Thread 715032454

>Owlcat Games was very inspired by Mass Effect, many of the team members played it in their youth
>"It would be impossible to deny that Mass Effect has [had] a lot of impact on us as game developers", but not trying to replicate it
>“Other systems were introduced [since Mass Effect], players [are] now accustomed to a lot more convenient user interfaces, convenient approaches to the gameplay, and we are doing that and not, like, modernizing Mass Effect, but just making a game in the same genre but with all the modern trappings"
>The Expanse will have many choices and consequences and room for "a lot of agency"
>Nuance is important in the story, players won't be forced to be completely good or total sociopath, choices will have varying effects especially on companions
>Your background choice as an Earther, Martian or Belter affects the way you're treated by companions and NPCs
>You will not be very welcomed as an Earther or Martian on Ceres for example (reference to the destruction of the Canterbury)
>You would be much more welcomed there playing as a Belter, more opportunities, more places to visit, new side quests, etc
>"On the other hand, if you [are] of another origin, there will be other opportunities and other places for you to explore"
>Your twin sibling will also be on board, and they may or may not agree with the choices made by you as the player
>There are multiple romanceable companion among the ships’ crew

Thoughts?

>>715032454 (OP)
None of this sounds novel or interesting

>>715032454 (OP)
>choice, consequences and agency
Standard RPG feature
>pc backgrounds
Standard RPG feature
>romanceable companions
Standard RPG feature
Swap out the Expanse-specific jargon and this could describe any RPG

Ever since the Mass Effect trilogy concluded (and Andromeda failed), there's been an empty "sci-fi RPG" hole that's just sitting there waiting for someone to come and fill it. Literally the only big attempt was Starfield, and it failed spectacularly.
So yes, let's see what *Gay Russian BioWare* can accomplish with an incredibly overrated Amazon-owned IP full of niggers, chinks and Joss Whedon's Firefly rejects, that never actually became a hit.

Also >>715033372 beat me to it as I was writing this. All those features is standard shit I already expect from a RPG. What else you got, OP?

>>715032454 (OP)
it'll be a cover shooter with perks. Yay?

It looks like if Mass Effect 2/3 provided the gameplay and Starfield provided the setting.

>>715033484
>I already expect from a RPG
but rarely done right, owlcat is at least good at this this

TBD (Total Belter Death)

>>715033982
It's not really that they're good at it, but these standard features have become such a "lost art" that any RPGs that manages to get it at least somewhat right gets hailed as masterpieces.

>>715034156
Which is really mind-boggling. Like it's not that difficult, objectively speaking.

>>715034102
>Innalowda think anonymity can save their porthole when the reckoning day comes
You will get what's coming welvala

one of my most anticipated games only cos i really love the expanse books, dont think ive ever played any games by this dev so im a little in the dark as to what they will bring here but still excited

>>715032454 (OP)
>From the producers who played Mass Effect

>>715032454 (OP)
>thoughts
I liked the expanse and mass effect
Fingers crossed but as always, zero belief in literally any dev or studio, even owlcat

>>715034351
>i really love the expanse books
Were the books really that different, I'm still mad how disappointing seasons after 3 were on the show

>>715034309
Skinnies get the full-g

>>715034484
theres more background story in the books and im sure people have already told you how some characters in the show are really two different characters in the books but all in all not that different. i personally still like the shows despite all its flaws especially the amazon seasons

>>715032454 (OP)
They said this was going to have a voiced protagonist right?
That normally restricts reactivity a bit. I'll give Owlcat the benefit of a doubt though.

>>715034102
based moderate

>>715034484
Book 4 is more or less the same, but Havelock (Miller's partner) is there as one of the security guys and he spends most of the book being racist to belters.
Book 5 spends a lot more time on other characters and instead of Naomi's weepy family melodrama it's more interesting as it displays her fighting the urge to either buy into Marco's bullshit and get swept up in the manipulation, or kill herself. More internal drama than external.
Book 6 naturally is a full book rather than the 6 episodes the show got. It details how fucked the Free Navy made everything, including themselves. A lot of the wartime stuff and the pain of logistics got overlooked in the show.

