Game News Legend of Grimrock To Be Released on April 11; Preorders Now Live

[Vault Dweller]

Yeah, I keep seeing the ton of previews on IGN and PC Gaymer....

For a game of its kind, it definitely is extremely hyped. Universally praised (I haven't seen a critical piece on it anywhere, only OMG IT LOOKS SO PRETTY!!), >3k followers on Twitter (about the same amount Brian Fargo has and only two times fewer than Garriott or Avellone have), that story about the game being disabled player-friendly that got spread around the net like an epidemic, made a top story on reddit, Kotaku covered it favourably, as well as Destructoid and Joystiq... no wonder it got on Steam and GOG so easily. It's going to be MUCH harder for AoD to get there: hardly anyone knows about it, hardly anyone hypes it, a lot of people who've played the demo criticize it, etc. In fact, I'm pretty sure Steam will reject it for being too "niche" unless VD changes the design; let's hope GOG doesn't.

They've already contacted us.

 

[Kosmonaut]

Also: those retards are rating a game that isn't even out. I concur with catfood. Reviews and ratings should be outright disabled until the game is out.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Yeah, I keep seeing the ton of previews on IGN and PC Gaymer....

For a game of its kind, it definitely is extremely hyped. Universally praised (I haven't seen a critical piece on it anywhere, only OMG IT LOOKS SO PRETTY!!), >3k followers on Twitter (about the same amount Brian Fargo has and only two times fewer than Garriott or Avellone have), that story about the game being disabled player-friendly that got spread around the net like an epidemic, made a top story on reddit, Kotaku covered it favourably, as well as Destructoid and Joystiq... no wonder it got on Steam and GOG so easily. It's going to be MUCH harder for AoD to get there: hardly anyone knows about it, hardly anyone hypes it, a lot of people who've played the demo criticize it, etc. In fact, I'm pretty sure Steam will reject it for being too "niche" unless VD changes the design; let's hope GOG doesn't.

They've already contacted us.

That's mighty cool of them.

 

[commie]

Oh and I didn't have issues with you saying it was hyped, just your qualification that it was OVER hyped. How could a Codexer complain that a blob crawler is being overhyped in this day and age? ANY hype is good for this almost extinct genre. Does it reach even 1% of the hype a Bioware or Bethesda game gets though?

Fawning over unreleased games that could be a pile of shite does absolutely no favours to anyone. It's no better than Biodrones clutching each other and bleating about holding the line.

So it's better to not promote a niche game because Bioware is promoting its own in a far more dubious way? Why is having the odd article on some gaming portal a problem when compared to the clear, naked lies in Mass Effect 3 reviews concerning well, everything about that game? As for the handful of people rating LOG with 5 stars on GoG, who gives a shit? Check out the ratings on most of the games on GoG. Apart from the true turds, the majority are rated with 4 and a half to 5 stars, even those that the most nostalgic of Codexers would barely rate more than mediocre. You think that a GoG comment will have any widespread effect in the gaming world? What about all those 1 ratings for ME3 on Metacritic?

 

[Mrowak]

Yeah, I keep seeing the ton of previews on IGN and PC Gaymer....

For a game of its kind, it definitely is extremely hyped. Universally praised (I haven't seen a critical piece on it anywhere, only OMG IT LOOKS SO PRETTY!!), >3k followers on Twitter (about the same amount Brian Fargo has and only two times fewer than Garriott or Avellone have), that story about the game being disabled player-friendly that got spread around the net like an epidemic, made a top story on reddit, Kotaku covered it favourably, as well as Destructoid and Joystiq... no wonder it got on Steam and GOG so easily. It's going to be MUCH harder for AoD to get there: hardly anyone knows about it, hardly anyone hypes it, a lot of people who've played the demo criticize it, etc. In fact, I'm pretty sure Steam will reject it for being too "niche" unless VD changes the design; let's hope GOG doesn't.

They've already contacted us.

You mean Steam, GOG or both?

 

[commie]

Why would you promote a niche game when you don't even know what it's going to be like? Anybody vaguely interested in RPGs might pick it up because of the insane hype, find out it sucks donkey balls, and swear off both the genre and the opinions of "old-skool" players for life.

