Editorial RPG Codex Report: Gamescom 2015 - The Technomancer, The White March and Kingdom Come

[Infinitron]

All publicity is good publicity, eh?

 

[Tigranes]

Will we get Bubbles' blow-by-blow of his relationship with JarlFrank in the next update?

 

[Bubbles]

Will we get Bubbles' blow-by-blow of his relationship with JarlFrank in the next update?

Read between the lines and you'll know everything.

 

[Crescent Hawk]

I think Bound by Flame was a pretty good game for what it was. The combat at least tried to be interesting and it had some soul, even if Spiders settings dont help.

Their games are amateurish, not only from a mechanics point of view but also the setting choices they make, but again bound by flame was on to something. Almost made it to the end and endured it more than the Witcher games that I cant bring myself to like. I hate Geralt face.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Bubbles is a Codexian treasure. Should business cards get printed, he deserves one with a prestigious title.

 

[Sensuki]

CTO - Chief Trolling Officer

 

[Excidium II]

Bubbles is a Codexian treasure. Should business cards get printed, he deserves one with a prestigious title.

Yeah, bubbles has gone a long way. I remember his humble origins as a RoA HD patch notes bot

 

[Outlander]

 

[Jaesun]

CTO - Chief Trolling Officer

 

[LESS T_T]

This should be a holographic card so when you tilt it, this image appears:

 

[VonVentrue]

They gave us some surprisingly honest sales reports. If anyone was hoping for a M&M XI... well yeah. Not really.

Given the latest sales reports, I'm not surprised in the slightest, but... Pardon me while I punch a hole in a wall.

 

[Ludo Lense]

Given the latest sales reports, I'm not surprised in the slightest, but... Pardon me while I punch a hole in a wall.

To be honest it was terribly marketed as well.

 

[Darth Roxor]

it was also p. bad

 

[Zeriel]

To be honest it was terribly marketed as well.

That's what I don't get. They put so little effort into it, I figured it was just them testing the waters, not that they expected 300K sales with minimal investment.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

To be fair, they did wine and dine Grunker. Unfortunately this didn't have the desired impact on mass market sales.

 

[Infinitron]

We tend to think that AAA companies are staffed entirely by super salesmen, but Ubisoft's Might & Magic team seems a bit bottom of the barrel. Imagine what a guy like Brian Fargo would have done with that game, imagine how he could have spun Julien Pirou's story and turned him into an indie hero.

Maybe it's because they're used to marketing towards Eastern Europeans or something, I dunno.

 

[veevoir]

Can't wait for part 2, that's where the magic will (hopefully) happen. Varva is CTO for industry, so I wonder if JarlFrank survived unscathed.

This should be a holographic card so when you tilt it, this image appears:

Universe, make it happen!

 

[Zeriel]

We tend to think that AAA companies are staffed entirely by super salesmen, but Ubisoft's Might & Magic team seems a bit bottom of the barrel. Imagine what a guy like Brian Fargo would have done with that game, imagine how he could have spun Julien Pirou's story and turned him into an indie hero.

Maybe it's because they're used to marketing towards Eastern Europeans or something, I dunno.

Come to think of it, Ubisoft's PR is overall pretty bad. They thought it was a good idea to have Far Cry's lead make fun of customers who tweeted at them during their big E3 stream, and then there is that whole "30 FPS is better than 60 FPS" boondoggle in the lead up to AC Unity.

 

[Bubbles]

To be fair, they did wine and dine Grunker. Unfortunately this didn't have the desired impact on mass market sales.

Wining and dining Codexers is a very fine idea and constitutes sound marketing for any company. Maybe they just didn't invest enough.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Come to think of it, Ubisoft's PR is overall pretty bad.

 

[rohand]

In the end, it was up to the Codex to humour the poor presenter (...)

Codex: it may look like we're bashing your skull in, but in the end, we mean well.

Spoiler

 

[DeepOcean]

I asked Vavra what he thinks about the Codex.

I bet he doesn't think much of the Codex, well, I just said his game looked like a pie in the sky Skyrim knock off exactly when he was about to post about the kickstarter, I don't know if it was coincidence but after a butthurt post he didn't post anything on that thread afterwards, that was a good first impression, I guess.

 

[JarlFrank]

I bet he doesn't think much of the Codex, well, I just said his game looked like a pie in the sky Skyrim knock off exactly when he was about to post about the kickstarter, I don't know if it was coincidence but he didn't post anything on that thread afterwards, that was a good first impression, I guess.

Fun fact: when I introduced myself as "Frank from the Codex" he said "Ah, yes, you're the guys who hate everything!"

 

[vonAchdorf]

Which of the two?

The baby actually, since Adam already looks like the chick

 

[Fenix]

This report is hilarious.
I like Bubbles writing so much, I never read something fun like that about presumably quite boring game-something events for years, if ever.
This "what I feel" approach is quite refreshing. )
Bubbles and Jarl Frank finely complement each other, so keep it up guys.