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[Janichsan]

edddeduck, on 07 March 2013 - 11:27 AM, said:

Yep, right now all we have is a bunch of vapourware.

You mean vapourware like The Banner Saga, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream ("Project Giana"), No Time to Explain, Strike Suit Zero, Kentucky Road Zero, Chilvary: Medieval Warfare, Cthulhu Saves the World?

[Hansi]

The Banner Saga isn't out. They spend all their time on the freeware thing no one pledged for and delayed the game by a year...

[Janichsan]

Hansi, on 07 March 2013 - 01:47 PM, said:

The Banner Saga isn't out. They spend all their time on the freeware thing no one pledged for and delayed the game by a year...

Ah, right. I didn't follow that game so closely, so I mixed that up. Anyway, "the freeware thing" is obviously a spun-off part of the full game, so it's hardly nothing.

[Wumpus]

Hansi, on 07 March 2013 - 01:47 PM, said:

The Banner Saga isn't out. They spend all their time on the freeware thing no one pledged for and delayed the game by a year...

Its not even a spin off of the full game. Its the entire combat system and mechanics/abilities they are going to use in the single player game. Sure it took them some more time, but the large majority of the work will go back into the single player game. Not to mention it generates them more revenue as I'm sure people will buy stuff from the store, and get a slice of the game into peoples hands who didn't back the project. Personally I think it was a great idea and I'm absolutely loving Factions. I backed the kickstarter, but I have no issue waiting for the single player RPG. Factions is terrific.

[Janichsan]

Gameplay footage of Shadowrun Returns. (I haven't had the time to watched that yet, so I can't say much about it.)

And the next legendary series returns: Richard Garriot of Ultima fame finally did what I was expecting him to do — start a Kickstarter campaign for a new RPG. Since EA owns the IP rights for "Ultima" (and is actively raping that franchise at the moment), it won't bear that name, but it's very obviously Ultima in everything but its name.

A Mac version is already planned.

So... let's see: Ron Gilbert, Brian Fargo, Chris Roberts, Richard Garriot, David Braben, Al Lowe... what gaming legend from waaaaay back is next?

EDIT: The Shadowrun video looks great. That hand-drawn graphic style really works for me.

The Shroud of the Avatar pitch video? Not so much. The gameplay footage in it looks like it's from 1995. I hope that's only because the game is not even in an alpha state.

[mindnoise]

Garriot's Shroud of the Avatar is an MMO. Instant interest drop.
And the description for the $10 tier I find completely assholish.
I mean calling the people you want the money from openly pirates?
/rant

Edit:
Ok, obvously he changed the MMO part to MMO that can also be played single offline.
Guess the feedback wasn't too enthusiatic on that.

[Janichsan]

mindnoise, on 11 March 2013 - 12:34 PM, said:

Edit:
Ok, obvously he changed the MMO part to MMO that can also be played single offline.
Guess the feedback wasn't too enthusiatic on that.

That single player offline part was already in the description right from the beginning. The day the Kickstarter campaign kicked off, there were also a couple of articles on various gaming sites about it, like this on RockPaperShotgun. Garriot apparently invited a couple of gaming journalists to present his project and there he described in detail how this single player/multiplayer is supposed to work. (Note that RPS's writer is pretty sceptical about some things Garriot promises — probably rightfully so.)

[mindnoise]

Janichsan, on 11 March 2013 - 02:47 PM, said:

That single player offline part was already in the description right from the beginning. The day the Kickstarter campaign kicked off, there were also a couple of articles on various gaming sites about it, like this on RockPaperShotgun. Garriot apparently invited a couple of gaming journalists to present his project and there he described in detail how this single player/multiplayer is supposed to work. (Note that RPS's writer is pretty sceptical about some things Garriot promises — probably rightfully so.)

well it seem he only does the Kickstarter to get more and better direct feedback from his core audience to incorporate into the game.
good choice, me thinks.
http://www.pcgamesn....-project-anyway

[mindnoise]

Check out Planet Explorers,
a Sandbox Planet Exploring Spore, WoW, and Minecraft Mix.

PC, Mac, and perhaps Linux.
http://www.kickstart...lanet-explorers

there ii a beta version to download for free


$100.000, 21 Days to go,
$40.000 already pledged.

[MGregory666]

Guys, we took the liberty of drawing up this list.

http://www.macgamerh...-games-for-mac/

Feel we have missed anything off there?

[Janichsan]

MGregory666, on 13 May 2013 - 12:29 PM, said:

Feel we have missed anything off there?

Indeed: Wasteland 2, Torment – Tides of Numenera, Elite: Dangerous, Shroud of the Avatar, Shadowrun Returns, Banner Saga... and many more. Just check this thread.

[Djevlen]

The Banner Saga looks amazing

[mindnoise]

Infinte Pixels - minecraft-like base building space exploration

http://www.indiegogo...infinite-pixels
$20.000 goal, 35 days to go.
from $12