Indie Call of Saregnar - a Betrayal at Krondor-inspired RPG

[anvi]

Stop distracting him with commas and apostrophes or this will be 2040!

 

[Ninjerk]

Also the comma before "most probably" looks like it could be a comma splice, but maybe it could qualify as a non-defining relative clause. The mechanics there are a bit more sophisticated than I have the training to correct. Those sections just read very awkwardly to me.

Says the guy who started his paragraph with “Also,” an adverb that requires the use of a comma when used at the beginning of a sentence.

on an internet forum oh look nocapitalizedlettersandhestoppedusingspaces

Mrs. Rhuantavan, your husband is an adult and can handle criticism about convention--especially if it improves the final product.

 

[Grotesque]

same tree...

Spoiler

when
Call of Saregnar is released

 

[Burning Bridges]

Remember when Mountain Blade released and it was just a lukewarm fart.

 

[ADL]

Remember when Mountain Blade released and it was just a lukewarm fart.

No because that never happened.

 

[Rhuantavan]

 

[Avonaeon]

It's oozing atmosphere! Good job, man

 

[Abu Antar]

It's oozing atmosphere! Good job, man

I thought about this to myself when I saw those screens. I was out by the lake, yesterday. Only nature for 6km and it was raining. Those screens got me right in the feels.

 

[anvi]

I don't get how a game with pixelly old school graphics can look so much more immersive than modern Cryengine shit. I always thought that about my favorite game Everquest, and I think it about this too. Can almost smell the damp wood in that rainy pic.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I don't get how a game with pixelly old school graphics can look so much more immersive than modern Cryengine shit. I always thought that about my favorite game Everquest, and I think it about this too. Can almost smell the damp wood in that rainy pic.

I've found that more realistic graphics are then it's more easy for little mistakes to break the illusion.
I don't know if there's equivalent term for uncanny valley for environments, but that's pretty much what I've experienced with some AAA titles.

 

[anvi]

Yeah. There were some great moments in some big budget games though, in that shitty Dragon Age Inquisition there was some region that had a choppy rolling ocean and I was amazed by how it looked and I felt like I was there. Shame the gameplay sucked.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I don't get how a game with pixelly old school graphics can look so much more immersive than modern Cryengine shit. I always thought that about my favorite game Everquest, and I think it about this too. Can almost smell the damp wood in that rainy pic.

Visual and mechanical consistency helps the immersion much more than realistic graphics. King's Field manages to nail that quite well along with Daggerfall (well, except for 'HALT' moments).

When the game doesn't look real, but everything makes sense within the game world, it works. When the game looks realistic, but everything else feels scripted, it doesn't.

 

[ItsChon]

I don't get how a game with pixelly old school graphics can look so much more immersive than modern Cryengine shit. I always thought that about my favorite game Everquest, and I think it about this too. Can almost smell the damp wood in that rainy pic.

It's almost as if how high fidelity you can get a game to look has nothing to do with how immersive/beautiful the graphics actually are...

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[anvi]

Such an EverQuest vibe. Graphics are amazing. Hope the gameplay is good.

 

[Rhuantavan]

Such an EverQuest vibe. Graphics are amazing. Hope the gameplay is good.

I hope so too.

 

[anvi]

I have faith in you

 

[Dyspaire]

Such an EverQuest vibe. Graphics are amazing. Hope the gameplay is good.

I hope so too.

If you don't mind me asking directly, what's your estimated release date within a year?

 

[Rhuantavan]

Such an EverQuest vibe. Graphics are amazing. Hope the gameplay is good.

I hope so too.

If you don't mind me asking directly, what's your estimated release date within a year?

I’d love to be able to release it within 2030, but realistically it’ll be released when it’s done.

 

[anvi]

Maybe Kickstarter will happen for you before that point and you could hire another coder. Or maybe someone will volunteer?!

 

[Vapid]

 

[Rhuantavan]

4 years have passed between these screenshots... Feeling old.

 

[Haba]

Is it ready yet?

 

[Rhuantavan]

Oh you joker!

 

[anvi]

Is that realtime lighting? It sure is a pretty looking game.