KickStarter 5 Year Followup On The Currie / Barkmore Enigma

[KeighnMcDeath]

Come on! What the hell is wrong with Cleve's games? Obviously I still want an uber upgrade of the Vault of Terror game (disappointed its shelved for now). You ... you anti-blobber you!

 

[Lady Error]

Blobbers are the lowest form of CRPG, Cleve. Here's hoping you make a good game some day.

Or maybe you are just retadred. Ever since I played Wizardry 7 I wanted a game just like that.

You probably do not even know how the immersion of good blobbers works, that the slight abstraction invites the use of imagination, which in turn can create a magical experience. Something like your "Theseus: Owls to Athens" cannot do that.

 

[0sacred]

I have to say, an isometric CRPG with branching dialogue written by Cleve sounds... intriguing. Imagine the possibilities.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I think Cleve should self insert himself in each of his games. Dare you challenge Cleve?

 

[Agesilaus]

I have to say, an isometric CRPG with branching dialogue written by Cleve sounds... intriguing. Imagine the possibilities.

people took me as mocking cleve, but actually i am the only one showing him how to achieve real crpg greatness. Forsake blobbers and accept the truth of isometric c&c tbs gameplay!

 

[Dadd]

Blobbers are superior so what are you suggesting here?

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Cleve is cracker-JACKED

 

[cretin]

I have to say, an isometric CRPG with branching dialogue written by Cleve sounds... intriguing. Imagine the possibilities.

I think cleve could probably make a decent iso CRPG a small team and using a ready made engine, but the thing is I'd be dead by the time it actually came out.

 

[Morenatsu.]

blobbers, isos... hey bitches there are only two types of games, good and bad. and it's got nothing to do with what the typical tardexian thinks

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Blobbers are the lowest form of CRPG, Cleve. Here's hoping you make a good game some day.

Blobbers are the highest form of RPG, nothing exceeds them for immersion. Other RPG genres can be fun but they lack the true monacle of the well done blobber.

A really good iso can be awesome which is why I am working off and on when feasible on GAMMA ZONE.

 

[Ladonna]

Blobbers with good tactical combat are best.

 

[cretin]

Blobbers with good tactical combat are best.

Are there even any?

I tried Star Trail. It looked interesting on paper, but in practice there wasn't much tactical about the combat and it took forever to resolve.

 

[Ladonna]

Are there even any?

I tried Star Trail. It looked interesting on paper, but in practice there wasn't much tactical about the combat and it took forever to resolve.

Goldbox games, Dark Heart of Uukrul and any others that can be found in this thread https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...games-like-goldbox.146583/page-2#post-8410015

Unfortunately, there hasn't been much work done on this particular sub genre for a while.

 

[Agesilaus]

Are there even any?

I tried Star Trail. It looked interesting on paper, but in practice there wasn't much tactical about the combat and it took forever to resolve.

Goldbox games, Dark Heart of Uukrul and any others that can be found in this thread https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...games-like-goldbox.146583/page-2#post-8410015

Unfortunately, there hasn't been much work done on this particular sub genre for a while

Well yeah... those games are only blobbers until the combat, then they switch to top down squad tbs mode. They're good because they're able to escape the blobber cage!

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

What the fuck is wrong with Bandersnatch? Why the fuck is he being a stupid fuck on this thread? Why does he give a shit I enjoy Vault of Terror?

 

[whocares]

I will not eat the bugs. I will not live in a pod. I will not use 2FA.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I have to say, an isometric CRPG with branching dialogue written by Cleve sounds... intriguing. Imagine the possibilities.

I think cleve could probably make a decent iso CRPG a small team and using a ready made engine, but the thing is I'd be dead by the time it actually came out.

Tentative release schedule for Golden Era Games:

2017 - Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar
2037 - Armoire: Heralds of the Eldritch Abomination
2057 - Grimoire II: Wings of the Exemplary Heralds
2077 - Boudoir: An Erotic Text Adventure
2097 - Grimoire III: Exemplars of the Heraldic Wings

 

[octavius]

Are there even any?

I tried Star Trail. It looked interesting on paper, but in practice there wasn't much tactical about the combat and it took forever to resolve.

Goldbox games, Dark Heart of Uukrul and any others that can be found in this thread https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...games-like-goldbox.146583/page-2#post-8410015

Unfortunately, there hasn't been much work done on this particular sub genre for a while.

Those are pseudo-blobbers, like MM6-9 and Wizardry 8.
For the true blobber experience you need the abstract combat of Wizardry, Bard's Tale and Might&Magic. Of them I think MM2 is the most tactical one.

 

[Lady Error]

There are rows in Wizardry and Grimoire as well, both for the enemies and the party. You can do things like hide in shadows, which is also tactical.

An advantage of this type of combat is that it resolves much faster than positioning each character and walking over to each monster.

The slight abstraction of blobbers is not a weakness but a strength. Some people just don't get it because they never experienced this type of immersion, maybe because they forgot how to engage imagination.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I recall the first time I saw Dungeon Master and was like whoa! But I was a goldbox whore. Then EOB popped out and I was just tore into blobber world. I blane my amiga,

As to Bander, i thought he might have been Bruce himself. I expect his bullshit in that thread but not spilling out of the fucking blue into other threads. It makes little sensebur as you say... his retardation seems to know no boundaries.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

There are rows in Wizardry and Grimoire as well, both for the enemies and the party. You can do things like hide in shadows, which is also tactical.

An advantage of this type of combat is that it resolves much faster than positioning each character and walking over to each monster.

The slight abstraction of blobbers is not a weakness but a strength. Some people just don't get it because they never experienced this type of immersion, maybe because they forgot how to engage imagination.

Extensive reproducible results show modern people have almost no capacity to visualize things internally and have no internal dialogue to narrate their experience. They have this in common with old world primates. Manboons with draining sinuses cannot into blobbers.

What is really incredible is that we could still be pretending we live in a civilization with an average IQ of 95 and absolutely no evidence of higher order abstract reasoning. Clearly we are on afterburner fumes here.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I spend too much time in the forest. Sometimes blobber mode hits and i think the trees are attacking. It could be the time of year where the fungi and spores fill the air. You can get pretty light headed and feel everything is off...

It is soooo like this in a way where the world shifts..

 

[Bastardchops]

There are rows in Wizardry and Grimoire as well, both for the enemies and the party. You can do things like hide in shadows, which is also tactical.

An advantage of this type of combat is that it resolves much faster than positioning each character and walking over to each monster.

The slight abstraction of blobbers is not a weakness but a strength. Some people just don't get it because they never experienced this type of immersion, maybe because they forgot how to engage imagination.

Extensive reproducible results show modern people have almost no capacity to visualize things internally and have no internal dialogue to narrate their experience. They have this in common with old world primates. Manboons with draining sinuses cannot into blobbers.

What is really incredible is that we could still be pretending we live in a civilization with an average IQ of 95 and absolutely no evidence of higher order abstract reasoning. Clearly we are on afterburner fumes here.

One race one love, my arse. Anyway Cleve I'll try to create a holdout in Western Australia. If I survive WW3 and fend off the Red army send me a physical copy of Grimoire.

 

[Diggfinger]

Why is this thread not front-page news?

 

[octavius]

Speaking of front page news, I wonder if Cleve ever was interviewed by the St. Cleve Chronicle?