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George Ziets opening a new RPG studio - Digimancy Entertainment

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I think people are just trolling. At one point George indicated there's a strategic layer, and at one point it was mentioned that combat is real-time, but I don't think it's actually an RTS.
 
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I haven’t seen any indication that the strategy layer takes inspiration from RTSes, and given that the only time I’m aware of George publicly talking about strategy games prior to this was discussing his admiration for King of Dragon Pass, I’m skeptical that it will be trad RTS or TBS in any capacity.
 
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Who in here wants to bet money the game will take place in the Tyranny setting?

He’s already said it’s an original IP, but if they had to pick a licensed setting they could do much, much worse than Tyranny’s.

Don't get me wrong, I'd be very happy if it did turn out to be connected to Tyranny. I wouldn't want Bronze Age/Iron Age RPGs to share the fate of Arcanum, and have a single RPG representing their genre.
 

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If (big if of course) it were Paradox who's picked up Digimancy's pitch, it's all the fucking funnier (and more well deserved on the former's part) that it was theirs that got picked up and not Wayward Realms. Then again, it's probably fair to say whatever amount of staffing Digimancy had on July 20th, none of them were stupid enough to privately e-mail their publisher and ask for more money for a pitch.
 

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As much as I would like an RPG to take more of an RTS style focus to combat, RTS and strategy aren't necessarily the same thing.
It's a "RPG-strategy" hybrid with "real-time combat gameplay," sounds like an RTS to me. I doubt it's going to be a real time action game with a strategic layer, that would be odd.
 

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It's obviously not an RTS by anyone's normal definition of the term; Roguey is just being waggish. Kingmaker is an RPG-strategy hybrid with real-time combat, and no sane person would call it an RTS. Mount and Blade is an RPG-strategy hybrid with real-time combat, and no sane person would call it an RTS. My assumption is that this is something like KODP with a more interactive real-time combat layer, but who know? I'm very confident it's not Warcraft 3.
 

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It'd actually be interesting to see someone attempt a RPG/RTS hybrid game like the original concept for Warcraft 3:

Warcraft III will not be yet another build-buildings-and-amass-forces click-fest, but rather what Blizzard calls an RPS, or "role-playing strategy" game.

Rather than building hordes of units, you'll instead work to recruit and build-up smaller, more powerful groups of heroes and troops. As in an RPG, you'll interact with non-player characters, battle wandering monsters, and journey to new towns. However, there will still be the overarching strategic goal of battling and defeating enemy races. The game won't play like Baldur's Gate, but battles will be on a smaller scale than in traditional strategy games. Six different races will be featured, including Orcs, humans, and demons.

And:

[War3DevTeam] The Warcraft III campaign is actually not mission based as it was in Starcraft. Instead, it is a large, continuous world that players will adventure through much like in a role playing game.
 

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Fingers crossed that the publisher forces them to change it to an action RPG.
I am more interested to see what they can make with RPG-strategy hybrid, rather than them churning out yet another action RPG.
 

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What I find sad about this company is that they got free from the shackles of their old industry, where they haven't produced anything of value in the last 15 years.

And the first thing they do is hire "the veterans of the industry", the same people they worked with in the last 15 years. They could've hired new blood, gone outside the cucklifornian pool of tired and out-of-ideas developers. They work remotely, they could've hired European talent that hasn't yet burned itself out. What they're doing is tragic, I'm not even mad.
 

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As much as I would like an RPG to take more of an RTS style focus to combat, RTS and strategy aren't necessarily the same thing.
It's a "RPG-strategy" hybrid with "real-time combat gameplay," sounds like an RTS to me. I doubt it's going to be a real time action game with a strategic layer, that would be odd.
Though if they're making a Mount and Blade type game, I'm all for it.
 

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So let's have the guy who wrote Mask of the Betrayer but let's not make anything writing related lel.

Is this what i'm seeing here?
 

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What I find sad about this company is that they got free from the shackles of their old industry, where they haven't produced anything of value in the last 15 years.

And the first thing they do is hire "the veterans of the industry", the same people they worked with in the last 15 years. They could've hired new blood, gone outside the cucklifornian pool of tired and out-of-ideas developers. They work remotely, they could've hired European talent that hasn't yet burned itself out. What they're doing is tragic, I'm not even mad.

they hired Disco Olga
 

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So let's have the guy who wrote Mask of the Betrayer but let's not make anything writing related lel.

Is this what i'm seeing here?

Ziets hates writing dialogue; I'm sure whatever he makes will have a plot and setting that suits his tastes though. :M
 

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What I find sad about this company is that they got free from the shackles of their old industry, where they haven't produced anything of value in the last 15 years.

And the first thing they do is hire "the veterans of the industry", the same people they worked with in the last 15 years. They could've hired new blood, gone outside the cucklifornian pool of tired and out-of-ideas developers. They work remotely, they could've hired European talent that hasn't yet burned itself out. What they're doing is tragic, I'm not even mad.

they hired Disco Olga
Hiring women for anything but drawing is a mistake. Olga wrote the weakest, cringiest parts of Disco that had no place in the game.
 

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