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KickStarter Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness - Tales of the Moon Cult expansion on the way
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fantadomat
Arcane
I am honestly surprised,this was a meme game a few years ago,now it looks like it will come out.
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OldNorseSaga
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grapics looks better the more you play it, but it's still shit level of visuals.
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Black geyser erupting is never in doubt.
fantadomat
Arcane
Yeah BlackGayXer is going to rock our world!Black geyser erupting is never in doubt.
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Looks like they predicted the BLC BLM movement and want to cash in on it just in time.
I had some time to look through the two-hour stream, and I can definetly say I like some things I saw.
Combat is more reminiscent of BG1 low-level combat - most enemies die within 2-3 hits but there are much fewer missed hits than in low-level AD&D. A normal Ghoul seems to have 10 hp and dies within two hits.
Kiting enemies one by one seems possible.
The above makes bows pretty strong weapons in the low levels, just as in BG1, simply because you can get in one-two hits before the enemy closes in, and either leave him almost dead or kill him.
No "Engagement" or AoO if you pull off from an enemy.
Tank & Spank is still your go-to strategy.
Unlike the IE games, and like PoE/Deadfire, you usually have the enemy within your vision before they have you in theirs. This opens up chances for strong opening attacks.
I couldn't quite catch how things stand with replenishment of spells, which connects to rest-spamming. Either way, by now I consider rest-spamming a matter of house rules set or not set by the player on himself.
Minor stuff:
the maps look noticeably worse than those of PoE/Deadfire. Meh, big deal, I say.
The items' icons are much more similar to the IE games' style, which is a big plus in my book.
The UI icons are kind of too basic compared to the items icons. Meanwhile the spells icons look like they were used straight out of some Unity asset pack, and it seems like PoE's icons came from the same, lol. So you have three different styles there, for those who care.
BG-style drawings in the descriptions of items - yeeey!
I liked the portraits and the VO.
The writing seems to be balanced in its tone, doesn't sound out of place modern, but it doesn't try to shoot for a Tolkien award either. No sign of PoE's clumsy style either. Apparently in present day RPGs non-native speakers can show better results as writers than native speaker English Majors - make your own conclusions from this.
Combat is more reminiscent of BG1 low-level combat - most enemies die within 2-3 hits but there are much fewer missed hits than in low-level AD&D. A normal Ghoul seems to have 10 hp and dies within two hits.
Kiting enemies one by one seems possible.
The above makes bows pretty strong weapons in the low levels, just as in BG1, simply because you can get in one-two hits before the enemy closes in, and either leave him almost dead or kill him.
No "Engagement" or AoO if you pull off from an enemy.
Tank & Spank is still your go-to strategy.
Unlike the IE games, and like PoE/Deadfire, you usually have the enemy within your vision before they have you in theirs. This opens up chances for strong opening attacks.
I couldn't quite catch how things stand with replenishment of spells, which connects to rest-spamming. Either way, by now I consider rest-spamming a matter of house rules set or not set by the player on himself.
Minor stuff:
the maps look noticeably worse than those of PoE/Deadfire. Meh, big deal, I say.
The items' icons are much more similar to the IE games' style, which is a big plus in my book.
The UI icons are kind of too basic compared to the items icons. Meanwhile the spells icons look like they were used straight out of some Unity asset pack, and it seems like PoE's icons came from the same, lol. So you have three different styles there, for those who care.
BG-style drawings in the descriptions of items - yeeey!
I liked the portraits and the VO.
The writing seems to be balanced in its tone, doesn't sound out of place modern, but it doesn't try to shoot for a Tolkien award either. No sign of PoE's clumsy style either. Apparently in present day RPGs non-native speakers can show better results as writers than native speaker English Majors - make your own conclusions from this.
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Ulysa
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I was wondering how Larian/Owlcat/etc usually do this? Do the writers fully write in english or maybe they hire a translator?
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As you can see on this forum, there are people in foreign countries who are fully capable of writing in English.
AdolfSatan
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Fuck yeah amigo, c'est stimmt!
vergogna a tua famiglia, filho da puta
They hire Chris Avellone and instead of having him write they ask him to wipe hipster asses.
rusty_shackleford
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This is what we'd call an improvement
One of Owlcat's streams was ran by their translator, so they probably write in Russian and have in-house translator(s) doing the English version.
fantadomat
Arcane
The only thing that is missing from BlackGayXer is MCA god level writing.
guestposting
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The only thing that is missing from BlackGayXer is MCA god level writing.
Hey, they can probably afford him at this point.
It felt like a pretty faithful BG derivate at least without having played it. I mean by faithful, made by people who like BG, not people who "will fix everything you didn't know and didn't dream was wrong" with BG.The only thing that is missing from BlackGayXer is MCA god level writing.
It will be a game for mates, mate.
fantadomat
Arcane
I do agree with this statement mate,even at very worst it won't be as bad as BG3. I am looking forward to it. The graphics look muh,thus the game will be pretty good.It felt like a pretty faithful BG derivate at least without having played it. I mean by faithful, made by people who like BG, not people who "will fix everything you didn't know and didn't dream was wrong" with BG.The only thing that is missing from BlackGayXer is MCA god level writing.
It will be a game for mates, mate.
Lord_Potato
Arcane
BG will be the sequel of Baldur's Gate we need, but don't deserve.
At this point, the only thing we do deserve is Larian's Baldur's Gate 3...
At this point, the only thing we do deserve is Larian's Baldur's Gate 3...
fantadomat
Arcane
Muh my first character will be proud blue eyed ebony film actor!
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