KickStarter The Wayward Realms - upcoming Daggerfall-like RPG from original Elder Scrolls developers - coming to Kickstarter in May

[NecroLord]

Poking the skellies in the face just seems rude to me.

*Angry Daggerfall Skeleton noises

 

[Bester]

Do we have a new logo?

Reminds me of a soviet labyrinth toy.

 

[Infinitron]

Showing us what they have:

Sit back and relax while we tell you a tale. This tale concerns an Ork and his Goblin companion, trapped in a desolate ravine, hunted by vicious wolves, doing all they can to ward off starvation. What might these comrades in thieving do in order to stay alive?

Credits:
"A Thief's Fall" written by Victor Villarreal
Narrated by John Coté
Music by Eric Heberling at https://www.youtube.com/@Eric_Heberling
Sound Effects by Alan Dalcastagne
Art by David Simons
Animation by Brian Jensen
Edited by John Coté

 

[Cohesion]

Showing us what they have:

... Nothing? But 7 people credited for this?
Where do they get money from?

 

[NecroLord]

Oh, cool, so it will be another gaming grift in the end?

 

[Tyranicon]

We are a group made up of 100% volunteers currently.

uh...

 

[Bulo]

Socialised game development? How hard could it be?

 

[Eirinjas]

Showing us what they have:

Sit back and relax while we tell you a tale. This tale concerns an Ork and his Goblin companion, trapped in a desolate ravine, hunted by vicious wolves, doing all they can to ward off starvation. What might these comrades in thieving do in order to stay alive?

Credits:
"A Thief's Fall" written by Victor Villarreal
Narrated by John Coté
Music by Eric Heberling at https://www.youtube.com/@Eric_Heberling
Sound Effects by Alan Dalcastagne
Art by David Simons
Animation by Brian Jensen
Edited by John Coté

This video got me thinking... I would really love to see an RPG with the art assets done completely in the style of the Icewind Dale portraits. That sort of impressionist paint-style would be really cool to see in fleshed out 3D environments. Though, given the state of AI now, in ten years we'll probably be playing all our games in whatever art-style we want.

 

[Infinitron]

Latest zoomer:

Meet one of our incredible team members, Alec who does phenomenal 3D art. You've already seen a lot of his work recently, now meet the man behind it!

 

[Tyranicon]

Man, I feel old tbh.

 

[Tweed]

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Man, I feel old tbh.

Jesus Christ, this game is doomed.

 

[NecroLord]

Latest zoomer:

Meet one of our incredible team members, Alec who does phenomenal 3D art. You've already seen a lot of his work recently, now meet the man behind it!

Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely, positively swell, but where da gameplay at?

 

[grimace]

What is the point of a social media manager (without a playable game build)?
What is the point of meeting the developers (who have never released a playable game build)?

 

[Shinji]

They have released some new shorts a month ago
The concept is not bad -- the sea vista is somewhat nostalgic -- but there's really not much to see at this stage of the game's development.

 

[Thal]

This is going to be an even worse disaster than Underworld Ascendant

 

[Lord_Potato]

So after 5 years they are finally ready to show us how water and grass looks in their game?

I'm so about this!

P.S. at least they have diving, so it's already better than Starfield!

 

[Alienman]

Ah, sweet sub 20 fps.

 

[Butter]

Ah, sweet sub 20 fps.

 

[Bulo]

Not even ironically interested in this anymore. Sincerely sad to be reminded that this is happening

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Poking the skellies in the face just seems rude to me.

*Angry Daggerfall Skeleton noises

You have to really ponder how them skeletons are screaming.

 

[NecroLord]

Poking the skellies in the face just seems rude to me.

*Angry Daggerfall Skeleton noises

You have to really ponder how them skeletons are screaming.

Well, they are Undead and animated through magic/supernatural forces.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I want my skeletons quiet like ninjas... damn clanky bones. Nothing like opening up a door and you get screamed at.

Frank "just like my wife when i get home... ah fucking shut up already!"

 

[ADL]

This is going to be an even worse disaster than Underworld Ascendant

At least the Daggerfall Unity guy is doing his own successor thing.

 

[Yoomazir]

https://youtu.be/STWHTgJOY5w?feature=shared

Oh honey, kickstart me like it was 2015!

 

[NwNgger]

https://youtu.be/STWHTgJOY5w?feature=shared

Oh honey, kickstart me like it was 2015!

This will be the put up or shut up moment for this shitheap of a game. The excuses they give for the lackluster footage they've shown so far on their Discord is that this is entirely volunteer driven. Which is an excellent way to throw those unpaid volunteers under the bus regardless of them being amateurish zoomers. So if they can get some actual funding, they have no more excuses not to hire qualified people who know what they're doing. However I suspect the circlejerk of volunteers this "dev team" is won't actually do that for fear of losing their circlejerk.

Prove me wrong you malignant cunts. I WANT a Daggerfall successor. I want a game that looks at what Daggerfall did well and what it didn't, so that a better game can be made. My tentative hopes are still with Gavin and the Daggerfall Unity people's upcoming DF successor though.