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[LordPorkins]

It’s  not called Darkest Arkham. 0/10

[Egan_BW]

The snow reminds me of The Thing. Looking forwards to battling formless monstrosities in a blinding snowstorm~

[DeKaFu]

The snow reminds me of The Thing. Looking forwards to battling formless monstrosities in a blinding snowstorm~

It immediately reminded me of At the Mountains of Madness, which is a Lovecraft story that's also set in Antarctica and features formless monstrosities.

[ChairmanPoo]

Was thinking the same. Will probably mix up the two

[Egan_BW]

RPS pointed out that given that the most recent DLC was called The Color Of Madness, this one should be called The Mountains Out Of Space.

[Jopax]

Fighting off invading space mountains does sound pretty cool tbh

[Retropunch]

Hmmmmmmm.

It's not that I don't want more DD, but I can't imagine they can do much more with the formula. All I can imagine is that it'll basically just be DD but with Cold instead of Darkness as the main mechanic, but which works pretty much the same (risk vs reward etc.).

Again, not that it's a bad thing but I'd be really surprised if it isn't just basically a big DLC for DD

[spazyak]

Coldest Crag

[nenjin]

Here's my hope:

Have an affliction system that actually meets the expectations we had of the first game.

Afflictions in DD are 99% random except for the hard coded curio Afflictions. Always have been. There's no link between what happens (outside of curios) and the afflictions you get. That's what always made DD an extremely well made board game to me, versus an actual character RPG.

If they can do that in a way that works in the sequel, I honestly don't care about anything else: story, mechanics, whatever. Just give me a reason to care about afflictions, and by extension, the characters that get afflicted. It was impossible to ever connect with any of your characters, for good or ill, because the whole underpinning of the system was just LAWL RANDOM.

[EnigmaticHat]

I want an xcom style caimpaign where you can win or lose the game and the difficulty ramps up over time.  The way the village worked was my least favorite thing about the first game.  Especially the arbitrary level caps on who could do certain missions.

[Kagus]

"You must be this tall to lose your mind"

[Egan_BW]

My best guess for dd2 based on what they've said is that the game structure is about bringing a group of adventurers on a journey across the world while the apocalypse is happening. Which means no more hamlet, probably less opportunity to recruit new characters, which in turn makes them individually less expendable. And probably a campaign lose condition if you let everyone die.

Hopefully that means the characters gain more character, not being "crusader #6" but "my crusader".

[Levi]

Darkest Dungeon 1 is 75% off on steam right now. 

I'm tempted to wait to see if it appears as part of the humble monthly bundle next week though...

[nenjin]

TBH it's a good enough game I think bottom dollaring it is kind of a disservice. But to each, their own savings.

[Levi]

I'm sure its great, its just I've got so many games I haven't played yet that I usually can't rationalize paying more.  Its definitely an era of plenty when it comes to gaming right now.