King's Bounty II

[Maxie]

provided we see any combat video this year

 

[Reader]

it was so cringy to listen to this trailer, because it seems they take the story aspect way too seriusly

Maybe they took it too seriously because it was so cringy to read jokes in previous games.
I don't know about the localization but in russian stupid jokes and debilistic wordplay intensify in Armored Princess beyond any limits.
Also i believe there will be tongue-in-cheek moments in this new game.
But whatever
We don't have any HoMM on the horizon anyway.

 

[Iskramor]

This doesn't look good, honestly. It reminds me of those AA 3D action games with middling budget that are quite mediocre .

Daniel varva pulled it off flawlessly

 

[Iskramor]

My most anticipated game in 2021

 

[fantadomat]

My most anticipated game in 2021

My second most anticipated game after Vagrus - The Riven Realms. Not many games let you run a slavery economical empire .

 

[InspectorRumpole]

I doubt the RPG elements will be interesting.

Should have just kept the charming style instead of trying to make it serious business and epic.

 

[fantadomat]

I doubt the RPG elements will be interesting.

Should have just kept the charming style instead of trying to make it serious business and epic.

I do hope that they are similar to the ones from the other games. They really had an addictive levelling system where you always had a next skill in mind,to get.

 

[IDtenT]

What made the reboot special was how it introduced game mechanics over a period of time - each time a little more zany than the previous one (wives, babies, fighting against equipment, rage magicz), while doing so with good humour. Very nice way to ease you into things.

 

[InspectorRumpole]

I doubt the RPG elements will be interesting.

Should have just kept the charming style instead of trying to make it serious business and epic.

I do hope that they are similar to the ones from the other games. They really had an addictive levelling system where you always had a next skill in mind,to get.

Sure, I hppe that too.
I meant quests, c&c and general writing.

 

[fantadomat]

What made the reboot special was how it introduced game mechanics over a period of time - each time a little more zany than the previous one (wives, babies, fighting against equipment, rage magicz), while doing so with good humour. Very nice way to ease you into things.

The only retarded thing they did and never changed was the random loot. It was impossible to get a whole set,thus making them useless. it is the only thing that i hate about the game,should have been hand crafted/placed.

 

[Darth Canoli]

That's interesting, they're going to be doing like a shoulder view camera now instead of topdown?

The shoulder camera kills it for me, the wonky camera with trees hiding the loot from KB reboot was bad enough but if there is no top down view, they're not going to get my shekels!

 

[Mazisky]

I've found this video with lot of new gameplay. Game looks good

Couldn't find it on youtube or similar, maybe it's some exclusive preview, I post the link
https://www.fandom.com/video/lQvPo028/king-s-bounty-2-everything-you-need-to-know

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-06-02-kings-bounty-is-back-and-transformed-for-a-new-era

King's Bounty is back and transformed for a new era
Army god.

My goodness me, this is quite the change. I know it's been a few years since I galloped around the brilliant King's Bounty: The Legend (let's call it a decade), collecting strange fantasy beasts for my unstoppable army, but I didn't realise as much would change in a sequel as this. King's Bounty 2 is like a series evolution. The series that once inspired Heroes of Might and Magic is back. And my, it looks different.

Gone, for instance, is the old view. You no longer look down on your mighty hero from above but follow them around over the shoulder, as if you were playing a third-person role-playing game. It sounds like a small thing but it lets you see a familiar kind of world in a whole new way. The world suddenly gains height and a sense of scale, and you can walk into buildings now, when you never could before. And there's a horizon! Which sounds ridiculous but it really helps reinforce the feeling of a grand fantasy world all around you. And it's realised with gorgeous detail: crumbly medieval villages baking in the sun, lush greenery, colourful flowers, and snow-capped mountains in the distance.

What's more, you can walk up to characters now and talk to them. There's cinematic dialogue, voice acting, choice and consequence. And with this new RPG presentation comes a greater focus on the role-playing elements in the game. Yes, there's a whole story about a Blight and you'll have to stop it, but the more interesting part is how? And the 'how?' is determined by the Ideal you align with. This is a major new system. There are four Ideals - Order and Anarchy, Power and Finesse - and everything in the world is aligned to them.

Do anarchical things, or things for an anarchical entity, and you will earn experience - and eventually talent points and then powers - in the Anarchy Ideal. But doing so will be in opposition to the Order Ideal, which will create more tension the further down a path you go. Naturally the game finds ways to make you choose between them, then. You've found out a secret, for example: who do you hand the information to?

