Game News Broken Roads is an upcoming turn-based isometric RPG set in post-apocalyptic Australia

[Skdursh]

The narrator makes the post-apocalypse sound like the most boring, retarded and melodramatic thing ever.

 

[Ismaul]

I'm interested, if only to see how the morality system works in practice. Gonna watch this.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I would like to play as Woobinda.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

The graphic style is kind of appealing and the mechanics look like they might be okay.

There's just one problem and the narrator's voice tells you what it is right at the outset.

Spoiler

IT IS MADE BY AUSTRALIANS.

 

[HoboForEternity]

i will play if it have giant marsupials, and car sized turtles

 

[laclongquan]

It could be good~

 

[Van-d-all]

While the morality system was the only thing to catch my attention (because everything else is a sea of nothingness), on closer inspection it looks ultra basic

Compare that to similar systems in Stygian or Disco Elysium and their only selling point (at least for me) fades.

It's basic, but what is relevant, is the fact that morality systems are coming to games and that means, even statistically, some of them should be good.

As for the game, even though I tend to have an exaggerated opinion about Australian stuff, this game looks trite and banal. The mobile cutesy aesthetics are so corny and unfitting for a post-apo, they almost make it seem like some kind of parody.

 

[Turuko]

it looks decent, but what's the apocalyptic event ?

 

[Van-d-all]

it looks decent, but what's the apocalyptic event ?

The emu war went nuclear.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

it looks decent, but what's the apocalyptic event ?

Beer ran out and they lost at cricket.

 

[Turuko]

so we don't know what happened

 

[Nifft Batuff]

It could be good~

It's already better than fortnite.

 

[GloomFrost]

Post ap Australian desert and it even got a word "Road" in it, yep "all new setting" indeed. Will still check it out.

 

[Haba]

post-apocalyptic Western Australia.

What would be the difference compared to normal Australia?

Cleve's bunker is fully operational.

He lost it in the divorce.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Lucky people lose only children in divorce, unlucky ones lose bunkers.

 

[luj1]

Damn the art for this game has to be the worst I've ever seen ... Amazingly, their artist lacks even the most basic understanding of palette, composition and framing to name but a few.

... not even taking into account the blatant ideological tripe, btw.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I gotta say this looks damn nice. Artwork is not just good-lookin' but also very readable, same goes for the interface and the dialogue window. Good choice of narrator too.

Here's hope the rest of the game is on the same quality level.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

luj1 I was talking just about the levels.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Damn the art for this game has to be the worst I've ever seen ... Amazingly, their artist lacks even the most basic understanding of palette, composition and framing to name but a few.

... not even taking into account the blatant ideological tripe, btw.

I'm sick of this shit, many of these dime a dozen games looks worse than C-64 games. Looks like someone cut a few ugly cliparts, layered them with Photoshop without any sense of style or art. Children make better drawings than this.

 

[mondblut]

Hey, I just made this game much better.

 

[RNGsus]

I'm going to blow my nuts inside the narrator while she narrates my indie game with way better art than this called "Strokin Chodes".

 

[HoboForEternity]

the thing is the in game graphics looks ok but the artwork is awful

 

[Ismaul]

it so happens that you won't be playing the artwork

isn't god great

 

[Fenix]

are there giant wombats?

There is giant brute with metal something in the hand, and it is a woman.
This instantly doused the sparkle of interest I had before watched trailer.
I guess, consumption of soymilk is as high in Australia as in US and Canada, because this was clearly made by soyboys.

 

[Grumpy Grognard]

I've never thought there would be an RPG that would benefit from being fully voiced, but here it is.

EDIT: I saw camels in the art. Does the story involve an Arab invasion? Oh, it appears there are camels in Australia. Learned something new today.

There are fucking shitloads of camels.