Grimoire

A dungeon crawler that has been in development for 23 years by a crazy neanderthal is releasing tomorrow.

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>buy it
>leave a review saying it has bad graphics
>refund it

Thank you for posting about your game, I mean this game, again, concerned citizen.

For anyone new to this man's madness, we're not insulting him when we call him a neanderthal. He calls himself that. He thinks neanderthals were/are superior to homo sapiens and that he is one of the last neanderthals.

>If it's good we get a cool new old-school dungeon crawler
>If it's bad we get ample meme material
There are no bad outcomes (unless you backed it, in which case you have bigger problems to address)

>8 man party

how does that work? 4 melees in the front, 4 in the back with missile weapons and magic? sounds like a lot of shitty micromanagement

youtu.be/jpCUhvDdGrI

More=better, unless your tiny sape brain can't handle it

>sounds like a lot of shitty micromanagement
this man is clearly autistic enough that this is definitely the case

just change that hideous art style and I would consider buying it

Why does it look like a popcap game

SAPES GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

A better idea would be calling it a shitty Wizardry 8 copycat and something a Neanderthal would have made (all while insulting Neanderthals).

if it was the game creator posing, I think we'd all know.

is this the templeos of video games?

No, it's Gulman of Australia.

>You have to manually buff each one individually with a spell thats 3 menus deep for every fight

Is it hard to make retro dungeon crawler?

I have a small attention span, which is why I hate double trouble boss fights in souls games, as its hard not being able to see both of them

Well of course, how else do you think he got 600+ hours of gameplay?
Just take a normal 36 minute shitfest and make everything take 1000 times as long.

Aww poor babby too hard for you?

>The utter casual retards itt and before that complains about 8 man parties.

FFS Wizardry 8 allows you to do this and I have seen 0 bitching about that. Other than that you can have any number in your party. 8 too micromanagery for your brain? Then make a 5 or 6 parties.

God when did Sup Forums become so casual?

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No one is forcing you to use 8 characters. You can make a party of 1 warrior + 1 healer and earn experience 4x faster than a party of 8 would

>God when did Sup Forums become so casual?

uhh... since day one? you new here?

Ulillillia's uncle?

indiegogo.com/projects/grimoire-heralds-of-the-winged-exemplar

I read the entire Wizardry 4 LP yesterday.
I feel like a monkey dancing on the palm of Buddha all this time, nothing I ever played could ever be compared to how bullshit this thing is.
When I retire I actually want to play this blind, hopefully I'll have long forgotten the things I learned in the LP.

The problem is that this isn't a retro dungeon crawler. It's a mess that has been worked on for the past two decades.
Pic related. This is the developer.

If he is so rich that can afford nuclear shelter then why he didn't hire decent artists?

Why didn't he just copy paste code into unity?

But the artists did a decent job as far as I've seen.

There's no market in pandering to morons. I wouldn't want to make that kind of money.

Grimoire is an elite game that is unlike anything else up on the Steam store. I defy you to find anything like it in the thousands of games listed. I defy you to find a game like it on the planet. It's not even a Wizardry clone really - it's everything Wizardry should have been but never was.

I'm not competing with Sir-Tech any more. Amongst other reasons, they went bankrupt 17 years ago.

I'm not competing with anybody. Grimoire is the pinnacle of the peak of the summit of the incline. I could probably get 99.95 from a lot of people but I don't want to limit it just to the very elect of RPG players. I made a compromise and and priced it somewhere just under current AAA titles. The truth is there is not an AAA title you could buy nowadays that deserves to crawl up on a high chair and plant a kiss in the crack of Grimoire's ass when it comes to enjoyment, immersion and wonderful escape.

I say all this with confidence because I have been playing my game 12 hours a day for two months and I can assure you there has never been anything like it in all of recorded human history. It's the greatest thing ever to emerge from that genre. The fact is, people who enjoy that genre are considering it cheap at that price. If you are not a connoisseur of the genre then why would I amend anything in it to appeal to you? It's like saying Mozart needed more cowbell.

