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Something cool that showed up on Kickstarter. Probably among the most ambitious projects I've seen yet:

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate

 

Looks like the closest thing to a Rogue Trader game in 3D I've ever seen. Check it out.

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Something cool that showed up on Kickstarter. Probably among the most ambitious projects I've seen yet:

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate

 

Looks like the closest thing to a Rogue Trader game in 3D I've ever seen. Check it out.

 

I might have to back that

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Something cool that showed up on Kickstarter. Probably among the most ambitious projects I've seen yet:

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate

 

Looks like the closest thing to a Rogue Trader game in 3D I've ever seen. Check it out.

 

I'm looking, I love the sound of the very little I've read so far, but 500k$? For what they call a AAA-rpg... I'm not entirely convinced to say the least.

But I wants its..!

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I like the concept of modular ship design. I might back this.

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I'm looking, I love the sound of the very little I've read so far, but 500k$? For what they call a AAA-rpg... I'm not entirely convinced to say the least.

But I wants its..!

 

 

In truth, I'm as skeptical as you are in spite of the project touching on a lot of things that strike my fancy. If a finished product were to come out of this, I would imagine it to be comparable in scope and production values as the X-COM remake, and even for that $500,000 seems to be an absurdly optimistic estimate (then again, correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Eternity sort of start with that estimate as the bare minimum to be made?)

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

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In truth, I'm as skeptical as you are in spite of the project touching on a lot of things that strike my fancy. If a finished product were to come out of this, I would imagine it to be comparable in scope and production values as the X-COM remake, and even for that $500,000 seems to be an absurdly optimistic estimate (then again, correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Eternity sort of start with that estimate as the bare minimum to be made?)

 

 

Yeah, that sounds about right, though their pitch seems to paint it much, much bigger than that.

I thought Eternity had a minimum of 1.1M$? That would sound like a more reasonable estimate, Shadowrun Returns asked for similar base amounts, and while it seems a good game and such, the scope of that game is much smaller than what Perihelion is setting out to do and they eventually got nearly 5 times the asked amount.

 

And speaking of Perihelion, was'nt there a company with that name way back? There is something about that name that is really familiar, besides the astronomical association.

 

And they did'nt take this golden opportunity to make a game called Star Tsars. :<

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I also am quite skeptical of this.  Space Tsars sounds great, but it also sounds insanely ambitious, even were it not on a highly restrained budget, but for 500k?  Best of luck to them, I hope they can pull it off.

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Saints Row 4 first person view mod:

 

 

It's in alpha state right now and rather buggy, as you can tell from the video, I'm sure, but holy smokes this looks fun.  Super speed, super jumping, and gliding in first person view?  Yes, please!

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It's like a whole new experience from the vanilla game.

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http://www.pcgamesn.com/15-best-rpgs-pc

 

So what do you guys think about this list of the top 15 RPG of all time, its not bad and seems reasonable? I am surprised they haven't mentioned Gothic at all :skeptical:

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There's also the whole Mass Effect series lumped as one, and you are questioning about Witcher 2?  =]

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http://www.pcgamesn.com/15-best-rpgs-pc

 

So what do you guys think about this list of the top 15 RPG of all time, its not bad and seems reasonable? I am surprised they haven't mentioned Gothic at all :skeptical:

 

Wow.  That's pretty close to what my list would be.  They guy really likes Obsidian :)

 

 

 

I agree, its very similar to what I would rate as top 15 RPG

In this list, Witcher is an rpg. Are you kidding me?

 

Yes its a bit of an enigma that one, except for the fact almost the entire gaming community considers The Witcher series an RPG with one or two people who exist on the periphery of this community disputing this... people like ...you :p

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Torchlight II, Anachronox, Shadowrun Returns... yeah  :facepalm:

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I personally don't consider Torment to be an rpg, as I feel it is more an adventure.

 

But that doesn't really matter anyway. Plus, "top x games" lists are usually a huge pile of shait, only existing to spawn nerd rage and website clicks.

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Not one Ultima, no Betrayal at Krondor, no gold box game, not even EOB 2 or Pool of Radiance? I'm sorry internet list, I really didn't wish to do this but i'm afraid that I will have to shake my head and tut. There serves you right.

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Torchlight II, Anachronox, Shadowrun Returns... yeah  :facepalm:

 

With Torchlight 2 I thought "Well at least they like a game I like"

Anachronox I thought "I got that on GOG and need to play it eventually"

Shadowrun Returns I thought "Well now you are just trolling"

 

 

 

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regarding the lack of Gothic in that list. Piranha Bytes is/ a German developer. That site is british. British gaming journalists have a very strong bias against german games from what I have noticed.

You might just as well ask them to compare Torchlight with Sacred ;)

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Not one Ultima, no Betrayal at Krondor, no gold box game, not even EOB 2 or Pool of Radiance? I'm sorry internet list, I really didn't wish to do this but i'm afraid that I will have to shake my head and tut. There serves you right.

 

Next thing you'll expect them to remember Eye of the Beholder or Might and Magic :p

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