Game News Age of Decadence September Update: Release date - October 14th!

[Irenaeus II]

That's from an earlier version. This is the current one.

Much better.

 

[Lurker King]

Nobody posted the new art!

 

[Grotesque]

I got chills reading it.
And maybe I'll get hating this screen

 

[Starwars]

I've seen that text so many fucking times, especially during the earlier beta testing. Many times were spent hammering the mousebutton to get back to the main menu.

 

[Havoc]

Option "Skip already read Death Screens"?

 

[Black]

Then what would the game be about?

 

[Vault Dweller]

Everyone for themselves, work for your profit, competition, etc. You'd have to characterize it as a kind of manifest for anarcho-capitalism if anything at all. It can't take the idea of altruism and even basic cooperation seriously, which is amusing and rather childish in a certain way.

It fits the setting, no? Both pseudo-antiquity and 'collapse of an empire'. Not much room for altruism and social justice there. As for cooperation, there is plenty but it's not in your face. Certainly not in a Biowarian "let's hold hands, sing kumbaya, and work together" fashion.

 

[Lurker King]

Interesting affirmation. It certainly is anti-ideological in the sense that it has a strong anti-authoritarianism vibe going for it - but if anything, it is laden with right-wing ideas which VD is generally fond of. Everyone for themselves, work for your profit, competition, etc. You'd have to characterize it as a kind of manifest for anarcho-capitalism if anything at all. It can't take the idea of altruism and even basic cooperation seriously, which is amusing and rather childish in a certain way. You can just hear the lamentations of the wounded tearful soul telling you that hope is pointless and that you have to harden yourself to face reality ; the romantic crying that the world before was so much better when we didn't have to live like this... oh noooooooooo~~~~~

What Pope Amole meant is that the game doesn’t have that epic greatness commonly associated with cRPGs, not that he was amoral or apolitical. And by the way, I disagree with him. AoD doesn’t stroke your ego like Skyrm, but the epic thing is there. The big battles, powerful items, arena and some of the endings, attest to that fact. The epic thing is not restricted only to the ego stroking, but also encompass the overall importance of the events taking place. Killing a random dude for hire is one thing. Killing a king or facing a legendary entity of the past is another thing entirely in the order of things.

 

[Cazzeris]

Much better.

That's an old version though. Currently, it looks like this:

Spoiler

Nobody posted the new art!

Probably because that piece isn't new at all.

 

[Havoc]

Then what would the game be about?

Faster, more efficient raep?

 

[Irenaeus II]

That's an old version though. Currently, it looks like this:

Spoiler

I liked the one linked earlier, with the decoration motiffs on the borders of the boxes:

The one you linked without it looks bland in comparison.

 

[Excidium II]

New borders look better. Those stand out too much with the background panel.

 

[Cazzeris]

They are also more consistent with other parts of the interface, like the intro/ending slides.

 

[Lurker King]

Probably because that piece isn't new at all.

Er.. my bad.

 

[Invictus]

It fits the setting, no? Both pseudo-antiquity and 'collapse of an empire'. Not much room for altruism and social justice there. As for cooperation, there is plenty but it's not in your face. Certainly not in a Biowarian "let's hold hands, talk about butt sex, and have some wildass orgies" fashion.

Fixed that for you

 

[Xzylvador]

<snip> it's not in your face. Certainly not in a Biowarian "let's hold hands, talk about butt sex, and have some wildass orgies" fashion.

Fixed that for you

There really weren't ANY 'in your face' moments in any of Bioware's love simulators.
I personally found that to be a sad oversight.
Since when have cumshots not been a traditional part of romance?

 

[Hobo Elf]

Finally getting around to downloading the demo. Hope it's good, I've been dying to play a good RPG with a Rome setting. I think the last decent one was Gladius for the GameCube.