Wolfheart seems like a nice guy, he’s put out tons of great content leading up to release.
I’ve only played a couple hours so far but I’m enjoying the game a lot! It seems like every conversation has at least one unique dialogue option based on your race or class picks, which is awesome. The companions I’ve met so far seem fairly interesting.
Hey, just wanted to let you know, you might get penalized in the algorithm with that fake release date on your steam page. I just had an in depth talk with a colleague about the steam algorithm in his own experience, and release dates with a fake date far in the future are completely burried. Consider changing it to TBD or something like that, whatever other games are using.
Good luck with your game! However, if I can make a suggestion:
Think of a way to describe your creation without referencing another game. This might be the only time you're going to get it in front of my eyes, and I know nothing because I've never played the two games you used to compare it to (never even heard of one of them in fact), so I'm not going be hyped or follow it. (While it's true there's a trailer, I'm not in a spot where I can watch it.)
Marketing is important to success, use your limited eyeball time well!
Oh, my poor, poor wallet. I loved C:S and this just looks better in every way. Well, except Linux support, but hopefully Steam Play will be able to mitigate that.
As a pansexual man, I like that games do this. But what I actually want to see from a game at some point is characters whose diversity includes their sexuality – not just characters that mirror my own. (For simplicity’s sake I’m lumping romantic and sexual attraction together here, though I know they are different.)
I want a male character to turn down my advances because he’s straight, or a female character to do the same because she’s just not in to guys. Or the hot pink-haired enby punk to turn down everyone because they’re ace/aro.
But I also want scenes where a same-sex character awkwardly confesses their feelings with the protagonist, and players who are straight end up in the situation of having to let them down. (Or, perhaps, decide that it’s okay if your character’s preferences don’t mirror your own.) And maybe those players discover the character they’ve been crushing on all game isn’t interested in them – but with mature options for handling that rejection.
In a world where people are always talking about the patriarchy and toxic masculinity, why aren’t we presenting the idea that its okay for a straight man to continue to be good friends with a woman who loves other women without the “maybe I can change her mind” mindset?
We really do need more romance in games not being presented as a mean to get a prize. Maybe some randomness could be applied and the same actions would not always result in the desired outcomes.
It was curious when I realized, not many years ago, that people found strange to play a character with a different gender. Imagining a different sexuality is probably the same. In both cases, games don’t go deep in making you feel like the other, which is kinda sad.
Imagining a different sexuality is probably the same.
There are completionists out there who want to get every bit of possible story or every affordable achievement possible out of a game.
If written well (and that in itself is a challenge), I can see a game encouraging people to do a second playthrough as a different gender or sexuality just to unlock more of character backstories or achievements or whatnot. If that means some of them better understand what life is like for people of different genders or sexualities or learn something about themselves, that can only be a good thing.
It’d be a monumental task to develop such a game though. You’d need a writing team that fully understands all of this and a large enough cast where there are enough options for everyone. You can’t just have one token character of each representation – there still needs to be meaningful choices and characters that are deep enough where you can get invested in their story.
Having romanceable characters be “playersexual” drastically reduces the required size of the cast and all of the development benefits that come along with that. But by doing so, you aren’t really representing diversity – you’re just making character identities mirror whatever the player wants them to be. This appeases LGBTQ+ players who want to be able to romance whomever they are attracted to but doesn’t help with visibility to or acceptance from cis/het people.
The quality of the audio in the trailer blew me away. I played the first game on PC with a good stereo and it was great. This game looks like it will be incredible. I’m pretty hyped for it now.
That was a fun watch. I played through the most recent edition of the game with developer commentary, and that was really neat to listen to the developers talk about certain details about the level or what certain areas reminded them of, or a developer who had passed away and what they had done. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything about the Duke Nukem voice actor, so that was new for me.
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