Comments on: King Arthur: The Genre Ambiguous Wargame

By: UK_John

UK_John — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:20:26 +0000

Well, here it is January, patch 1.03 is already out, and the game is totally stable and playing great on my XP system!

What’s annoyed me, is whereas big companies always get the ‘benefit of the doubt’ with their games, so that many games that should have got 8.0 got 9.0+ (Empire Total War anybody?!). At the other end though, a company with 1% of the funding can release a game of this quality, and get absolutely no breaks for it! Hence their 8.0 game stays at 8.0 and not a single review points out how good this is considering it’s coming from a small publisher! I think this is how it keeps the small guy down, and supports the status quo and the hold of the big publishers!

The fact is no large publisher would release a game like this because it’s too sophisticated and PC centric to be converted to console!

I know the price for this, for us in the UK, is more about STEAM than it is the publisher. But in any event, for a game that is obviously got 50 hours of gameplay and lots of replayability, £35 is a reasonable price!

After all, at retail, here in the UK HL2 Ep 2, with it’s FIVE HOURS of gameplay had a price point of £24.99!!! I know you could download it for less, but the fact that Valve could have that sort of retail price in ANY market and yet didn’t get talked about at all, shows how even us gamers tend to go after the small guys in a way we don’t go after the big guys!

By: Interested

Interested — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:42:52 +0000

For those of you who were thinking this sounded Birthright: The Gorgon’s Alliance-esk then you have been deceived. Though it sounds like it would be with the so called “adventures” they go on its more like Heroes of Might and Magic where there is an icon on the map that says come here for a character bonus and once you get there you go through a series of questions much like a choose your own adventure book and once you finish going through the story via answering questions you get your end result.

What we need to see is another game like the gorgon’s alliance where its a Total War kind of strategy game and you have the option of choosing to run your own battles WITH your character and other higher ups in his empire being able to do 3D dungeon quests here and there for unique artifacts and bonuses to your empire for the strategy aspect. Would be very cool to see that kind of game done again.

By: Ragabhava

Ragabhava — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:19:18 +0000

As a long time TotalWar player I wished for a fantasy setting since long. After playing a few hours I have to say that this game is a real genuine effort on its own and really hasnt much in common with TW, all for the better! They weren’t kidding with the role-playing part: I now understand why they wanted to include it in the name albeit in such a cumbersome manner. Very immersive so far! Kudos to the devs!!

By: mujadaddy

mujadaddy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:53:28 +0000

Dear NeoCore,

Please do the next Warhammer Fantasy Battle game.

Thanks,

Everyone

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:11:41 +0000

I’m surprised people don’t say that every shooter is ripping off Doom, these days.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:07:43 +0000

Jesus christ, I’ve brought this game up a lot recently, but http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/DOM3/DOM3_page.html

You know where I stand in this.

By: TotalBiscuit

TotalBiscuit — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:03:49 +0000

No, you pretentious nitwit, they aren’t even the same genre of game, you cannot compare them so stop making stupid recommendations.

By: Zoe01

Zoe01 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:46:14 +0000

Yes, they are hungarians. :)

And it looks very pretty IMHO.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:36:54 +0000

M&B Arthurian mod=/=Arthurian Total War/Age of Wonders mash up

By: Blurr11

Blurr11 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:28:13 +0000

This looks very very interesting. As a veteran Total War player this is something that has been in the “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” section of my head for a long time.

I don’t have the money right now but when i do this is definitely getting some attention.

Visually it looks rather good or is that just form the videos ?

As for the bugs well i remember when STALKER came out small studios always have this problem i think its more to do with the face that if they don’t get the game out there quick they loose revenue and go under. Hopefully patching will work.

(are these guys Hungarian i know nothing of the studio?)

By: Interested

Interested — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:59:02 +0000

I’ve been checking this game out recently and am interested in checking it out. As someone previously mentioned I also thought it sounded similar to the old Birthright game, which was/is epicly sweet. Does anyone know that game and can say if they think it is similar or not? Thx.

By: OJ287

OJ287 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:59:27 +0000

wwwwwhaT? 35 quid? I’d be prepared to pay no more than £25 for a game these days and that’s for a game I know I’m going to like.