Jagged Alliance 3 from Haemimont Games

[Percy]

Need Maddog

 

[Infinitron]

Even though Jagged Alliance 3 is not a full-fledged RPG, our goal was to create a persistent world that responds to your actions and is changed by your decisions, much more than in the typical tactical game.

Subforum choice confirmed.

(Also, "open RPG-inspired sandbox world" is an unusual turn of phrase)

 

[whocares]

I will not eat the bugs. I will not live in a pod. I will not use 2FA.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Even though Jagged Alliance 3 is not a full-fledged RPG, our goal was to create a persistent world that responds to your actions and is changed by your decisions, much more than in the typical tactical game.

Subforum choice confirmed.

(Also, "open RPG-inspired sandbox world" is an unusual turn of phrase)

Where's that guy with that cool "tactics is the new RPG" picture?

Zed Duke of Banville

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

By popular demand:

 

[geno]

A lot of greenflags around this game. What's the catch?

 

[Abu Antar]

A lot of greenflags around this game. What's the catch?

Possible further rape of the franchise.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

A lot of greenflags around this game. What's the catch?

Possible further rape of the franchise.

Can't be worse than what happened to Fallout and Baldur's Gate.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

A lot of greenflags around this game. What's the catch?

Possible further rape of the franchise.

Can't be worse than what happened to Fallout and Baldur's Gate.

Won't be the first time for Jagged Alliance either.

 

[Catacombs]

A lot of greenflags around this game. What's the catch?

The red flags will reveal themselves soon enough.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

All of Haemimont's recent releases are heavily DLC'ified, too. Makes me wonder what fell plans they have in store for this.

You're probably not going to see any of the RPCs from the last game. Especially Slay or the guy from the upper right, who isn't even a RPC in the base game. Also the lower right two are the player created characters.
That said, did I miss something that said Raider bought it? Kind of weird that his wife is in-game but not him.

A lot of greenflags around this game. What's the catch?

Paying $5 for classic characters that don't come with the base game, or pay $10 for some movie character like John Wick.

 

[Ghulgothas]

You're probably not going to see any of the RPCs from the last game. Especially Slay or the guy from the upper right, who isn't even a RPC in the base game.

I'd hope not, but have you seen the kind of stuff they put out as DLC for Tropico or Surviving Mars? An Ultra Nostalgia-Pack is absolutely not out of the question.

Also the lower right two are the player created characters.

Stand-in for IMPs.

That said, did I miss something that said Raider bought it? Kind of weird that his wife is in-game but not him.

He's dead in Rage, but so was Igor, and he was front-and-center in the announcement trailer. YMMV, but choosing to ignore whatever continuity that game imposed would be one of their smarter decisions.

 

[Angelo85]

ITT people talk about Omryn, but I think the other revealed new merc "Livewire" has more potential as a headscarf wearing, hair colored techie girl:

 

[ArchAngel]

This game is sounding better and better. But talk is cheap, who knows how all that will work in the end.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

No Fox; no buy.
well see

 

[deuxhero]

ITT people talk about Omryn, but I think the other revealed new merc "Livewire" has more potential as a headscarf wearing, hair colored techie girl:

I totally missed that. For some reason I thought "Livewire" was an existing merc, and the girl shown in the first pic was a woman with the surname Bastien.

 

[Zombra]

Finally, a love interest for Speck to strike out with.

 

[Strange Fellow]

ITT people talk about Omryn, but I think the other revealed new merc "Livewire" has more potential as a headscarf wearing, hair colored techie girl:

I totally missed that. For some reason I thought "Livewire" was an existing merc, and the girl shown in the first pic was a woman with the surname Bastien.

I thought so too. We were probably thinking of Frankie "Haywire" Gordon.

 

[vota DC]

I Remember Buns, Grizzly and MD. Buns was very often killed and replaced in mods for some reasons. Maybe she was annoying.

People like Maddog or Reuban should be special: no pay but you have to grant them a killing quota. I just don't see then sitting doing nothing, even when paid. Reuban really left the team when too days without killing, Maddog sadly not.

 

[anvi]

Looks a bit shit. Graphics are nice, but I mean the gameplay. I want big open spaces and vast farmlands to hike over before I reach the enemy compound or whatever. So I can approach from any direction... And then maybe I go through the entrance guns blazing, or maybe I cut the barbed wire and go in the back or something.

This game looks like a bunch of little linear, tuned battles with tiny maps with hardly anywhere that you can go that isn't planned by the devs. You take the left fork and hide behind the rocks or you take the right fork and hide behind all the carefully placed trees. It just looks so artificial and gamey and shit.

Also you need the big open spaces to build tension and stuff too... Having to pray you can crawl your team over to a single tree or something was exciting. It always seemed like you were outnumbered and needed a bit of luck to win without losing anyone. This just looks like a series of boring little planned encounters in Unity. Gross.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

I'd hope not, but have you seen the kind of stuff they put out as DLC for Tropico or Surviving Mars? An Ultra Nostalgia-Pack is absolutely not out of the question.

The DLC for Tropico 6 doesn't seem too bad, but then my yardstick for too bad at this point is Paradox and EA, so that's just relative...

He's dead in Rage, but so was Igor, and he was front-and-center in the announcement trailer. YMMV, but choosing to ignore whatever continuity that game imposed would be one of their smarter decisions.

Ah, didn't know that, I just hear Igor died. I suspect like many people I was not one of the ones lining up to buy Rage.

Looks a bit shit. Graphics are nice, but I mean the gameplay. I want big open spaces and vast farmlands to hike over before I reach the enemy compound or whatever. So I can approach from any direction... And then maybe I go through the entrance guns blazing, or maybe I cut the barbed wire and go in the back or something.

You know, now that I think of it, this does remind me more of stuff like Commandos than JA. Not necessarily bad, but it is, as you point out, not what we expect.

 

[octavius]

No Gus - no buy.

Dang, Woody!

 

[Zombra]

How is it possible that the Codex hasn't tracked down all the voice actors for JA and matched them to their characters .. yet? Roguey I'm looking in your direction.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

ITT people talk about Omryn, but I think the other revealed new merc "Livewire" has more potential as a headscarf wearing, hair colored techie girl:

This looks like everything else from the last 10 years.

 

[zapotec]

HMMM i smell classes and feats