Greedfall

IGN posted a gameplay preview article. Only a few more weeks until the game is out!

GreedFall Hands-On Gameplay Preview: Flexible Combat Feels Fantastic - Gamescom 2019
"I went in a bit skeptical, but left with GreedFall as one of my most anticipated games this year."

I feel like people are hyping the game a little too much.

The article, to me, feels like it is just describing what is present in all other games already.

"You can either choose to fight, or sneak past this enemy... what an amazing choice never seen before!"

And then it is taking commentary from developers as if they were going to be absolute fact.

Looking forward to having some actual reviews of the game as a whole, and not just snipbit reviews from potentially bought reviewers.

Hopefully the game will be great.

The Combat reminds me so much of Dragon Age Inquisition it's crazy,the game looks interesting hopefully they've learned their mistakes from their previous games i'll probably buy it.

It might be impressive that a double A game offers these features perhaps?

A.  I don't care if this exisists in every game ever as long as its enjoyable.  I don't want the wheel to be reinvented I just want the wheel to work.  

B.  If this were so common then more companies would be doing so...successfully.  And so far the blend of stealth/ action/ and tactical combat is something I haven't seen in a game before or an RPG to this extent.  And even games that have tried to do so to this point, has failed to do so successfully...like Inquisition had great action combat but the tactical camera and companion tactics left a lot to be desired...and BioWare has never done the kind of stealth I am now hoping they do.  

C.  Whether its old or new the point of any system...especially something like combat...is it enjoyable and immersive?  I would rather them do what all their other compeititors are doing well then trying something revolutionary and suck at it.  

D.  Speaking of hype though I am not really hyping it too much.  I like what I am hearing but a new studio and a 'Double A Game' isn't going to make me rush out and buy it until I actually see a lets play.  

Which is why you buy your kids a console, instead of a gaming PC.   Among a hundred other reasons.

But yeah. Kinda miss those six installation discs and the 24-digit authorization codes we had to dick around with to play anything on PC back in the day. 

As a person that cannot use a console controller due to a hand injury I am more that happy to indulge my gaming passion anyways with a whiz bang fairly new PC and reap those performance and graphical rewards. 

Well back in the days (looks across at bookshelf with BG 1 and its six discs) it used to be a pain in the ass but these days not so much and sometimes you get some good gimmicky loot or whatever but I mainly hate having to use a platform such as Steam simply because I don't have a choice!!!!
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I damaged the nerve that makes your thumb lift as in doing this  so makes it very hard to use the right joystick and lets just say the way it was damaged gloves weren't going to help. 

So you are not much of a bethesda fan.
Those who create games where you can sneak past 98% of the enemies and still achieve your goals

I suppose it is not a thing in Bioware RPGs though, that is true.



They could do the blizzard formula. Take what already exists but make it better. Well, that is the OLD blizzard formula at the very least., it is a possibility and I respect that too.



I like the ideas as well. Spiders is a game company known for releasing bad to mediocre games only though, so there is that.

They are onto something good, they have a great idea... buuut... can they really accomplish it. Time will tell, I have my doubts.

For an RPG game so much reminiscent of classic Bioware, 5 million seems really low and the studio must be quite proud. Creating Fort Tarsis probably costed more for Anthem   Of course there are expected shortcomings - lip sync, lacking animations, probably weaker voice acting (and we saw the companion combat taunts to be limited in number too). But you have to cut costs somewhere of course. The use of Spiders's inhouse Silk engine probably also kept some costs low and the team is experienced using it after several games with it. Overall it seems Spiders are a very focused studio, don't waste time and money (of course they don't really try to innovate) and know very well what they can do and how long it would take. I do wonder if they postponed Greedfall for more polish or extra content. The game was hinted as a 2018 launch back at 2017, even had the 2018 date at some game cons, but then was changed for 2019. The recent combat videos do look much better than the 2018 gameplay video.

EA started publishing Focus games on the Origin platform and the two publishers seem to have a working relationship. I am not far from the thought to vote for giving the ME and DA IPs to Spiders and tell them to "go nuts".

Meet Constatin's voice actor: Ben Lloyd-Hugues

Was far more mundane that unfortunately!!!!! 

Some more VO news: Lord De Sardet is voiced by Jamie Blackley.

MEA had no PC disc version in the US/Canada (a few countries in Europe had it I think). It caused a lots of complaining back then. I suspect ACO is similar, I don't remember a physical option when I bought it on Uplay.

Although, Focus limiting the game to Steam is a bit annoying, but none of Spiders games seems to be on GOG, despite Focus having a few on the platform like Vampyr and The Surge. I wonder if it's up to the developer.