Who's promoting it? 3 people on GoG? That's insane hype to you?

LOG came out of nowhere, the 4 man crew had a vision, knuckled down, belted out the game in under a year. The fact that they were savvy enough to make it look good in order to get mainstream portals to pick up on it was a great move, not some evil plan to insanely hype the game. If it looked like Frayed Knights or worse, no-one would give a fuck. Is it a problem to want to promote ones' game?

 

[commie]

Why would you promote a niche game when you don't even know what it's going to be like? Anybody vaguely interested in RPGs might pick it up because of the insane hype, find out it sucks donkey balls, and swear off both the genre and the opinions of "old-skool" players for life.

Who's promoting it? 3 people on GoG? That's insane hype to you?

For some reason I can't bring up user reviews at the moment, but there were 16 pages of it. Furthermore, you just said yourself that the game SHOULD be hyped, merely because "the genre is almost extinct", despite not having played it.

I said it should be hyped yes; or rather to use the less loaded term 'promoted', not that it should be reviewed. I think that people need to be made aware that there exist alternatives to Mass Effect and Skyrim. You obviously think that there should be no information about a game prior to it having been released and played by the two people that would have somehow know that it existed. Of course by then, it wouldn't really matter what they thought and the game would be discovered by Matt Chat years later and lamented as 'an underrated gem that never got the attention it deserved'.

Great idea...

Oh and there couldn't have been 16 pages on GoG, as there are just 22 user reviews listed but who cares? Psychonauts is rated as a 5 by over 100 people even though it's just another 3D platformer. Does it actually affect anything in the world at large?

 

[commie]

That kind of defeats the point of your rage against the hype of Grimrock doesn't it? Why rage that "fawning over unreleased games that could be a pile of shite does absolutely no favours to anyone." when you just said that people are aware of alternatives but don't like them? Since they don't like them to begin with, it doesn't matter what people say doesn't it?



Anyway fuck it. I'll stand by the reality that there's nothing wrong with a bit of exposure for a long forgotten genre and you'll keep on trucking with the thought that promoting a game that may be shit, to people who hate it anyway is a bad thing.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Yeah, I keep seeing the ton of previews on IGN and PC Gaymer....

For a game of its kind, it definitely is extremely hyped. Universally praised (I haven't seen a critical piece on it anywhere, only OMG IT LOOKS SO PRETTY!!), >3k followers on Twitter (about the same amount Brian Fargo has and only two times fewer than Garriott or Avellone have), that story about the game being disabled player-friendly that got spread around the net like an epidemic, made a top story on reddit, Kotaku covered it favourably, as well as Destructoid and Joystiq... no wonder it got on Steam and GOG so easily. It's going to be MUCH harder for AoD to get there: hardly anyone knows about it, hardly anyone hypes it, a lot of people who've played the demo criticize it, etc. In fact, I'm pretty sure Steam will reject it for being too "niche" unless VD changes the design; let's hope GOG doesn't.

They've already contacted us.

You mean Steam, GOG or both?

Either GabeN found something challenging after all these years, or VD is talking about GOG. Seriously wish VD and AoD all the luck with this one. Hope they will be able to pull some marketing/hype off on their own, something more than "good fucking riddance" I wonder, what is the intended target audience of AoD, or is it just 'whoever likes it'

 

[General Maxson]

Seems nice. Some at last.

 

[Shannow]

They've already contacted us.

That's mighty cool of them.

Well, "they" expect to make money off of selling AoD. Even if the amount will probably be comparatively small. While I think it's cool, that AoD will be published, I don't really understand what's "cool" about a publisher expecting to make money... *shrug*

 

[Crooked Bee]

They've already contacted us.

That's mighty cool of them.

Well, "they" expect to make money off of selling AoD. Even if the amount will probably be comparatively small. While I think it's cool, that AoD will be published, I don't really understand what's "cool" about a publisher expecting to make money... *shrug*

Well, Steam does reject many games that could, theoretically, bring them small additional profit... I may be wrong, but it seems to me AoD profits more, or at least equally, from being on GOG (= coverage) than GOG from AoD (unless it turns out to be a bestseller, which it may or may not do).

