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Game News Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter Update #11: Sling Backer Goal, Stephen Russell, UW Retrospective

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CyberP

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Where is the correlation between Underworld and Dragon Age? I see it in Deus Ex (obviously) and Skyrim, but a Bioware game?
 

tuluse

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Serpent in the Staglands Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Shadorwun: Hong Kong
Backseat Kickstartering is certainly popular here, and it's likely most of it is wrong. Having said that...



SR:HK had a pretty solid pitch. "You liked Dragonfall? Want more of it in HK? Look at this awesome concept art and the improvements we're thinking of making!"

Underworld was kind of..."Hey, wasn't Ultima Underworld awesome? How about Deus Ex? How about Dragon Age? How about Skyrim? Get ready for interactive environments, multi-player, and back now to get super backer items!"

Focusing on spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld and Deus Ex and we have Warren Spector helping us out might have been a bit stronger. It seemed like update #7 would have worked better as the pitch. Having said that, most of the stuff since the initial pitch has seemed pretty strong (and again, 99% of backseat Kickstarting is wrong, so it's quite possible they'd be a lot lower if they had done things the way we think they should have).
He's not talking about the initial pitch, he's talking about the lackluster updates.
 

DeepOcean

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Those updates with they talking about some important but pretty generic game design philosophy should go away. They need to bring the big guns and start typing what they want to do with the game on more concrete terms this time. The update with them explaining the factions on Underworld was great, more of that would be good to generate more curiosity on the project. Anyway, by now, it should be obvious they need to bring the big guns if they hope to get those stretch goals.
 

Metro

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^ Exactly that. The updates are like the M&B II Bannerlord blog updates -- more flashy stuff and little on the gameplay side.
 

4too

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Through the LOOKING GLASS




1992?

Still AMIGA focused.

Still had delusions that Commodore would expand their killer App lisp beyond the one hand clapping of Video Toaster.

Ultima’s was a PC thAng, until low cost AMD socket Seven’s and OEM Win 98 allowed slotting 32 Meg video, sonic separating sound cards for the non livin’ wage price range.

Have a distorted view of all this, my line of sight is through the apature of LOOKING GLASS .

The THIEF Series was my first LOOKING GLASS passion.

Why not the cheap miss directing tactic of over selling the THIEF Series … “‘We know how you like to STEAL!’”.

Super THIEF focus.

Water arrow for the win !!1!

Let THE STEAL BE WITH YOU!(c) … ;)




4too
 

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