Decline Sword Coast Legends Pre-Release Thread

Same.

Thought people who spoke up about that were being eliminated for the good of humanity. Program must have died off. Shame.

 

They said that their E3 presentation will most revolve around DM mode. I guess they hope to be next D:OS or something.

 

You mean Neverwinter Nights don't you?

 

Nope. They want to offer a D&D Co-OP experience that is easy to start playing and fast and fluid. D:OS was closest isometric game to that so far.
For SCL they also added DMs.

 

It's a hack n slash with no mod support and DM tools behind a heinous paywall. I like hack n slash games, but this seems like a disingenuous hybrid that's masquerading as something it's not.

 

Because hope has 100k HP and huge innate regeneration.

SCL's prospects look pretty illusive though. I'm not sure how they're going to appeal to the AAA-spoiled mainststream crowd with a Unity-based game. And without a convenient and feature-rich toolset they can't hope attract modders (especially with SR:HK and FO4 on the horizon). So who is their TA?

There are die hard DnD fans, of course, who will buy anything as long as the box has a WotC logo on it...

 

I am a die hard DnD fan but I still don't buy shit games. Actually hard core DnD fans are going to care more if the game is really D&D or just claims so.
I think this game is more for DnD casual fans = people that only played computer DnD games or that played only a few sessions of table top DND.

 

I remember that guy from HoW, had never read that, cheers.

Had so much trouble with just one remorhaz that I was smoking by the dozen, what a baddie.

 

I will admit I'm interested for the co-op part of the game.
It seems really probable that it will suck as an RPG but it might be fun to play with others as a game in general

 

This game still doesn't look good, but I gotta say, when I saw the character sheets, it called to something wonderful from my childhood. For a split second I started wondering what the sticker price will be. Then I stopped.

 

@18:35 - "I used pause and play constantly"

Yeah, that was my concern, thanks for affirming.

 

I'm still annoyed how uninspiring art SCL has. It's like that new HoMM 7. When I look at the companions there's nothing to distinguish them from a generic russian shovelware f2p mmo. Like they talk big about feelz and epicness and bringing back iconic forgotten realms characters - well I'm sorry but your art alone disconnects anything you are trying to convey.

 

frequent DLC is best DLC

 

These guys have really found their milk cow. I hope their cow dies..

 

Ah yes, the ancient tradition of paying more money for minor adjustments that could as easily be covered by house rules.

 

This is probably going to fail hard. Initial sales will probably be decent due to hype, but DLC sales are probably going to be in the bucket once people realize the game is shallow shit. I hope Hasbro doesn't conclude there's no market for D&D computer games.

 

Personally I find it insulting if they are going to try charging for basic races and classes from PHB. They talk in their interview how D&D is about buying additional material. Yes, but it has some basic things that are bought in Core books. If their game does not implement a similar amount of content (classes, races, monsters, items) don't call upon DnD book as a cover for your greed/incompetence.

 

Personally i find it hilarious that people are going to pay for this piece of shit.

 

For those glamouring about the DM mode, here's something you ought to know: There will never ever will be anything like DMing stuff like in NWN1&2, nor servers handled by the players because devs and publishers will not give away their "power" to the players.

 

This is how you can fuck up everything. Resting system didn't worked in video games. It's purpose isn't fulfilled in video games, it only causes retarded things like going to save somebody from immediate threat inside of some dungeon, and spend 1 month on it because you want your cooldowns to go off. It still doesn't really works, the game that is closest to "working" is Pillars of Eternity and we all know that it "werks" more than it "works". Instead of saying this, they went for crying about borader audience

I wouldn't say it's 500k. I'd say it's something like 2-4 millions, the popamole-RPG crowd is 10-20M big. Remember that
1) not everybody bought those games(some pirated, some still wait for good sale)
2) not everybody was/is interested in all those games(including the best-selling ones)

 

Yeah Derp Age ,Twitcher and such selling 10 to 20 million are you drunk.Only two "RPG" are close to that Diablo 3 and TES:5 and only because people that don't play RPGs buy them.

 

After giving up on this game months ago, I have to admit I've had a few laughs checking out their forums again over the last couple of days. Wanted to see how the console reveal went down and there were a bunch of people talking about refunds, so the CEO suddenly started posting and talking about how this game was always aimed at PCs and they only had a couple of consoles in their office.

But it really is strange seeing what sort of requests devs have to deal with, imagine making a D&D game and getting stuff like this:
https://forums.swordcoast.com/index.php?/topic/1775-ash-and-dan-oleary-request/

But finally, in another thread the CEO cleared up all concerns by stating that everyone should have known all along that this game is continuing the evolution of D&D classics like DAO:

 

Character customization, housing, pets and skins - "what is an RPG?"