Vampyr looks inspired by BloodBorne ,but when was the last we saw it ?
Feels it'd gone missing for a long while.
Has there been any recent news on Kingdom Come? Last I remember hearing about it was early last year when it was unsurprisingly pushed back to 2017.
1. Tagged Skills
The tagged skills will increase at a faster rate (let's say x1.25). INT will no longer give overall XP bonuses but define the number of tagged skills instead (up to 4 tagged skills at INT10). Thus a smart person will be able to excel in a larger number of disciplines.
2. Party-Based Mechanics used in DR
Charisma will determine the number and quality of your party members. The party size will range from 2 to 4. Experience points from quests will be split between the human party members (a droid will have its own leveling up mechanics and won't cost you any XP), thus a smaller party will be able to gain levels faster.
3. Feats & Character Levels
Your characters will gain levels using experience points from quests. When you level up, youll select feats, unlocking or improving your abilities. The feats will be an important aspect of character development (i.e. they wont give you minor bonuses but help you develop your characters along specific paths: lone wolf vs squad leader, offense vs defense, gunslinger vs sprayer or gadgeteer, melee vs ranged, which will go beyond which skill to develop, etc) and make as much of a difference as the skills levels.
The skills will determine your chance of success with certain tasks and the feats will define what you can do and how you can use these skills to maximum advantage. Basically, the feats will define your character much more than your skills.
4. Skills & Learn by Using
You will not gain XP for killing, talking, sneaking, picking locks, using computers, fixing mechanical things and such. You will not increase your skills manually. Instead your skills will be increased automatically based on their use.
The main problem with a party-based, skill-based setup is that even with a 3-man party you can easily cover all skills you want to have. Youll have a fighter/talker, fighter/thief, fighter/fixer, which is something wed like to avoid. The increase by use system solves this problem in the most natural and logical way possible. Your abilities reflect what you do, not how (usually arbitrary) you distribute your skill points.
It reinforces our party-based goals. If you let one of the party members do all the repair work while you concentrate on other areas, losing this party member would hit you hard and youd have to make sure (via choices made during quests) that he/she would stay with you no matter what.
It rewards consistent gameplay. Lets say you need to deal with a gang that stands between you and that door over there. If you kill them, everyones combat skills will improve a bit. If you talk your way through, only your dialogue skills will go up.
Instead of counting how many times you did something, well assign a certain value (lets call it learning points) to each activity (attacking, killing, fixing, sneaking, convincing, lying, etc). So killing a tough enemy or repairing a reactor will net you more points than killing a weakling or fixing a toaster. Basically, it will work the same way as XP but go directly toward raising the skill that did all the work.
1-10 ranks with hidden grandmaster ranks going above 10. So essentially a 1-20 system. Basically, we dont want someone to max a skill and then have the xp go to waste, so we will allow raising the skill above 10 in the unlikely event of someone going over 10 via extreme specialization.
5. Evasion
Evasion is a DEX & PER based skill. It doesnt give you a chance to avoid attacks like AoD Dodge but rather makes you harder to target, reducing THC against you. Each rank reduces THC by 5% up to 50% at slvl10. Against melee attacks Evasion is twice as effective (i.e. 10% THC reduction per rank).
6. Stats:
STR carry weight, melee damage bonus, min requirements for heavy (two-handed) weapons like plasma canons.
DEX determines AP (Dex + 2) and combat sequence; same as in DR
CON determines HP (CON x 5)+10, number of implants, and resistance to poison, knockdowns, criticals and other harmful effects while in combat. The goal is to make toughness more than just hit points as +5 hit points dont really make much difference. So the focus should be on resisting harmful effects. Implants: 1 at CON4, 2 at CON5, 3 at CON6, 4 at CON7, 5 at CON8, 6 at CON9, 7 at CON10
PER THC modifier for all weapons, reduces the effect of flashbang and smoke grenades.
INT determines the number of tagged skills: 1 at INT4, 2 at INT6, 3 at INT8 , 4 at INT10. Reduces Brainwave Disruptor effects.
CHA determines the party size, 1 follower at CHA5, 2 at CHA7, 3 at CHA9; max party size is 4
7. Implants
In most cases the implants won't give you direct bonuses (cellular regeneration and subdermal armor are the only combat implants) but will assist with "gated content", either allowing to bypass stat checks or unlocking extra content in the first place (like interfacing with the ship's systems via a bridge officer's datajack). Basically, the implants are closer to what we did in AoD than to Shadowrun, in case anyone's wondering.
8. Reputation
General reputation will be checked in dialogues, but it will also give the players a better idea of what they missed via low ranks. Personal beliefs will be shaped by your decisions and checked in dialogues. Well start the game with 10 "old-school" questions which will both introduce the setting and define your character a little bit (the starting values).
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For those of you who played The Age of Decadence (all of you, right?), here is an update to Iron Tower Studios' Colony Ship RPG:
FYI Age of Decadence took 11 years to make, now I don't expect Colony Ship to take that long but it's definitely not hitting this year.
Lot of interesting looking games. I love how creative people can get when they're not forced into the high budget mindset.
Now let's raise 5 mil for a new Darklands.
I won't add Monster Hunter and no list split.A nice update!
I don't know if the questions you asked before are a concern but I don't think you should split the list. In all fairness the bigger RPGs will likely get some steam from their own threads or news updates already. No need to play favourites here.
I wouldn't include Monster Hunter as an RPG for this thread. If I get some time I'll write some more blurbs for various games.
