Game News Druidstone gets its first trailer, coming Spring 2019

[Life of the Party]

The monster (?) at 0:24/25 looks like a Tonberry.

 

[m_s0]

Looks like writing isn't their strong side (focus) with lines like: "yikes!" and "I'm sorry, they took your father" :D

Could still be fun I guess.

Not that you couldn't kill just about any crpg story with a synopsis, but I fell asleep halfway into the first sentence of the one written for this game.

So here's hoping Druidstone will shine in other areas.

 

[luj1]

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That's the whole point Sherlock. This is essentially a children's book in the form of an RPG.

They realized niche stuff such as Grimrock is not as profitable as they'd like, so they split the team and one branch focused on a simplistic, top-down, children's RPG reminiscent of Zelda and other cute rubbish that will likely yield higher sales. Can't say I blame them, they got to make a living somehow. Furthermore, bet the farm this will eventually hit some other platform, be it consoles or mobiles.

Basically, yeah, the meaningless dump above (Oiko) tells me everything I need to know about this product and whom it's geared to. Like that it isn't for me. But good luck, whatever. Ima wait for something with a more serious tone.

 

[m_s0]

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That's the whole point Sherlock. This is essentially a children's book in the form of an RPG.

I dunno. This could potentially be an interesting angle to take, but you can't just use that as an excuse to justify lack of writing talent on staff. It's like saying the game is inspired by JRPGs so it's OK if the writing is barely coherent Pidgin English.

Admittedly, I don't know much about Druidstone, and what I know is basically coming from this teaser, so if this is a conscious aesthetic choice they commited to... bring it on, I guess?

 

[frajaq]

Yeah the story doesn't look like anything to write home about it, mostly hoping even if the party slots are fixed there is a decent amount of character customization and good challenges to carry the game

 

[luj1]

The simplistic approach is intentional, be sure of that. As for their writing, I dunno cause Grimrock isn't a good showcase and nor is this game. It's probably average.

 

[MuscleSpark]

Looks like writing isn't their strong side (focus) with lines like: "yikes!" and "I'm sorry, they took your father" :D

Reading it in a JC Denton deadpan way makes it instantly hilarious. And I'm not just saying that because he posted above you.

 

[TheGameSquid]

They realized niche stuff such as Grimrock is not as profitable as they'd like

Didn't the first LoG sell extremely well? According to this Gamasutra press release, the game sold over 900,000 copies by 2014. That's more than anyone could have hoped for.

LoG2 indeed sold quite a bit less I believe. You have to pay/donate for Steam Spy these days, so I don't have any numbers. I think a lot people got a nostalgic kick out of Grimrock because it reminded them of Dungeon Master, which they may have played as kids. That nostalgia probably wasn't powerful enough to have those people invest in the sequel.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

one thing I like about boardgame mechanics is not everything has 6900 HP's or does 36,000 points of damage or whatever

 

[Curratum]

I wish I saw less Grimrock 2 asset reuse but that's not the main point I suppose.

 

[Bastardchops]

Me likee the turn Bossed.

 

[The Wall]

Promises to be better Bard's Tale then Bard's Tale IV, better RPG then Bard's Tale: Fourgo's Truth and more fun then Bard's Tale: Hearthstoned

In other words: promises fast paced yet turn based fun, to eye appealing aesthetics and cutooo story and characters that won't stand on fun's way

And they didn't even need a Kickstarter to make it happen. Don't know about rest of you Codex pals, but this smells like Incline's summoning ritual!

 

[frajaq]

Promises to be better Bard's Tale then Bard's Tale IV, better RPG then Bard's Tale: Fourgo's Truth and more fun then Bard's Tale: Hearthstoned

In other words: promises fast paced yet turn based fun, to eye appealing aesthetics and cutooo story and characters that won't stand on fun's way

And they didn't even need a Kickstarter to make it happen. Don't know about rest of you Codex pals, but this smells like Incline's summoning ritual!

Nooooooo don't jinx it idiot!!!

 

[Farewell into the night]

Hail Druidstone!

 

[Infinitron]

I'm glad that people are finally starting to notice this game. Maybe next year they can vote for it: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-list-of-incline-2018-edition.119850/