Preview Discworld takes a look at Kult

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: 3D People; Kult: Heretic Kingdoms

<a href=http://www.thediscworld.co.uk>Discworld</a> posted a <a href=http://www.thediscworld.co.uk/kult.htm>preview</a> of <a href=http://www.cult.3dpeople.de/>Kult</a>, an isometric fantasy RPG. It looks like the game changed the name once again and now it's known as <b>Kult: Heretic Kingdoms</b>. I guess <b>Kult</b> and <b>Cult</b>, the very first name, didn't sound cool enough. Anyway, here is an interesting snipet from the preview:
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<blockquote>Set in the world of the Heretic Kingdoms, a world where God is dead and religion heresy, you are cast as a young female inquisitor, working to stamp out the last remnants of religion. On instructions to destroy a relic which the Inquisition considers to be a significant threat, you are drawn into a conflict between two warring secret societies - a conspiracy of mages whose goal is true power, and a shadowy cult who seeks to resurrect the Dead God.
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As the story progresses, you will be placed in an amoral world and left to decide your own morality. Just like the real world, your actions have consequences, and it is up to you to decide if you can live with them or not. Play as an altruistic heroine, a vicious and selfish egotist or just a woman trying to get her job done - your actions will lead you to one of six different endings depending on where you decide your loyalties lie. Will you crush religion underfoot, or become its saviour? Only you can decide.</blockquote>
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Well, I like the God is dead and religion is heresy thing, and I definitely like the choices, consequences, and different endings. Do we have a cool sleeper RPG of 2004 here?
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[Elwro]

Maybe they changed the name to avoid being mistaken for the great Swedish Kult PnP RPG game. On the other hand, this the God is not here concept is not unfamiliar...

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Just like the real world, your actions have consequences, and it is up to you to decide if you can live with them or not.

Warren Spector Survey Method says "You're going the wrong way, kiddies!".

 

[Sol Invictus]

I could probably live with destroying everyone's (false) sense of hope about religion and the afterlife. If that happened, we'd be living in a much more realistic world where people actually place stock into their actions and think about what they're doing before they decide to proceed. In the world that we live in now, very few people actually give much thought into the consequences of their actions because they selfishly believe that everything will be 'okay' in the end, as they believe this world to be 'relatively unimportant' compared to the 'next', whatever the hell that is.

Trivial bastards.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Nice rack.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Good lord, those are almost as big as some of the escorts I've been with! :shock:

 

[slavemaster]

They look like balloons. That is most certainly not a nice rack.