Comments on: Thoughts: Shadowgate

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:36:46 +0000

Ha, I actually played that back in the day, for all of an hour or two. As I recall it wasn’t very much like Knightmare.

By: Muddy

Muddy — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:36:59 +0000

> Shadowgate can best be described as Knightmare: The Game.

*cough*

http://hol.abime.net/2595/review

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:13:35 +0000

The big Kickstarters (or at least the ones I backed) have so far bucked that trend; I think it’s just an issue with indie game development in general.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:04:37 +0000

I don’t think they shatter, but I do think these products can only really be enjoyed by the people wearing them. And that’s a very, very limited audience.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:55:20 +0000

The Infinity engine is actually the one thing I’d say holds up quite well. The UI surrounding it has aged terribly, but it’s a fantastic way of visualising a world. I haven’t played Eternity yet and don’t plan to until it’s released, but I was really hoping it’d preserve what was good about the IE games while modernising the rest.

By: Aleksei Volchok

Aleksei Volchok — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:27:38 +0000

>I guess this is a kickstarter thing

We’ll hear it often. People think they want to play Wizardry 7 or Daggerfall again. Give them those oldschool games with updated graphics and all rose-tinted glasses shatter.

By: Ninja Foodstuff

Ninja Foodstuff — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:31:59 +0000

I guess this is a kickstarter thing: the developers worry that they’re going to let the backers down by changing the formula too much (although it seems a bit extreme in this case).

I’ve dabbled a bit with the Pillars of Eternity beta and it made me realise the infinity engine really annoys me in 2014. My tolerance for clicking and searching for things has diminished in the intervening years.

By: Janek

Janek — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:00:17 +0000

I do wonder precisely how many of these lazy nostalgia-fests we’re going to get in the Kickstarter age. Although I suppose crowdfunding fatigue set in a while back for many people, so it’ll diminish over time?

(Yay you’re back)