It might look that good when it comes out. No one really knows because those are basically mock ups. The game is well over a year away which means they haven't designed tons of stuff yet. I'm honestly sad to see it on Kickstarter. It would be easy to get real funding for this.
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It probably wouldn't be that easy no, not for this genre and not the same kind of funding they'll get from the kickstarter. And really what difference does it make, they've already started working on the game and are probably getting the money from the kickstarter earlier in developement than if they had to make a proof of concept to present to investors and shit and then get the green light. Only real difference is they'll have to have a guy doing updates every now and then on how the developement is going. They'll also get a lot of free testing from people who bought into early access and what not.
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If I read you right you think they could have gotten more funding from a real publisher and made a better game? I dunno tbh, while they certainly made a profit on Wasteland 2, it might not have been enough for a publisher to pick it up. These days publishers want to see WOW level returns or something retarded like that to give the green light and they sure as hell want a measure of control of the end product, both that might work against us players.
Perhaps I am wrong but they 100% admit that they didn't seek funds, not because they thought they couldn't get them, but because they didn't want to. So now they take risk away from themselves and put it on me and you, the consumer. As I see more and more companies across all genre's of gaming doing this it makes me a little mad.
Bard's Tale brings me back to middle school so I already threw in my cash, I'm just not happy about it.
Bard's Tale brings me back to middle school so I already threw in my cash, I'm just not happy about it.
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I'd be wary if they weren't also throwing their own money back into it. It's one thing for a company to place the entirety of the financial risk on the backers. It's another thing when they share in the risk. That's why I have no problem making this investment 2+ years before I'll see the results.
Ok, I'll have a look at the kickstarter for this again. I really enjoyed playing the first Bard's Tale on my Dad's Apple IIGS.
I don't think I have the patience to play through those games without an auto-mapper. I hope they add that in.
Yeah, right. I'm sure if I could find those maps, they'd fall apart in my hands as I removed them from storage.
My maps were terrible too, I had the laziest notes. I did come across them once a decade ago and I had no idea what half the things I wrote down meant.
My maps were terrible too, I had the laziest notes. I did come across them once a decade ago and I had no idea what half the things I wrote down meant.
Don't remember if it was bards tale or wizardry, but one of them had non obvious teleporters that, in retrospect, were clearly designed to fuck with people trying to map things, I got caught by that one for a good few hours ;p
Yeah I think that was Bard's Tale. You'd get teleported somewhere with the exact same features you were already looking at with a slight visual cue.