SpellForce 3
Developed by
Grimlore Games & THQ Nordic
Release date: 31/12/2017
Now, that would be pretty damn amazing. One of my favorite games of that whole CRPG era. I would definitely pitch in to make this happen.Lot of interesting looking games. I love how creative people can get when they're not forced into the high budget mindset.
Now let's raise 5 mil for a new Darklands.
Now, that would be pretty damn amazing. One of my favorite games of that whole CRPG era. I would definitely pitch in to make this happen.
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Edit: Wait, wait, Xanadu EX+ is coming to Steam?! Where did you see that? I was planning on PS4 but will go with a PC port instead of true.
Edit 2: for some reason I am not feeling Torment. The original is one of my favorite games of all times along with BG2. However after Wasteland 2 turning out to be quite mediocre I am not certain about Torment. What I have seen and a lot of commentaries are also not giving me a lot of confidence in the release.
Between that and ME:A I am feeling a lot of disappointment is to come. At least with Yakuza 0 and P5 there is 0 chance of a miss.
PS4 and Steam versions will be EX+, Vita, base game. I'll answer through the blog for max visibility.
Xenoblade 2 is supposedly coming 2017. I guess we'll see if it makes that date!
Yeap, that's pretty awesome.StereoVsn:
Nintendo of America and Europe are also saying 2017.only in japan for 2017
Now, that would be pretty damn amazing. One of my favorite games of that whole CRPG era. I would definitely pitch in to make this happen.
therearedozensofus.jpg.
Edit: Wait, wait, Xanadu EX+ is coming to Steam?! Where did you see that? I was planning on PS4 but will go with a PC port instead of true.
Edit 2: for some reason I am not feeling Torment. The original is one of my favorite games of all times along with BG2. However after Wasteland 2 turning out to be quite mediocre I am not certain about Torment. What I have seen and a lot of commentaries are also not giving me a lot of confidence in the release.
Between that and ME:A I am feeling a lot of disappointment is to come. At least with Yakuza 0 and P5 there is 0 chance of a miss.
I don't understand why Nier and Yakuza are RPGs and Horizon isn't. Actually I just recently found that people consider Horizon not an RPG even when devs constantly says that the game is an action RPG, but whatever.
Tales of Berseria
Nioh
Horizon Zero Dawn
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Mass Effect Andromeda
Persona 5
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Literally the best year for rpgs!
(Probably forgetting others too!)
Have you played Divinity: Original Sin? It's easily in my top 3 on PS4.
Agreed. I completed on PC and somehow enjoyed it more playing again on ps4. A rare gem that makes you think, read and experiment to get the most from it.
Now I know many here have a fairly... generous definition of what a RPG is, but Nioh? I've got it pre-ordered, but I've never heard anything that made me think it was a RPG, even an ARPG.
Yakuza 0 10/10 Labadal Hype Points
PS4: January 24 (WW)
Action, story heavy, side quests, single character, multiple protagonists, third person
Japanese Demo available
Tales of Berseria 7/10 Labadal Hype Points
PC: January 27 (WW)
Action, party based, anime, female protagonist, third person
PS4 January 24 (US), January 27 (EU)
Demo available
Horizon: Zero Dawn
PS4: Febraury 28 (NA), March 1 (PAL)
Action, third person, exploration, post apocalyptic
Mass Effect: Andromeda 4/10 Labadal Hype Points
PC, PS4, XB1: March 21 (NA), March 24 (EU)
Persona 5 10/10 Labadal Hype Points
PS4: April 4 (WW)
Dragon Quest XI 10/10 labadal Hype Points
PS4, 3DS, Switch
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age 9/10 Hype Points
PS4: TBA 2017 (WW)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd 8/10 Labadal Hype Points
PC: TBA
Ni No Kuni II: REVENANT KINGDOM 9/10 Labadal Hype Points
PS4: TBA 2017
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
PC, PS4. XB1: Q1 2017 (WW)
Yakuza Kiwami 8/10 Labadal Hype Points
PS4: Summer
If Yakuza is an RPG, then so is Nioh, since their "RPG elements" are so similar.
Neither make me think RPG in any way, but they both still look amazing.
Pretty recent write up about seemingly everything being labeled RPGs anymore: What's in a Name?
No spoilers please but I've started three big games (bad idea) and a million other smaller ones. As of the moment I can only focus on one MAAAAYBE two of these games. Can anyone give me some spoiler-free reasons on which I should be playing?
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines:
Digging the atmosphere, the 1080p mod installed. I have been feeling a little lost and aimless in my first 7 hours.
Planescape: Torment:
I've got this running with HD mods. Love the atmosphere as well! Very unique, something I've never really seen before. I've enjoyed it focus on the world so far and have heard its really good for roleplay (acting how I want to etc). I encountered a bug that stopped me from leaving the first area, but after a month I finally manage to fix it. So now the next area awaits. Think I was about 13 hours in?
Persona 4: Golden:
Man the music in this game good. I'm about 25 hours in. Not the biggest JRPG guy but thought I'd give this one a shot and I'm really enjoying it. I think the repetition is what lead to to take a break from the game. It's gameplay can be addictive and every time the game says "you don't have enough [insert here] to say this" I feel like I have purpose for the next two hours of play.
With some massive games coming up pretty soon (Zelda and Mass Effect) I'm hoping to chip away at this backlog I have. Thoughts?
No spoilers please but I've started three big games (bad idea) and a million other smaller ones. As of the moment I can only focus on one MAAAAYBE two of these games. Can anyone give me some spoiler-free reasons on which I should be playing?
With some massive games coming up pretty soon (Zelda and Mass Effect) I'm hoping to chip away at this backlog I have. Thoughts?