By Quintin Smith on October 19th, 2010 at 4:26 pm.
Upcoming indie co-op spellfest Magicka has a new video out, concluding the epic tale of How The Gold Master Was Delayed. It awaits you beneath the jump. If you missed it, part 1 can be seen here. There are a couple of new details in this one- we now know Magicka’s release date (January 2011) and its price ($89.99). Go watch!
Man, it’s a good thing Kieron left RPS before this game came out. He’s a rubbish mage. This is because he can’t spell.
19/10/2010 at 16:28 b4dmash says:
89.99?!!!!!!
19/10/2010 at 22:35 SpinalJack says:
Watch to the end of the video
19/10/2010 at 16:28 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
90 dollars? Man, that’s an expensive indie game :)
19/10/2010 at 16:30 Janek says:
Hang on NINETY DOLLARS?
19/10/2010 at 16:31 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
It’s a typo right? Please tell me it’s a typo! :D
19/10/2010 at 16:33 Janek says:
Okay it’s a hilarious joke and it’s actually $9.99. That’ll teach me to watch the entire video before spitting out my tea.
19/10/2010 at 17:05 ScubaMonster says:
Yeah i was thinking “good god” when I first read that. Not even Activision is that bad. Yet. Don’t let Kotick see this article.
20/10/2010 at 14:35 Mortis says:
You lot are rubbish doctors. This is because you don’t have any patience.
20/10/2010 at 18:18 jeremypeel says:
I love you for all aspects of that short comment, Mortis.
19/10/2010 at 16:32 Teronfel says:
nice trailer,but pt 1 was better.
The best moment is at the end with the 89.99$ price lol
19/10/2010 at 16:33 AndrewC says:
Maybe that’s for a four pack, coz it’s 4 player co-op.
19/10/2010 at 16:34 Cat says:
If you watch until the end you’ll notice he shoots the “8″ from the $89.99, thus making it $9.99 :]
19/10/2010 at 16:34 Weedkiller says:
Someone didn’t watch the video. It makes it obvious that it’s totally worth the price!
19/10/2010 at 16:35 CMaster says:
Watch the fairly amusing video to see the real price.
19/10/2010 at 16:37 AndrewC says:
Phew! Indie games=cheap, Internet=wrong
All is right with the world again!
19/10/2010 at 16:38 Dain says:
Good way of weeding out those who comment on a video without actually watching it!
19/10/2010 at 16:42 AndrewC says:
ME!
19/10/2010 at 16:46 pakoito says:
Local coop or just over LAN?
19/10/2010 at 16:47 Quintin Smith says:
Local, LAN, online. Whole shebang.
19/10/2010 at 18:53 Unaco says:
#!
19/10/2010 at 16:48 Heliocentric says:
Nice work considering readers who are not on video equipped browsers.
19/10/2010 at 17:15 Nick says:
common sense might just dictate that wasn’t the actual price.
19/10/2010 at 20:20 Heliocentric says:
Indie pricing is often too bloody expensive. Solium infernium?(sp?)
19/10/2010 at 16:50 Rinox says:
Love the vid. The self-mockery alone almost makes me want to buy it. :-)
19/10/2010 at 16:54 Wolfox says:
“I’m Yellow, the White”. I laughed out loud. :-)
19/10/2010 at 19:08 Wulf says:
My favourite bit was where they point out the biggest plot hole with Lord of the Rings: that if they’d used the eagles to drop the ring in the volcano, the story would’ve been a heck of a lot shorter!
“Can we use the eagles?”
*agressive head shaking!* “NO!”
19/10/2010 at 22:49 Temple to Tei says:
Well, thank you for ruining LOTR for me Wulf :P
20/10/2010 at 00:44 stahlwerk says:
The eagles couldn’t fly into mordor because of
ShilkasSauron’s ever watchful eye and Nazghul air superiority.20/10/2010 at 00:51 Wulf says:
@stahlwerk
Oh, okay! Fair enough then, that explains that. I never considered that angle, truth be told.
There you go, Temple, LOTR unruined, you can thank him for it.
