How is the replayability factor?

[Kylestien]

So, I was thinking. In Kingdom of Loathing, there's this thing called Ascension. You play through different paths, trying to do it quick ETC ETC. But in a single player game like West Of Loathing, trying to quickly go through a path or whatever does not really work.

So I was wondering how replayable West Of Loathing will be and why. I'm aware there will be some slight choice differences like Horses, but I'm not sure it will be enough.

Also please release it very soon like on the 1st or something raher then the 31st.

[ZapJackson]

There are multiple and completely distinct ways to finish all of the phases of the main quest, and different things you can do based on which companion you take with you. Unless you're being very, very thorough, there'll be a bunch of new stuff to see on subsequent playthroughs.

[Asymmetric]

Each class (there are three) and each pardner (there are more than three) has a fair bit of unique content associated with it, so there's good new stuff to see in at least three play-throughs.

[AlliedBee7160]

(POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT)

so, how many pardners are there? I saw in your fantastic arcade video that there was at least 5. one being pete and the other being the lady at the bar shown in gaming wisdom's first look (Don't worry, he didn't actually do any of the interactions with or involving her or any of the other pardners) and in the fantastic arcade talk you said something about boring springs beign somewhere where you pick your horse and pardner. We know the 4 horses (Typical horse, dark horse, pale horse and crazy high drunk horse) but we only know two of the pardners. I speculate that you can have the sherf come along on your adventures or the hostler as they are both mentioned as hating their jobs and wanting people to take over from them in dialogue with the bartender. Speaking of which, the bartender may or may not be the final pardner. All of the people I have put forward are all people you have major dialogue interactions with or have done a favor for. For example, the only time you talk to pete is when you first walk into the saloon and he beriddles you for not having a hat and then offers to join you on your travels. No interaction has been shown with the lady drinking whiskey put of a beer mug apart from a dialogue choice with the bartender. The hostler complains about his horses constantly running away and it is public knowledge that he hats his job.and the sherf is said to "Have anyone else do his job" and spends all of his day "chairtippin'". In conclusion, I believe that the five potential pardners are: (clears throat) Pete (who may or may not be sneakypete) The lady at the bar, The hostler, The Sherf and The bartender.

I apologize for the long essay of a comment but I had to speculate. I've been watching too many theorist channels on youtube.

PS: all of this has come from public materials available on the west of loathing, asymmetric and steam websites. Also Gaming Wisdom and Fantastic arcade for the talk. I spent 5 hours straight watching and rewatching some of these things. I came up with this speculation as I went and only meant to ask how many pardners there are. still, TOMMOROW we will see if I was right or not. (Breathes out) Damn that was a long comment. hope I was right about some of the topics brought up about horses and pardners. :)

[AlliedBee7160]

quick note, did you only send out beta builds to Gaming Wisdom?

[Sines]

First time I noticed Jick has his own Steam account, just saw the Asymmetric account before. Who uses that account?

[joe weed]

kevin

[Asymmetric]

Yeah, I stupidly made the Greenlight campaign on my personal Steam account instead of making one for the company, so now we are a symbiotic entity.

[KineticEcho]

There will be "expansions"? Or additional contents? Something like the IotM?

[ZapJackson]

We definitely have some DLC planned! It'll be a couple of months, though.

[AlliedBee7160]

Some extra classes, items or areas, perhaps?

[ZapJackson]

Areas and items for sure. Probably not new classes.

[AlliedBee7160]

eh, that's understandable. will you be taking user requests?

[AlliedBee7160]

ohh, just saw your horsey contract on kol. nice parody

[The Shameless One]

Having an analog to acension paths might be fun

[Aeralis]

I'm still in the middle of my first run through the game and I'm already excited to start my second run (lousy Alice giving me all sorts of stink-eyes for trying to read these skillbooks), so yeah, I'd say there's good replayability here.