Anyone know anything about this title? I just discovered it on Steam and it looks quite good.
http://www.oforcsandmen.com/
It looks interesting. I plan on pre-ordering it later this month.
Too bad it comes out more or less the same time as the new X-COM game, and shortly before Dishonored.
Caught my eye too guys! Hopefully, it'll be a good sleeper title!
Definitely something to keep an eye on.
I hate when games sneak up on me like this...but then again, kinda like it :)
Quote from: Gusington on September 27, 2012, 08:03:47 PM
I hate when games sneak up on me like this...but then again, kinda like it :)
http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=1671.msg33902#msg33902
;)
Damn and I even commented in that older thread!
Quote from: Gusington on September 27, 2012, 08:16:07 PM
Damn and I even commented in that older thread!
You know what is hilarious. I left the exact same comment in that thread that I just left here. Apparently I am a boring commenter and have not done a good job 'keeping an eye' on this game. ::)
The storyline and universe look to be really fleshed out well if you check out the site. It comes out at the same time as Dishonored though and well you know...
Also, it's developed by Cyanide Studio. Patchy track record there.
Quote from: Gusington on September 27, 2012, 09:16:20 PM
The storyline and universe look to be really fleshed out well if you check out the site. It comes out at the same time as Dishonored though and well you know...
Also, it's developed by Cyanide Studio. Patchy track record there.
I really liked their Game of Thrones RPG IMHO, so I'm not too worried.
^Really? I haven't much about it since its release. Of Orcs and Men looks solid though and if the price is right I will take the plunge.
A new trailer has just been released: http://www.oforcsandmen.com/?rub=videos&vid_name=buddytrailer
I believe this hits the streets next week.
I need to point out that this has some language in it so be careful at work.
Cool, I'll need to watch this later. Lot of good releases coming.
Cyanide - Where Good Ideas Go To Die
I think I am going to have to wait and see what the masses have to say about this one before being tempted to buy it. I see is being developed for consoles as well and that always makes me leery.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on October 04, 2012, 07:44:13 AM
I think I am going to have to wait and see what the masses have to say about this one before being tempted to buy it. I see is being developed for consoles as well and that always makes me leery.
+1
I didn't get a warm and fuzzy out of that vid.
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
I'm still probably going to pre-order this.
But there's still about a week until release anyway.
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
The fear of it being a console port. The concept seems cool, playing as the 'bad guys' and killing the humans. However, from the gameplay videos and information on the website there doesn't seem to be alot of information on the actual gameplay besides running around killing things even though they claim it is an RPG.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on October 06, 2012, 07:27:32 AM
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
The fear of it being a console port. The concept seems cool, playing as the 'bad guys' and killing the humans. However, from the gameplay videos and information on the website there doesn't seem to be alot of information on the actual gameplay besides running around killing things even though they claim it is an RPG.
From what I understand you're not playing the bad guys.
That's the thing, the Orcs&Gobbos are actually "good" guys.
They've been conquered and oppressed by the bloodthirsty humans, and now they seek their freedom :P
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
I heard a lot of dialog and didn't see anything but combos for action.
I should know better than to judge a game by its trailer, but it looks like a generic console action game with a cool orc overlay. The problem is that the trailer should hook me. It didn't. Hopefully that's just mediocre trailer composition.
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
Are you familiar with Cyanide's track record?
Quote from: tgb on October 06, 2012, 11:08:12 AM
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
Are you familiar with Cyanide's track record?
There is that. They have great ideas that don't quite live up to great. So close, and yet...
Quote from: tgb on October 06, 2012, 11:08:12 AM
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
Are you familiar with Cyanide's track record?
Game of Thrones RPG wasn't bad at all.
Blood Bowl games are pretty neat.
So?
Quote from: Tpek on October 06, 2012, 11:47:03 AM
Quote from: tgb on October 06, 2012, 11:08:12 AM
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
Are you familiar with Cyanide's track record?
Game of Thrones RPG wasn't bad at all.
Blood Bowl games are pretty neat.
So?
Blood Bowl was released with substandard AI and only half the teams. The other half came out as expansions, and the A.I. is still not great.
Game of Thrones:Genesis was a RTS with some good ideas but so poorly implemented as to be unplayable, and only bore a passing resemblance to GoT. I don't believe it's ever been fixed.
Confrontation was a poor man's Dawn of War, and disappeared without anyone noticing or caring
Game of Thrones RPG was closer to the source material than the RTS but otherwise generic with poor animation and voice work.
In short, Cyanide is a bed of good ideas, poorly implemented.
And before you ask, yes, I've played them all, and own three of them.
