Four or five actual turn-based isometric, party-based RPGs are coming out

[luj1]

Realms Beyond
Colony Ship
KotC 2
BG III
Solasta
Wasteland 3

Good or bad at least they are RPGs by format, not popamoles, RPG-lite's, MMOs or visual novels.

 

[DalekFlay]

Wasteland 3?

Anyway, it's the incline era because lots of "our" games are coming out. Even if half of them are shit, it's still incline from when zero did.

 

[luj1]

Just added a poll, voted Realms Beyond and KotC 2

 

[luj1]

I wonder what happened to Sigil. You know, that Russian dark turn-based RPG. Their steam is dead, but I recall they used to post updates on Russian social media, think it was vk.com?

 

[Daedalos]

Wasteland 3 and colony Ship no doubt.

 

[vazha]

Voted Realms Beyond and KotC 2, with Colony Ship a very close third. Sci Fi isnt exactly my cup of the tea, wish they'v stuck to AoD world. Couldnt give a toss about BG 3

 

[purpleblob]

I voted Realms Beyond and Colony Ship.

 

[Lilura]

None of them will be as good as ToEE, Silent Storm and Jagged Alliance 2.

5 of the 6 will turn out to be shit on a stick.

 

[curds]

KotC 2 has the potential to be the best, unfortunately at the moment it's a fuckin' mess.

Realms Beyond looks solid, and along with KotC 2, it's the only Kickstarter game I've backed.

 

[Lord_Potato]

I voted Colony Ship (because I trust people who made Age of Decadence) and Realms Beyond (because it looks like ToEE combat system with an actual game added to it). But I hope most of them will be alright. Most doubts I have about Baldur's Gate 3.

 

[Saravan]

All of these games interest me except KotC 2. Graphics aren't at the top of my priority list in a game but I have my limits.

Difficult to say which I'm looking most forward to, probably BG3.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

I have high hopes for Realms Beyond. KotC 2 seems good if it only stopped crashing all the time. Colony Ship is probably going to be good too. Don't know about Solasta, might turn out good, the demo was alright, but the party size is small and I don't really care much about the verticality aspect. W3 and BG3 I expect to have a lot of stupid shit in them, but maybe they're going to be alright too, I'll just wait and see and be maybe pleasantly surprised if they're good.

 

[urmom]

Never heard of Realms Beyond. Thanks!

 

[Citizen]

I'm only interested in black geyser (with the inevitable turn-based mod)

 

[Ysaye]

I think Realms Beyond has the highest chance of being the best of the lot, but it also has the highest probability of the lot of them to never actually come out fully, and/or also to be the worst of the lot. You would not think that Germans would want to tolerate that kind of variability but they are Bavarians I suppose?

Solasta is my next choice, as they seem to have a strong concept of what they are doing and that is likely to result in some really strong aspects of the game (the combat already looks arguably better than anything from any of the others) even if there may be some weak bits (cut scenes, lack of backgrounds and the UI for some people).

 

[Thac0]

Pure speculation, but I think BG3 and Colony Ship. KotC2 is not in a good state right now, burdened so heavily by technical issues it makes Kingmakers launch look like a smooth operation.
Solasta is inferior to BG3 since they want to implement way less class building options. 12 classes > 7.
I dont expect Wasteland 3 to be much better than Wasteland 2. InXile has found a niche of making servicable hardcore games which dont excel in anything. They are the Call of Duty of incline.
Realms Beyond is a bit of a wildcard, have heard almost nothing from those fellas. Game looks really good tho.

 

[AwesomeButton]

KotC 2 has the potential to be the best, unfortunately at the moment it's a fuckin' mess.

Realms Beyond looks solid, and along with KotC 2, it's the only Kickstarter game I've backed.

I'm new to this game, but why does KotC 2's art direction look like that of my vomit after I've gotten shitfaced the night before? Is it a one-man team or something?

 

[Thac0]

Is it a one-man team or something?

Yes, one dude in his basement has made the first KotC over years of work. Its 3.5 rulesporn, only 3 classes in fighter/cleric/wizard but it adheres to all the autistic minituae of 3.5 with the grappling hell that it is.
It was imressive as a proof of concept, and KotC 2 should be his big breakout success with tons more content. Well game is barely running atm, less than early access.

 

[Lilura]

Its 3.5 rulesporn, only 3 classes

3 classes in 2020. wow. I've got to sit down.

ToEE had tons more content 17 years ago. Looks better, too.

Have fun getting excited about Decline, I guess.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Oh crap, Lilura has un-ignored me.

Yes, one dude in his basement has made the first KotC over years of work. Its 3.5 rulesporn, only 3 classes in fighter/cleric/wizard but it adheres to all the autistic minituae of 3.5 with the grappling hell that it is.
It was imressive as a proof of concept, and KotC 2 should be his big breakout success with tons more content. Well game is barely running atm, less than early access.

Sounds like something we could play with dice and paper, without all the technical hassle.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

You may select up to 2 choices.

 

[Thac0]

Yeah Kotc1 is pretty shit. Just a lot of people got excited because there is very little 3.5 rulesporn on the market. Kotc2 looked like it was shaping up to be an actually good game. Maybe it will be after the bugs are out.

 

[CryptRat]

Its 3.5 rulesporn, only 3 classes

3 classes in 2020. wow. I've got to sit down.

ToEE had tons more content 17 years ago.

Well, KOTC 1 has spells up to level 9, ToEE does not, and anyway that's KOTC1, KOTC2 has many more classes.

 

[Ysaye]

Its 3.5 rulesporn, only 3 classes

3 classes in 2020. wow. I've got to sit down.

ToEE had tons more content 17 years ago. Looks better, too.

Have fun getting excited about Decline, I guess.

There are 22 classes in KotC2 I believe.

 

[Lilura]

Yeah Kotc1 is pretty shit. Just a lot of people got excited because there is very little 3.5 rulesporn on the market. Kotc2 looked like it was shaping up to be an actually good game.

I doubt it. The first one plays like a jRPG made in RPG maker; the second looks like the board game, Checkers.