Trust what I am saying. Those of you who played the demo and got the scent of greatness will know the full game has achieved it. For whatever it lacks it has much more in abundance.

I was just playing Kublai Cathedral to check all the logic and was almost weeping tears of joy at how wonderfully told the story of everything is in the game. I had forgotten a lot of it and it was like reading the work of someone else.

The game will suck you mentally into another dimension of win and excellence, no kidding. I warn unstable people against playing it at all. If it becomes that kind of obsession with the author - who should be long tired of it by now - you can imagine what elite fans RPGs will feel.

The game is special. I have supercharged it with awesomeness right down to the atomic level of every bit in the digital binary. $39.95 is very cheap once you have played the game for a short while.

Of course he had to be into Evola's fedoracore meme (((philosophy))).

mmm yes, the holy grail of pastas

t. Cleve

Blown
The
Fuck
Out

Based homo sapiens making the Neanderthal eat crow.
10 thousand dollars is already too much for him and his shit game.

Grimoire is a quality game for distinguished monocle wearing top hat and tuxedo connoisseurs of roleplaying games. This is not another whackamole begware lowest common denominator sewer skimming bottom feeding title. I would recommend that regular Steam consumers have a doctor standing by before playing Grimoire as the shock to the system could lead to a trip to the emergency room. It's not like anything they are used to seeing up here. This is the true old skool goodness. You may think you are prepared but rest assured you probably have not seen this much awesomeness anywhere in the past 20 years.

What the hell does "eat crow" even mean anyway?

is that running on windows xp?

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>mfw it sells 10 copies and he shoots himself in the head

I'm wondering though: is this guy just roleplaying in all his posts and other outings?

>then make a 5 or 6 parties

The problem is nu-gamers who play CRPGs and even tabletops tend to be powergaming tards who wouldn't purposefully gimp their party or character for any reason whatsoever, even if it's for the benefit of their experience (or the benefit of their roleplaying). They're the kind of dudes who open up Pillars of Eternity and spend 45 minutes minmaxing their new character in the character creation screen only to drop the game after level 4 not because the game itself bored them but because the game is "too balanced" and they can't become that super powerful unstoppable godslayer with as much ease as they want without turning down the difficulty or cheating. They're the kind of dudes who ask the DM to remove their character from the party so they can reroll a mere 3 sessions into a DnD campaign because they missed five times in a row and the Barbarian got to take all the glory.

>Roleplaying so much Sir-Tech made fun of him back in JA2
That would be even worse than if he had done it for real.

Is this the pinnacle of autism?

>literally role plays a character for 30 years of his life, alienates all his coworkers and spends a fortune on a bunker and invests thousands upon thousands of hours into developing a game all so he can RP a neanderthal conspiracy theorist

Not gonna lie, that'd be pretty hardcore

Why does he use "oldskool" and "teknologee?" It reminds me of that One Fucked Up Dentist guy in how not funny he is.

I don't think you understand how many people have been waiting for this type of game to appear again after so many games have tried to evo the same but with 3-D like

>Legend of Grimrock

>Stranger of Sword City

>Class of Heroes

Twenty?

In Grimoire you can ride on turtles

Wow, sold.

Grimrock sold enough copies to warrant a sequel, though

>Proposed Price $39.95
fucking what?

How many of those people will pay $40 dollars for it though? I sure as fuck wouldn't, even if I was desperate for a game, especially when I could just go buy an older game in the genre thats just as good for at most 10 bucks. His only chance at getting this to sell decently is to sell it at $20 or under.

>40 dollars for a grandpas game

LOL

I'd even wager it's going to hit at least 700 sales by the end of the day

You make it sound like rpgs actually require more skill than they actually do. I'll never get people who take pride in playing "hard" rpgs. Its not like beating old school rpgs are worthy of actual respect or anything. Anyone can beat these games.

Why are all WRPGs so ugly?

Sape detected.

still they look better than anime

Wow. Great.