I'm still not sure if i like girls like eyebrows like that

>>715032454 (OP)
If the writing is their typical wall of text or God forbid it is anything like wotr it will be dogshit

>>715032454 (OP)
So far it looks good. The trailer looks likes the combat could be fun and I'm a fan of the expanse universe. Owlcat has made some rpgs i enjoyed already as well. I'll probably get this on release.

>>715032454 (OP)
We'll see if it's as woke and obnoxious as the source material

>>715036326
sci-fi is inherently woke.

I'm dating her

>>715036494
No it's not. The opposite, in fact. Scifi is intended to explore science and rationality. Woke shit is inherently unscientific.

>>715036767
>>715035401
>2 attractive women on the Cover
>Owlcat
Its gonna BE good.

>>715032454 (OP)
>Owlcat
so
>cringe writing
>cuckshit
>unplayable until months after release
pass

>>715032454 (OP)
I dont care until i see the actual gameplay

I never heard of the Expanse until Owlcat announced they were gaming a make of this literal who IP only redditors and boomers care about. Looking into it, it seems like watered down sci-fi with nothing of the thing that makes sci-fi interesting.
I hope it flops hard and the Dark Heresy game also. So they can go back to making good games like Pathfinder 3.

>>715032454 (OP)
I have zero faith in Owlcat making something that is playable at launch, but at least they're not using Unity.

>>715040158
You never heard of Pathfinder until Owlcat made Kingmaker.

>start game
>choose belter
>BELTER FUCKING SHITS
>every NPC spits on you

>>715032454 (OP)
>Thoughts?
Owlcucks make mediocre games, as the last 40% are always rushed to death. This is their biggest game, yet. It's clear this will be THE bug fest 5000.

Kalikke
Arue (fixed version)
Cassia

Will we have a non-slut female romance option for the 4th time or will they finally just go woke.

I'll play as a Martian if it means I get to use their broken ass power armors

>>715037040
>Scifi is intended to explore science and rationality.
Are we talking about the genre where Philip K Dick dropped acid and went on paranoid tirades about reality not being real ? The genre were William Gibson a man who had never touched a computer in his life wrote about plugging your brain to VR internet with the help of space Rastafaris ? Or that time Ursula le Guin wrote about an androgynous offshoot of humanity living on a winter planet to make a point about gender role ? Or that other time the Strougatski brothers wrote about a wish granter and a drunk and depressed scavenger living on the edge of an incomprehensible alien pit stop ?

People like you should be sent to reeducation camps and forced at gun point to read books from the genre you claim to understand.

>>715032454 (OP)
It'd Owlcat and it's a massive project in a genre they never actually worked in before. RT was their third attempt at a cRPG and it was (and still is to an extend) a fucking mess with some redeeming qualities that is slowly working its way toward being okay through patches and DLCs I expect this to be the same on a greater magnitude

>>715032454 (OP)
I either need to rewatch the TV Series or read all books, before I play this.
because I forgor where da Aqua is

But will there be martian girls
joking aside I really hope the gameplay is like cum your pants amazing because I liked the TPS squad based gameplay of mass effect and xcom the bureau and want more of that shit.

>>715032454 (OP)
bland

>>715032454 (OP)
Never read or watched the expanse. Any alien crew? If not it can fuck off

Will this be Owlcat's BG3 ?

>>715032454 (OP)
Is it ACTUALLY developed by Owlcat, though?

>>715032454 (OP)
That actress in the concept trailer really did a shit job of the Belter accent. As in she just used a generic voice and said the words without any of the inflection. 5 minutes of looking up clips on youtube would've been sufficient.

>>715036767
She's going to be a lesbian and/or voiced by Debra.

>>715033982
>owlcat is at least good at this this
They're in fact terrible at the RP aspect of RPGs

>>715032454 (OP)
The game looks nice but I don't like the way the show looks so I bought myself the first book. I'm looking forward to reading it, I hope it's good.

>>715034770
>They said this was going to have a voiced protagonist right?
>That normally restricts reactivity a bit.

Literally every single major RPG studio - Owlcat, Larian, Obsidian etc. - have agreed that full VO is an unfortunate, but absolute must nowadays.

>>715032454 (OP)
Is there going to be space combat?

