Game News Cralon is an upcoming Ultima Underworld-inspired dungeon crawler from Bjorn & Jenny Pankratz

[Roguey]

B: Avowed? Obviously a truckload of issues, but none related to engine - in the technical department, the game is fine. It's the game design & writing that's trash.

They’d have to sacrifice the ambitions of building a Skyrim-style map where players could walk for hours and still not see everything. But for both technological and logistical reasons, that was proving to be an impossible quest.

Engines don't make games bad - bad devs and/or bad management does.

This is all they have to work with.

"It's much harder and more complicated to make even a AA game now than it was 10 years ago" - Josh Sawyer. Is that really solely because all the competent people burned out and no one replaced them?

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Ultima Underworld is a cursed franchise, spiritual successors always turn out shit

There are no more old good franchises that haven't been cursed yet.

 

[SixDead]

Ultima Underworld is a cursed franchise, spiritual successors always turn out shit

There are no more old good franchises that haven't been cursed yet.

Wizardry is doing fine, desu^^

 

[thesheeep]

"It's much harder and more complicated to make even a AA game now than it was 10 years ago" - Josh Sawyer. Is that really solely because all the competent people burned out and no one replaced them?

Partly.
But also because production standards have risen by such an insane margin (for high-end productions) that everything outside of the purely mechanic design & writing department takes drastically longer.
Just take animations and how perfect they have to be nowadays as compared to what people were happy with a decade ago (and still mostly are for smaller productions).

 

[Fenix]

Ultima Underworld is a cursed franchise, spiritual successors always turn out shit

There are no more old good franchises that haven't been cursed yet.

System Shock? Well, if we count bioshock...

 

[Fenix]

Due russian youtube and vpn not working now, can't see the graffixxx, so can't say anything.
The only dugeon crawlers I've been playnig for years are rogulikes (well underrail? probably no) (dungeon rats?) so don't have an image of how it be played...

 

[luj1]

B: Avowed? Obviously a truckload of issues, but none related to engine - in the technical department, the game is fine. It's the game design & writing that's trash.

They’d have to sacrifice the ambitions of building a Skyrim-style map where players could walk for hours and still not see everything. But for both technological and logistical reasons, that was proving to be an impossible quest.

Engines don't make games bad - bad devs and/or bad management does.

This is all they have to work with.

"It's much harder and more complicated to make even a AA game now than it was 10 years ago" - Josh Sawyer. Is that really solely because all the competent people burned out and no one replaced them?

can u stop posting your faggot overlord Soyer everywhere

I trust that gamedev is harder for him than 20 years ago, because he got progressively more insane/cucked as time went on

 

[arepo]

The devs are currently doing a livestream with German gaming magazine GameStar, and now I'm utterly amazed how much Björn Pankratz himself looks like a character from Gothic.