Vilecat Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Oh, whoa, haven't posted in ages! Sup ladies Tom Hall and Brenda Brathwaite have started today a kickstarter to bring us RPG lovers a old school type of game, complete with stats, character alignements and actions that affect your story. It's simply called Old School RPG and is worth at least skimming through. I don't know about you guys, but I'd love me some more Baldur's Gate-esque games around. Or Dragon Age, although you couldn't really create your party from scratch, only your main character. With the possiblity of even getting a 2nd game if they gather enough money and a pen and paper option for whoever pays $60 and up, this is a very sweet deal. Loot Drop (the developping team) has already announced that this will be a DRM-free game too. Whatcha think, sounds interesting? I'm planning on backing 'em up. I can't see how they could go wrong with this. I wish I could become a NPC or a place I don't really have that kind of money though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleck Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Tom Hall and Brenda Brathwaite have started today a kickstarter to bring us RPG lovers a old school type of game, complete with stats, character alignements and actions that affect your story. so basically just like all the new school rpgs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilecat Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 I'm talking D&D/pen and paper old school, darlin' <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteo Xavier Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Wouldn't the type of people that are still into serious Pen and Paper RPG kinda stuff just play real Pen and Paper RPGs? Honest to God, you people are literally going to run yourselves into premature death from poverty sponsoring every Kickstarter that gets posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROTO·DOME Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Well whatever, I think it's cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC2151 Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 How many times can the phrase "old school" be uttered in a single video? $1mill is a pretty big goal - let's see if they can reach it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalzon Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I'm half-tempted to donate $1000 to become an npc that is regularly maimed or horribly mutilated in a quest chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 This doesn't have all the stuff they're talking about, but if you're looking for something Baldur's Gate-esque... http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/inquisitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Oh, whoa, haven't posted in ages! Sup ladies Tom Hall and Brenda Brathwaite have started today a kickstarter to bring us RPG lovers a old school type of game, complete with stats, character alignements and actions that affect your story. It's simply called Old School RPG and is worth at least skimming through. I don't know about you guys, but I'd love me some more Baldur's Gate-esque games around. Or Dragon Age, although you couldn't really create your party from scratch, only your main character. With the possiblity of even getting a 2nd game if they gather enough money and a pen and paper option for whoever pays $60 and up, this is a very sweet deal. Loot Drop (the developping team) has already announced that this will be a DRM-free game too. Whatcha think, sounds interesting? I'm planning on backing 'em up. I can't see how they could go wrong with this. I wish I could become a NPC or a place I don't really have that kind of money though. I think an Ultima-type game with more interesting combat would be nice. IMMERSE ME. Oh shit, these guys designed Wizardry and they have developers from Jagged Alliance on staff? OK, yeah, the combat system should be well taken care of, then. Get ready for an old school TACTICAL RPG, peoplez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otakatt Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Wizardry God I miss the old Wizardry games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 God I miss the old Wizardry games. Go download them I basically had a year off my last year of undergrad, and I spent a good chunk of that year playing old Wizardry and Might & Magic games (along with a fuck ton of classic Everquest via Project 1999). Nerdiest year of my life. It was awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilecat Posted October 5, 2012 Author Share Posted October 5, 2012 Go download them I basically had a year off my last year of undergrad, and I spent a good chunk of that year playing old Wizardry and Might & Magic games (along with a fuck ton of classic Everquest via Project 1999). Nerdiest year of my life. It was awesome. Oh yes, the old Might and Magic games. Totally forgot about those. I'd love to see a more recent version/incarnation of games like these, and thought many would be interested in at least following the developpement on this one. Inquisitor looks interesting, but I'm not gonna spend any money on games before next year after getting Pokemon Conquest, Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2. I could swear I've seen it on Steam Greenlight btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Ah, you're right! