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The 2015 RPG thread - A weak sequel but still a good year

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
Why should I care about Balrum? What's the deal?

It's basically what Ultima 8 should have been if it were a proper follow up to 7.

From their kickstarter pitch:

The world is realtime in Balrum. This means that you will see NPCs and animals living their daily lifes. The living world is one of the most important feature for us, an amount of the kickstarter funds will go into creating animations and AIs (different daily life AI for each NPC) for the NPCs that live in the world. For example: You will see the blacksmith create a weapon, or NPCs will sit down at home and eat, sleep, talk, or the woodcutter will actually go and chop down trees. Animals live their lifes as well, they eat, sleep, even hunt each other. We love to find lots of things to use in our favourite games. So we tried our best to make everything that looks to be useable in the world, useable. You will find vast amount of herbs and materials in Balrum. For your home you will need huge amounts of materials that is why you can chop down trees and mine stone. The world is hand made. Nothing is randomly generated. Every chest you find will have loot that was placed by hand. But don’t gather everything hastily, because the mushroom that you want to pick up may be more powerful the next day. Special mushrooms and other special herbs can level up in Balrum. Small details are important for us for example if it starts to rain, small pools of rain will appear and who knows, you might find something in those little pools! There are lots of dungeons to explore in the world of Balrum, some of them are multiple levels deep. Every dungeon will have a master who is the boss of the given dungeon. These dungeon masters will drop carefully selected loot so that you will feel that beating the dungeon was really worth it. We are creating a game that is aimed at mature players.
 

ZzzZombi

Neo Member
What with all the leaks from Steam Support and PC releases becoming more common for big JRPG publishers, is there any chance that latest Atelier games might come to PC someday? At least the Dusk ones?
 

kswiston

Member
Yes please.
Is there even anything notable releasing in 2016?
Witcher 3 2nd xpac, Dragon's Dogma and... uhh? Cosmic Heroine, I guess. Anything else?

A lot of JRPGs. Especially if this is just focusing on a Western release schedule.

I would also expect another round of Kickstarter projects to hit the (virtual) shelves in 2016. Torment should finally see a release. Divinity 2 will squeeze in if it isn't delayed. Underworld Ascendant is also scheduled I think.

Aside from that, Bioware is due for a release, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Mass Effect back next year (even if a lot of hardcore CRPG fans have written that off, it's still a notable release)
 
Yes please.
Is there even anything notable releasing in 2016?
Witcher 3 2nd xpac, Dragon's Dogma and... uhh? Cosmic Heroine, I guess. Anything else?

Torment: Tides of Numenera, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Expeditions: Vikings (the sequel to Conquistador), The Banner Saga 2, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine, Kingdome Come: Deliverance and I'm probably forgetting a few more.
 

Zukuu

Banned
Torment: Tides of Numenera, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Expeditions: Vikings (the sequel to Conquistador), The Banner Saga 2, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine, Kingdome Come: Deliverance and I'm probably forgetting a few more.
+Persona 5, Final Fantasy 15, Ni no Kuni 2, Salt and Sanctuary.
 

ricki42

Member
Underworld Ascendant is supposed to release November next year according to the kickstarter page.
Also, The Dwarves and Umbra.
 

Durante

Member
Torment: Tides of Numenera, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Expeditions: Vikings (the sequel to Conquistador), The Banner Saga 2, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine, Kingdome Come: Deliverance and I'm probably forgetting a few more.
I'd be extremely surprised if those 2 make it. But I guess they are still scheduled for a 2016 release.

Shadowrun HK and PoE expansions are pretty significant for me.

And Dark Souls 3.
 

Zukuu

Banned
I'd be extremely surprised if those 2 make it. But I guess they are still scheduled for a 2016 release.

Shadowrun HK and PoE expansions are pretty significant for me.

And Dark Souls 3.
So that's a yes? :p

I can't possible judge my purchase decisions without Durante-Hype-Points™.
 
People here will probably disagree about it being classified as an RPG, but Six Age the follow-up to King of Dragon Pass may have something to show by the end of 2016.

Also - I'm half-expecting to see Paradox announce something about its World of Darkness franchise in the coming months.
 

hemtae

Member
Balrum has been delayed two days to December 16th.

Meanwhile Underrail was moved forward three days to December 18th.
 

Labadal

Member
If Durante can't make a new thread, I could give it a shot. I don't have much on my plate right now, which means lots of time for this.

EDIT: I will have to choose Underrail and then get the other game. It feels to me like it wasn't the best move to release these two games so close to oneanother because they kind of cater to the same audience.
 

