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Author Topic: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished  (Read 4116 times)

Sergarr

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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2014, 11:14:16 am »
>opens RPS article
>sees first image
>literally half of image is blurred

The future look(s?) grim.
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2014, 01:41:22 pm »
The screenshots and that trailer... Is this a real game, or a Skyrim mod?
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2014, 01:53:03 pm »
URRRRRRRGHGHGHGHGHGHG.

I really imagine with this they will try and do everything, but it'll be so shallow that it'll just make everyone more angry than anything else.

In a way, from what they've got so far in the trailers it looks like it'll pull it off in a bare-bones way at least. There's obviously building, city options and open world walk about, so if it's open to modding or they get enough support (and are good enough devs) it might be patched/modded into something amazing.

I just can't believe that in the current gaming climate any game can achieve what they look to be doing without a studio pushing for a rushed release, cutting out tons of features or similar.

Edit: Interestingly, all of the screenshots are of JUST the open-world/skyrim bits - while they may have done that just because they're the most visually impressive, it might point to it being pretty much that with a sprinkling of some basic RTS stuff.

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Quote from: Bouchart on May 30, 2015, 07:40:42 pm
With enough work and polish, it could have been a forgettable flash game on Kongregate.

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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2014, 02:10:23 pm »
Quote from: Sergarr on June 17, 2014, 11:14:16 am
>opens RPS article
>sees first image
>literally half of image is blurred

The future look(s?) grim.

Well at least the trailer is not blurred altho if i was to judge it only by that one image i'd say its a scam because it looks like a tabletop wargame prop set with edges blurred to make the table and room around hard to discern.

It's not the case with the trailer however.
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2014, 02:34:18 pm »
I tend to avoid watching trailers, because I know the game will never live up to the trailer-induced hype.
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2014, 06:23:51 pm »
Whoah, I nearly got an erection..  Seems quite an ambitious undertaking though,  I hope they can pull it off.  PTW, around 2018 for a playable alpha? We'll see.
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #21 on: June 19, 2014, 06:37:16 pm »
Quote from: Daggoth on June 19, 2014, 06:23:51 pm
Whoah, I nearly got an erection..  Seems quite an ambitious undertaking though,  I hope they can pull it off.  PTW, around 2018 for a playable alpha? We'll see.

Nope, early access THIS SUMMER!!!

New interview though: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/06/05/northern-shadow-interview/

Edit: this scared me: 'RPS: It’s just you and one other person making the game, right? How do you do that? What is your work process like?' Two people for a game that size...
« Last Edit: June 19, 2014, 06:39:25 pm by Retropunch »
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Quote from: Bouchart on May 30, 2015, 07:40:42 pm
With enough work and polish, it could have been a forgettable flash game on Kongregate.

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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2014, 06:57:49 pm »
<insert comment about DF and Toady here>
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #23 on: June 19, 2014, 07:23:29 pm »
Quote from: Sirus on June 19, 2014, 06:57:49 pm
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Granted, but DF has been going for like 10 years or so.
This is less than a year: "Since our switch to Unity3D around Q4 of 2013, we’ve been prototyping with it. Full production started at the beginning of the year. We’ve been working on different kinds of games for the past 3 years, but had to take breaks from time to time due to personal reasons. Some of the games were similar to this in scope, so we got experience as to what to expect, what would work and what would not."

Granted, it looks amazing what they've managed already, but I just can't imagine they've got much depth with it at all. I'd love to be proved wrong, it's just looking less and less promising somehow.
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Quote from: Bouchart on May 30, 2015, 07:40:42 pm
With enough work and polish, it could have been a forgettable flash game on Kongregate.

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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2014, 07:56:03 pm »
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RPS: How much of the game will be included in the early access release this summer?

Güneş: Early access will have the core gameplay. Different continental zones and sections of the underworld will be opened up to gameplay with updates. Character creation and the main story will be added in time as well.

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Hah.
Hah.

Yeah, I'd wait for version 1.0 on this. If it ever happens that is.
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« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2014, 10:51:46 pm »
My Skyrim is already like this.
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2014, 12:38:50 am »
Ok... i NEVER did this on this forum but...

Dont click, swearing...
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Ok is it me or i saw skyrim, mixed with banished AND what stronghold 3 could have been??? Jesus that guy/studio whatever gave me a massive nerdbone 3 viagra style..... It has to be complete.... I dont know if the trailer is a techdemo, pre-render or whatever but that game went first on my top list without a shadow of a doubt....

Edit: Now to prepare myself for the down im gonna get after the high i just got..... thats gonna hurt....
« Last Edit: June 20, 2014, 12:41:11 am by jocan2003 »
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2014, 05:42:24 pm »
PTW, although I have to be honest, I can't see this ending up fulfilling all of those promises for a few years at best.
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #28 on: June 22, 2014, 12:02:56 am »
Man, this looks great....and I really hope it will look like that as a final product.
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Re: Northern Shadow - A pinch of Skyrim, a dash of Banished
« Reply #29 on: November 21, 2014, 09:17:23 am »
It lives! http://www.northernshadow-game.com/blog/northern-shadow-dev-blog-1/

I was wondering about all the silence.
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