Better off playing Pathfinder kingmaker or other classics

[Ronnie]

Not sure how this had a successful kickstarter, but there are plenty of games more visually appealing and designed well vs this game. Maybe if this game was designed in Unity it might appeal better to the masses. Even spider web software games look a tad better and that's not really saying a lot along with Knights of Chalice 2.

I remember the hype with Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar with Cleve saying it took him 20 or was it 30 years to make his game that has been seeing sold for a dollar now on a good sale when he said he will never sell for less then a high amount if memory serves me right. He loves his space baby :)

[RPG Gamer Man]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von solamon77:

If this guy is listening to anything Cleve says, he can be dismissed outright.

Who is Cleve?

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Knuti:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ronnie:

Cool Rpg gamer man, if you value your eyes either eat lots of carrots and other vitamins if u decide to dabble in pixel games or stick to those eye candy games and enjoy coke instead.

What are you even doing, dude? This is just trolling. No one cares, just find something you enjoy.

I think its pretty good advice, carrots have lots of vitamins and minerals that keep your health up. The healthy you are the more RPGs you can play in your life. The more RPGs you can play the happier you are.

Its good advice

[SNK]

Blatant Troll post still hold. lmaooooooo

[solamon77]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RPG Gamer Man:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von solamon77:

If this guy is listening to anything Cleve says, he can be dismissed outright.

Who is Cleve?

Cleveland Mark Blakemore. He's the developer behind Grimorie: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar and a notorious internet troll, conspiracy theorist, alt-right wackjob, and misogynist. Dude was so toxic he got banned from his own forum. His game was the RPG equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever until it finally released a couple years ago in a totally incomplete state. Then he told all his followers that his game would never go on sale so they might as well buy it full price... only to promptly put it on sale a couple months later. Feel free to look him up if you want.

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von solamon77:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RPG Gamer Man:

Who is Cleve?

Cleveland Mark Blakemore. He's the developer behind Grimorie: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar and a notorious internet troll, conspiracy theorist, alt-right wackjob, and misogynist. Dude was so toxic he got banned from his own forum. His game was the RPG equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever until it finally released a couple years ago in a totally incomplete state. Then he told all his followers that his game would never go on sale so they might as well buy it full price... only to promptly put it on sale a couple months later. Feel free to look him up if you want.

Looks like I'll have to sell some csgo cases and toss this man 10 dollars.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von solamon77:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RPG Gamer Man:

Who is Cleve?

Cleveland Mark Blakemore. He's the developer behind Grimorie: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar and a notorious internet troll, conspiracy theorist, alt-right wackjob, and misogynist. Dude was so toxic he got banned from his own forum. His game was the RPG equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever until it finally released a couple years ago in a totally incomplete state. Then he told all his followers that his game would never go on sale so they might as well buy it full price... only to promptly put it on sale a couple months later. Feel free to look him up if you want.

Thanks for the info. I will look it up.

[Ronnie]

Loved the other thread about how this game is hurting his eyes... That is why I started this thread you might as well play pathfinder kingmaker and enjoy some eye candy games instead.

[hasdrubal]

Well... I've played to videogames in the 80's. And yet it doesn't feel like it is nostalgy that drives me playing to Skald. 2d graphics can be a tremendous lot better, right, but I am and was ever (already back then) actually more sensible to design, plot and gameplay than to graphics. And the artistic design in Skald is great I think. As for the gameplay, it just feels right to me: it brings expectation and pleasure, whereas a lot of other games just feel like a sidejob for which I am not being payed to me.

I'll give a few examples. I've bought me a good PC back then to play to The Witcher 3 when it went out. The mapping was very good for the time and there were a few nice stories or side stories there. But the fighting system just sucked (I don't get what the interest is in such a "maniac ballerina feel", that kind of gameplay gives me) and the overall game felt like a chore playing. I finished the game (without the add-ons) just out of duty. Same for Cyberpunk (well, same people, no wonder), except I didn't finish it yet and maybe won't ever. Same for most AAA games, probably the reason why I let down Playstations and the like long years ago. Same for Red Dead Redemption back in the times. Same for Fallout 3. Same for Baldur's Gate 3, same for both Pillars of Eternity. They are nice, but somewhat dull and repetitive and self-indulging in overconvoluted plots.

Worst example ever for me, there was a sort of Baldur's like game that did evolve around a bad guy plot a few years ago. I forgot the name. It had to do with some monomaniac chaos gods about to finish the good guys and yet infighting. It sounded cheesy, but hell, that might have been a change in the style too, so I tried. It was the worst game ever I played regarding plots and discussions. Every single critter had a whole tortured self-centered and self-sufficient story to tell over pages and pages of narcistic masturbation. I had the feeling I constantly met frustrated RPG-players compensating while playing this game. Asked for a refund after a bit less than 2 hours.

So where does lay Skald? It hits right where it must. The ambiance is well-designed thanks the sounds and music, the cthulhuesque feel and other sources of inspiration. Nothing is too blattant until now (which is normally the usual misdesign in videogames imo, to a point it is almost synonymous to this medium), everything seems well balanced. Looking at the layouts, one can sees the love for details implied there too, contributing to the ambiance and feel.

If anything, the only reproach I'd have is a lack of ranged weapons and ammunition, which is a bit dumb when you actually only can move in a cross pattern and finds yourself most of the time not being able to reach your opponent with more than a PC. At the very least, fletching should give 2-3 times the ammo it does right now. Or enabling hand-thrown infinite weapons dealing low damage at the least. Or both. Or any other better idea.