Dungeon Hero Comments by Rob Fahey
Taking fantasy seriously for once.
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rhinoxious
16/05/08 @ 11:09
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Looks interesting, plenty of good ideas, hope the final polish lives up to them.
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PearOfAnguish
16/05/08 @ 11:43
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"Firefly wants to use that setting to explore the whole idea of an underground world. The "dungeons" in the game are subterranean cities"
See also: Arx Fatalis Brilliant game. When are we getting a sequel, Arkane? |
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TheBoyChris
16/05/08 @ 11:43
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Sounds very promising indeed - totally agree with the goblin/spider comment.
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OrgasmicMutton
16/05/08 @ 11:48
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Sounds kind of cool; the whole ridiculousness of looting treasure chests guarded by generic Orcs never appealed to me. Plus I agree with them on how they want to handle the levelling up.
The game sounds more like a fantasy version of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines with a different style of combat. If it is then it definitely appeals to me. |
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Stupid_Fat_Hobbit
16/05/08 @ 11:50
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Sounds pretty interesting. Let's just hope it's not entirely rendered in shades of brown and dingy, though.
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sergeantdisco
16/05/08 @ 12:29
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Like the look of this very much, lets hope the combat and final polish of the game lives up to their ambitions.
It's certainly nice to see more developers trying to move away from the whole "+1 Broom of Sweeping" fantasy RPG mentality. |
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Sounds like they have some great ideas, except for the rubbish name.
OTOH they say they're trying to get away from D&D clichés and then have a game set in a series of dungeons where you're fighting goblins. Way to break the mould there ;) Also: does this mean that the muted colours so typical of modern/sci-fi shooters are now spreading to fantasy games as well? How depressing. |
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This does sound great. I've ended up with a deep dislike of the whole fantasy genre, not necessarily because it's inherently bad, but because game developers insist on rehashing the same damn setting, characters, play mechanics and in some cases storylines over and over again until it's eventually become as irritatingly repetitive and overused as World War 2.
*deep breath* |
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Transcendent
16/05/08 @ 22:17
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The title is wonderfully satirical. And there needs to be more games where you play 'on the other side'.
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farticusmaximus
17/05/08 @ 01:43
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The way they describe the combat and progression actually sounds a lot like the Conan console game, which I enjoyed quite a lot. Hopefully it will be a bit deeper though.
No mention of any kind of puzzle solving element. Are dungeon crawlers really enough to satisfy these days...? |
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"In order to keep it fresh throughout the game, Firefly is also building its RPG-style progression system entirely around combat moves. Rather than powering up statistics ("hmm, spend points on SPI or INT? Decisions, decisions...") as you progress, each level allows you to unlock upgrades to your combat moves. The team wants to make levelling up into a meaningful event, says Bradbury; something which visibly improves your character, giving you cool new combat animations and abilities."
I was getting stiff until this point. Anything 360-related with a sniff of RPGness about it gets me excited since I finished trawling through every last detail that Oblivion (RIP) could offer me (which was, y'know, fookin ages ago) but this kinda makes it sound like just another dumb bash-em-up. I have no home. *sob* |
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