KickStarter The Wayward Realms - upcoming Daggerfall-like RPG from original Elder Scrolls developers

[Butter]

I predict them wasting a lot of time and money on modernish graphics that look worse than Daggerfall sprites.

 

[The Wall]

They should go for good style instead of good graphics. Unique graphics on one-two levels above Daggerfall Unity's would make this project doable, without sacrifices in scope, complexity and depth. Some combination of well put Kickstart campaign + decent publisher later on and I can totally see them making it. We'll see, we will see ...

 

[Ranarama]

It's like how people reacted with the The Outer Worlds. Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky weren't going to revive the industry because of their knowledge in the craft - and certainly not because they were two of the seven pioneers in pre-Black Isle that assisted in making a classic. People think they can just lump veterans together and magic will automatically appear..

I think for every big name like Tim Schaffer, Peter Molyneux et. al. there's some Project Manager/Producer type person brutally editing things and keeping them on track. It's like when George Lucas lost the best editor in the industry.

If you don't have the excellent support people that made these names popular in the first place you just get unadulterated garbage.

 

[Makabb]

Language to decipher

 

[Max Heap]

Strange...they mirrored the language from the original artwork.

Perhaps they wanted the language to be more exotic and made it read right to left at first, but then reconsidered...

Linguistic decline confirmed!

Spoiler

It's probably english or some sort of pig latin. There are pretty much 26 letters, not counting some minor exceptions involving dots over other symbols

 

[grimace]

"Despite being refered to as 'the Runic Language', Runic is merely a Cypher of the English alphabet, the primary language of New Britannia in fact being English."

In Lord British games the language on display is merely a cypher of the English letters.

Are we looking at another cypher as a design element for a fantasy role playing game?

 

[Makabb]

 

[Makabb]

They will release it -when it's ready-, they have no pressure so Julian can take all the time he wants.

 

[Makabb]

Even if Ted is there, it means nothing if the aforementioned qualities aren't present.

They have the original Bethesda team

Julian Lefay
Ted Peterson
Vijay Lakshman
Eric Heberling
Don Nalezyty

 

[Makabb]

No, almost every single game that is considered a "masterpiece" is a product of circumstance. Timing, ambition, aggregated talent with unique skill-sets followed by congruence in relying on each other for their expertise, mostly great workplace morale and strong mettle to see things through to the end.

 

[HoboForEternity]

i like these guys tbh. hope they have more to show soon.

 

[DOS]

They will release it -when it's ready-, they have no pressure so Julian can take all the time he wants.

That's what bothers me. Having no pressure whatsoever can lead to mulling over particulars that could create accumulative divergence from the overall vision of the game.

They have the original Bethesda team

Julian Lefay
Ted Peterson
Vijay Lakshman
Eric Heberling
Don Nalezyty

Bruce Nesmith
Christopher Weaver

Vijay doesn't have shit on Chris when comparing their portfolios, so I don't have as much faith in his abilities to captain a ship when sailing through rough seas the likes of Daggerfall (let alone anything claimed BEYOND those extremities).

It's still talk. More walking to be done for me to take anything Ted is saying seriously. As I said, those elements I mentioned are products of circumstance that are very hard to replicate again. Accruing all these old veterans isn't the product of success; all the finer nuances of socialized productivity is. I have doubts they can replicate the type of productive energy that took place with Daggerfall. The art direction, typeface, name of the studio and game alone accedes to my suspicions of doubt. They're too old.

I'd rather Lefay live out his ultimate dream as a professor at a university where he can train some young blood and lead them in the right direction to create a new generation of talent that could turn the state of this industry around. Always relying on the old cats to save it is just trying to resuscitate a long-rotting corpse.

 

[Makabb]

That's what bothers me. Having no pressure whatsoever can lead to mulling over particulars that could create accumulative divergence from the overall vision of the game.

It's yet to be seen

Bruce Nesmith
Christopher Weaver

Nesmith was not there at Arena and Weaver was the CO, so I don't think he was calling the shots how the game is made.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm convinced this entire thing is an elaborate scam to trick makabb into mortgaging his house and giving them the money.

 

[V_K]

I'm convinced this entire thing is an elaborate scam to trick makabb into mortgaging his house and giving them the money.

I'm not sure you're allowed to mortgage your parents' basement. Nor that it would yield much.

 

[Makabb]

Unlike other scam kickstarters, they are making the game first and asking for money once it's done and not other way around.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Makabb]

 

[Makabb]

You know Julian is the real deal when he got a massive server in his bedroom and a math equation on his t-shirt.

 

[Wunderbar]

It's not coming out.

 

[Makabb]

It's not coming out.

Way too obvious attempt

 

[Grauken]

I didn't have time to fuck around on a forum because I was too busy playing every worthwhile RPG. Now that I've finished that I'm ready to discuss them so I've come here; the best place on the internet to discuss rpgs. The only reason my account is new is because I was getting proper experience while you guys were jerking each other off with the tiny amount of RPGs you have under your belt. Don't mistake me for some plump soft cheeked child because it says 2020 on my profile. I have much more experience and much better opinions than you could possibly have until you've experienced all the games I have. You guys may have experience taking but shit in the forums but I have experience where it counts, and all that counts is the rpg experience. If you want to shit talk go ahead but call me when you guys want to have some real, well informed rpg discussions. I am Ontopoly. Player of the realms of rpgs. Master of swords and spells. Manipulator of .Ini files. Devourer of antagonists. Champion of the great halls of achievements. The sword coast knows me as bhaal spawn. The people of Arcanum know me as the living one. I am known in morrowind as the Nerevarine. And there are more titles. Titles that you do not even know. Titles that if uttered aloud would tear the minds of casuals such as yourselves apart.

If I had known we have such an illustrious member on our little site, I would have learned how to bow, alas, all I can offer is a hearty

 

[Makabb]

The music at the end is friggin fire..... this game will blow away every other RPG to date, mark my words, all my money on OLG stocks !!!

 

[karnak]

Promises, promises, ideas and theories.

I really want this project to succeed and bring more Incline.
But I can't shake the feeling that we've all seen this before (like this one).

Time will tell.

 

[Makabb]

Promises, promises, ideas and theories.

I really want this project to succeed and bring more Inlcine.
But I can't shake the feeling that we've all seen this before (like this one).

Time will tell.

The greatest incline of our times cometh, brace yourselves, nothing can stop this train now