>>715045657
There's no alien per say in the expanse. The whole series revolves around some alien goop from an extinct civilisation that interacts in increasingly wild ways with humans and other lifeforms starts off doing Dead Space shit on a space station ends up building a wormhole to some intergalactic nexus and turning people immortal but they never meet an actual alien being. (If I remember correctly I finished the books ages ago)

>>715045725
no but this might be their ME1 brings the studio to prominence and commercial success but ends up eroding their ability to make good games while throwing back RPG as a whole back into the ditch of Action-Adventure and limited roleplaying and character building mechanics

>>715049246
At least they don't have EA to worry about.

>>715032454 (OP)
It's Owlcat so I'll definitely keep an eye on it, but I really would have preferred a hard sci-fi game

If I can't fuck an alien or cast psionics, is it even really a Mass Effect successor?

>>715052548
Sounds like you meant soft sci-fi

>become super successful and big (450+ employees)
>pick up this steaming pile of shit instead of creating their own IP

>>715053314
yeah you rite

>Owlcat
So this means they will release the game around 2030 and release the actual finished game around 2040.

Isn't this studio famous for shipping buggy and unfinished? And now they're doing their first 3D game ever?
I might really just wait a few years before picking this up.

>>715032454 (OP)
Does Owlcat have an in-house composer? Can't find any info about this.

>>715053454
Owlcat's writing team is composed of a bunch of literotica rejects, I don't think they have in them to write a good original setting

>>715053608
>Isn't this studio famous for shipping buggy and unfinished?
That's almost every notable studio these days.

>>715032454 (OP)
>Owlcat are making an RPG
>It's for the least intereseting scifi property ever

>>715052357
Don't jinx them, jeez

>>715032454 (OP)
I hate scifi slop like you wouldn't believe.

>>715053627
Most of the music for Pathfinder was written by Dmitri Silantyev, not sure if he still works for them.
Hopefully they'll hire someone skilled for the Expanse, a sci-fi setting could always benefit from having an interesting soundtrack

>>715040158
It's just an actual low sci-fi setting(well initially anyway).
No shields, no transporters, no replicators, no hyperdrives, no artificial gravity and most importantly no "inertial dampening" bullshit. It sure makes space combat a lot more thrilling.

In the expanse you have:
A ship spraying gatling guns in all directions to shoot down incoming missiles while the people inside are almost dying from the G-forces of the ship maneuvers while rail gun pellets keep penetrating the crew compartment walls around the characters.

In Star Trek you have:
A tech officer getting gently jostled in her office chair yelling progressively lower numbers of "shields at X%, captain!!!!!!!!!". Sometimes the ceiling lights throw sparks to show it's really desperate.

>>715032454 (OP)
There's no way this won't flop

>>715032454 (OP)
I've watched the trailer and honestly it looks pretty bland.

>>715055448
Why would it flop, it looks good and I'm not even a fan of The Expanse.

>>715032454 (OP)
>inspired by mass effect.
so woke, dogshit, and with a ending that shits on all the hours you spent on it? pass.

>>715036767
literally looks like ginger justin beiber.

>>715055641
Yeah, why would a fundamentally AA-studio with their track record of releasing half-assed products attempting a AAA-tier project flop?

>>715034484
Overall plot's the same, details can get very different. Book 1 Holden and Miller are the only PoV characters and the cold war between Earth and Mars is entirely off-screen.
Book 2 doesn't have the 'no-one believes Bobbie about the monster' subplot because they have it caught in 4k video, instead it's all about how Earth and Mars want to spend long meetings blaming one another instead of getting the issue solved.
Also one thing that the show didn't do that disappoints me is how the initial stages of the protomolecule are shown. It has way more in common with the Necromorphs in the early stages by how it's described in the books.

>>715053789
Get out of here 40kfag

>>715032454 (OP)
Never gotten into the Expanse. What's the deal with it?

>>715057304
In the grim darkness of the near future, there are new minorites to be racist to.

>>715057304
Just read Leviathan Wakes, it's really good.

>>715057397
And politicians swear all the fucking time

Millerheads where you @

>>715057796
Reaching out.

