Game News Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter is LIVE

[shadow9d9]

You really need to try harder. You aren't even trying.

There is nothing to try. I simply don't understand any excitement for a single player fps coming from the codex of all places. I have to go back to the hypothesis that it is drooling over name dropping.

 

[80Maxwell08]

This is making me want to reinstall UUW. Does anyone know if there has been a mod, similar to the one that was made for System Shock, that enabled better use of mouse and keyboard?

Nope, the Underworld games remain tragically modless. It's a travesty. But now that we know about that source code...

That's one of the first things I'm going to ask about...

Remember to thank them for boxes.

 

[Infinitron]

I simply don't understand any excitement for a single player fps coming from the codex of all places. I have to go back to the hypothesis that it is drooling over name dropping.

Name-dropping of who, exactly? We're talking about veterans of Looking Glass Studios, a company that never made anything BUT first person games. Ultima Underworld. System Shock. Thief. "Single player FPSes", all of them.

They never made anything turn-based. They never made anything isometric. But this site is not actually called IsometricDex.

 

[Jasede]

I'm excited about this. Well, vaguely. Those Kickstarter projects haven't really knocked the socks off me yet. But I am a very loyal LG fan.

 

[Korron]

I'm excited about this. Well, vaguely. Those Kickstarter projects haven't really knocked the socks off me yet. But I am a very loyal LG fan.

Sure keep telling yourself it's because you're a LG fan.

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[mindx2]

Chris Roberts seems to have mentioned this over at the Star Citizen boards as there has been an influx of SC people posting on comments section. No official email from SC or Garriott so hopefully when they do it will bring in even more pledges.

 

[Infinitron]

Chris Roberts seems to have mentioned this over at the Star Citizen boards as there has been an influx of SC people posting on comments section. No official email from SC or Garriott so hopefully when they do it will bring in even more pledges.

I think somebody recently dropped a 10k on the Kickstarter. It's reaching 250k faster than I expected.

 

[naossano]

You really need to try harder. You aren't even trying.

There is nothing to try. I simply don't understand any excitement for a single player fps coming from the codex of all places. I have to go back to the hypothesis that it is drooling over name dropping.

But it is an FPS in which you destroy bridges.

 

[Infinitron]

Skyrim and Deus Ex are both mentioned either in the video or the page.

Yeah, but I meant more in the sense of allowing their employees to comment on things.

Let's see what Raf and Harvey are up to.

https://twitter.com/rafcolantonio
https://twitter.com/harvey1966

Nothin'!

https://twitter.com/Harvey1966/status/563277132496121857

 

[General Maxson]

But it is an FPS in which you destroy bridges.

Red Faction?

 

[Minttunator]

It took them about 4.5 hours to reach 100k. It's now been an hour since then and they've only made an additional 10k. Nah, this is gonna be a long haul.

I suppose we'll see in a couple of days - you'll earn yourself another brofist among your countless thousands if you're right but I sincerely hope you're wrong - not because I want you to be wrong but because I really want to see this project succeed.

It appears that you were right and I was too optimistic - good call!

We got almost halfway there with the initial push, so there's still a good chance that this will get funded, but it seems like we probably won't reach most of the stretch goals.

 

[Infinitron]

It took them about 4.5 hours to reach 100k. It's now been an hour since then and they've only made an additional 10k. Nah, this is gonna be a long haul.

I suppose we'll see in a couple of days - you'll earn yourself another brofist among your countless thousands if you're right but I sincerely hope you're wrong - not because I want you to be wrong but because I really want to see this project succeed.

It appears that you were right and I was too optimistic - good call!

We got almost halfway there with the initial push, so there's still a good chance that this will get funded, but it seems like we probably won't reach most of the stretch goals.

I expect to see a shoutout from an inXile Kickstarter update at some point. Lots of people have an interest in this campaign doing well.

It's sad that the freaking LOOKING GLASS KICKSTARTER isn't doing better than this, but I guess you could argue that this is a genre that people might feel is already being served, one way or the other.

