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Saint_Proverbius

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There's a <A href="http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=1016">preview like thingy</a> on <A href="http://www.rpgdot.com">RPGDot</a> based on a visit with <b>Cleve Blakemore</b> about <b><i>Grimoire</i></b>. Yeah, you heard right, <b><i>Grimoire</i></b>, a CRPG that's been considered vapourware before anyone ever muttered the words, <i>Duke Nukem Forever</i>. Anyway, here's a clip:
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<blockquote>Cleve left LA for Australia in 1991, where together with Michael Shamgar, they began work on Grimoire a few years later. Now, after many stops, starts and re-starts, the game is nearly finished. That&#65533;s why, on an overcast, but otherwise pleasant morning, I found myself following Cleve down a hole in the ground to chat with him in the confines of the underground bomb shelter he&#65533;s building on the Australian Gold Coast. If nothing else, it&#65533;s providing research for his next big game, but more on that later.</blockquote>
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Welp, let's hope for Cleve's sake, this game is good after all these years of waiting.
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Thanks, <b>Dhruin</b>!
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Yeah, it's probably "Food". Then again, I never have cared much for micromanaging a CRPG down to the point where I need to drag lunch around in a dungeon. It's not bad in games like Nethack, but in most CRPGs, where you expect to live out and follow a story, it's annoying as hell. It often boils down to a timer forcing you to open your backpack periodically and use it if things are going well. If they aren't going well, then it sucks even more.
 

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Holy shit! I remember reading the early previews in a russian game mag. That was many years ago.
 

DemonKing

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Ap_Jolly said:
Holy shit! I remember reading the early previews in a russian game mag. That was many years ago.

I remember reading one of his early websites where the game was due in 1997 and the sequel in 1998!

Can't say the graphics have improved much from then either.
 

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I dunno, I like the cartoon-like quality of the graphics. If they can manage to make the style consistent throughout the game, that makes the graphics perfectly good in my book.

But then, I think the trend towards supposed photorealism in games is stupid.
 

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That's not cartoonish, that's amateurish. Cartoonish is a stylized look, like Zelda Windwaker or that cell-shaded Robotech game. Grimoire isn't smart enough to have an art style, it's just an 8-bit game in a 64-bit world.
 

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Blackheart said:
That's not cartoonish, that's amateurish. Cartoonish is a stylized look, like Zelda Windwaker or that cell-shaded Robotech game. Grimoire isn't smart enough to have an art style, it's just an 8-bit game in a 64-bit world.

I'll bet you are the sort of fellow that labels games like Baldur's Gate II and Chrono Trigger as old school.

It's people like you that cause developers to focus on presentation and not substance.
 

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First-person, party-based, turnbased, dungeon crawling goodness with clear inspiration on Wizardry?

It sounds horrible. I played through Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, but I could never muster the interest to play the sequels. Dungeon crawling just isn't roleplaying to me.
 

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Well, i like dungeon crawling, to a degree, so this type of game interests me. It isn't roleplaying, but dungeon crawlers are never meant to be about roleplaying anyway (when they have some, it's just icing on the cake), so no harm done :)
 

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It seems okay, if it's cheap and can be played in windowed mode, i'll buy it.

(And yes, it's FOO, I looked closely. It was Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Hack that made you eat every now and then, if I remember right, so it figures it's being put into this game.)
 

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They don't look any worse to me than most indie efforts such as Spiderweb's. I think Cleve knows his RPG stuff so there's a fair chance for a fun game. His wacky views on other things, however, that's another thing. :)
 

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Role-Player said:
Well, i like dungeon crawling, to a degree, so this type of game interests me. It isn't roleplaying, but dungeon crawlers are never meant to be about roleplaying anyway (when they have some, it's just icing on the cake), so no harm done :)

I thought myself Arx Fatalis was a great dungeon crawler with some good rpg'ing thrown in... It was not dungeon crawling on a colossal scale, but it was done very well.
 

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LlamaGod said:
(And yes, it's FOO, I looked closely. It was Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Hack that made you eat every now and then, if I remember right, so it figures it's being put into this game.)

Dungeon Master, which Eye of the Beholder was a clone of, forced you to periodically eat every so often.
 

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Saint_Proverbius said:
LlamaGod said:
(And yes, it's FOO, I looked closely. It was Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Hack that made you eat every now and then, if I remember right, so it figures it's being put into this game.)

Dungeon Master, which Eye of the Beholder was a clone of, forced you to periodically eat every so often.

I could never get DM to work, so I didnt know :( :( :( :(
 

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