Interview Age of Decadence interview leftovers at RPG Vault

[Balor]

Meh, for a short while I hoped we'd fight a writhing mass of tentacles at the end... I guess it'll have to wait for the sequel.

Or just lauch a hentai RPG ;P.

 

[Lumpy]

<blockquote>Vince D. Weller: The Age of Decadence is not the kind of game where technology matters. To some degree, it's a design choice. There is no shortage of fantastic looking games featuring physics, soil erosion, and photo-realism. There is, however, a shortage of games featuring fantastic gameplay... games like Darklands, X-COM, Fallout, etc. This is not to say that ours is such a game, but that's the direction and inspiration.</blockquote>

Why? In which points is AoD weaker that Fallout?

Also, do we get tentacle-rape too?

 

[Claw]

If all quests have as many paths as that raider example... I'll be very impressed indeed.

Bah, it'll be Fargoth all over. :wink:

Why? Anyway, no, the order taking system hasn't been set up yet. Thanks for the thought though.

Why? Why? Someone offers to pay for the game you haven't finished yet and you ask why? You clearly don't belong into the games industry.
You don't ask why, you ask if he's ok with the $10 preorder fee. Tsk.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Just trying to do things differently.

 

[Spazmo]

Actually, what are you charging for the game?

 

[Vault Dweller]

$25

 

[Astromarine]

would you consider an armagan-like preorder-for-beta-access scheme?

 

[Lumpy]

would you consider an armagan-like preorder-for-beta-access scheme?

No.
I think that discussion came up some time ago, and VD said a true RPG can't really be released unfinished.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Pretty much.

 

[bryce777]

Well, you could release a beta that doesn't have most of the content. That way people could try out the combat and the basic interface and character system.

 

[mathboy]

Why not release the beta when you've finished the game and tested it in what way you were going to, like somebody almost kind of suggested in the other thread to allow people to find spelling errors and tune-stuff and all that (and bugs of course)?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Pity about the graphics. It might've been a good game if it had had some decent ones.

That bad, eh?

Why, you actually consider them worthy graphics for an RPG? For years, RPG's have fallen by the wayside because of their unworthy graphics. Real gamers have ignored RPGs because of their niche appeal due largely to their ugliness. No-one in their right mind wants to play a giant @ symbol or some fuzzy brown looking bear thing. People don't want to watch as some purile vomit inducing character wanders about the horrid brown land gaping with mouths wide-open at their sudden encounter with some fuzzy alien hybrid. People want to see the beauty within your gameworld and serious gamers know that that can only be achieved by advanced, next-generation graphics. Good companies like Bethesda for example are actually trying to do something about this, while your game simply marginalises the genre even further in the eyes of serious and hardcore gamers! You should be appalled at what you've done! It will do nothing but cause the further downward spiral of a once great genre.

 

[LlamaGod]

sup rex

 

[Seboss]

Or you could make people pay to beta test your product ?

I know, so unoriginal.

 

[Mefi]

Good interview VD. The comments at the end by the interviewer are very positive. Credit to those sites who've picked up on the game and have been willing to offer it some coverage. That's a fantastic achievement in itself for Iron Tower.

 

[mytgroo]

When will this foolishness be out?

Is there a timeline for this thing to be published?

 

[Vault Dweller]

Good interview VD.

Thanks.

The comments at the end by the interviewer are very positive. Credit to those sites who've picked up on the game and have been willing to offer it some coverage. That's a fantastic achievement in itself for Iron Tower.

Yep. Even GameShark, a mostly console site, has mentioned AoD in the Editor-in-Chief's blog:
http://www.gameshark.com/staff-blogs/21 ... adence.htm

 

[Vault Dweller]

Re: When will this foolishness be out?

Is there a timeline for this thing to be published?

Eventually.

 

[suibhne]

There are mistakes in two of the dialog screens published by RPGVault. Please edit the dialogs with punctilious exactness before you go final. :wink:

Seriously, maybe it's just me, but I hate encountering elementary spelling or grammar mistakes in games, books, etc. It just leaves me with a feeling of overall lack of polish and sophistication.

Otherwise everything looks great.

 

[GhanBuriGhan]

There are mistakes in two of the dialog screens published by RPGVault. Please edit the dialogs with punctilious exactness before you go final. :wink:

Seriously, maybe it's just me, but I hate encountering elementary spelling or grammar mistakes in games, books, etc. It just leaves me with a feeling of overall lack of polish and sophistication.

Otherwise everything looks great.

There were pages of posts about this already - VD is aware of it

 

[suibhne]

There were pages of posts about this already - VD is aware of it

That's the danger of having three different threads about one topic. :wink: