Preview Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is an RPG Nerd's RPG

[DragoFireheart]

Just remember who published it:

That should clear up any doubts you may have.

 

[Jaesun]

For us Ultima Fags this was rather interesting:

http://www.ultimaaiera.com/blog/kingdom ... destinies/

As some of you may know, Big Huge Games’ upcoming RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning — for which former Lazarus team leader Ian “Tiberius” Fraizer is the lead designer — doesn’t feature a class system per se. That is because the world of Amalur is a fatalist world; everyone’s life is defined by a set destiny. Everyone, that is, except you, the player. As a resurrectee (see what I did there?), you have become The Fateless One.

Anyhow, some time ago, the good Mr. Fraizer challenged me to spot the hidden Ultima reference buried in the the various Destiny Cards that had been released for public consumption to date.

Red for the Warrior (Fighter), Yellow for the Rogue (Bard), Blue for the Sage (Mage)…Orange for the Warrior/Rogue Warden (Fighter/Bard Tinker)…Green for the Rogue/Sage Arcanist (Bard/Mage Druid)…Violet for the Warrior/Sage Battlemage (Fighter/Mage Paladin)…and then White and Grey for the two classes that combine all three classes in different ways, the Adventurers and Seekers (Rangers and Shepherds).

Anyways, shitty action game is shitty.

 

[SCO]

The C&C in Mass Effect basically amounted to: do you want to be a dick or not?

The natural consequence of a obsession with dualisms and narrative "conflict".

 

[Bruticis]

I believe Ian Frazier (Lazarus Designer) is on the development team which means I'm still interested. There's some subtle Ultima love in the character creation/destiny stuff.

 

[Jaesun]

He's the lead designer. I posted that already.

 

[Bruticis]

He's the lead designer. I posted that already.

LOL, oops, yes you did! Sorry, you pasted the whole thing too. I can not into reading apparently.

 

[Gentle Player]

Choices may direct you into different conversation branches and give the game a fresh feeling, but making the wrong choice won't cut out a piece of content for you

What's the point then? Why waste time putting the different branches in in the first place? If whatever you pick amounts to the same thing, then why not just write linear dialogue and save time? That way they could focus on improving the overall dialogue, instead of putting in pointless fluff. I really don't get it.

 

[Mastermind]

Choices may direct you into different conversation branches and give the game a fresh feeling, but making the wrong choice won't cut out a piece of content for you

What's the point then? Why waste time putting the different branches in in the first place? If whatever you pick amounts to the same thing, then why not just write linear dialogue and save time? That way they could focus on improving the overall dialogue, instead of putting in pointless fluff. I really don't get it.

Fallout had c&c and i don't remember it cutting out any content. Maybe he just meant shit like twitcher 2's split?