20/10/2010 at 01:25 stahlwerk says:
Let me re-ruin it, then: While flying straight into mordor wouldn’t have worked for Gwaihir et al., nothing stopping them from taking the fellowship Rivendell -> Minas Tirith / Osgiliath. Could have saved them a lot of trouble, IIRC even the movie’s production team jokingly calls them Middle Earth Taxi Service in the dvd commentary. But that’s the fickle thing about dei ex machinas, they only show up when you really need them. Also, there are too many things done right in LOTR that save Tolkien from being called the talentless hack he clearly was.
20/10/2010 at 02:25 GHudston says:
If anything is going to stop you from being recognised as a talentless hack, I’d say that “doing too many things right” would do the trick.
20/10/2010 at 02:45 stahlwerk says:
Yup, well, sorry, sarcasm/exaggeration in jest really doesn’t translate well into internet text. Cheers!
20/10/2010 at 06:32 mlaskus says:
http://www.sean-crist.com/personal/pages/eagles/index.html
This is a nice read on the topic of LOTRO’s eagles
20/10/2010 at 11:03 Temple to Tei says:
I had the air superiority answer for myself already.
Fingers in ears over the taxi thing.
And…. there is a whole debate over the eagles?
I do not take things seriously enough.
20/10/2010 at 18:28 jeremypeel says:
“While flying straight into mordor wouldn’t have worked for Gwaihir et al., nothing stopping them from taking the fellowship Rivendell -> Minas Tirith / Osgiliath.”
Sorry duck, but last eagle from Rivendell to Minas Tirith/Osgiliath left at 9:30. What you’ll have to do, is, you’ll need to take the 320 to Bree, get the Buckleberry Ferry back to the Shire then double back on yourself, cross the road and catch the 104 to Rohan. A’right my love?
19/10/2010 at 17:05 Clovis says:
All this jibber jabber about $89.99 seems to be detracting from what should be the main subject of discussion: the new lows RPS has apparently reached in puns. Egad!
19/10/2010 at 20:47 Tacroy says:
Yeah, seriously?
Someone is going to die for this.
19/10/2010 at 17:21 DMA says:
I just loved how “Yellow, the White” got smacked without any preface, annotation or reaction from the other mages.
20/10/2010 at 11:05 Temple to Tei says:
That and the little sit down arond the campfire.
I would have given them my $89.99 right then and there if I could.
19/10/2010 at 17:41 Kirrus says:
*groans at spell joke*
19/10/2010 at 20:52 Jimbo says:
You just can’t get the staff these days.
19/10/2010 at 22:50 Wulf says:
It’s getting hard to stave off the puns around here, isn’t it?
19/10/2010 at 23:17 Robert says:
Pretty punny though.
20/10/2010 at 10:37 DrazharLn says:
I wand to hit him for this.
20/10/2010 at 18:33 jeremypeel says:
Spear me the staff jokes guys, they just ain’t sharp enough for me.
(You could try being a little less blunt.)
19/10/2010 at 17:42 Snall says:
Loving this game so far. Want.
19/10/2010 at 17:42 muted says:
this reminds me of Nox, strangely… I might have to get that and play with a couple of friends it looks great
19/10/2010 at 17:55 The Hammer says:
Magicka! I’m looking forward to this game, as it looks really quite amusing – I do love my comic fantasy. Nice, impulse-buy pricetag, too.
19/10/2010 at 18:06 Billzor says:
“Jim, can we take the robots?”
“NO!”
19/10/2010 at 18:22 Wulf says:
Hugely looking forward to this. And I watched the video before posting, too. HA! If that sense of humour carries through to the final game, then we’re in for a real treat, aren’t we?
19/10/2010 at 18:48 DMA says:
I’m really afraid that those responsible for these short ad-clips and actual developers may be two completely unconnected teams, and the final product could be without such ingenious (and somewhat cute) satire at all. I still hope, however, that it is in any case a solid game. I’m a fan of the genre!
19/10/2010 at 19:05 Wulf says:
Yeah, that is a worry… but I hold out hope, with these guys being indie, that they’re making their own trailers and those responsible for the humour within actually have a say about the dialogue/events in the game.
19/10/2010 at 19:13 Schaulustiger says:
Just take a look at the debut trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut-trailer-magicka/57270
The “Oh wait… I don’t have a house.” dialogue had me dying of laughter the first time I watched it.
