Cralon (Arx fatalis?) - from ex Piranha Bytes devs

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Cralon is a genuine 3D dungeon crawler with RPG and adventure elements, inspired by the ultimate underworld classics. On the hunt for a demon, you plunge into the shaft of an old mine, trapped in the darkness. In search of a way out, you encounter strange creatures and new friends, solve quests and puzzles, fight the darkness and evil monsters, face your fears and discover the secret of the mine.




Official site: https://pithead-studio.com/



Personaly would be interesting to play, if it's like Arx Fatalis
 
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Yeah it has the Arx Fatalis/King's Field vibe.

Leaving this here for an easy wishlist.


Thanks for the heads-up OP!
 
Honestly, I'm not sure what to think about a Dungeon Crawler from Piranha Bytes ex-employees.
If it turns out good i will be happy.
 
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amigastar said:
Honestly, I'm not sure what to think about a Dungeon Crawler from Pirahna Bytes ex-employees.
If it turns out good i will be happy.
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I want to believe, but at the same time I'm more than a bit wary of jumping on the hype train for a project led by the couple that arguably dragged Piranha Bytes to its ruin.
 
Sentenza said:
I want to believe, but at the same time I'm more than a bit wary of jumping on the hype train for a project led by the couple that arguably dragged Piranha Bytes to its ruin.
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Yeah, thats true i don't think the original Gothic 2 devs are still there.
 
amigastar said:
i don't think the original Gothic 2 devs are still there.
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That from official site
He worked for over 24 years as a creative director, game designer, author and composer on the role-playing series Gothic, Risen and ELEX.

So maybe he was involved in Gothic 2 already
 
SolidQ said:
That from official site
He worked for over 24 years as a creative director, game designer, author and composer on the role-playing series Gothic, Risen and ELEX.

So maybe he was involved in Gothic 2 already
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HE is one of the co-founders of Piranha Bytes, but that's not the problem.
The problem is that his decisions and his leadership in the last few years, specifically, are often pointed as the ones that dragged the entire studio on a slippery slope of declining quality until they had to declare bankruptcy few months ago.
The story goes that after Mike Hoge left the studio to explore other options and left him in charge (which for context was around the end development of Risen 1) things started to go south pretty quickly at PB.
 
Sentenza said:
I want to believe, but at the same time I'm more than a bit wary of jumping on the hype train for a project led by the couple that arguably dragged Piranha Bytes to its ruin.
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The daft name for this alone has the stink of Bjorn all over it.

But yeah, with Hoge and Kai leaving you could feel the shift immediately with PB titles.
 
The OST reminds me Harry Gregson-Williams' MGS2 soundtrack.

I think I'm interested. Thanks for heads up, OP, the game seems legit cool. Love dungeon crawlers.
 
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Videos! We have the choice of:

Trailer about the exact same caves with a torch, oh look a scroll!

Gameplay! With German overlay.

The same trailer, now with a rat and DUNDUNDUNDUN music!

So I'm still interested but do developers not understand having GAMEPLAY in your trailers will most likely attract GAMERS that would want to PLAY your GAME?
Maybe I'm not hip enough and should've just said day one buy.

Edit: looking through the video they just walk around and collect stuff. Near the end there's something that resembles an enemy.
Yes battle time! It's docile..
And maybe it's me but that woman has such an annoying voice. Is this an amnesia type of experience where you can only hide?
 
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I'd love for this to be an amazing ImSim dungeon crawler RPG. But it's giving me a bit of Underworld Ascendant vibe. Devs who invoke the name of old classics and deliver a very surface level experience. The videos released so far seem very underwhelming to me.

Lol, maybe I'm being a bit harsh and cranky. 😅 But I guess we'll see what's what when we get an actual meaty gameplay video. Hope I'm dead wrong and they knock it out of the park. 🤞
 
amigastar said:
New Trailer
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That inn looks super comfy.
Sexy Booty GIF
 
SomeNorseGuy said:
I'd love for this to be an amazing ImSim dungeon crawler RPG. But it's giving me a bit of Underworld Ascendant vibe. Devs who invoke the name of old classics and deliver a very surface level experience. The videos released so far seem very underwhelming to me.

Lol, maybe I'm being a bit harsh and cranky. 😅 But I guess we'll see what's what when we get an actual meaty gameplay video. Hope I'm dead wrong and they knock it out of the park. 🤞
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Underworld Ascendant was sooooo bad. Like really, really bad. I was saddened to see it skewered upon release and I stayed far away.
Finally curiosity drove me to pick it up for like 5 dollars during a psn sale.
There wasn't a single redeeming quality to it, I couldn't even squeeze a measley $5 worth of enjoyment out of that "game." Anybody connected to the development of that horror should be blackballed from the industry.
 
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