Volca on 24/1/2014 at 05:22
Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to inform everyone (a bit of patriotism, lets say - as it is made here, Czech Republic) a medieval themed open world RPG game is being kickstarted (succesfuly) here: (
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1294225970/kingdom-come-deliverance)
The script writer/game director for this game is Dan Vavra, the guy which written and directed the first Mafia, and also worked on the second one.
henke on 24/1/2014 at 07:15
Say, that actually looks great. :D
It looks gorgeous, and the combat seems to have some actual weight to it. Like Skyrim but without the fantasy element.
Since it's already gotten funding after a mere 3 days, I won't be chipping in, but I look forward to the release.
gunsmoke on 24/1/2014 at 12:52
That sounds badass! Lol at 7 people going all-in at the Pope level ($2000)....
june gloom on 24/1/2014 at 13:55
Quote Posted by Volca
the guy which written and directed the first Mafia
I hope he's improved since then.
LoLion on 24/1/2014 at 14:58
Soooo… this is gonna be Mount & Blade with actual storyline and well-made non-linear quests + Skyrim without the fantasy elements? Well, I wonder where this game was my whole life :thumb:
Totally awesome stuff! Its quite sad projects like these would not be possible without kickstarter, but the fact that this game could get 300k+ in like three days just goes to show how much disconnect there is between the large publishers and actual gamers.
faetal on 24/1/2014 at 15:06
Awesome. Loved Mafia.
Ostriig on 24/1/2014 at 15:11
Good thing you guys made a thread about this, otherwise I was gonna. Especially after seeing the trailer thing yesterday, looks good, and in particular the combat system seemed to have a lot of potential. The parrying and stuff looks interesting, and if it's hitpoint based under the hood it could provide a long-needed reprieve from the usual videogame imagery where half-naked bandits take seven or eight blows from a spiked club before they go down.
Also, developer gets extra brownie points from me for being based in Prague, which is fucking gorgeous.
Tomi on 24/1/2014 at 15:31
Thanks for reminding me/us, Volca! I read about this game a few weeks ago, but kinda forgot about it already.
I love both Mafia and Hidden & Dangerous games (and Vietcong wasn't bad either) by Illusion Softworks. The theme in Kingdom Come sounds interesting, and if the planned features are even half as good as they make them sound, this should be good. I don't normally pay too much attention to Kickstarter projects, but I think I'm going to back this one... the £30 tier sounds good to me. :cool:
Oh, and dethy:
Quote:
[Dan Vávra was] Nominated for a Game Developers Choice Award for Excellence in Writing for Mafia. Mafia won Game of the Year and Best Screenplay awards in a number of countries
Just saying ;)
june gloom on 24/1/2014 at 17:50
All that and fifty cents gets him a bag of chips. Mafia's story is terrible, its pacing is all off and the characters are a bunch of clumsy mob movie pastiches with absolutely zero development. About the only thing it really does well is the final scene is loaded with gravitas, but it doesn't really make the entire rest of the game worth it. Unfortunately we live in an age where gravitas is mistaken for depth.
I don't know how they plan to approach narrative/plot in this game but it can't be much worse than Mafia's, and considering Chris Avellone improved considerably from his Planescape Torment days (which, as GBM put it on Facebook recently, was Sanitarium written by a twelfth-grader instead of a ninth-grader) I won't be surprised if Vavra's writing ability has developed more than Mafia's characters ever did.
henke on 24/1/2014 at 18:01
*sigh* Let's not let another thread spiral into endless arguments about whether or not Mafia was any good! it was really good though LETS JUST MOVE ON PEOPLE!
