KickStarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Dan Vavra's medieval chad simulator

[Roguey]

Sounds like you weren’t invested in the story. That’s fine, but asking for it to be more cookie cutter and take the same bog standard, mediocre approach to storytelling as all the other crap out there is just inane

It's as inane as The Phantom Menace's dry scenes about trade disputes.

 

[agris]

Sounds like you weren’t invested in the story. That’s fine, but asking for it to be more cookie cutter and take the same bog standard, mediocre approach to storytelling as all the other crap out there is just inane

It's as inane as The Phantom Menace's dry scenes about trade disputes.

Sure, just replace The Phantom Menance with Kingdom Come: Deliverance, replace the medium of movie to historical aRPG, replace interstitial exposition dumps regarding trade disputes with game epilogue showing that there’s forces beyond your control at work and: voila! A Roguey analogy.

Really, you can do better.

 

[Roguey]

Sure, just replace The Phantom Menance with Kingdom Come: Deliverance, replace the medium of movie to historical TPP aRPG, replace interstitial exposition dumps regarding trade disputes with game epilogue showing that there’s forces beyond your control at work and: voila! A Roguey analogy.

The evil gay men getting away and not getting the chance to take revenge on the guy who killed your parents was all you needed to know about forces beyond your control being at work.

 

[agris]

Sure, just replace The Phantom Menance with Kingdom Come: Deliverance, replace the medium of movie to historical TPP aRPG, replace interstitial exposition dumps regarding trade disputes with game epilogue showing that there’s forces beyond your control at work and: voila! A Roguey analogy.

The evil gay men getting away and not getting the chance to take revenge on the guy who killed your parents was all you needed to know about forces beyond your control being at work.

I thought we just needed a letter?

 

[Roguey]

Sure, just replace The Phantom Menance with Kingdom Come: Deliverance, replace the medium of movie to historical TPP aRPG, replace interstitial exposition dumps regarding trade disputes with game epilogue showing that there’s forces beyond your control at work and: voila! A Roguey analogy.

The evil gay men getting away and not getting the chance to take revenge on the guy who killed your parents was all you needed to know about forces beyond your control being at work.

I thought we just needed a letter?

That was a "this meeting could have been an email" joke.

 

[cvv]

Just call it Kingdom Come 2, no need for any shitty subtitles.

This. Always thought any sub-titles (the ones with colon) are lame, dorky and stupid. Was surprised Vavra et al., who showed such a solid judgement about so many aspects of the game, made such a Hollywood-exec-level mistake.

Simply "Kingdom Come" would've been a dope name (going into Kingdom Come II).

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Just call it Kingdom Come 2, no need for any shitty subtitles.

This. Always thought any sub-titles (the ones with colon) are lame, dorky and stupid. Was surprised Vavra et al., who showed such a solid judgement about so many aspects of the game, made such a Hollywood-exec-level mistake.

Simply "Kingdom Come" would've been a dope name (going into Kingdom Come II).

Followed by Kingdom Come II me

 

[BruceVC]

What about KC: The Sword and the Throne because you still need to get your fathers sword back and the narrative is about monarchs and leadership successions?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

What about KC: The Sword and the Throne because you still need to get your fathers sword back and the narrative is about monarchs and leadership successions?

Kingdom Come: KingComrade

 

[cvv]

What about KC: The Sword and the Throne because you still need to get your fathers sword back and the narrative is about monarchs and leadership successions?

No. A colon comes from the ass and always reeks of shit.

 

[Tim the Bore]

Second playthrough right now and Jesus, I don't remeber it being so buggy. Playing on hardocre and had to repeat the battle of Pribyslavitz 15 times, each time because of the bug, save for one attempt. Which meant watching all the custcenes over and over again, going through the loading screen, the usual - but seriously, 15 times?
I gotta vent - here are the many times of me trying to get through that lovely mission:

1. The game crashed
2. For some reason I lost the battle halfway through, by losing too many people - even if I could see that they were, well, fine. This will happen few times and, as it turns out, is related to a certain bug, of which I was not aware at the time
3. Same as the above
4. Soldiers bounced of each other while trying to cross the bridge and decided to fuck off in another direction completly, abandoning the battle. The game assumed they all died, so it failed. Can't blame them for leaving I guess
5. The game crashed
6. Once again, lost the battle by losing too many people, while not really losing anyone. I started to get suspicious
7. Got stuck in the texture, had to reload
8. Game crashed, and so did my heart
9. Soldiers just... stood in front of the bridge. Mission failed.
10. Okay, I simply died in this one, this is on me
11. Lost the battle again due to losing soldiers. I decided to check what is going on. Turns out, there is a bug that makes it so that killing enemies counts as killing your friends... and if you will lose too many friendly units, you'll lose the battle. This is getting surreal.
    Fight fire with fire however - there is another bug that, if you'll kill someone with poison, they won't be counted as dead, but simply unconscious. So you can use one bug to prevent another, which is some seriously big brain time
    It's slow though. Boring as hell.
12. Soldiers bounced off the bridge, mission failed, video games were a mistake
13. I actually got to the main bad guy, and the cutscene is playing. Halfway through it I got a message that the mission failed. Turns out the game keeps playing itself during a long, NON-INTERACTIVE CUTSCENE, and soldiers died in the meantime in the battle. Just... just...
14. I rushed to the boss, skipped the cutscene, killed him. Finally, this wretched mission is over!
    Well...
    The next cutscenes is playing, after which... the game teleports me back to the room in Pribyslavitz and makes me fight some random, bald soldier. What?
    I killed him, but couldn't leave. Turns out, there is a bug that, if you defeated Runt with parrying, there is a 50% chance that you will be stuck in this room for all eternity with some dummy soldier. There is no way out of that place. So they finally closed me in a room with no doors I guess. Probably deserved it
15. I killed him again, this time the luck was on my side and the mission actually managed to complete itself without crashing. A miracle.

