In precisely 4 hours and 20 minutes, Grimoire, the herald of pure RPG excellence, releases...

In precisely 4 hours and 20 minutes, Grimoire, the herald of pure RPG excellence, releases. IT TOOK 23 LITERAL YEARS TO MAKE (HOLY SHIT), so you know it's gonna be great! The developer is one of the last Neanderthals alive and he possesses the intelligence of five average Homo Sapiens combined. And it can be all yours for the low, low price of 40 AMERICAN DOLLARS. Pic related, just look at this beauty. Let us discuss this incoming masterpiece.

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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.

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.

Got an archive of these or the codex thread? He's a fucking comedian.

I have last veto on any price anywhere as the author.

This game will never, ever be offered anywhere for $12.95 before the year 2025. That's a promise.

I am considering an opening discount. It is highly recommended by Steam. After that, it will go to full price and stay there for the next 8 years.

I am following the development of SHELTERED and they are doing a good job adding new detail every few months. It's a very good investment.

Anybody doesn't like it is invited to spend 20 years of their own time writing a game superior to all previous Wizardry releases. Good luck, it's easy to say but hard to do. Working alone, it's impossible unless you are a Neanderthal.

This guy was funny for about 2-3 threads and now you are a all flogging a dead horse.

looks like shit

Only 4 hours for the game to come out. We can't give up now. Not this soon to release.

Corwin doesn't know what he is missing, seriously. The game is x infinity better than the version he tested.

Listen to what I was double-checking today. You're not going to believe it.

So I freed Q'Orl from the Royal Bestiary and he left to go to the Astral Plain. I also fought the cockatrice here and got the braid.

After sawing off the lock at [REDACTED] I noticed it was pretty solid gold so I spoke to one of the thieves in the woods about it. He told me something amazing - that there was a smith in Crowl who could work a piece of raw gold like that into some pretty spectacular armour. I took it back to Smithy and he told me to leave it with him, he'd see what he could do.

I went off and had some amazing adventures in a dungeon to the far west and discovered a Djinn Bottle. I got the Djinn to reveal the secret page for me and later I asked him to transport us to the Astral Plain. We met up with Q'Orl again and he gave us something very special in reward for traveling so far to see him again. We moongated back to Dominion Wilderness outside the city and I spent some time forging a recommendation letter for Shrike to see if we could join up with the Vanguard.

I went back to see Smithy, stopping at another weird cave for some excellent rewards before arriving back in Crowl. I was increasingly getting pretty fitted out, the entire party was wielding some pretty serious weapons and magic.

Smithy had made me the best armor in the game, the golden armor. Pretty pimped out at this point, plus two resurrected party members from bones and one of the Ego entities had joined us and they had gargantua stats. Was getting in shape to beat up some of the toughest monsters in the game. All this happened today just wandering around testing and double-checking various elements of gameplay.

It's so dense it is like those 12000 page novels written out in longhand on legal paper they find in the apartments of adult retards when they die.

It's so dense it is as thick as jungle foliage that you need two machetes to clear a trail through.

There are wheels within wheels in Grimoire and wheels inside of those wheels. Those wheels have little wheels inside them running wheels. Grimoire is a fractal it is so dense.

Sorry, but after two months of playing my own game I have to say that Crusaders Wizardry 7 is just a pale shadow of this win and excellence. I started as an imitator but I am finishing as something else.

4 HOURS

You've posted this before. Now I'm not sure if it's real or pasta.

So anyone have a mega?

Is a full Jester team viable? This is a big selling point to me.

Dedicated shitposting here. I like that. I would be lying if I said I wasn't interested in the game, but 52 loonies is a deal breaker.

>256 colors palette

16 years old school boys made better game than him

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

what the fuck is this thread?

Does it have detailed romance with multiple possible endings (pregnancy, FWB, etc)?

Same.

IF, and that's a big IF, this game is even half as good as he's selling it to be I'd be very interested in playing it. However it's expensive as fuck and from the sound of it it has a chance to have shit gameplay and incredibly unintuitive design.

Are the ps1 remakes of Wizardry 1-3 good? I dig the updated graphics.

BTFO
Sapiens win again

>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.

It is more beautiful than anything you could imagine. I had no idea. I had not seen it all together at once, having worked on it in fragments commuting for years and years.

Playing it through it is beyond the most awesome game you could possibly imagine. I fear for this generation if they give up on their lives and simply turn to Grimoire for all their needs.

>even tho you want some hidden gem unreleased pinnacle of CRPGs masterpiece deep down, actually it's clear as a day, you know that neanderthal-man is full of shit and releasing a 23 years old copy pasted bloated game for 40 bucks just to rip off a handful of nostalgiafag autists
It's not fair bros.

So many things I have forgotten that have taken me by surprise. I did not remember that I put them in there somewhere between 2005 and 2017.

Deep well exotic fishing. The Ego entity weapons. Dark Warren and the Yuggoths.

Wow. Just ... wow. I am wondering for the first time in my life if I really should commit myself having seen all of my own game. A sane man could not have done this.

