So who's going to try the Silverfall demo?

[LCJr.]

http://www.rpgwatch.com/#3648

Looks like it'll be out tomorrow with elf boobies and mechanical dragons galore!

 

[Texas Red]

No. Just... no.

 

[LCJr.]

No. Just... no.

But it's going to have technology and magic just like Arcanum!

 

[Cthulhugoat]

No. Just... no.

But it's going to have technology and magic just like Arcanum!

who caers abolt teknolkofie when u got BOOBYS

 

[OsirisGod]

They have the full version on my local tracker since friday , but i won't bother DLDing 8 GB of hack and slash since i generally suck at games that require player reflexes in combat. I joined the RPG players after the death of Adventure games wich was my flavour until The Longest Journey then they burried the genre for the new and improved action-adventure Lara Croft clone style games beacuse it was so much better now RPGs will suffer the same fate. Sad but true .

Anyway is this anything more then an action game with stats that have no use except they are there for the sake of it ?

 

[denizsi]

Silverfall isn't really marketed as an RPG, you know.

 

[OsirisGod]

Silverfall isn't really marketed as an RPG, you know.

"Silverfall will try to offer hack-and-slash action that's just as fast-paced and addictive as in any other action RPG, while also offering excellent graphics, a huge world, and an open-ended skill system that encourages you to play through the game multiple times!"

the site says that , wich sounds like an improved action RPG with more RPG then most , well i was wondering ...

 

[Texas Red]

No. Just... no.

But it's going to have technology and magic just like Arcanum!

And?

I will wait for the opinions of others on any game that features barely dressed bimbos in most of the artwork.

 

[denizsi]

My bad then.

I will wait for the opinions of others on any game that features barely dressed bimbos in most of the artwork.

What if they aren't dressed at all?

 

[OSK]

Then he's sold!

 

[vazquez595654]

I played the demo already. The collision detection sucks. The artwork is mediocre. The world has bad guys laid out similar to Sacred (which I found really boring). Diablo 2 is still king for these types of games. Who would want to play a crappier version of that? Well apparently many people, since Titan Quest is getting an expansion.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

I'll try it out. Seems intriguing enough!

 

[Nael]

Everything about that game looks headache inducing.

 

[Pegultagol]

I just had flashbacks of dungeon siege about this game. The game will probably take to its style and gameplay, with the difference being not being able to play as a party of no more than 2 characters. I will try it out when it is out, and I believe the French version has already been released last year, and had a lot of small glitches and bugs that I am not certain were resolved, which may explain why the game is slated for a March release.

 

[JrK]

Holy shite! Have you guys seen those screenies? They're FUGLY!

 

[JarlFrank]

I played the demo already. The collision detection sucks. The artwork is mediocre. The world has bad guys laid out similar to Sacred (which I found really boring). Diablo 2 is still king for these types of games. Who would want to play a crappier version of that? Well apparently many people, since Titan Quest is getting an expansion.

Titan Quest was actually good, and I also liked Sacred. Both tried to improve on Diablo, especially Sacred which offered a freely explorable world with lots of sidequests, and Titan Quest has a very nice setting.
Still, Diablo 2 is the best hack and slay.
All of them are nice for some brainless monster-hacking fun. No real RPGs, but good hack and slashers.

 

[Fez]

I can live with ugly visuals in the game if the rest is good enough.

 

[Jasede]

...just like everyone here should.

 

[JarlFrank]

...just like everyone here does.

fixed.

 

[Jasede]

Wrong. Haven't you met "I won't play it without anti-aliasing"-aweigh? And all those bitches that won't play Dwarf Fortress without tiles.

 

[JarlFrank]

Wrong. Haven't you met "I won't play it without anti-aliasing"-aweigh? And all those bitches that won't play Dwarf Fortress without tiles.

Well, strangely I find anti-aliaising sucks. It looks so freaking blurry.
And I also don't really like ASCII games, but some can turn out to be quite good if I can get myself to play them. Like Nethack. Which I now found with graphics.

But let's say most of the people here don't really care about graphics.
If graphics were that important to everyone, Fallout would never have gotten such a cult classic.

 

[Nedrah]

We're suckers for art direction and style more than for shaders and shineys, mostly. That's why Fallout's graphics will likely never get ugly.

ASCII Dwarf Fortress is purely a matter of me being unable to tell what's going on / making sense of the screen takes more effort than actually playing. That, and I broke the external keypad for my laptop, so it's out of the question for now anyway.

 

[Fez]

While I don't mind ASCII roguelikes, I agree that in the case of a real-time game like DF it can be hard to keep track of everything and remember what each symbol variation means, especially when it is new to you. Tiles are a matter of functionality rather than eye-candy.

 

[aries202]

I have played the french demo and I found the
demo veru fun and such. It is correct that
the graphics and visuals probably not are that good, but I far prefer silverfall's raw stylished graphics over say Oblivion's well polished visuals.

The story is fun, though. The quests and skill trees
is similar (but not equal) to Diablo. The quests you reciece actually also has to with a much deeper story than the one in say Diablo.

The combat however is similar or equal to Diablo,
and as far I could tell it did matter if you had points
in say technology or magic and such.

The way I view Silverfall is that is sort of an action RPG with a more deeper story than Diablo.

So, yes, im gonna play the silverfall demo...

 

[suibhne]

I'm a fan of cel-shading and could use a short diversion, so I'll give the demo a whirl, probably tomorrow.