>>715033037
Its Owlcat game, so its going to be kino even if the base setting is boring (ie. Pathfinder was dogshit and then managed to turn it into something good)

>>715032454 (OP)
Russians are incapable of creating good things

Errinwright did nothing wrong

>want to rewatch the series
>amazon prime only offers season 4-6 on prime
>you have to """buy"""(without owning) the first three seasons to stream them
>no one else offers the series legally
It is fucking remarkable how utterly useless streaming services are these days.

>>715032454 (OP)
Why can't this devteam make anything original and only use IP's made by others?

>>715059910
I really hope this is just them dipping their toes into bigger pond before producing their own IP

>>715033906
The Expanse is what Starfield wished to be, but failed to achieve

>>715057304
Near future humanity colonized Mars, some dwarf planets in the asteroid belt and a few gas giant moons and space stations.
Earth and Mars have a cold war for control over all the rest. That rest fucking hates Earth and Mars for that.
Then a ship blows up out of nowhere and weird stuff starts happening all over the solar system. It's a bit of a mystery plot with some political thriller elements and some space battles and a few shootouts for good measure.
Setting isn't entirely realistic, but still a lot more grounded than 99% of sci-fi, at least initially.
Seeing zero g and g-forces be major factors in space battles is really refreshing and it's hard to go back to other shows that just handwave all that stuff.

>>715033906
>Starfield provided the setting
Nah the Expanse looks a bit dull but the setting is cool. It's like Gundam, it's a compact sci-fi world with just a few colonies outside of Earth

>>715046839
Name 1 (uno) modern RPG with better roleplaying opportunities than wrath. That's why I like it, your character can get really weird after all of your weird choices.

>>715032454 (OP)
Looks like the most generic AI slop ever. Now that these russki idiots cant ride the coattails of existing IP they will flop even harder

There's no way they're making all that new stuff for just ONE game. Surely at least one sequel is planned. And that could be set beyond the gate, in some unexplored galaxy where owlcat can come up with literally whatever they want

>>715062203
This is an existing IP you retard

>>715057397
>early on they make a big deal about the physical differences between belters, martians and earthers
>by the end of the show nobody gives a shit
Sad. Belters should've been lankier

>>715059798
all 6 seasons included with prime in the US, although I'm not sure if VPNs even work on Amazon

>>715056183
I trust AA studios more than AAA studios.

>>715062459
It's just too much of a pain in the ass to film that. And some of the special shots they tried going for in season 1 didn't even work out well enough.
Just one of the biggest downsides of filming live action.
They still had subplots about that at least in season 4 with Naomi.

just post the webm with the belter retard cucking her bf with the roided guy in a thong already

>>715057754
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmRQXpbeA-0

>>715063726
i think i know why owlcat chose this ip

They're going to come up with new hybrids aren't they? Wish they went more into the "protomolecule as a cosmic anomaly" direction.

>>715062940
I don't trust AA studios that can't release decent products on launch

>>715065060
I don't trust people who buy games on launch. Just buy it when it's ready

>>715065284
>when it's ready
It should be ready on launch, dipshit. Faggots like you are the problem.

>>715065284
I don't trust people who buy games.

>>715065284
why not release the game when it's ready instead?

>>715032454 (OP)
>many of the team members played it in their youth
Stopped reading there. Nigger, why the fuck should I care about some zoomer-ass retards.

>>715067559
>zoomer-ass retards.
I was 18 when I played ME1

>>715032454 (OP)
Let me guess, the attractive white girl is not romanceable or she's a lesbian.

>>715064049
Female indian world president, it's a trope already.

>>715067946
Truth is, she's actually a mutant space werewolf.

>>715064324
I mean my main concern is how you can even have a major story that takes place during the first two seasons like they said this would.
They need to write a story that is interesting, while being bound to using the same elements of the original story. So they can't make up anything new, have to retread the same beats AND it can't be too big or interesting because then you'd run into the question why this was never mentioned in the main story that's supposed to feature all the major happenings in the solar system at the time.
Hell even the basic premise of this game is odd in that the main group are apparently free lancers. I didn't really expect The Expanse setting to really have that. All the factions seemed to have their own people and ships with Holden's crew being a peculiarity, only being allowed to even keep and operating their ship by being useful to most of the major players. So how do these random guys just have their own armed gun ship to go on adventures with?
Are there just dozens of mercenaries in "legitimate salvage" gun ships running around in the setting?
I dunno. Hopefully the writers can sell this to me, but it's kind of an uphill battle right from the start.