Generally anything good in Wizardry is done by Bradley. If anything grab 6 & 7 from GoG or Steam, and 8 even through Brenda Romero wrote that and lacks Bradley's wit.

Don't bother with Wizardry Gold. the game is broken at the core and instead use the Wizardry 7 DOS version.

>people on Sup Forums are actually going to buy a piece of shit just because it's becoming a meme

/OURNEANDERTHAL/

Bastard bonds is better

Who is?
I'm just here to shitpost. I will pirate the game, play it for one hour or two, most likely realize its shit and then I'll be here (and lurking RPG Codex) to see the shitstorm when it turns out that, as literally everyone with two brain cells could see from the get go, it's a shitty Wizardry 7 rip off that is way more clunky and convoluted.

any of you Sup Forumsirgins gonna livestream this shit?

That's real neato, but why did Sir-Tech go bankrupt?

ITT: defending this trash

>So, I need to recap everything I'm reading here:

>The game is finished, but Cleve is finishing it (how does that work?).
>The game will release tomorrow, but people who backed it won't get a copy until the 8th (or later).
>Some people are arguing about politics or terrorism or something (I dunno, I didn't read that wall of text. Get a room, guys).
>Cleve claims to be living in his own shit in order to finish the game that's already done (glad I didn't order any physical materials...can't imagine what they will smell like).
>It's already 07/07/17 in Australia (so, does this mean it didn't technically release?).

Not coming out anytime soon

>party based RPG
not interested

i much prefer single character RPGs. i hate having to dick with the NPC party characters

We're ALL going to buy it because it is mathematically confirmed to be a masterpiece.

>MUH $40!!!!1
*pays $50-$60 for a VN*

What did Sup Forums mean by this?

The dude took his trolling so far, it became his entire identity. The real Cleve has been dead for years.

wahhh why this game in a genre 2hard4me looks so hard and has shit graphics unlike my actual AWESOME indieretro roguelite,this game SUCKSS :(((

I'm basically going to do the same as you, except I'll probably find it tolerable enough to invest far more hours into it than anyone else on Sup Forums. Then I'll discover some particular gem in the rough, whether it's a puzzle, quest, random event, etc. and be depressed that I can't share or talk about it with anyone here without appearing to be a shill.

As much as I like Wiz 7, giving it more than 120hs is a bit overstatement. That is if you know what to fucking do, if you don't 400h is a good estimate.

The 8th is tomorrow dumbo.

>MUH $40!!!!1
*pays $50-$60 for a linear VN*

What did Sup Forums mean by this?

No playable Dolphin race = no buy

u actually think this game looks hard?

Sir-Tech went bankrupt because the market and industry changed to a distrobution system where games had to be blockbusters to cover the publisher costs spent on marketing and other non-game related bullshit. Robert Sirotek, company founder discusses this in the excellent Matt Chat interviews, I highly recommend it.

youtube.com/watch?v=QPSzjRm484E&t=614s

Oh hey, samefag. You going to say something original for once and not just copy paste the same thing every time? If you're the same fag from awhile ago in a previous one of these threads, the guy who posted exactly this, die of cancer you fucking phone poster.

>120 hours is overstating it
>More like 400 hours

wat

>MUH $40!!!!1
*pays $50-$60 for a linear VN with pretend choices*

What did Sup Forums mean by this?

You gonna prove me wrong faggot?

14 RACES

Are you referencing to the metaphorical change of homosaphien's metamorphosis and cocoon state to his evolution to Neanderthal?
Truly Clave has fulfilled his destiny and reborn from his ashes like a magnificent phoenix.
Grimoire will be his redemption and exhibition to mere homos what Neanderthals are capable of.

>steam is a thing
>production costs

dinosaurs went extinct because they failed to adapt

my naga

16 CLASSES

>immediately Steam Community search "stone cold jane austen"
>find avatar match
>QUEBEC, CANADA
>Achievement showcase, 99 perfect games
>Steam level 330
>THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
>Rank 5 Bad Rats badge showcased
>4,402 games owned

Jesus Christ, just when I think I can't be surprised, Steam profiles continue to deliver the keks

How many of them are good while not being game breakingly overpowered? That's the important question.

>100000000 races
>6000000000 classes
>only three or four of these aren't complete shit

>MUH $40!!!!1
*pays $50-$60 for a linear VN with zero replay value*

What did Sup Forums mean by this?

>600 hours of play possible in a single game
>244+ Maps in the game to explore!
>Turn-Based strategic combat
>144 context sensitive magic spells
>14 races, 15 professions, 50 skills
>64 intelligent NPCs with 8000+ Words in Vocabulary
>Full Sentence Communication with NPCs
240+ monsters each with special powers and defenses
>1000+ items, Carry Containers, Global Party Inventory
>30 conditions, from Confusion to Disease & Lycanthropy
>Automapping, Autowalking, Autohealing
>Global Map Atlas With Position Marker
>Quest Journal, Hint Prompting, Help Facility, Mini-Quests
>Complex LockPicking Interfaces for Doors & Chests
>Challenging Puzzles and Rich Interactive Dungeons
>Browsable Character Library for up to 100 characters
>Up to 12 Commented Postage Stamped Savegames
>Multi-themed GUI and customizable screen layouts

That doesn't look all that great. Is it possible to multiclass?

