Technomancer - action-RPG by Spiders (Mars War Logs, Bound by Flame)

I would say Spiders's CEO is tormented. Problem?

 

Long but interesting article en français about Focus Home Interactive and how they managed to survive in the business.

They're even more succesful than I had imagined.

http://www.gamekult.com/actu/focus-la-fourmi-rouge-du-jeu-video-francais-A109031.html

 

In how many croissants is success measured?

 

http://www.incgamers.com/2015/04/spiders-games-announces-the-technomancer

http://thetechnomancer-game.com/

 

Game of Thrones, Styx etc are Cyanide games but Spiders collaborated on them too. Cyanide and Spiders work together a lot, which is good because the results are much better than their solo games (Bound by Flame, for example, or the Cyanide-only Confrontation)

 

Their low production values aren't even their worst problem, imagine a bunch of those low production value games but with a gameplay like Thief, System Shock and other classics, it would be awesome. What makes those games shovelware for me isn't the graphics but the gameplay they are really derivative popamole action games of low quality. If their games look like shit, I wouldn't mind that if the gameplay tried something truly new and awesome but both Mars War Logs and Bound by Flame are really only action games of questionable quality. They are just low production values AAA popamole games that don't bring anything intereting.

 

And it's pretty funny that "niche" titles like D:OS and WL2 has sold more than these wannabe popamole games (even with console sales). I hope that they learn something from this, but well. I don't know. Maybe is this their passion, where their hearts are at?

 

It comes across that way in Spiders's case, like they really do like big 3d action rpgs and want to make their own but they just fucking can't.

 

Bound by Flame gameplay wasn't popamole, majority of players couldn't even beat end game boss on lowest difficulty.

IIRC TotalFaggot panned the game in one of his videos because he kept getting his ass handed to him.

 

No amount of praying will help make this a good game. (I'll pick it up during a sale.)

 

r u shure

 

More screens.

 

No waifus?

 

Those come later, you don't start by showing off the best parts of your game, if you frontload your hype machine you run out of things to escalate the interest with later towards release.

 

What is sad in this is that the people trying to make different settings for rpg games are the ones that makes games I don't feel like playing it.

 

Combat looks exactly the same as in War Logs and Bound by Flame.

At least let's hope the story is better.

 

Glorious Euro shovelware.

 

What's even more sad is that while the aesthetics change, some more some less, all these games regardless of the developer look and play alike.

Mostly lke shit.

 

I seriously pity those who cannot enjoy these games.
Sure, they do not have Witcher 3 or Mass Effect levels of production quality, but IMO they are fine for medium budget games.

 

This is not a problem for me. I don't like ME and though I have both Witcher 1 and 2, I have yet to play it(and may not even like it). It's the gameplay itself that kills these games for me.

 

I couldn't really get into Bound by Flame but I liked Mars War Logs, if only for the setting, so I'll probably check this one out. The most damaging thing for both games was that it was very obvious they had a shoe-string budget yet tried to make a AAA style RPG, making both feel very truncated and ending right as they were getting interesting.

 

Reading this thread remembered me I still have to finish The Cursed Crusade (it's the better looking but even more retarded brother of The First Templar, which is quite enjoyable). Say what you want, but someone must provide barely bearable quality shovelware to fill bundles and 90% discounts at digital stores, and our eurobros are up to the challenge