Of Orcs and Men

[LongBlade]

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.

[Gusington]

I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?

[Tpek]

I'm still probably going to pre-order this.
But there's still about a week until release anyway.

[TheCommandTent]

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.

[Tpek]

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

[LongBlade]

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.

[tgb]

I don't know...I liked it. What's not to like?

Are you familiar with Cyanide's track record?

[LongBlade]

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...

[Tpek]

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?

[tgb]

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

[Tpek]

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.

[Jarhead0331]

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

[Gusington]

Thanks for posting that, I will have to check it out. More like Dragon Age (the first one) is definitely a good thing.

[Jarhead0331]

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.

[Gusington]

I can wait...lots of good stuff either released orcoming soon.