Your alignment can have far-reaching consequences. The units in your army are aligned one way or another. If you're aligned the same way as them, they will fight better for you, but if you're not, they won't. Your character may even begin to refuse to do things later in the game that are opposed to their Ideal. The hope is different playthroughs (which will last around 50 hours, apparently) will be wildly different from each other.

Underneath all of this, King's Bounty 2 is still a turn-based game. That hasn't changed. You might trot up to a combat zone in glorious 3D, but when the fight begins, the camera zooms up and out to show a familiar hexagonal field and your army upon it. (Your army that you've been magically holding in your pocket.)

But there are some fairly significant differences here, too. Battles look different. They take place in the location you were in the world when they began, and you're free to fly the camera around them. No more static, default battlefields. This not only looks nice, it introduces varying terrain. There's now higher and lower ground, and the advantages and disadvantages that come with it, and there are obstacles, and because of it: line of sight.

Unit-count has been drastically reduced. You can no longer condense hundreds of fighters into one super unit. The most you can have in one unit seems to be around six (all displayed on the field). That's because units are individually more important now. They can level up. Earn enough experience and they'll progress through three tiers, changing appearance and gaining new abilities, and increasing in power, as they do.

On top of this, there's equipment to find and fit yourself out with, which in turn affects the performance of your army, and there are new races and creatures to discover and hire. Oh, and while the main character we saw was a male warrior, there are apparently two others, and they may not be human.

The other big thing about King's Bounty 2 is that it's coming to console, which I think might be a first for the series. PC is the lead development platform, but it's been natively developed for PS4, Switch and Xbox One. Actually, the demonstration was done on an Xbox pad, and seemed to control naturally.

Versions of the game for the newer consoles are in development, but were apparently held up due to Covid. "We haven't announced a specific date yet," 1C Entertainment CEO Nikolay Baryshnikov tells me. "All I can say is yes, we do work on those consoles. They've been a little delayed, caught by Covid and getting access to a reasonable amount of dev kits. Yes, we do know there are other consoles and yes, we are working on that and they will come."

It's an impressive showing, a generational leap in what King's Bounty is capable of. Potentially, it's the start of a whole new era of King's Bounty 2 to come. "Spot on," Baryshnikov says. "That's my big dream." Whether it will all come together, we'll have to wait until 24th August to find out.

 

[Sinatar]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-06-02-kings-bounty-is-back-and-transformed-for-a-new-era

The other big thing about King's Bounty 2 is that it's coming to console, which I think might be a first for the series. PC is the lead development platform, but it's been natively developed for PS4, Switch and Xbox One. Actually, the demonstration was done on an Xbox pad, and seemed to control naturally.

Is it really that hard to take 5 seconds to google something before making silly statements like this. King's Bounty was on Genesis and PS2 (oddly named as a HOMM game).

 

[Tigranes]

The world suddenly gains height and a sense of scale, and you can walk into buildings now, when you never could before. And there's a horizon!

Has this reviewer never, ever, ever played a game that isn't isometric / top down

On top of this, there's equipment to find and fit yourself out with, which in turn affects the performance of your army

Thanks boy, without you we'd never have known

 

[Glop_dweller]

This looks like a cross between Disciples 3 and Fantasy General.

 

[Alienman]

I've found this video with lot of new gameplay. Game looks good

Couldn't find it on youtube or similar, maybe it's some exclusive preview, I post the link
https://www.fandom.com/video/lQvPo028/king-s-bounty-2-everything-you-need-to-know

Really like how it looks from that video. Charming I think.

 

[fantadomat]

It looks very good!

 

[IDtenT]

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

More and more often when I look at a price on a game's steam page, I'm genuinely not 100% sure if this is serious or is someone important on publisher's side retarded enough to actually joke about official pricing for some internal office prank.

 

[IDtenT]

Pricing is regional, so not sure what you mean.

It's half the price of a overpriced AAA, like Biomutant, over here.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

I don't know how it looks for you, but I'm still fairly certain it's blatantly overpriced for the kind of game it is and will sentence it to more obscurity than it possibly deserves.

 

[Reinhardt]

My second most anticipated game

It looks very good!

Fanta, they are using denuvo so no kangz bounty for you.

 

[fantadomat]

My second most anticipated game

It looks very good!

Fanta, they are using denuvo so no kangz bounty for you.

Hmmm we will see that.

 

[IDtenT]

I don't know how it looks for you, but I'm still fairly certain it's blatantly overpriced for the kind of game it is and will sentence it to more obscurity than it possibly deserves.

Why not explain with actual values, thanks.

Over here it's similar pricing to a new Paradox game.