I'm calling it now that this will be the next instant classic released, unless Red Hand of Doom is released first. It is a shame people are too fucking stupid to fund this or the Guido Henkelgould game. People may talk about the rpg renaissance, but they fail to add an asterisk stating people are still fucking idiots with shitty taste and a penchant to let other's do their thinking for them on the hipster-wagon of monkeys retards.
How can you see your way clear to naming this an instant classic when the gold box games were very much in the vein of 'contentless dungeon crawls' that you think are shit?
I don't think they are shit. They have plenty of content and what is wrong with them is due mainly to AD&D and not the games themselves. The Gold Box AD&D games are shit in my opinion compared to the superior in every way besides UI Buck Rogers crpgs (which was also AD&D based but way more advanced and far better). Buck Rogers had mechanical meat along with content. I don't see how this can be disputed. Just download a Buck Rogers game from an abandonware site and compare chargen with the other goldbox games. Or itemization, skill check usage, space ship combat, boarding, etc.
Also, SSI made a lot, lot more than just the Goldbox games. SSI was a company you could trust to put out good rpgs. There was nothing better than getting an SSI game and looking through their little advertisement brochures to see what rpgs were coming up. Most of the other companies were hit or miss, and were not the rpg kings like SSI. Granted SSI put out war games and tried some things like the Genie action game, but more than anyone besides Troika they were trusted rpg developers. I think beating out even Sir-Tek by some since SSI was way, way more prolific and Sir-Tek has only 4 games I liked (granted I really, really liked them though).
