Development Info Age of Decadence Receives Some Polishing

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Tags: Age of Decadence; Iron Tower

<p><em>Right now we are working on making everything as "final" as possible.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,1672.msg54807.html#msg54807" target="_blank">Let Oscar show you some examples:</a></p>
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<p>So, here is the old loremaster vignette (click the spoiler):</p>
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<p>As you can see, it's a extremely linear sequence, and that it has a couple of interesting opportunities to use skill checks. Here it doesn't matter if you make a loremaster with 4 intelligence and 4 charisma, and with all skill points in combat skills. You will still get the lore dialogue and will easily convince him to give you the money. So we re-worked it, added a lore and a persuasion check, and different reactions from the trader and Feng depending on your success (please forgive the formatting):</p>
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<p>Basically, now the vignette has 4 outcomes which rewards proper investment in skills that are tied to your background, which makes your character actually demonstrate his knowledge and persuasion, instead of just watching a sequence that ignores the character skills. This is particularly cool in the grifter's vignette, where your character can fail conning the merchant if your skills are not up to par. Also, apart from the design, the writing and mood is improved.</p>
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<p>See? As Thursday approaches they keep on improving up to the last minute. I'd consider it nifty if they'd make the engine/camera feel less clunky too.</p>
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<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com/#15785">RPGWatch</a></p>

Sounds so good

Because, listen:

Whenever some interview with a DA2 dev or something comes out, we laugh our asses off because of the hype and the buzzwords. "Bahaha!" we go at the "innovashun" and the "visceral combat." Well, those words work because they target a specific audience, who likes visceral combat and big-breasted aliens.

Now, if you wanted to hype the Codex-crowd, isn't something like this:

exactly what you'd say?

Point is: I'm afraid whether they'll actually deliver a consistent experience with enough of the above. And of course, whether the game will ever see the light of day.

So does this mean we are actually closer to release?

Best since Halo? OMG RLY?

I don't know. I got a bad feeling about this Fox!

Maybe the Codex is just gettin' to me.

I just came in my pants.

Wouldn't make sense, since Halo Reach is best since PoR: RoMD.