Knurek

Member
EDIT: I will have to choose Underrail and then get the other game. It feels to me like it wasn't the best move to release these two games so close to oneanother because they kind of cater to the same audience.

I think a lot of people own Underrail already - it has been bundled in a legendary Groupees Greenlight bundle (the one with La-Mulana).
 
Western RPGs are kinda slowing down in 2016, it seems. It'll be mainly the year of JRPGs, especially on the PS4.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up, whistlisting Balrum for now.

And thanks to the poster in Fallout 4 isometric thread, I found this promising little gem.

 

bati

Member
Western RPGs are kinda slowing down in 2016, it seems. It'll be mainly the year of JRPGs, especially on the PS4.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up, whistlisting Balrum for now.

And thanks to the poster in Fallout 4 isometric thread, I found this promising little gem.


Thanks, wishlisted! Can you link the thread as well?

Btw, if you haven't yet, check out UnderRail, it releases this friday.
 

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
I'd be extremely surprised if those 2 make it. But I guess they are still scheduled for a 2016 release.

Shadowrun HK and PoE expansions are pretty significant for me.

And Dark Souls 3.

Don't forget Siege of Dragonspear.

We are getting a new expansion for Baldur's Gate 1 in 2016. That shit is bananas.
 
Beamdog eventually patched the EEs into good standing, but their extra content was never particularly good so I'm not very confident in their ability to make a good expansion either.
 

Purkake4

Banned
Beamdog eventually patched the EEs into good standing, but their extra content was never particularly good so I'm not very confident in their ability to make a good expansion either.
Did they ever get the mods working? The modding community at Spellhold Studios was crazy huge even a few years ago.
 

hemtae

Member
It's a good thing I'm not doing the Underrail OT, as I imagine my thread title of "Underrail |OT| The Fallout 3 you've waited 17 years for" wouldn't go over well with the kids here.

That was what I was going to use for the title....
 
I find 2016's RPG lineup exciting for Expeditions: Vikings alone. The dev's previous game, Expeditions: Conquistador, blew my expectations out of the water, giving me something I didn't even know I wanted.

I'm really hoping that Vikings continues Conquistador's unique blend of authentic flavour/choose-your-own-adventure/RPG/roguelike stuff, cause it's wonderful.
It's a good thing I'm not doing the Underrail OT, as I imagine my thread title of "Underrail |OT| The Fallout 3 you've waited 17 years for" wouldn't go over well with the kids here.

Underrail |OT| Underrated
 

bati

Member
I find 2016's RPG lineup exciting for Expeditions: Vikings alone. The dev's previous game, Expeditions: Conquistador, blew my expectations out of the water, giving me something I didn't even know I wanted.

I'm really hoping that Vikings continues Conquistador's unique blend of authentic flavour/choose-your-own-adventure/RPG/roguelike stuff, cause it's wonderful.

I'm hyped as hell for that. Expeditions: Conquistador was so amazing and so undeservingly overlooked (starting to notice a pattern here...). Some of the best writing I've seen in RPGs, both in content and style.

Underrail |OT| Underrated

Amazing.
 

WanderingWind

Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Eh. I dunno. I took a look at Underrail and there just seems to be an awfully lot of reading. Doesn't seem very much like Fallout to me.
 

bati

Member
Eh. I dunno. I took a look at Underrail and there just seems to be an awfully lot of reading. Doesn't seem very much like Fallout to me.

Did you forget "doesn't" there? UnderRail doesn't have much dialogue compared to Fallout 2. And the text that is in the game is "concise and laconic" (quoting a steam forum poster here, really liked his description of the writing style), apart from few exceptions npcs quickly get to the point. I noticed that quite a lot of people, myself included, prefer this style of writing over the one you can typically find in western fantasy rpgs.

If you meant Fallout 3 or 4 however, that's...no. No. Just no.
 
Did you forget "doesn't" there? UnderRail doesn't have much dialogue compared to Fallout 2. And the text that is in the game is "concise and laconic" (quoting a steam forum poster here, really liked his description of the writing style), apart from few exceptions npcs quickly get to the point. I noticed that quite a lot of people, myself included, prefer this style of writing over the one you can typically find in western fantasy rpgs.

If you meant Fallout 3 or 4 however, that's...no. No. Just no.

I think your sarcasm detector might be broken
 

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
http://store.steampowered.com/app/408400

Graphics look extremely low-budget, but I can live with that. Is the game itself any good?

I've not played it myself, but it's pretty highly regarded amongst the folks I know who played the older gold version. It's apparently very Might & Magic like, which for me is huge.

I just bought it, so I'll be able to let you know once I'm through my current backlog of Fall of the Dungeon Guardians, Underrail, Balrum, Antharion and Ruzar...
 
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