Game News Frayed Knights: The Skull of Smakh-Daon Teaser Trailer

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: Frayed Knights

<p>Rampant Games provide a teaser trailer for <strong>Frayed Knights</strong>.</p>
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<p>He he, looks neat. TB combat like your mom used to make.</p>

 

[Darth Roxor]

Was that... daemon toilet?

 

[Elzair]

It looks kinda interesting.

 

[serch]

Looks fucking great!

 

[rpgcodexusername]

the best bit was the toilet at the end

 

[J_C]

Looks great! Definitely keeping an eye on this one.

 

[RampantCoyote]

Here's a version that can run at 480p (for a little better readability):

Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon

It's almost there. Since it's a digital release direct from the developer, there's not a whole lot of lead time between the-game-is-ready and the-game-is-released. Testers have been taking 30+ hours to complete it, and it's mostly meaty hours... a little bit of time spent puzzling through some of the more adventure-gamey bits, but I haven't heard of anybody spending any time grinding.

 

[Angthoron]

Looking good, wanted to play a new dungeon crawler game for a long time now.

 

[riptide]

This game sounds nice. Are you stuck with those character portraits for the whole game? Was hoping for more character customization, kinda like Wizardry 8.

 

[ortucis]

Needs higher quality (720p+) trailer. Low res videos just makes your game look bad.

 

[l3loodAngel]

Needs higher quality (720p+) trailer. Low res videos just makes your game look bad.

I am not sure there is a resulotion that would make this game look good...

 

[zeitgeist]

Meanwhile, back in 2001...

 

[Metro]

Looks fucking great!

 

[Excidium]

Looks kinda dumb but it might be a fun crawler, we'll see.

 

[Metro]

Hmmm:

Not really a FAQ item, but it's unlikely on Steam because:

A) It's Steam's decision, not mine.

B) The majority of indie games that get submitted for Steam get rejected / ignored, giving it long odds, and

C) Insofar as rhyme or reason can be determined for what games Steam accepts, Frayed Knights doesn't seem to be a "Steam" kind of game.

Steam has quite a few indie games of lesser quality on their service than this -- at least at first glance. And I'm not sure why he doesn't think it's a 'Steam kind of game' when you have stuff like Dungeons of Dredmor, Avadon, Eschelon, Chthulu Saves the World, etc. on Steam.

Wait a minute...

Yeah, but you don't have gamers refusing to buy a digitally distributed game unless it's on those platforms. Somehow many gamers actively support a Valve monopoly these days. Go figger.

STEAM OR GTFO, BITCH!

 

[ortucis]

Needs higher quality (720p+) trailer. Low res videos just makes your game look bad.

I am not sure there is a resulotion that would make this game look good...

I have been following FK progress for a long time and for a Indie game using TGE (old Torque Game Engine), it looks just fine.

If you want bad, play "Chthulu Saves the World". I have played RPG Maker games of higher quality/more (better) content than that overhyped game.

 

[Regdar]

They got me at "turn-based combat".

 

[hoverdog]

This game sounds nice. Are you stuck with those character portraits for the whole game? Was hoping for more character customization, kinda like Wizardry 8.

This. Are the characters pre-generated or can we at least change their classes, skills or whatever?

 

[RampantCoyote]

Characters are pregenerated, but they are very customizable beyond that. We've had testers try an entire party of sorcery spellcasters, or divine priests, or fighter-types (arming the back-rank characters with dual-wield and expertise in thrown weapons -- a combination that was pretty effective that I hadn't even thought of.

But it's not quite like rolling your own party. The game is focused around these particular characters.

 

[hoverdog]

as long as the characters aren't railroaded into specific classes and duties, it's ok with me.

but still it would be nice to be able to change those portraits.

 

[serch]

Lots of chatting between Pjs seems to be related with that predefined characters feature.