Had to make an alt for that post? Fo'shame.
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Game News Paradox announces Runemaster, a Norse-themed turn-based RPG
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Do it like me and wait 2 years to buy the "complete" edition on sale.
Delterius
Arcane
Not gonna lie.
That's kind of what I kept thinking about while playing Expeditions: Conquistador. Though I'd purposedly look for the more obscure things about colonial history that fewer people know about. Like how the visitting Inquisitors simply couldn't deal with terra brasilis. Or the native alliances and marriages that protected and policed Rio.
Azrael the cat
Arcane
Don't get me wrong, I'm liking the way that finally there's an outlet for the substantial customer demand for TB gaming - demand that never disappeared, but was simply discarded by publishers and developers who declared it obsolete - and am looking forward to many of these games.
...but I'm also looking forward to some of the Codexers who were to young to experience TB crpgs other than by virtue of playing the very cream of the crop that have carved out lasting fandom, and consequently thinking that any TB crpg must also be tactical and better than any phase-based or rtw/p combat, will now have the opportunity that we had to experience the horror that is really badly designed TB combat
I think this could be the greatest era of simultaneous glee and rage the Codex has ever experienced - a whole new world of bad game design they never knew existed.
...but I'm also looking forward to some of the Codexers who were to young to experience TB crpgs other than by virtue of playing the very cream of the crop that have carved out lasting fandom, and consequently thinking that any TB crpg must also be tactical and better than any phase-based or rtw/p combat, will now have the opportunity that we had to experience the horror that is really badly designed TB combat
I think this could be the greatest era of simultaneous glee and rage the Codex has ever experienced - a whole new world of bad game design they never knew existed.
Not sure why they call it RPG,it's strategy game like King's Bounty and HMM 
King's Bounty qualifies as an RPG in my book - surely I'm not alone in thinking thus.
Monty
Arcane
Don't get me wrong, I'm liking the way that finally there's an outlet for the substantial customer demand for TB gaming - demand that never disappeared, but was simply discarded by publishers and developers who declared it obsolete - and am looking forward to many of these games.
...but I'm also looking forward to some of the Codexers who were to young to experience TB crpgs other than by virtue of playing the very cream of the crop that have carved out lasting fandom, and consequently thinking that any TB crpg must also be tactical and better than any phase-based or rtw/p combat, will now have the opportunity that we had to experience the horror that is really badly designed TB combat
I think this could be the greatest era of simultaneous glee and rage the Codex has ever experienced - a whole new world of bad game design they never knew existed.
'Looking forward to more bad games so we can rage about them' - surprised DU hasn't added this to his list of Codex mottos yet.
(not that I disagree though)
You can qualify a lot of things as RPG ,but when core game mechanics are tactical battles between hundreds of nameless units it's not RPG in my book.
hivemind
Guest
I'm genuinely new around here.
kris
Arcane
Not sure why they call it RPG,it's strategy game like King's Bounty and HMM
They do it as to highlight that it has features from an RPG. They want to plant some thoughts in customers mind as for characters and quests, which is likely to be these RPG features.
Agreed.
When I hear of a "TRPG", I am immediately suspicious. Goldbox series weren't referred to as "tactical RPGs", Natuk or Wizard's Crown or KOTC weren't referred to as "tactical RPGs", ToEE and Dark Sun weren't referred to as "tactical RPGs". For all of their superb tactically controlled combat, they were always just RPGs, and the genre's posterboys at that, without any silly sublabels attached. Fuck, even JA2, for all the arguments about "the dude behind laptop" surrounding it, was still an RPG for those who considered it as such, without any silly T's attached.
"TRPG" usually means either "let's add some combat movement to our shitty Final Faggotry clone and pretend it is now even deerper than before", or "let's take out the castle from our HoMM clone and pretend it's a different kind of game altogether". Or, in a more oldschool way, "let's add some fancy fictional bells and whistles into our BSB mission-based railroaded squad tactics and try to peddle it to the starving RPG fandom". None of which is acceptable in my book.
"TRPG" usually means either "let's add some combat movement to our shitty Final Faggotry clone and pretend it is now even deerper than before", or "let's take out the castle from our HoMM clone and pretend it's a different kind of game altogether". Or, in a more oldschool way, "let's add some fancy fictional bells and whistles into our BSB mission-based railroaded squad tactics and try to peddle it to the starving RPG fandom". None of which is acceptable in my book.
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Paradox aren't actually calling it a tactical RPG though. OP says just "RPG".
It refers to "leading troops" a number of times, which likely implies the "HoMM without a castle" group.
And great many rejoiced.
fizzelopeguss
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Nathair
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Well KB does feature a big RPG style element in the levelling of your characters/pet dragon. It makes a huge difference in how the battles play out. Much more than a lot of RPG things. So I dunno.
Not that I care - if this is at all like KB and any good then I'll be rather happy Or just good at all really. It is gently astonishing, yes.
Not that I care - if this is at all like KB and any good then I'll be rather happy
Or just good at all really. It is gently astonishing, yes.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm liking the way that finally there's an outlet for the substantial customer demand for TB gaming - demand that never disappeared, but was simply discarded by publishers and developers who declared it obsolete - and am looking forward to many of these games.
...but I'm also looking forward to some of the Codexers who were to young to experience TB crpgs other than by virtue of playing the very cream of the crop that have carved out lasting fandom, and consequently thinking that any TB crpg must also be tactical and better than any phase-based or rtw/p combat, will now have the opportunity that we had to experience the horror that is really badly designed TB combat
I think this could be the greatest era of simultaneous glee and rage the Codex has ever experienced - a whole new world of bad game design they never knew existed.
Nintendo isn't though. The exodus of turn-based fans to the handheld is one of the saving graces of the 3DS.
Just kidding. Nintendo doesn't pay attention to stuff like that until it two or three years past mattering.
But didn't they promise an RPG?
They're TB strategy games, ffs. You can just set the turns to complete without input from your side.
Excidium
P. banal
I don't see what's the issue.
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