 

[Alex]

I'm starting to feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone ! With this game, Wasteland 2, Double Fine's adventure, The Banner Saga, Age of Decadence all being created and coming out in the next 18 months is the incline actually happening? I suppose it is cyclical in nature and it would have had to start sometime. I just thought it would be more of a trickle, not a flood. This is a bit of hyperbole I know but it feels like a flood after a long drought .

Incline enough at last!

 

[commie]

Fawning over unreleased games that could be a pile of shite does absolutely no favours to anyone. It's no better than Biodrones clutching each other and bleating about holding the line.

So it's better to not promote a niche game because Bioware is promoting its own in a far more dubious way? Why is having the odd article on some gaming portal a problem when compared to the clear, naked lies in Mass Effect 3 reviews concerning well, everything about that game? As for the handful of people rating LOG with 5 stars on GoG, who gives a shit? Check out the ratings on most of the games on GoG. Apart from the true turds, the majority are rated with 4 and a half to 5 stars, even those that the most nostalgic of Codexers would barely rate more than mediocre. You think that a GoG comment will have any widespread effect in the gaming world? What about all those 1 ratings for ME3 on Metacritic?

That's all fine and good except it doesn't look any good to me, and aside from the pretty pictures I don't see why it looks good to anyone else.

Eye of the Beholder at least has DnD spells and stuff to give it some depth. This game has maybe 4 buttons and it's real time. Since it's done in one year we can figure out how it will stack up to EOB in terms of level design and interactivity.

I was waiting to see what reception it got but if I can't even trust codexian reviews I guess I'll just forget it completely.

See what you enthusiasm has done? You forced me to kidney punch an indie developer. Why would you do that?

4 buttons is still 3 buttons more than most RPG's use these days. As for being RT, 95% of RPG's made these days are too. Fallout 2 was also made in a year, as was New Vegas. Sure they used recycled assets, but also were much bigger in scope and depth than a crawler.

It's not like there's much else around is there? Frayed Knights and Underworld Gold(which I'll already say from the demo is not going to be superseded in combat by LoG, which is always going to me more simplistic in comparison to a TB model), but they are both TB crawlers.

I actually don't give a good fuck if you care for it or not. For 12 dollars I'll take the plunge. At worst that's a couple of ratburgers with fries that I'll have to go without from Maccas. You can go back to whining about the decline. Win/win for both of us.

 

[Stabwound]

Crooked Bee: I realize the site gets a small kickback if people buy through the GOG link, but the devs just announced that buying straight from them gets you both a steam key and DRM-free version, plus they get the entire amount, without GOG taking their cut.

It's probably an option a lot of people would be interested in knowing about. Link: http://www.grimrock.net/store/

Link to announcement post: http://www.grimrock.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=120

 

[commie]

Thanks Stabwound, was thinking of going through them but thought I could only get a steam key which is not something I want.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Crooked Bee: I realize the site gets a small kickback if people buy through the GOG link, but the devs just announced that buying straight from them gets you both a steam key and DRM-free version, plus they get the entire amount, without GOG taking their cut.

It's probably an option a lot of people would be interested in knowing about. Link: http://www.grimrock.net/store/

Sure, I'll edit it into the OP.

 

[villain of the story]

Game has incredibly good production values for a game of its type. I suspect that has a major impact on its allure. If it were 2D and possibly with a somewhat wonky art direction, I doubt anyone would even give a damn.

 

[Excidium]

That is true.

 

[Aeschylus]

This looks excellent. Very reminiscent of Eye of the Beholder. I'm glad GoG is expanding to include new indie titles.

 

[Kz3r0]

Incline enough at last!

Why this of all images?

 

[UnknownBro]

Yo does this has romances in it?

 

[Stabwound]

Looks like they deleted all the "reviews" and disabled them until release after all.

 

[Crooked Bee]

PCGames.de have posted a review entitled "Legend of Grimrock: The Rebirth of Dungeon Crawlers":

http://www.pcgames.de/Legend-of-Gri...Die-Wiedergeburt-des-Dungeon-Crawlers-875227/

It's in German, naturally. The score is 82%.

 

[Gord]

82% ? That's either major nostalgia or the game is really good.
After all, it's unlikely that they have enough money to bribe major gaming journals (even if they are only major german journals)...