19/10/2010 at 20:59 Skurmedel says:
Team isn’t exactly gigantic if I recall correctly :) I don’t think they have a dedicated PR department.
19/10/2010 at 22:47 Wulf says:
That means that the humour will likely be in the game too. Hooray! This makes me very happy, since that trailer got a good laugh out of me.
19/10/2010 at 18:30 Heliosicle says:
YAY, I got the joke! Only got a second of satisfaction though :(
19/10/2010 at 19:04 BigglesB says:
:D I think they should have stuck with $89.99
If you made an awesome indie game that appealed to a niche enough, I’m sure you could charge that sort of money. If the niche were 4-player games, then it’s not all that much between 4 people, either : )
19/10/2010 at 20:04 Ignorant Texan says:
The trailer Quin’s linked explaining the delay is good, the two on their website are better(more fleshed out). The Yellow’s snuffing it is a running joke. I also think Arrowhead made the trailers. .
19/10/2010 at 20:27 Rob says:
I really hope the cut scenes (if there are any) are handled in the same silent film style.
19/10/2010 at 20:48 Scandalon says:
Videos look great, hope the gameplay keeps up with the humour. (Estimated system requirements seem pretty steep though…) Radeon x1900?!? You can play COD4/Portal on a x1600…
19/10/2010 at 21:18 Protagoras says:
I’m so freaking psyched for Q1 2011:
-DKS
-Magicka
-Portal II
-Dues Ex
-The new red faction (as long as they dont go GFWL and get a finished optimized game out)
-Brink
-Bulletstorm
and some others that might turn out decent, though I highly doubt that (DA2…).
Then again, it makes me really sad for the holiday season – got nothing overly interesting to look for. (other than meatboy and AC:B)
19/10/2010 at 22:46 Wulf says:
Your list looks a lot like mine, especially Brink, Portal II, and Magicka. Though I’d add Guild Wars 2 to that as that’s slated for a Q1/Q2 2011 release.
20/10/2010 at 03:08 noobnob says:
http://community.redfaction.com/forums/topic/8372#comment-69914
Dev confirming that RF:A won’t use GfWL. It’ll use Steamworks instead. Same thing goes for other THQ titles in their 2011 lineup, such as the next DoW standalone expansion and Homefront.
19/10/2010 at 22:03 Petrushka says:
The tagline “Get your robes ready” is all very well, but do I get to have a wizard hat too? None of the wizards in the trailers have wizard hats. :-(
19/10/2010 at 22:10 Protagoras says:
@petrushka
That would make the game a totally generic-wizard-hat-based-generic-wizard-game, and we wouldn’t want that, would we? A game’s gotta distinguish itself somehow…
Also, stop with the damn hats, I freaking hate hats (other than indiana jones type hats, they’re way awesome).
19/10/2010 at 22:59 Temple to Tei says:
Confused. No pre-order on website?
I do not have a machine that would play it and I wanted to buy it then and there.
Good grief nothing ‘published’ has made me laugh like that in a long time.
RPS commentators are my main source of humour -ok sometimes the writers as well.
19/10/2010 at 23:59 Ziv says:
if the game itself has tenth of the humour the trailer has I’ll buy it on the spot.
20/10/2010 at 00:40 mod the world says:
$89.99??!?
WTF! This makes me so angry, i won’t even watch the trailer of that rip-off indie to the end! ;)
20/10/2010 at 02:07 Chris says:
YELLOW WIZARD NEEDS FOOD BADLY!
20/10/2010 at 11:07 Temple to Tei says:
Yellow wizard needs a morgue
21/10/2010 at 14:11 sneetch says:
Yellow wizard needs a spatula.
20/10/2010 at 06:00 n3gs says:
I paid $90 for Tomb Raider II when it came out. That was foolish.
20/10/2010 at 14:33 pipman3000 says:
pfft i remember when games cost $100
01/12/2010 at 10:45 Malin says:
I didn’t realize the delayed-trailers had made quite a buzz over here, thanks for all the praise!
We’re working our behinds off to get the game finished and as great as we possibly can so I seldom have time to keep up with the community and articles but am very glad this site has Magicka covered!
Some of the developers try to have a look from time to time at the Paradox forum and input from the community there so head over to join in! =D http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?496-Magicka
- Malin H.
developer
Arrowhead GS