2 more mystery Paradox titles

[JasonPratt]

Hadn't heard confirmation yet on the CK2/EU4 DLCs, thanks!

EU4 is not surprising (they were heavily hinting the East India Company); and while I'm personally a bit disappointed there wasn't more Dark Ages backfilling, the India expansion for CK2 makes a ton of sense (and meshes with the EU4 expansion, too!) They were an ancient and developed civilization in actual significant contact with at least some of the CK2 civs. China might be overreaching during this period but hey they were in contact with India directly and other SEAsia civs in between, and indirectly with European/Med/PersGulf nations; so if a further push was sent that way later to bring CK2 more up to EU4's scope I wouldn't be surprised. (Kind of along the lines of the Strength And Honor game series.)

[Kushan]

More info about wealth of nations has been posted. Really bare bones info, no word on how actual mechanics will work yet.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/press/2014/1/paradox-announces-europa-universalis-iv-wealth-of-nations

[steve58]

There is a bit of a preview of Runemaster at Escapistmagazine.

[undercovergeek]

More info about wealth of nations has been posted. Really bare bones info, no word on how actual mechanics will work yet.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/press/2014/1/paradox-announces-europa-universalis-iv-wealth-of-nations

looking forward to this and India more than the main 2 announcements

[Kushan]

More info about wealth of nations has been posted. Really bare bones info, no word on how actual mechanics will work yet.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/press/2014/1/paradox-announces-europa-universalis-iv-wealth-of-nations

looking forward to this and India more than the main 2 announcements

EUIV will be day 1 for me. I'll probably skip the CK2 India DLC until it goes on sale. I've yet to even play the muslim faction, so I'm not really looking forward to a 3rd cultural group to play as.

[undercovergeek]

More info about wealth of nations has been posted. Really bare bones info, no word on how actual mechanics will work yet.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/press/2014/1/paradox-announces-europa-universalis-iv-wealth-of-nations

looking forward to this and India more than the main 2 announcements

EUIV will be day 1 for me. I'll probably skip the CK2 India DLC until it goes on sale. I've yet to even play the muslim faction, so I'm not really looking forward to a 3rd cultural group to play as.

loving the EUIV Austria by the way - although i did just lose the Emperor title, i wasnt too popular when Fred the 3rd popped his clogs

[TheCommandTent]

There is a bit of a preview of Runemaster at Escapistmagazine.

That sounds/looks like it could be really fun.

[ArizonaTank]

They really need to improve the strategic AI for HOI IV (over HOI III), or it just won't be worth getting IMHO.

[bobarossa]

Have you tried HOI3 since the Total Realism Project mod came out in September?  My first game as the US, the British invaded SW France with 30 divisions in 1942.  First time I have ever seen a decent invasion occur.

[spelk]

sorry... wrong thread.

[steve58]

Looks like Runemaster, one of the former mystery titles has been cancelled.

The Paradox Interactive Forums has the announcement from Paradox COO Susana Meza Graham that they have decided to "freeze" development of Runemaster, expressing regrets over the decision concerning this "very ambitious" role-playing game (thanks Gamer's Hell via rpg codex). Here's word:

I have some news to share with you today regarding Runemaster. After much internal debate we have made the decision to freeze development of the project until further notice and move the development team working on it to other projects within Paradox Development Studio.

This was not an easy decision to make - Runemaster was a very ambitious project for us, and the team working on it brought all of their passion, dedication, and talent to the table. Despite our best efforts and a couple of re-scopes, Runemaster in its current form was unable to live up to the standards we set for ourselves here at Paradox.

Runemaster was a different type of game for us, and even though we were not able to fully realize our vision for it, we will take the lessons we learned to heart as we move forward with new endeavors. We will also look into how we can re-use the best parts of the game in other ways.

Our aim is to let all the talented developers who worked on the project to remain with Paradox Development Studio and bring their expertise to the other great games currently in development.

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/157200/runemaster-cancelled

[Nefaro]

Looks like Runemaster, one of the former mystery titles has been cancelled.

The Paradox Interactive Forums has the announcement from Paradox COO Susana Meza Graham that they have decided to "freeze" development of Runemaster, expressing regrets over the decision concerning this "very ambitious" role-playing game (thanks Gamer's Hell via rpg codex). Here's word:

I have some news to share with you today regarding Runemaster. After much internal debate we have made the decision to freeze development of the project until further notice and move the development team working on it to other projects within Paradox Development Studio.

This was not an easy decision to make - Runemaster was a very ambitious project for us, and the team working on it brought all of their passion, dedication, and talent to the table. Despite our best efforts and a couple of re-scopes, Runemaster in its current form was unable to live up to the standards we set for ourselves here at Paradox.

Runemaster was a different type of game for us, and even though we were not able to fully realize our vision for it, we will take the lessons we learned to heart as we move forward with new endeavors. We will also look into how we can re-use the best parts of the game in other ways.

Our aim is to let all the talented developers who worked on the project to remain with Paradox Development Studio and bring their expertise to the other great games currently in development.

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/157200/runemaster-cancelled

Interesting.  At least they know when to call it off.

I was confused by that title anyway.  Wasn't really sure what it was trying to do, from the info we had.   ???

[sandman2575]

Very surprising. From the looks of it, Runemaster was Johan's baby -- he seemed to be the project's frontman, and seemed really enthused about it, much more so than about Pdoxs more run if the mill projects like HOI4. I can only imagine the internal strife the decision to cancel mustve caused.

Ah well -- let Pdox put all its eggs into the basket of producing a first rate HOI4 then...

[bayonetbrant]

Bummer, Cyrano was prety high on it after GenCon
http://grogheads.com/?p=6053

[undercovergeek]

blimey, i thought that was quite far down the line too - cant say im affected much, it wasnt for me and i wonder if marketing have realised this was too far from the pdx tree for most fans