world Chris has shaped :)

    Enjoy

     
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  23. Chaotic_Heretic Dumbfuck! Dumbfuck

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    Keywords are consultant and assist. That means he does not have the full creative power and freedom to dream do his PST thing.

    So he will just phone in a coupe of lines if he is ever sober.

    Which games where Chris consulted turned out great storyfag wise? WL2? PoE? :lol:

    So Chris is back to his kickstarter era job as a PR man.

    If namedropping CHris is the only thing getting you all interested in this title, well prepare for disappointment, cope and possible butthurt.
     
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  24. Alberto Belli Gamera Interactive Developer

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    Damn, previous answer has been wiped. Again. If you are worried about "the writing" i can assure you that it is what Chris does in his and what is doing with us too (actually, he wrote this trailer too). Don't know what's your problem with the keywords you mentioned but as i just said, both mean writing for us. With the freedom that we can give, following our vision of the game, our tech and our budgets. As said previously (lot of stuff online including the very first press release), he took care of the world lore basically. Which means places, characters, stories, pantheon and so on. And we are super happy, constantly learning new stuff from one of the best, even in terms of production. We are not a huge team so what we can do is just keep working with the hope to make everyone happy without disappointing anyone. If you want to chat, just join us on Discord (not everyone at E3 now!). Ciao!
     
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  25. Alberto Belli Gamera Interactive Developer

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    Let me add that we already have a good PR and there are no plans for Kickstarter (never been an option). Ciao!
     
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