Game of Thrones
Quote from: tgb on October 06, 2012, 01:26:49 PM
Quote from: Tpek on October 06, 2012, 11:47:03 AM
Quote from: tgb on October 06, 2012, 11:08:12 AM
Quote from: Gusington on October 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?
Are you familiar with Cyanide's track record?
Game of Thrones RPG wasn't bad at all.
Blood Bowl games are pretty neat.
So?
Blood Bowl was released with substandard AI and only half the teams. The other half came out as expansions, and the A.I. is still not great.
Game of Thrones:Genesis was a RTS with some good ideas but so poorly implemented as to be unplayable, and only bore a passing resemblance to GoT. I don't believe it's ever been fixed.
Confrontation was a poor man's Dawn of War, and disappeared without anyone noticing or caring
Game of Thrones RPG was closer to the source material than the RTS but otherwise generic with poor animation and voice work.
In short, Cyanide is a bed of good ideas, poorly implemented.
And before you ask, yes, I've played them all, and own three of them.
Game of Thrones
Confrontation wasn't that much of a DoW. I played it and kinda liked it.
Its main problems were technical.
The RPG had pretty darn good voice-acting to be honest. And still is one of my fav recent-times RPGs.
Cyanide isn't perfect, nor produces masterpieces left and right, but they don't suck that much.
Here is a pretty informative video walk-through from the developer. It's definitely not a hack-n-slash. It's more like Dragon Age or KOTOR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8XFMO5JPK8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8XFMO5JPK8)
Thanks for posting that, I will have to check it out. More like Dragon Age (the first one) is definitely a good thing.
Quote from: Gusington on October 11, 2012, 06:43:29 AM
Thanks for posting that, I will have to check it out. More like Dragon Age (the first one) is definitely a good thing.
Yes, in terms of combat. However, from what I'm hearing, the game is very linear and not really an "open-world," per se, and while the story is intriguing, the action gets old. Its also just a 15 hour campaign essentially...I guess a little more if you do random side quests. Might be one to sit and wait for a good steam sale.
I can wait...lots of good stuff either released orcoming soon.
Quote from: Gusington on October 11, 2012, 02:32:12 PM
I can wait...lots of good stuff either released orcoming soon.
I saw that.
I played the game for several minutes. So far a nice game.
However it does seem to have the bug that's way too common among Cyanide/Focus games,
And that is causing the GPU to overheat.
Can't even find a VSync option for the game.
Quote from: Tpek on October 11, 2012, 02:46:41 PM
I played the game for several minutes. So far a nice game.
However it does seem to have the bug that's way too common among Cyanide/Focus games,
And that is causing the GPU to overheat.
Can't even find a VSync option for the game.
Please post more impressions as you get deeper into the game!
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on October 11, 2012, 02:52:27 PM
Quote from: Tpek on October 11, 2012, 02:46:41 PM
I played the game for several minutes. So far a nice game.
However it does seem to have the bug that's way too common among Cyanide/Focus games,
And that is causing the GPU to overheat.
Can't even find a VSync option for the game.
Please post more impressions as you get deeper into the game!
+1
Yeah man post more! If Orcs turns out to be good and I can avoid that overheating I may be buying more games in the next few months than I usually do in half a year.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on October 11, 2012, 02:52:27 PM
Please post more impressions as you get deeper into the game!
If your video card doesn't blow up first!
Here's a video that seems to give a pretty good idea what the gameplay is like. I don't think this one's for me.
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-of-orcs-and-men/17-6698/ (http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-of-orcs-and-men/17-6698/)
(also, some accents just don't seem to belong in a fantasy game. New York Woody Allen-esque Jew is one of them.)
I could love this game but not for 39.99. A rainy day Steam sale purchase it will be, if that. RPS didn't like it much.
Quote from: Gusington on October 18, 2012, 05:59:55 PM
I could love this game but not for 39.99. A rainy day Steam sale purchase it will be, if that. RPS didn't like it much.
Yeah I read the RPS article and I won't be getting this until its very very cheap.
^Wurd.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on October 18, 2012, 04:14:35 PM
Here's a video that seems to give a pretty good idea what the gameplay is like. I don't think this one's for me.
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-of-orcs-and-men/17-6698/ (http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-of-orcs-and-men/17-6698/)
(also, some accents just don't seem to belong in a fantasy game. New York Woody Allen-esque Jew is one of them.)
What an annoying effing video. Too many self-styled comedians d*cking around for the first three minutes of every let's play vid just doesn't come off well in most cases. ::)
I saw it on steam a few weeks back and looked into it. As soon as I saw it was by Cyanide my interest cooled. The trailer looks good but the trailers always do. From what I can work out the combat system is the same as the Game of Thrones Rpg. It was ok but not great so I'll wait until there are a good few player reviews before I decide.
^Where have you been?