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92965329 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otakatt Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Go download them I basically had a year off my last year of undergrad, and I spent a good chunk of that year playing old Wizardry and Might & Magic games (along with a fuck ton of classic Everquest via Project 1999). Nerdiest year of my life. It was awesome. But.. but I've already played the good ones a whole whole bunch. Especially 5, oy vey. Though I skipped over 4 because it kicked my butt like whoa. I wish the genre was popular in the US and more Wizardry-esque games were released here. Dark Spire was great. Etrian Odyssey bored me to tears. Maybe I'll play Wizardry 6 again sometime soon. Stupid endings aside, that game was really awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 But.. but I've already played the good ones a whole whole bunch. Especially 5, oy vey. Though I skipped over 4 because it kicked my butt like whoa.I wish the genre was popular in the US and more Wizardry-esque games were released here. Dark Spire was great. Etrian Odyssey bored me to tears. Maybe I'll play Wizardry 6 again sometime soon. Stupid endings aside, that game was really awesome. Yep, good ol' dungeon crawlers are hard to come by these days. That's why I'm into roguelikes. Infinitely different dungeon crawl experience every time. Have you tried the Avernum/Exile series? Fantastic games with an extremely imaginative world. And yeah, Etrian Odyssey sucked. Why would anyone want to play a game that glorifies grinding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC2151 Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Tell that to Disgaea fans. >>put 80hrs into Disgaea DS over here<< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Tell that to Disgaea fans.>>put 80hrs into Disgaea DS over here<< Hah, actually, the first Disgaea is the game that put the final nail in the JRPG coffin for me. I gave it an honest chance and made it to the end of the game, but it sorta just seemed like it was a big grind. The item world stuff was just... ugh... I haven't played a JRPG since, and I'm not sure I ever will again. If that's your thing, though, Disgaea is certainly a good choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC2151 Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I am actually still confused why I put that much time into Disgaea. I mean, for fuck's sake I never even beat the game and at least one-third of that time was in Item World. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otakatt Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Item World. x.x I loved Disgaea. I beat it, but after getting Laharl to level 1000 something I just couldn't do it anymore... The Item World confused me, and I couldn't do all the additional content because you had to have a crazy high level. But the story and presentation of the story was <3 I don't mind all types of grinding, but it wasn't enjoyable in Disgaea. Cave of Trials 3, attack, rinse, repeat.. ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I am actually still confused why I put that much time into Disgaea. I mean, for fuck's sake I never even beat the game and at least one-third of that time was in Item World. You got JRPG'd. It happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otakatt Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 You got JRPG'd. It happens. Dragon Quest VII. 125 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalzon Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea 1 I put 300 hours into each. And yes, 120 hours or so for DQ7, and 150 hours for Xenoblade. I've also got over 50 hours in Rainbow Moon now (a psn download title. If you like turn-based strategy rpgs, check it out maybe), and 22 hours on Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2. And that doesn't even take into account Last Story, which I've put on hold because my Wii can't read the disc for more than one hour, but I was about 15 hours into that one too. I'm addicted to grinding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilecat Posted October 6, 2012 Author Share Posted October 6, 2012 Oh my, Disgaea. I think I have almost 150H accumulated only for the first game. The humor and writing were pretty good and refreshing from your average JRPG. I think I finished the game twice, then started the cave of Trials and stopped after a while, I got bored of grinding for the next map (Laharl is in the lv400's if I recall). Disgaea 2 was also enjoyable, but I didn't spend as much time. I really enjoyed the Dark Sun challenge a lot more than Cave of Trials or the Item world (hated the latter). Then there's FFT, the Fire Emblem games on GBA, Suikoden Tactics and more recently Pokemon Conquest, ... I'm fine with grinding when there's something to distract you from it (that's how I ended up with 8 lv 80 characters in WoW during LK and over 20 at lv60+ during Cata). But enough StratRPGs, I wanna go back to regular RPG, something that doesn't have to be a roguelike for me to get all the promising stuff from this kickstarter. Speaking of, apparently they updated the info with some sort of prologue("Setting and Story") to their game. Sci-fi turn medieval type of twist it seems. Edit: also there's a setup/prologue for the possible 2nd game, if they hit the mark. Just saw it as I scrolled down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilecat Posted October 9, 2012 Author Share Posted October 9, 2012 Loot Drop added more in the lore/backstory of the game in an update, as I previously mentionned. They regrouped it all in this post and added the first concept art of game 1's protagonist along with a few paragraphs on what the Shaker company is. Rawr! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar of Justice Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Hah, actually, the first Disgaea is the game that put the final nail in the JRPG coffin for me. I gave it an honest chance and made it to the end of the game, but it sorta just seemed like it was a big grind. The item world stuff was just... ugh... I haven't played a JRPG since, and I'm not sure I ever will again.If that's your thing, though, Disgaea is certainly a good choice Try Radiant Historia. It's like all the things you loved about SNES JRPGs crammed into one game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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