Look, there are bugs and there are bugs. But this... this is something else.

Good game though.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Good game though.

Was it worth it?

 

[Modron]

I think I only had 2 crashes over ~160 something hours in it seemed fairly stable for a modern release to me.

 

[Tim the Bore]

Good game though.

Was it worth it?

 

[tastywaffles]

Kingdom Come 2, no need for any shitty subtitles.

Kingdom Come 2: No Need For Any Shitty Subtitles

Just call it Kingdom Come 2, no need for any shitty subtitles.

This. Always thought any sub-titles (the ones with colon) are lame, dorky and stupid. Was surprised Vavra et al., who showed such a solid judgement about so many aspects of the game, made such a Hollywood-exec-level mistake.

Simply "Kingdom Come" would've been a dope name (going into Kingdom Come II).

Followed by Kingdom Come II me

Kingdom Come: Again

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

...
Soldiers bounced of each other while trying to cross the bridge and decided to fuck off in another direction completly, abandoning the battle. The game assumed they all died, so it failed. Can't blame them for leaving I guess
...
Soldiers just... stood in front of the bridge. Mission failed.
...
Soldiers bounced off the bridge, mission failed, video games were a mistake
...
I rushed to the boss, skipped the cutscene, killed him. Finally, this wretched mission is over!
Well...
The next cutscenes is playing, after which... the game teleports me back to the room in Pribyslavitz and makes me fight some random, bald soldier. What?
I killed him, but couldn't leave. Turns out, there is a bug that, if you defeated Runt with parrying, there is a 50% chance that you will be stuck in this room for all eternity with some dummy soldier. There is no way out of that place. So they finally closed me in a room with no doors I guess. Probably deserved it
...

Cheers!

 

[Lord_Potato]

Cheers!

This photo creates a lot of questions. When and where was it taken? The Karlovacko beer points to Croatia. MCA's thin face suggests a period of time many years ago. Or perhaps he lost some weight as a consequence of his recent ordeal?

We all knew MCA was at least partly gay, but did we know this side of Vavra? When were they in relationship? Did it influence the writing of KC:D or will it influence the writing of the sequel? Will there be important questions posed like "What can change the nature of a peasant"? And will there finally be gay romance options open to Henry? After all, we've all been disgusted by his conservative heteronormative behavior in the previous installment.

 

[cvv]

Reboot Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia 2017.

https://exordiumgames.com/reboot-develop-conference-2017-recap/

 

[SlamDunk]

Good game though.

That's the mark of a truly great game. People still love KCD despite it being buggy as a cesspit.

For me, the latest funny bug worth mentioning about was during Henry's dream sequence in the end when suddenly subtitles from the Johanka DLC quest started to show.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

 

[SlamDunk]

PLAION owns Warhorse Studios' publisher Prime Matter, so maybe... maybe...

Is this perhaps another hint? She's a game designer at Warhorse:



8 days to go until Summer Game Fest begins.

 

[NecroLord]

Oh, cool, another Summer fuckfest, where all kinds of devs fellate each other while pretending to give a fuck about making good games.
Hope Vavra is doing alright.

 

[Paul_cz]

Just read an article from Vávra where he writes about the current state of AI and how due to the quick advances of the learning language model stuff, his current project is probably the last "traditionally developed" game he works on. Since in the future games he expects e.g. to only write key story aspects and scenes, while all the fluff text will be generated based on various inputs he sets (character histories, relationships, tastes, preferences..).
On one hand I can see the appeal of not having to waste so much time writing secondary text, on the other...meh.

 

[Alienman]

That is one bleak future vision.

 

[notpl]

Just read an article from Vávra where he writes about the current state of AI and how due to the quick advances of the learning language model stuff, his current project is probably the last "traditionally developed" game he works on. Since in the future games he expects e.g. to only write key story aspects and scenes, while all the fluff text will be generated based on various inputs he sets (character histories, relationships, tastes, preferences..).
On one hand I can see the appeal of not having to waste so much time writing secondary text, on the other...meh.

This AI fad has done a really great job of exposing hacks writers and artists. In almost every case the people who believe it can replace them are exactly the ones that should be.