Bound by Flame - ARPG where the PC is possessed by a demon

[Avellion]

Spoiler

Fighter, Ranger, Pyromancer. You know the classes are bad when Mass Effect's classes seem more inspired than this shit.

You think Mass Effect inspired the fighter ranger and fire-mage classes?

Of course not. But I am just saying that when even the classes in Mass Effect (whose classes felt pretty uninspired to begin with), feel inspired compared to this shit. That is a bad sign.

 

[eremita]

New video about combat. Looks like it's gonna be ...

 

[Explorerbc]

Having observed the videos, I think it safe to say this will have many similarities to Mars: War Logs. Some combat animations (movement, block, shoot crossbow, crit strike etc.) are almost identical except faster/smoother which is a good thing, and there seems to be a greater variety of abilities. The 3 skill trees Fighter/Ranger/Pyromancer are probably similar to War Log's Warrior/Renegade/Technomancer, and the little we have seen from NPC interaction will probably also be the same. So we are probably getting a prettier version with updated combat in a different setting.

I am also hoping this one will have more open maps than War Logs (which had stages mostly made out of linear corridors), but although these videos at first give the impression of big environments, I don't see any indications for larger stages so far (though I haven't seen much indeed).
And of course they need to help the writing make more sense. For example in War Logs there was a character who swore to kill you for revenge, but when she meets you she suddenly changes her mind and decides to love you for no reason, or other nonsense like that.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to see what improvements they've made. I feel they have interesting ideas but usually luck the budget to fully develop them.

 

[kris]

It did have some inspired art. Monsters and enviroments didn't look like things you have seen a billion times before.

On the other hand, nothing else stirred me anyway at all. Sounds just like the kind of RPG I don't care about.

 

[veryalien]

In an time when we have games like Dark Souls that take ARPG combat to the max I think I'll pass unless there's a ton of more work done on the combat system.

 

[abnaxus]

Combat and enemy design look a bit like Darksiders.

 

[sser]

I'll probably pick this one up when I have the cash.


(Also, they're really good at making trailers given what they have to work with.)

 

[Exar Kun]

It's like this trailer was specifically made to troll the codex.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Why? It shows the classic roll-playing action featured in TOP CRPGs like the Witcher.

 

[StaticSpine]

The game for me looks like a cheaper version of DaS.

 

[toro]

Every time I hear fireballs I'm thinking about balls on fire !? ... anyway ... shitty game will be shitty.

 

[Abu Antar]

Like someone said, looks like Mars: war logs in a fantasy setting. Will buy... at some point.

 

[Turisas]

Screenshots:

Spoiler

 

[abnaxus]

You can play as a Redguard, huh.

 

[Grim Monk]

The game for me looks like Dragon Age 2.

Fixed.

"I want be a dragon demon."

 

[SwiftCrack]

New trailer

Epic Story Trailer.

 

[Luzur]

Looks like shit.

Trailer is hilariously stupid. I almost thought they are joking but - no.

- did notice how camera swings over tits and ass of the "romantic companion". So fucking stupid...

well if you make your gender female your demon will be a hot succubus with big tits and ghetto ass.

 

[StaticSpine]

well if you make your gender female your demon will be a hot succubus with big tits and ghetto ass.

 

[aleph]

Kinda reminds me of Amalur*, though I can't really say why.

*a good thing, fuck you hivemind

 

[Modron]

Not a good a thing. KoA = shitty combat, no C&C, empty mmo locations, crappy dialog, carpal tunnel inducing qtes every 3 seconds; only decent thing about was the character system and different builds you could make but was not enough to salvage the game.

 

[DeepOcean]

Well, this looks like a slightly improved DA 2... they are truly following the footsteps of the masters.

 

[Turisas]

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At least have the guts to do it in your own name.

 

[aleph]

Not a good a thing. KoA = shitty combat, no C&C, empty mmo locations, crappy dialog, carpal tunnel inducing qtes every 3 seconds; only decent thing about was the character system and different builds you could make but was not enough to salvage the game.

I am not trolling. It is true that any single part of Amalur is nothing special and there are alot of flaws. But everything together still made for a game I could not stop playing. I guess it is good for what it is, a Skyrim/WoW crossover with a massive amount of (repetitive) content and some few nice ideas.

 

[SuicideBunny]

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At least have the guts to do it in your own name.

there's no option for that, unless you want me to additionally explicitly write it in colored letters into your post, like some esf mod twat..

 

[Turisas]

there's no option for that, unless you want me to additionally explicitly write it in colored letters into your post, like some esf mod twat..

Silly Xenforo. The spoilers won't stop the images from loading when you open the page though, is it really necessary to have screenshots of a game hidden in its dedicated thread?