Game News Weird West Gameplay Developer Commentary Trailer

[Infinitron]

Tags: Devolver Digital; Raphael Colantonio; Weird West; WolfEye Studios

Indie publisher Devolver Digital broadcast their wacky annual event today. Weird West did not make an appearance during the stream itself, but they did hide a new trailer for it in their free Devolverland Expo promotional game, which was soon uploaded to YouTube as well. It's a developer commentary trailer narrated by Raf Colantonio that offers an overview of the game's primary features - simulation, setting and visual direction, a dynamic event system, and permanent consequences that can't be reverted by reloading a saved game.

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If you'd like to hear more, Raf also spoke about Weird West in an interview with GameSpot and in a quick Q&A with PC Gamer, both published last week.

 

[Ismaul]

Interesting.

I just finished Prey, looking forward to what they do with this.

 

[luj1]

Weird west is a subgenre of horror, why does it look like Borderlands?

 

[Ismaul]

Seems like a pulp take on it.

Deadlands, the PnP RPG is like that.

 

[Geisler]

Muh "akshun aarpegee", cell-shaded 3D top down, pulpy campy setting.

 

[Glop_dweller]

...and permanent consequences that can't be reverted by reloading a saved game.

...the rest? Meh.

 

[Morality Games]

All I want is a Shadowrun-esque game set in the Wild West, but it is such an unexploited setting I guess anything is fine by this point.

Immersive sim is welcome too, but I don't know about an immersive sim that isn't first-person.

 

[Ismaul]

If the devs' previous games are any indcation, this will be a gameplay-driven game rather than narrative/dialogue-driven, which is usually a plus. Not many devs are good at the no-handholding sandboxy choose-you-own-path design, so this is why I'm interested in what happens with it. It might also be why he's calling it an aRPG rather than a RPG.

 

[Junmarko]

"Simulation is like a religion to us"

 

[Isak]

"Red Dead Diablo" looks pretty interesting.

This looks very interesting indeed. I’ve always thought the supernatural in the wild west was a fertile, unexplored frontier.
Excellent mechanics, love the development so far. Hope the line of sight is optional. reloading reloading ‘oh shit’ did i do that.

If you're interested in this, Hard West was another pretty good weird west game that this seems reminiscent of. It had its problems, but it was still a fun and unique game.
Another game that this reminds me of is this isometric immersive sim RPG called Seven, which is interesting as well (if somewhat flawed).

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Hard West was pretty gud, could never get into Seven properly

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

Definitely a hyphenated RPG now, but looks fun. I have always liked top-down shooters. Will add to the list.

 

[urmom]

So now we have regular GTA, medieval GTA, and western GTA?

 

[tindrli]

3d arcade with stats

 

[Forest Dweller]

I guess if you can't think up a good title you can just use your setting as a title.

 

[Whisper]

You can save-load in this game?

 

[samuraigaiden]

I hope this is good. I also hope they change the perspective to first person.

 

[supervoid]

No reloading sounds gimmicky. Combat mechanic might be fun, everything else is almost guaranteed to be bland due to sandbox and permanently locked out content.

 

[thesheeep]

Not a fan of forced saving systems like that.
By all means, design your game around a certain way of save game behavior, make that the default (and only way to earn achievements, etc.), but allow players to choose what they prefer on a new game.

This just sounds like you could accidentally cause all kinds of unwanted crap to happen by pressing "shoot" instead of "interact", etc.

 

[Infinitron]

To me it sounds like it's a kind of roguelike, although notice how Raf carefully avoids using the term "procedural" when describing the dynamic event system "tailored to each player's experience".

 

[samuraigaiden]

Might end up being a Dark Souls style forced ironman mode. He does say you ressurect after dying.

 

[Metro]

Seems okay.