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https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/1...l-darkness-legacy-of-kain-creator-denis-dyack



Denis Dyack – creator of Legacy of Kain, Eternal Darkness, and Too Human – has announced a new game, called Deadhaus Sonata, from his new development studio, Apocalypse. It’ll be a free-to-play action-RPG for PC and “targeting all platforms.” And according to Dyack, it will blend the best of what he’s done before.

“We are combining elements of many of my past games into Deadhaus Sonata,” Dyack told IGN. “Deadhaus Sonata is a cooperative multiplayer, free-to-play RPG where you are an unstoppable force of the dead. There are Lovecraftian overtones from Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, the gothic role-playing elements of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, where you are undead, and finally, some the action RPG elements of Too Human.” Apocalypse described Deadhaus as “a combination of fast action, loot collection, and deep gothic lore [that] is sure to usher in a universe where gamers can explore a dark mythology like none other.”

Deadhaus Sonata is using Amazon’s Lumberyard game technology, and for now, it has no release date as of yet – “We are still in the very early stages of development and don’t plan on announcing a release date for quite some time,” Dyack said.

 

[element]

It will be the apocalypse if it ever ships...

Curious what their hook will be being F2P.

 

[Scopa]

I watched the teaser and was down until I read “free to play” and “cooperative multiplayer”. Hard pass for me.

What ever happened to the other Dyack game he tried to crowdfund that looked like a spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness?

 

[HeresJohnny]

I watched the teaser and was down until I read “free to play” and “cooperative multiplayer”. Hard pass for me.

What ever happened to the other Dyack game he tried to crowdfund that looked like a spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness?

My exact thoughts. Cooperative multiplayer? Pass.

 

[Papa]

Read the title as a sequel to Eternal Sonata.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

I watched the teaser and was down until I read “free to play” and “cooperative multiplayer”. Hard pass for me.

What ever happened to the other Dyack game he tried to crowdfund that looked like a spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness?

Pretty much my thoughts exactly.

Eternal Darkness remains one of my all time favorite games, what a shame we never got a worthy follow up.

 

[johntown]

Might have been excited 20 years ago.

Now “yawn”.

 

[michaelius]

Who is funding this ? With his recent history it's shocking someone would want to finance it.

 

[Hanon]

dyack is seriously not the luckiest guy in the industry, despite his neogaf meltdown from back in the day. i wish him the best.

 

[JimmyRustler]

Dyack has dropped quite a bit... Just finished Eternal Darkness for the first time this year and man, what a masterpiece that game is. And now he‘s making... well... whatever that it.

 

[ROMhack]

That sounded so good until I read what it was.

 

[TeamGhobad]

feel bad for roasting him before, but i guess we gamers have all matured. wish him the best and im actually interested in this new project.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Join Director Denis Dyack as he explains how Deadhaus Sonata is a Spiritual Successor to Legacy of Kain.

 

[Bonfires Down]

It’s too bad that Dyack has been stuck in limbo without releasing a game for so long. Let’s hope this one is good, but I wish he could have made Shadow of the Eternals instead.

Hectic multiplayer games don’t really lend themselves to deep stories.

 

[hunthunt]

I hope he does well. I laughed and shitted him like everybody else in the day but the man sure has some talent.

 

[TacosNSalsa]

Free to play, multiplayer , heavy social integration... uhhh..

 

[CAB_Life]

I’m generally not a negative person—as there’s enough shitposting on the internet—but that gameplay slice was rough. Like Pirranah Bytes alpha footage levels of jank. Or a scrapped Spiders game.

I‘ll keep an eye on it, as I love dark fantasy, but atm none of this looks terribly compelling.

 

[plushyp]

It’s too bad that Dyack has been stuck in limbo without releasing a game for so long. Let’s hope this one is good, but I wish he could have made Shadow of the Eternals instead.

From what I vaguely remember, Dyack tried Kickstarter twice for SotE but it failed both times because of him burning too many bridges in the industry. Don't know much beyond that though.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I’m generally not a negative person—as there’s enough shitposting on the internet—but that gameplay slice was rough. Like Pirranah Bytes alpha footage levels of jank. Or a scrapped Spiders game.

I‘ll keep an eye on it, as I love dark fantasy, but atm none of this looks terribly compelling.

Ditto. I mean, early footage, but it looks incredibly rough across the board...

 

[Scopa]

I’d be all over this if it was a single player dark fantasy RPG. But, I have less than zero interest in a free to play multiplayer game.

I don’t think this was a smart decision on his part.

 

[struggler_guts]

Wait he had a neogaf meltdown back in the day?

 

[Bonfires Down]

From what I vaguely remember, Dyack tried Kickstarter twice for SotE but it failed both times because of him burning too many bridges in the industry. Don't know much beyond that though.

Yeah, I backed it.

 

[DrNeroCF]

That's got to be some of the worst animation in a video game I've seen recently.

 

[Rei dos Vermes]

"free-to-play action-RPG"

No, thanks.

 

[jdforge]

Characters look like they’re whizzing about on roller skates to me.

Hard pass on this.

Such a shame to see the creator of ED churn out a game like this. ED is an absolute masterpiece and I wish SK had remained close to Nintendo. We might have had an ED sequel.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Make Too Human 2. There was so much promise in that series. A true hack and slash co-op loot game, which played better with a controller and could have rivaled Diablo, had it had enough time in the oven.

 

[V2Tommy]

How the mighty have fallen. From the greatest surprise hit I've ever played to Actionia Generica.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I loved Legacy of Kain, but this looks like garbage and the Twitch integration being a major selling point is off-putting to me.

 

[UltimaKilo]

How the mighty have fallen. From the greatest surprise hit I've ever played to Actionia Generica.

Man, I feel really sad for him. Maybe he could humble himself and go work for a real studio?

 

[VertigoOA]

The combat looks soooooooooooo bad

 

[JORMBO]

Join Director Denis Dyack as he explains how Deadhaus Sonata is a Spiritual Successor to Legacy of Kain.

Against.

 

[Scopa]

I think Denis needs a guru of sorts to set him on the straight and narrow. I’m available. I’m an ideas man too, so you get double the bang for your buck.

I only work from home, though. I’m not moving to Canada. I don’t do Skype either, so we’ll have to find another solution. I’m also unavailable 8am - 11am Monday through Sunday. I’m generally drunk or getting drunk in the evenings. But, we’ve got a solid window of about 5-6 hours a day to work on it. Whatever we come up with, I am certain it will be more successful than a fucking free to play, multiplayer RPG.

Anyway, call me.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

So this is just the Nosgoth of the 2020s? Just make it a BR bro.

 

[Bodom78]

This looks terrible... I'd rather just go and play Legacy of Kain again.

 

[element]

That is what they decide to show after being in develoment a minimum of 9 months? WOW! That is embarassing. I've seen week long game jams with better stuff...

 

[GymWolf]

I was excited before reading the genre...

 

[Stefan.North]

You forgot to mention Too Human in thread title.