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Kingdom Come - Realistic open-world Medieval RPG [Kickstarter]
- Thread starter Dennis
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BattleMonkey
Member
How big s act 1 supposed to be? I know it's cheap but to get other acts requires quite a bit of money.
Its rather 6,5m$, because they already spent 1.5m$ and they will probably go over the budget, so around 7, maybe 7.5$, which is similar budget to Witcher 2 and that without engine development like CD Projekt did. Seems completely doable and reasonable.
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Btw i'm totally surprised that Crytek hasnt funded them. It seems like natural way to do. It promotes Your engine, put ups nice, deep game and its reasonably cheap to produce.
Seriously Yerli brothers, what were You thinking?
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
It's on the page; Approx. gameplay time: 30 hours (Act 1), 70+ hours (all 3 acts)
also the game is freaking cheap! you can have it digitally for 18
FunkyPajamas
Member
I don't think you get charged until the Kickstarter ends. Correct?
FunkyLounge
Member
This is on a way to success, 21%, 29 days to go.
They have my interest.
They have my interest.
dragonelite
Member
If only i could use paypall.
Or does kickstarter already support paypall?
Or does kickstarter already support paypall?
Uhm... Am I actually seeing proper sword guards? Pflug and Alber! A nice Oberhau strike with a longsword? Is that a Zwerchau in the background?
Oh. my. god.
Didn't think I'd ever actually see real swordplay in a game vs the stupid flashy anime-like stuff we usually get. Even Chivalry makes the combat subservient to the game mechanics over realism (which is fine!), but if they can make realistic combat work somehow, I will be truly impressed.
Will donate tonight.
Oh. my. god.
Didn't think I'd ever actually see real swordplay in a game vs the stupid flashy anime-like stuff we usually get. Even Chivalry makes the combat subservient to the game mechanics over realism (which is fine!), but if they can make realistic combat work somehow, I will be truly impressed.
Will donate tonight.
If it's "too good to be true"
Sorry but something is just not right with this kickstarter. I hope I'm proven wrong and this becomes another great European like RPG I love for the PC.
Sentenza
Member
The only thing "not right" with this Kickstarter is that it needs to exist in the first place.
I don't think Crytek is swimming in money themselves.
ScepticMatt
Member
Needs some anisotropic specular highlights - should be an easy fix in CryengineThis pic really pleases me. I think it's because of the natural lighting. Horse looks like it's made out of stone, though.
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Yeah, I really think they lay out the reasons for the kickstarter and their funding structure very clearly in the pitch. And what they show demonstrates to some extent that they can pull off what they promise, at least technically.
Actually they do, they are probably one of the fastest growing independent company in recent history of gaming industry.
They started with nothing in 1999 and by nothing i mean completely nothing, and now they have almost 800 employes in 9 studios.
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So true ;\
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Isn't there a multiplayer component on Steam? I could have sworn I bought a Kingdom online sword game?
What's keeping them afloat? Their games? Those always seem to underperform sales wise. Their engine? Uptake by devs doesn't seem to be all that high?
Engine and military contracts.
Most of their games were funded by publishers so they were not losing on them at all.
They also license their engine for engineering projects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx3iBCLeqk4
Recently they are also pushing new division that will focus on Cinema aspect of CryEngine, so making renders and real-time supporting applications with CryEngine for movie industry.
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Some Real-Time Immersive videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V396uuiAsU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXE0nGU0uCo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP7YBGCf5w0
ScepticMatt
Member
FunkyLounge
Member
Are you thinking about Kingdoms Rise? That came as Early Access on steam, but is a completely different game.
Unless I missed something; what's stopping the people who is really funding the game to stop funding them even if the kickstarter is successful? I'm really tempted to donate but I don't know.
Messofanego
Banned
This pic really pleases me. I think it's because of the natural lighting. Horse looks like it's made out of stone, though.
For some reason, I was just reminded of DJ Koze's album cover
Well the warhorse blog gives me a lot of confidence that the head guy knows what he's doing. The thing is that a successful Kickstarter is by a long shot the best kind of market research and publicity that anybody can carry out. Hell it's the kind of rock solid market research (These here people want the game so much that they have already PAID for it quite a few of them more than they would have paid at retail!) and publicity that a company doesn't have to pay for, but gets PAID for. A massively successful kickstarter would give any sane investor the confidence that the risk associated with the funding is low and the potential payoff is huge as a significant part of the costs have already been covered by salivating customers and a lot more potential customers know about it and are following it due to Kickstarter hype without them needing to spend a dime on a marketing campaign.
It could still fail of course, anything can. But I don't think any sane angel investor will be backing out of this.
The closer we have is always some king of 'arena' game ( War of the Roses, chivalry ), when it comes to multiplayer mediaval game.
Sadly open world rpg + coop doesn't seems to cross the mind of devs, it's always either an arena game or an mmo. :/
I wonder what the game's story is going to be like. Vavra wrote a lot of them and most of them were top notch. The gameplay will surely go beyond what Mafia 2 allowed him to do. Open-world RPGs are challenging to write, non-linear especially, but Vavra's direction should allow the game to shine.
Triggerhappytel
Member
How has this not found a publisher? Seriously; if they're thinking they can get by on £500,000 with I'd guess another couple of million from investors then why aren't publishers flocking towards a game like this?! They could probably fully fund a very polished game for a digital release for probably about £5 million investment.
Anyway, I've backed, for £25. Hope they manage to release on the consoles, although at this point it seems more of an intention than a sure thing. I didn't see the stretch goals anywhere; could someone point me. I could be just being thick.
Anyway, I've backed, for £25. Hope they manage to release on the consoles, although at this point it seems more of an intention than a sure thing. I didn't see the stretch goals anywhere; could someone point me. I could be just being thick.
that is some piss annoying camera control work...
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Ohh right, that's it! That's the one I bought.
The thing is I love swords and martial arts, but most high intense free aim action games are shooters.
Anyone remember how insane Project Offset looked in 2007? That game was supposed to have been Battefield 2 64 player rides on dragons in fantasy castles while valiant knights fall to their deaths in flames screaming in walish accents! What more could you want out of life?
https://twitter.com/DanielVavra/status/426022366037037056Interesting fact about games industry state - several producers we pitched the game to have pledged on our Kickstarter
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Mount & Blade with more polish, more RPG elements, a story, and amazing-balls graphics? Fuck yeah, I'm in.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
As someone with OCD and not OCPD, the adoption of the term "OCD" into common vernacular without really understanding the difference... honestly doesn't particularly bother me.
Except on dates that are multiples of three. Before 12pm.
On topic, I probably won't back this, but I'm going to follow their progress, and be really disappointed if Dennis doesn't do the OT.
It does (or rather will), see the faq section at the bottom of their kickstarter page.
They already put 1.5 million in the project and would probably prefer to get something out of it? That's admittedly no guarantee, but it's good enough for me.
GazzaScotland
Member
Looks exactly like the scene from Braveheart haha.
"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM! "
quoting because I never did get an answer...
Dat wide FOV <3<3<3
N7Commander95
Member
Backed! My first kick starter. Looks fantastic. I kinda love both extreme fantasy RPG and the more realistic ones, so bring it on!
Is Mount and Blade similar to this? I've heard it's good
Is Mount and Blade similar to this? I've heard it's good
Mount and Blade gets my vote for you guys. Complete sandbox fun. It's a bit slow at the start as you don't really know what's going on, but get to a city and get some missions to fight bandits even more pathetic than you to earn some coin and it starts opening up and becomes crazy fun as you run around with your mercenary band deciding what kingdom you're going to back and why.