On the other hand, I loved the units and heroes of Demigod, they felt very unique and refreshing, especially the archers and gunners. The entire game felt like a new experience, even having played DotA and many warcraft map-mods.
Anyway, for instance instead of a standard dragon, have this chap, note scale and awesomeness:
Hell, even this chap, as before notice the scale and the awesome... (sorry if it stretches the screen to much.
So, my question, if it can be answered is how standardised is this fantasy going to be?
The thread direction I'm hoping for here is vague discussion about unusual or unique fantasy settings that various forumites have encountered, either in images or novels. Settings, scenes, plots, races, characters, items, abilites, weapons or spells. Anything unique or interesting. Image replies would be appreciated greatly, I have an image folder with loads of unique(ish) monsters and landscapes, but I'm curious to see what others think.
To finish, I'll say that this game has the potential to be epic GPG, I am seriously excited about what could be achieved, good luck.|||I heartily agree.
Go beyond dragons and elves, and all. Those drawings are a very good example of what games that take place in medieval times are missing.
Dragons are very very cool, but overused. It's time to pave the way for even cooler gigantic monsters.|||Giant floating sea urchins should be the new dragons.
I fully agree for GPG to not stick with standard fantasy.|||i agree aswell
make it feel a little obscure... im not against a little jap influences
that said... kings and castles sounds VERY standard fantasy :)|||Kings and Castles is a generic name that mentions very little of standard fantasy except for the part about Kings and Castles.|||I do want to see uniqueness in this game, but I don't want them to go to extremes to the point that you can hardly tell that it is a fantasy game.|||scotchtape622|||I should have specified medieval fantasy.|||scotchtape622|||I agree that they do need to take a step in a more unique direction, nor do I want a run of the mill medieval fantasy. I just don't want a "Final Fantasy" where all the units seem to have come from an LCD trip.
I'd rather see new twists on old concepts.|||I emphasize "Small step"
EDIT: Besides, most FF games are in fact revisions of your standard medieval fantasy.|||I always felt like FF was a little... extreme. I never enjoyed them at all (not that I'm a big RPG fan anyway).|||Instead of dragons, have Charizards.|||And instead of wizards, Alakazams.|||What's the difference, besides that Charizard doesn't die of being compressed into 10 cubic cm?|||How many dragons do you know that can learn Solar Beam and Steel Wing in one moveset?|||scotchtape622|||Bump because this can not be stressed enough.
Also you don't need to have played the previous games to understand any of the FF games.|||For the love of all that is holy, can I please have some links to more art like those the OP posted? Those creatures are....amazing, I want some hi-rez ones for my desktop!|||True K-lord, but those guys are all really weak to Ice Beam.
Anyway:
I really think that we shouldn't have ANY elves or orcs in this game. Or dwarves. I want to see humans based factions, or creatures that GPG invented themselves, instead of relying on old sterotypes.|||Idd, keep the fantasy stuff really terrifying (only very weird stuff/monsters/experimentals like dragons and such) and not too omnipresent in the game world. It would make the shock of encountering these fantasy elements much cooler when you have a mostly human army.|||Ryuken|||@sanman: tbh I honestly don't know the source, I get most of the artwork from lurking admidst elegan/tg/entlemen, If you would like I could upload most of what I have in a zip file.
I think that three human factions would be fine, at the expense of some elves and dwarves (dwarfs?), though I'd prefer one non-human faction I honestly don't mind if it ends up all three human.
Otherwise I'd agree that to have the more unusual and unique units higher up in the tech trees, so that the impact of the units is greater.
Despite the concept art at the site looking pretty generic, the press release quotes:
"......all-new, original fantasy world."
So i have high hopes for something brilliant and unique.
Anyway, this discussion is achieving something, so have a character portrait. (Unfortunately guy has pointy ears but the mount, armour and weapon are pretty cool).
|||Would it be possible to directly bring in some of the demigod characters into the game? I would love to see Torchbearer and DA in a game like this.|||I was thinking about that too. Wouldn't it be awesome if some of the demigods were special hero characters?
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