No shit but that's not my point, my point is RPGs lend themselves to a powergaming mentality where lots of limp-wristed noodlets aren't satisfied with their pretend character simply doing something, they want to be the BEST at doing it, and not just that one thing but they want to be the BEST at everything else.

hmmmmm

pay 40 dollars for this or a few bucks for wizardry

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'm genuinely interested, but I'm going to wait for others to play it first. If it is nearly as good as it sounds, I'm in even for $40.

Guy kind of seems like a total knob though. Hopefully the game isn't reflective of that.

You're delusional. WRPGs don't need to look like anime to look good, but I can't think of a single WRPG with art direction that isn't eye cancer.

Ah, so Calvin Barkmore?

I had never heard of this Cleveland person before, but he sure is an interesting character.

the point is, who cares what they do? some people suck and they want to role play a power fantasy. it doesn't matter, none of this matters

True, but if you have that very particular kind of humor, it would also be kind of funny. Right?

>8 character party
What a clusterfuck. 6 was already too many.

>40 american dollarinos

wow the game may be crammed with content but that does not count if the game looks like Ultima: Underworld

The world is so big and intricate that 8 characters fit just right with the amount of things you'll be doing.

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I wonder if clive had the foresight to let players find pets that would stay inside you inventory like the old CRPGs

iirc the sequel sold less than the first one, so there won't be a third game
which is really sad, considering that it was much better than the first one

>how does that work?
the same way it did in wizardry, what are you even saying?

>navigating narrow dungeon corridors with a football team

now this is a real rpg

The entire game sounds like a bloated mess. Less is more, sometimes.

>in development for 23 years
Does this mean it not only looks like shit for a game that is 23 years old but it has also mostly been coded 23 years ago along with 23 years old voices and shit? I know he adds sutuff over the years but he is selling an unreleased 23 years old game for 40 fucking bucks?
He should have sold it for 60 bucks along with GOG to squeeze every single penny out of a handful nostalgiafags because neither hipsters nor avarage joe browsing Steam catalogue will bother with a 23 fucking years old game on even a price of 20 bucks.

>10 copies
>there are people here who actually thinks this doesn't look good
Reddit is calling.

yeah that game design really helped wizardry out in the long run

>shoots himself
He's rich as fuck and doesn't need the pennies he'll get from this game.

WRPGs are cursed with shit artstyles because they think "realistic" means brown and grey

>unityfag
LEL

it's about the experience more then the end point user you're supposed to be enthralled just by playing the thing

But that's all filthy sape money. Why would he sully his beautiful Neanderthal hands with stuff like that?

t. never played a WRPG

Well, Wizardry 8 has the greatest turn-based combat of any game every made, so yes.

How did he get so rich?

We don't know how the development load was distributed over those years. He might be digging up this project he abandoned 15 years ago, or he might've been constantly working on it and updating some of the more dated elements with QoL changes (it does have automap and whatnot, after all). Honestly I have no idea what's going on inside his head, there's a fifty percent chance he's intentionally overhyping an unfinished and dated product to make as much money on initial 40 dollar sales as possible and a fifty percent chance it's actually solid or even very good and he was only overhyping it because he's a spastic narcissist and thinks his turds are made of solid gold

dae think the 8 man party limit is too low? i feel like it should be at least 3 times bigger.

>There are morons who think this game looks good
Faggot, this is going to flop HARD especially at the price of $40. Not to mention the game looks like it came straight out of the 90's (Because it basically did) and any average consumer browsing though steam is going to see it and go, "Oh maybe I'll try tha- OH WAIT, $40?! FUCK NO!"

Man, after years here I dont even know what is bait or pure retardation in this board anymore. Why the fuck somebody (not neanderthal) keep posting this shit?

he's not a brainlet

yeah and its also known for its quick non tedious battles

Cletus keeps bashing even Brenda B, John Romero's waifu. What is the issue with this guy is he related to Derek Smart? They both pretty similar.

>dae

So neanderthal savings account?

that fucking interest though

I always wonder about people who try to talk big about their work, and just how "great" they are.

Instead of working on their craft, they put all their time and effort into talking about it, instead. (Maybe it's due to their fears of it actually being shit. Who knows.) Let it speak for itself.