Comments on: Unknown Pleasures 2009: Age of Decadence

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:16:38 +0000

DLing now. ;)

By: Serenegoose

Serenegoose — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:13:03 +0000

I’m not really interested in combat in RPGs, to be honest, but I’ll give the demo a chance to win me over tomorrow. It’s great that it’s there though, I love demos on principle. Really hoping that this turns out great – I’m wanting a new developer to give me some choice in the RPG market, especially developers that understands the importance of the player to impact the plot in ways more significant than just a few lines of differing dialoge.

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:54:38 +0000

The combat demo has been released. Better late than never and all that…

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/files/AoD_demo.exe (180MB)

Our bandwidth is 5GB but it won’t last long, so grab it now.

Merry Christmas, guys.

Edit: We’re down to 24% of the bandwidth, so here is another link:
http://www.filefront.com/15216873/AoD_demo.exe

By: SVerner

SVerner — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:05:08 +0000

*the vocal idiots who were saying turn based was dead/stupid etc.*

Don’t worry, as long as Generic brownngreypostapoc 3 isn’t mentioned by name they won’t come back.

By: megaman

megaman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:27:11 +0000

I’m already hooked. Actually, my first impression on this article was that I liked the style of the pictures. Very old school, very lovely. After reading the article I know this is a must-buy. If this game is as good as I want it to be, I hope you guys earn millions with it.

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:48:56 +0000

@Pkt:

VTM:B followed a slightly different evolutionary path from AoD. You might want to check out Scars of War’s development for an RPG that seems to be going further down the VtM:B path.

AoD is consciously in the Fallout/Fallout 2 mould, and that’s exactly where I want it to be.

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:38:46 +0000

@kadayi: “Clearly not” because it’s similarly focused on roleplaying and choice & consequence, or what? Sure, VTM:B might lean a bit more towards the action side, but hey, there’s still Fallout/Torment/Arcanum/Unnamed post-apoc project.

By: Claw

Claw — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:39:13 +0000

And honestly, C&C are way overrated.
Videogames are way overrated.

By: kadayi

kadayi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:20:23 +0000

@Pkt

If that were truly the case then he’d be building on the legacy of VTM:B, and this is clearly not doing that.

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:28 +0000

Don’t worry about that, Vince has specifically stated, on multiple occasions, that Age of Decadence is not innovative or revolutionary, but evolutionary. Take the road that Black Isle/Troika has taken and continue in that direction to make a better RPG (…of that sort, whether you want to call it a “true RPG” or not).

By: Conquests

Conquests — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:16:59 +0000

*”there’s more to a successful roleplaying game than offering relevant and meaningful choices.”*

How do you play a role without choices that are related to it?

By: Idiot

Idiot — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:11:13 +0000

Dear Morph,
Would it trouble you, to point out to me, where it is that Vince makes any claim towards “innovation”?
sincerely,
The Idiot