avianflu wrote on Mar 20, 2013, 10:29:

Garriot is trying to alienate all of his game dev peers in one fell swoop.

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 14:31:

Fati wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 14:24:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 13:20:
There's a difference between sending a scout or 2, and sending 15 starter troops all aimed directly at your resource gatherers. Sure sometimes I micro quick enough to counter it, but every game is just about the same unless playing with friends. It's the mentality of SC players apparently that every game needs to hurry up and end. At least that's been my experience with SC2.

I don't think RTS is for you. You need to learn how to defend early pressure. Once you realize that the players who pressure early put themselves at a significant economic disadvantage, you'll see that all you need to do is successfully defend, counter-attack and it's gg.

Right, but what if I want to enjoy the game I paid for? What if I'd like to go up the tech tree and not have the game end in 10 minutes? I can do this just fine in every other RTS that is MP. Blizzard titles? Hell you're lucky if you don't have shit in your base 2 and a half minutes in.

saluk wrote on Mar 10, 2013, 15:36:

briktal wrote on Mar 10, 2013, 11:26:
I'm still not sure why this game is supposed to be good. It's a second big RPG being worked on by a developer that's made 1 decent game, 1 bad game, and 1 failed and cancelled game in 10 years.

It's a bit of a leap of faith - more of a hope that it's good than any kind of "oh yeah, torment is going to kick butt!" The decent game they made was actually an rpg - none of their other titles have been. Moreover, the people involved have actually made great games, and there are people on this project who worked on the first torment.

It also helps a lot that the design of torment and wasteland 2 are very clear and have been successful designs in the past. Sequels are harder to do badly, especially if you follow the formula and don't try and change genre mid-series (*cough* ME *cough*).

So all in all, leap of faith, yes, but not blind misplaced optimism.

EricFate wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 03:09:
I wish I still had enough faith in his vision to want to contribute, but I feel like he lost his way after Ultima 7.

Lots of ideas with no restraint is a recipe for a Moleynoux-style train wreck. Add in an internet only, persistent world type environment and it interests me even less.

Without a Raph Koster type on board, I can't even justify forking over enough to reach even the lowest tier.

Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 18:16:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 18:11:
I just want to see the return of the headless.

Bridge Trolls or GTFO, LB!

Also, there better be two moons (Let's call them Fammel and Trelucca!), and a reagent that I can only harvest on full moon for both. (which was awesome once computers became so fast that you could just hold down the {H}arvest key and the game would harvest 987 billion times while the moons were in alignment. )

I need to replay U4 again. Better go find that update mod.

Creston

Julio wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 21:13:
I'm going to pass on this one.

1) Richard Garriott has had quite a few flops recently, this looks like another one
2) Heresy I know, but I never liked any Ultima game
3) I'm not giving a guy who's got a gazillion dollars more money
4) The screenshots look like they are from 1990

JediPunisher wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 14:28:
"Our team is built around a core of industry experts" … Ok, then who is on the design team?

"We are using powerful, proven tools" ... Like what? What game engine are you using?
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Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 13:42:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 13:12:
There's no need to hate just because he's rich. If you're going to hate at least bag on U8 or U9. Those were crap.

RG is a nice guy, but that has little to do with funding his endeavors. I don't know that anyone is hating, I think it's legitimate question to ask "You can easily afford to publish this yourself. Why do you need Kickstarter money?"

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Creston