KickStarter Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

The task can only be assigned to the most prestigious rpgcodex users with the most ancient rpgcodex accounts.

 

Well, this thread is probably not the right place for this.

In short, I am a guy who works on AI, the real stuff, not neuronal network experimentation, and verge on the brink of madness as MRY can attest. And I love Tides of Numenera, which probably makes me a minority on the Codex (my long review is here).

I just love the prospect of a proper Pathfinder: Kingmaker CRPG as a child of Baldur's Gate and a game that empowers you with a proper stronghold too much not to support this endeavor. Of course it can fail, but you have to try!

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In general I am very much for vision, progress and innovation, but western societies have become stagnant. There is the vestige of progress held up by Hollywood but not much more. True innovators have a tough time in this age of corporations trying to rule all.

 

you need a *tool* rating if you think there are no sub-par (a)RPGs using this color palette. It reeks of cargo cult, and has been a predictor of shitty games in the past.

 

Torchlight 1 and Torchlight 2 are both solid Arpgs with this type of WoW color pallete. There's also a turn based tactical game with similar aesthetics, but the gameplay is very good (I forget the name, but there's a thread on the codex somewhere).

I think art and a UI that reeks of mobile is more of an issue to me than the WoW color palette.

 

There is also a risk with the system itself. It is pretty hard to make the adventuring part and the strongholding part support each other. After they start carving their small kingdom, the players might rightfully wonder why they need to tackle every problems themselves when they command tons of henchmen, or how is the kingdom helping if most of their gains comes from adventuring, unless the systems are very well integrated.

 

I'm giving you one chance and only one chance to not be shit P:KM

pls

 

People on Reddit almost completely ignore Pathfinder: Kingmaker.
There is almost zero threads about this game on Reddit (only talking about it since its the biggest forum) other than ones created then kickstarter campaign started several weeks ago. The biggest thread since then is the one on GirlGamers subreddit which has like 15 replies from a week ago.
why are people ignoring this game?
Is there something wrong with or does it legit seems like most ambitious (yet the one that ispires the most confidence in its quality) rpg currently in development.

 

These last couple of days, the funding is going quicker. Since yesterday, I think the funding increased by $13k. There were a week or so where the funding slowed down to a crawl. I'm fairly certain that this will reach at least $700k with a boost at the end. Not bad for a studio that a lot of people don.t know about (experienced or not).

 

Unknown Russian developer seems like a good bet.

 

I think what the jew want to ask is that whether you're an Owlcat ad plant? Well, are you, punk?

Anyway, joking aside, dont be afraid to be an ad plant. Aside from an identifying badge, we dont treat you any worse. Plenty of ad plants around here and they can be proud of it.

 

There was a Kotaku article about it yesterday. Expect it to go down in funding again unless they can get more news outlets to promote it daily.

 

Because all the threads were made by the devs on the pathfinder subreddit, and those guys want a turn based 1 for 1 adaptation of pathfinder rules. They have zero enthusiasm for a baldur's gate clone.

 

Do you think girls will like me if I play this game

 

Nah, I don't think Owlcat is that sophisticated in that department and besides Russians care for ethics. They just learned this week that they have to contact the press to get their Kickstarter going, and only because KS commenters pointed this out again and again. Look at that barmy crawl of backers in the week before. I doubt they are aware of the Codex unless MCA mentioned it to them.

I am just a fan of the things I truly like. Who else would spend 140 hours on playing Tides of Numenera?

I don't think they will go the way of animating the kingdom mechanically on a large scale, e.g. big armies, guard detachments and the like. My guess is they will use the NPC roles in the kingdom for roleplaying and story, and additionally use the buildings you construct to provide you with feats and perks. Of course all of this is interlinked, for example if you aligned with the Witches of Irrisen and construct a building to support them, then you might encounter them on the streets of your capital and they might impart lore to you or give you a quest to find a secret location. But mind you, this is all conjecture on my part (except of the Witches of Irrisen alliance). We have to wait until they reveal more of their plans for the Kingdom gameplay.

 

As has been mentioned before, there's no media coverage.

Quality cannot be seen by somebody who only reads a news article or two, and people don't care about it anyway.

 

Haha, jeez this picture reminded me about the parts of Kingmaker I didn't like. It's ridicoulous



"oh noooes, the terrible faeries"

 

Hey, some of those are dual-wielding faeries!

 

Uff, good luck reaching 700k.

 

These also exists in DnD.

 

Kind of a weird stretch goal too. Not nearly enough P&P fans to justify making the reveal of something from the adventure path a stretch goal. Even most Kingmaker-players I suspect won't care that much.

 

Eh, yes? What does that have to do with

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them being the central plot of Kingmaker?

 

Hopefully the last-minute rush will push them over the edge.

 

Excidium II if your "citation needed" is serious then

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Read the Adventure Path. I GMed it as well as played it, and the central plot is that while you build your kingdom you're expanding on lands with significance to a faerie queen who is essentially the main villain.

 

So, instaead of killing ancient dragons we will be killing flies? Epic...