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Vapourware Corven: Path of Redemption - reboot of cancelled Ultima IX fan game

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Tyranicon said:
taxalot said:
I did finish the post I was working on while staying married, which is already quite the achievement.
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Ouch dude. Brutal.
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What's brutal is seeing this shitshow partially happened because when I was 16 I started making a RPGMaker game and stopped caring after its third iteration (NWN) 4 years later.
 
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taxalot said:
What's brutal is seeing this shitshow partially happened because when I was 16 I started making a RPGMaker game and stopped caring after its third iteration (NWN) 4 years later.
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Eh, if we worried about everything every idiot did because of what we did then I'd have to care for being in part responsible for this site's creation, and then much later, leaving No Mutants Allowed to an absolute corporate cucked hole now missing 90% of its former non-news content perhaps irretrievably fucked by this point if the state of the forums are any indication. There would also be something about loot boxes, based upon Tragic: The Garnering, once lauded by Valve's iteration and then loathed when EA touched it further than anything this duke of hell ever could think of. Fuck it.

You were just in the previous iteration of Make Ultima Great Again. At least you didn't fuck anyone over by taking their money for lies.
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Sonovabitch. You got me.
 
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ERYFKRAD said:
That's because he's a tax collector, that's a different stripe of thief.
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A thief with law enforcement on their side. :lol:

Speaking of thieves, who is going to call Corv out on the KS comments first? AKA who wants the first panic refund?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1782768871/corven-path-of-redemption-0/posts/3818748

June 2022
Lycantic
I sincerely apologize for not posting in such a long time!

I don't like posting about personal matters on the internet, but I feel I owe you all an explanation.

To make a long story short: I am going through a rough, everything but straightforward, divorce. I am also in the process of moving to a different state.

I am not a fan of people throwing a pity party for themselves, but it truly has not been an easy time. And the development of Corven took a back seat as, I at least hope, most of you will understand.

By no means is Corven dead or cancelled. I simply had no choice but to take this break from development.

My move and, hopefully, the divorce will be done soon. Once I am settled in I can concentrate on Corven again. Please give me a bit more time.

This is my absolute passion project and it will never be cancelled. But again, I apologize for the silence.

I hope you all are doing great and don't have to deal with anything like this. I don't wish it on anyone.

Here's to better days ahead!
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Viata said:
Beast British said:
TRUE and HONEST ending to the Ultima series
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Aside from later technology requiring literal voodoo being involved making the UI/UX a bit more accessible, the Ultima story stopped at VI with the relative peace between the humans and "demons" as the conclusion of moral perspectives. Everything since was just some blaming EA despite Richard suddenly coming up with boneheaded meandering fuckery like trying to turn Ultima into Prince of Persia.

Maybe he shouldn't have alienated his ghostwriters. Speaking of which, has anyone actually read the intro to Corven and how trash it is for an Ultima game even after Richard's "mentoring"? Drunken driving hit-and-run and then stalking the victim in the hospital while evading police? Who is to identify with that, compared to the Gypsy?

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Viata said:
Infinitron said:
what exactly happened here?
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She learned she dodged a bullet when the guy asked for a divorce. Nigga is a liar and she is probably happier now that is not living with him anymore.
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He does indeed have trouble with the truth. Secrets are his favorite.
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I'm still wondering if Corv ran over someone when drunk and stalked her in the hospital while evading police because holy fuck

You drive home from a small party at your friend’s house. Usually you don’t drink much, but this time you had a few too many. Tired and dizzy you have a hard time concentrating on the road when suddenly a young woman steps in front of your car. You brake but it’s too late, she gets thrown on the street and when you check on her she is not responsive.

The doctors can save her life, but she is in a coma. Almost every day you visit her. The guilt you feel is building up from day to day and you fall deeper and deeper into a depression.
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I want to hear more about this because I feel this is really relative to the development of the game. Who is he getting married to ?
 
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taxalot said:
I want to hear more about this because I feel this is really relative to the development of the game. Who is he getting married to ?
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You know my hypothesis. Some rando he drunkenly ran over and stalked in the hospital.
 
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That is how manly men obtain women. It is the modern version of the caveman "hit 'em over the head and drag 'em off by the hair" approach.
 
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Lord_Potato said:
So, judging by the state of the conversation here, the game's basically dead, yes?
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  • after decade+ of fucking around, three in in Unreal from 2016-2019, dude switched engines again to make a half-assed demo in Unity. Yes, this went Unreal -> Unity :lol:
  • baited a KS with Lord British (who probably doesn't even remember this)
  • spent years on story.txt and AI gen backers portraits
  • dipped his balls into the EA shark tank by releasing a remix of Ultima VI as official game media*
  • dipped them again when he basically said "Corven = UIX - Redemption" and listed Ultima game areas as places he was working on
  • shared illustrious design updates, such as thanks for new gaming computer and European Vacation
  • came back from developing BackerPaidVacation.exe
  • coincidentally around the same time, divorced the wife in 2 months and left her/no contact for a year
  • would forget what year it was and go from a November 2022 update to a June 2022 update
  • in that update that forgot time, blamed a pause in all "development" on a messy divorce and having to move, when those issues are long passed
  • the usual idiotic hope-and-cope KS circle-jerk who already threw money at this without looking too deeply because muh Ultima and coped about all delays for every other dodgy KS (I.E. Shroud of the Avatar) are clamoring to throw even more money at shitty milestone reporting, because why learn anything any time ever, just consume product and buy Ultima
  • 6 months of moving later... is still in middle of moving - probably going to get some of the dumber to keep believing he is still moving and offering support when it's stretched out for a whole year or more
  • is now getting remarried
  • there is still no game
  • it's been almost four years since any news was posted to the lycantic.com website**: Less than 48 hours left on the Corven Kickstarter! by Florian Jul 15, 2020
  • there will never be a game

* - This gives later reason when EA would rightfully spank this to go "Sorry about all that, guys! Big Bad EA happened and I just don't have the money to change anything." to glean more money from the useful suckers who ate this shit sandwich and bent over for more on the Discord server. Watching the consumer codependency chain on the Discord was just amazing stuff.
** - RIP website per the absolute state of the official forums becoming a center for ass surgery:
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And has Corv made ANY other games? I haven't seen anything taken to completion.

What is it with the Ultima fans thinking they can go from 0 to RPG in just one KS?
The misconception that Teen Richard Garriott effortlessly farted out Ultima/Akalabeth and the RPG genre, so it must be even easier in [current year]?
 
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