>>715068047
To be fair, she was a great character in the show somehow. I unironically didn't mind her. Naomi was by far the worst and most annoying character in the Expanse show.

>>715032454 (OP)
>influenced by Mass Effect
>didn't make a game off the series that Mass Effect got its story from (Revelation Space)
>chose the fucking shitass Expanse instead
lol

>>715068141
The character was alright, and the actor, too. It's the trope that's disgusting. I doubt I will play owlcucks game, and not really into arpg.

>>715068141
>Naomi was by far the worst and most annoying character in the Expanse show.
Was too fast. Oh, yeah, it's ridiculous. Iirc I guessed right that she will somehow become universe president and time travel chancellor of the olymp.

>>715068253
Wrath of the righteous and Rogue Trader became straight up rpgs, not arpgs. They ditched the rtwp crap from Kingmaker because it is an antiquated system that only nostalgia goggles BG 1 and 2 fans like.

Do not stick your dick in protomolecule.
A friend of mine presumably did that and anyway T̶̼͕̜͚̦̜̖̗̦̯̈́͌̂͂̀̋̋̔̌̕͠ḥ̸̂̏̿͋́̏͘͠͠ȩ̷̢̢̛̩̮̞͇͈͔̙̱̟̻̿̉̏̈́̾̚͜ ̷̨̰̫̮͈̬͙̞͉̩̪͂͐͘W̷̧̩̫͎̗̔̊̔͌̿̌̈́̐͂͑̓̈́͝͝ơ̷͈̝͉͎̤̼̠̈́̇̃͌͊̋̂̔͜͜͝͝͝͝͝ŗ̴̙̺̟̣͓̮͎̝̩̼̹̏̀̈́̃̊̄͌̒̓̔͋̇̚͠ͅk̴̢̛͗̈̕̚ ̶̡̨̨̛̹͍̱̥̫͙̟͈̞̑͊̊̃̈̈́̓͐͆́͂͗̽̈͝m̶̺̔͐̊̚ừ̷͖͍̤͚͈̟̓̈̉̆́͆̕͘͘͝͝s̵̮̹̱̤̼͓̿̿̂̉̍͆́̃̉̆͌͐͜͝t̴͇̰̀͑̽ ̴̛̯̳͈͍̭̹̤͉̎͆͑̒͌̽̂̎̕̚͜͝c̷̩̜̬̼̉͛̀̐ǫ̶̥̭̺̻͇̰̿̋̈́̈́̓̕͝ͅń̸̢͔͆̓̽t̷͉̺̫̭̂̉̇ḯ̴̬͔͍͚̔͗͋͘n̸̡͕̬̪̟̤̱̬̪̪͚̞̖̝̓̆͌̈́̌͆͋͜͝͠͝͝ų̵̭̖̩̝̮̠̝̻̂͋͒ē̵̢̨̢̹̭͚̱̱̬͇̘͜͠ͅ.

>>715068474
Wrath of the Righteous let you pick from turn-based and RTWP, though. And Rogue Trader was based on an entirely different TRPG system.

>>715068474
They are rpg, sure. Expanse is like me, is it not? That's arpg. Kingmaker had soul. Would I have 5 million, I'd remake it with a cool system and... Well, better everything.

Just give me a game where I can chill on the ship eqring mushrooms with my 2 homies and side bitch, and or various guest of the month. That or space detective where I uncover aliens shit while trying to track down some dead chick im obsessed with

>>715033372
>>715033484
Even though those are "standard features for a rpg" you'll find it hard to find current games doing it right. Avowed doesn't, Metaphor doesn't, Clair Obscur doesn't. You only have Larian and Owlcat doing it right

>>715032454 (OP)
>generic looking American white guy
>the generic pretty blonde girl
>tick box asian
>tick box black


Looks cringe.

>>715068920
Your ESL is making it hard to understand what you're saying. If Owlcat makes an Expanse game that's like Mass-Effect (if that's what you said) then I'd be very surprised.

Kingmaker got an update that integrated the turn based mod so that part of it was fixed. Unfortunately theres no fixing that dogshit ending.