 

[LESS T_T]

https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/563566800659435520

Just...back it. Trust me.

edit: Oh, TSI also did a shoutout on Twitter. Although it seems they're still not good at using Twitter. They should have attached a dot or something before the message.

https://twitter.com/TSIGames/status/563050525105881090

@OtherSide_Games Just backed Underworld Ascendant on #Kickstarter. Terrific to see another quality RPG updated for today's audience! #rpg

 

[Luzur]

Well i was touching my crotch during the kickstarter video.

 

[naossano]

But it is an FPS in which you destroy bridges.

Red Faction?

This one will have wooden bridges.

 

[Jaesun]

It's sad that the freaking LOOKING GLASS KICKSTARTER isn't doing better than this, but I guess you could argue that this is a genre that people might feel is already being served, one way or the other.

It's because they are not doing a good job of explaining what specifically made UU great and what they plan to do with this game.

 

[Infinitron]

It's sad that the freaking LOOKING GLASS KICKSTARTER isn't doing better than this, but I guess you could argue that this is a genre that people might feel is already being served, one way or the other.

It's because they are not doing a good job of explaining what specifically made UU great and what they plan to do with this game.

Well, I think that in general, "dungeon crawlers" are a hard genre to explain. They're one of those things that's really fun, but sounds tedious if you describe it.

I guess a few descriptions of quests could be nice, but you'll always have people wondering "but why does it have to be in a dungeon?". Why indeed? It's hard to explain.

 

[tuluse]

It's sad that the freaking LOOKING GLASS KICKSTARTER isn't doing better than this, but I guess you could argue that this is a genre that people might feel is already being served, one way or the other.

It's because they are not doing a good job of explaining what specifically made UU great and what they plan to do with this game.

Well, I think that in general, "dungeon crawlers" are a hard genre to explain. They're one of those things that's really fun, but sounds tedious if you describe it.

I guess a few descriptions of quests could be nice, but you'll always have people wondering "but why does it have to be in a dungeon?". Why indeed? It's hard to explain.

They're doing a really bad job trying it to their more popular and modern games. They need to do with UU what Fargo did with Wasteland.

It's like Thief except fighting works better! It's like Deus Ex except with magic instead of technology!

I don't even think they mention Arkane and Arx/Dishonored which are love letter games to LGS. Dishonored is huge, Thi4f anger is huge. They need to tap into those feelings.

 

[Infinitron]

That's a good point. Go to their forums and tell them that.

 

[Delterius]

https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/563566800659435520

Just...back it. Trust me.

The amount of people plugging themselves after that tweet is staggering.

 

[tuluse]

That's a good point. Go to their forums and tell them that.

I haven't even registered over there. Anyone else is free to use my words and ideas though.

 

[Infinitron]

That's a good point. Go to their forums and tell them that.

I haven't even registered over there. Anyone else is free to use my words and ideas though.

http://www.othersideentertainment.com/forum/index.php?topic=132.0

 

[Hobz]

That's a good point. Go to their forums and tell them that.

That's a good point indeed but i'm afraid it's far too late for that. It's not like they can change their underwhelming homepage video. I think the people that checked the kickstarter page, watched the video en left unimpressed are gone. If the ONE GOOD ARGUMENT for backing the game is hidden in the fifth update it won't do any good imho.

 

[Roguey]

It's sad that the freaking LOOKING GLASS KICKSTARTER isn't doing better than this, but I guess you could argue that this is a genre that people might feel is already being served, one way or the other.

Why would you even want them to have a chance of hitting that co-op goal?

 

[Hobz]

Yeah as much as I like coop in games in general and enjoyed playing D:OS with a friend I can't see tackling it to a single player game in exchange for a small increase in budget being a good idea. It was bound to create drama through poor implementation or back-pedaling but, luckily, we'll never find out how stupid of an idea it was because they'll never hit the 1.2m mark. My bet is on 800 to 850k.