Who ever said I would? All I'm saying is that you should die of cancer already. You can't even come up with something funny or original every time you post some shitty VN image.

There's also the fact that Sirotek bros were a bunch of idiots with a lot of really good people working under them. The earliest example of this is when Andrew Greenberg and Robert Woodhead went after Sir-Tech for unpaid royalties for Wizardry and they offered no protection to Bradley that took over. Mismanagements also include Jagged Alliance 2 and it's insanely long development cycle, trying to offload 8 to Australia after fall-out with Bradley and tens other problems. Sirotek's greatest crime though was selling the brand Wizardry to some MMO company in Japan, so we will never see anything western with the name Wizardry ever again.

If you know where to go in Wizardry 7 it becomes a walk in a park where the major problem is grinding and hunting down some of the NPCs to get maps from them. If you don't, figuring out shit will take a while.

120h is basically my estimate cause after 60 hours invested I was halfway - done Ukpyr, Munk city, Orkogre castle, Mountains and all for me to do was honour Yamo, do Rattkins and Dane.

...

perfectly encapsulated logic.

With respect to Sir-tek, they went bankrupt several years before the rise of digital distrobution, and well before Steam was an open platform that was proven successful. I'm sure they would have eventually adopted it if it were even an option, but they're such dinosaur they went extinct before they even had a chance.

Their creative team moved on other companies and projects, Robert & Andrew got their money and got out, too old.

What are you going to do when the game finally releases today? Have you bought enough food and supplies to last over month because you WILL stay inside your room and finish the game in one sitting. It's just that great. I can already feel it. I have water, cigarettes, pepsi, chips, frozen pizzas, milk... to last over 2 weeks now. I'm bit afraid that when I finally start the game I forget to shower. And also: am I intelligent enough for the game? I'm afraid of being a failure.

>MUH $40!!!!1
*pays $50-$60 for a linear VN*

What did Sup Forums mean by this?

And you're just a barrel of high quality posts you worthless faggot.

LOOK AT ALL THESE ATTRIBUTES

Please post more copy and paste, especially the Wizardry 8 pic. Makes me laugh.

>tfw you will never build your own bunker AND save gaming

If JA2 counts as mismanagement I wish all games were mismanaged.

An autistic Australian who thinks he's a Neanderthal is finally releasing his Wizardry 7 knockoff he worked morea than 20 years on..

>Age

NO

FUCK

JUST NO

>You gonna prove me wrong faggot?
You cant disprove that which is not grounded in any real argumentation.
Youd need to say something that made some inkling of sense first.

4 hours. I'm unironically hyped.
When is the torrent coming?

Why should I bother with this when already have wizardry 7?

>Hitpoints
>Vitality

???

Can I get a quick rundown because this thread is giving me the impression the man is insane

t. casual sape scum

>>>/cowadoody/

>really good people working under them
I think the wife of Doom's creator was the Wizardy 8 script writer, which is everybody's favorite. Found out because of all the horseshit about gamergate and lack of women in gaming, which isn't really true.

4 was really a mess. Proof of concept that you can't stay in business making impossible puzzles.

14 RACES
16 CLASSES
20 ATTRIBUTES
50 SKILLS
AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS WORTH IT
>YOU WANT IT? YOU CAN HAVE IT! LOOK FOR IT! I LEFT IT IN THAT ONE PLACE!
Men now, chasing their dreams, head towards the character creator. The world has entered the Great Grimoire Age.

Are these the words of the developer? Because holy shit I don't think I've ever heard someone so fucking full of himself.
He's so full of himself I'm considering NOT buying the game. That's how much of an ass this guy appears to be.

>magic 2 of 2.
What did he mean by this?

>getting mad at age

It can be a great mechanic if the game does it right. See M&M3 or M&M4/5.

HP is probably a derived statistic?

>Says the guy who literally copy pastes the same shit every time.
Come on dude. I will say this though, anyone who actually buys a VN is also a massive faggot.

Sup Forums bitches about Grimoires price but will buy garbage high priced VNs.

You dumb fuck

>no knight

Dissapoint

...

95% of these stats are gonna be worthless and pit traps. You fags do know that, right? The developer is probably PROUD of that fact.

>HELL YEAH, FUCK THE CASUALS
baka desu senpai

Thanks!

If you got that impression then you already know everything.

I like how he absolutely has to add that not only did he work on 3 jobs, but he did such a magnificent work that his clients didn't even suspect that.

this look really good actually, only the graphic really irks me..

torrent when

You are on the right track.

I can't wait to pirate this.

What a shame, I feel like the dev is a liar too, just based off this thread