KickStarter The Waylanders - historical fantasy time travel RPG inspired by Dragon Age: Origins

[rusty_shackleford]

oh this dialogue
is this a comedy?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

oh this dialogue
is this a comedy?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

here's your celtic prince bro

(the king is the white guy in the foreground on the left, fyi)

I'm not sure how much of this I can take guys.
The animations are good is about the only nice thing I can say.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Oh. My. God. That dialogue... I'm dying over here. Like I think the sorceress may have given me cancer using nothing but words.

 

[lycanwarrior]

The combat system in this game was a disaster: unresponsive, unbalanced and unintuitive. It made the game boring and tedious.

I liked the graphics and art direction (kinda). However, it seemed like it was trying for the "Fortnite" crowd instead of going for the traditional CRPG audience.

Which ultimately doomed this game from the start.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Putting this on their Steam page, as if it's high praise, was certainly a red flag

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The mouse+keyboard controls are horrible. How did they manage to mess that up?

 

[user]

oh this dialogue
is this a comedy?

What is this cringefest? This kind of writing wouldn't be passable on Gilmore Girls.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The art is good. The characters look good in motion, like a 3D animated show. Animations are good, environment art also quite good.

That's the only positive things I can say about this game. Hope the artists get jobs in the Industry and everyone else goes and learns a trade skill.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The art is good. The characters look good in motion, like a 3D animated show. Animations are good, environment art also quite good.

That's the only positive things I can say about this game. Hope the artists get jobs in the Industry and everyone else goes and learns a trade skill.

Music ain't all that, eh?

 

[Torus]

Putting this on their Steam page, as if it's high praise, was certainly a red flag

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Wouldn't call it a bad thing either. Pure turnbased often slows down all the trivial fights for no reason and makes the game a slog. Especially when movement is required.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The mouse sensitivity setting doesn't load properly, I have to redo it everytime I load the game. Even on the highest setting, it's far too low.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

performance is pretty bad
there's no tactics system like DAO, just generic AI 'aggressive' or 'passive' and something inbetween I forgot
the game by default has the resolution scaling at 71%, you have to manually change it to 100% in the config file...

seems very linear so far with little exploration

[edit]
description says the AI uses skills on aggressive, but it doesn't actually seem to be using most of them...

doesn't seem to be a hotkey to select party members

starting to think this was made by people who played the console version of dragon age 2.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Alright, a point in their favor. They let you select between two classes that make sense when a character joins your party.

Did I mention the install size is >60GiB by the way? Yeah, don't ask.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

tbh feels more like a very bad jrpg
other than the combat, reminds me significantly more of FFX than DAO.

especially with the emphasis on using a controller, the game was definitely not designed for kb+m

 

[Kaivokz]

rusty_shackleford just to be clear, those screenshots of dialogue aren’t parody?
“charming as fuck” “a total dipshit” “SO devoted” — taken out of context these sound like excerpts from a 27 year old cat lady in present day (which might be the majority of DA’s remaining fans)…

But, seriously, those are real lines from the game?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

sorry to disappoint but I'm not sure if I can continue playing this, the AI is horrible and there's no way to control it other than on or off. My caster guy keeps running into melee range for whatever reason despite him not even having a melee attack, they are barely using their abilities, there's no way to prevent them from using abilities you don't want to use.

This has none of the good parts of DAO's combat at all.

 

[gerey]

Why is that tranny grey when the game is supposed to be historical?

Also, is that a bowl full of eggs behind xir?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Why is that tranny grey when the game is supposed to be historical?

something they made up for the game for whatever reason
https://thewaylanders.fandom.com/wiki/Mourians

can't believe this even has a wiki, a dev must have made it

Also, is that a bowl full of eggs behind xir?

yes

this has very, VERY little to do with celtic myth/history

 

[Modron]

Can you make it eat the eggs?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

rusty_shackleford just to be clear, those screenshots of dialogue aren’t parody?
“charming as fuck” “a total dipshit” “SO devoted” — taken out of context these sound like excerpts from a 27 year old cat lady in present day (which might be the majority of DA’s remaining fans)…

But, seriously, those are real lines from the game?

the dialogue is meant to be taken seriously(....I think?) but it's some of the worst I've ever encountered in a game.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Can you make it eat the eggs?

No. I haven't had a single dialogue choice so far that was more than "tell me about x", actually.
Typical conversation is:

"bla bla bla stupid text dump"
3-6 options, all of them are some form of "Tell me about X"
End conversation

There have been absolutely zero choices.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

if anyone reading this is looking for a game to play, check out dark disciples 2 instead of wasting your time on this trash
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/dark-disciples-ii.24135/
https://ancient-architects.com/?page_id=225

You might actually enjoy that game, but I guarantee you will not enjoy this one.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

forgot to mention that if you're an EU citizen, you were forced to subsidize this abomination that shits all over an EU country's culture/mythology
http://gatosalvajestudio.com/home/

scroll to the bottom to see all the EU funding crap

 

[Sarathiour]

Never mind the grey "woman"(?) alien in celtic world, even the way she speaks.

"The Druid college".

Druid were absolutely bent on oral transmission of knowledge, grouping them together in some sort of university is pure nonsense.