>>715069216
>If Owlcat makes an Expanse game that's like Mass-Effect
By that I mean with the same action oriented gameplay instead of standard turn based or tactics RPG gameplay.

>>715069216
You didn't enjoy killing the salad at the last minute to spite the nightlight before going home to live out your days with your tiefling sister-wives?

>>715034102
this but unironically

every single belter was a retarded nigger

>>715036767
that's a child

>>715069102
>Clair Obscur doesn't.
There're exactly ZERO (0) things E33 does wrong. Z-E-R-O. Rusfaggots from Owlcat can only dream of achieving that kind of success.

>8/10 visual design
>5-6/10 actual gameplay
>11/10 soundtrack
typical owlcat game

>>715048305
What a dumb thing to say. If they all don't want to do it and none of them do it then it won't be industry standard and then it won't be a must.

>>715067848
Mass Effect 1 was 20 years ago.
How are you still alive?

>>715069496
I rage quit the ending section when it forced me to level up all my benched characters I never included in my party like Octavia, Regongar, Jaethal, Tristan. Also the tiefling twins...my brain is too small for the kineticist class and I was forced to level two of them up from lvl 8~ to 20 at the end. Plus the game killed off one of the core members of my party (the bard) before the final fight. That really just soured my opinion on the game.

>>715056584
nta, but it's a rather OK setting, but I don't know how well it translates to video games.
It's just humans in space and human politics.
Lacks variety of civilizations, Mars is still a ball of dust, and Earth is Earth.
The Belt is OK, I guess, but you go to one space station, you've been to them all.
I get that there are other factions, but will they be the real driving force of interaction?
I feel like this will be just team based Starfield, with maybe above mid dialogue.

>>715032454 (OP)
It better have ship combat.

>>715070065
Kineticist looks complicated, but it's pretty simple once you've waded through the text.
>Gather Power, then Empowered Blast
>Bowling Infusion is busted

>>715069785
>>11/10 soundtrack
post these 10/10 tracks now lol

>>715069216
Isnt expanse behind the shoulder? I kinda took it for granted that it's mass effect like.
>km tb
Personally I like switching best. Turn it off for speed and turn it on for strategy time.

>>715069496
I did, but I killed the sun, too and went home to a harem of custom characters.
>owlcat tb
Like yakuza infinite wealth

boop

>>715071317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYWfOXZp7Q&list=RDIeYWfOXZp7Q&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5R0oN00ODE&list=RDn5R0oN00ODE&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRV587Zg550&list=RDpRV587Zg550&start_radio=1

>Invoking Mass Effect
>Based on a mediocre tv series
>muh romance

Not inspiring much confidence

>>715054452
That frenchie behind the Mechanicus and Ixion soundtrack could do it.

The opening scene of the expanse show is literally anti-gravity floating space sex. I had to reach Stargate just to wash the hacky taste out of my mouth.

>>715076179
>generic fantasy music
I mean, it's not bad by any means but I wouldn't rate it 10/10.

>>715058525
the last 3 years have been eye opening

The Expanse season 3 was the last premier television to be aired ever
It crawled almost dead since True Detective season 1 and finally died there
No, apple tv slop will never be premier tv

>>715068047
the actress is an iranian GILF so its okay

>>715032454 (OP)

got the mass effect legendary edition during the steam sale and i've been playing ME1. the vibes are immaculate. world building, tone, visuals, music. it made me realise i havent seen a game like it since. serious, grounded, packed with meaningful content. the last hurrah for bioware, the one-time gold standard in the industry. theyre definitely right that the QoL features of ME1 especially seem absolutely archaic now. but when it comes to trying to capture the soul of a game you couldnt do much better.


tldr: we're long over due another mass effect like game.

>>715032454 (OP)
I want this to be good and I hope it succeeded because Mass Effect is only considered kino because it has no competitors in this "Space opera" scenario and it needs to be put in its place especially after fagdromeda and ESPECIALLY because the next faggot sequel is in the works. Furthermore, the fact that I see an attractive white guy the biggest on the cover, next to an attractive white girl, both centered alongside a white redhead and a non fat/aunty/bald she-nigger is mind blowing to me. If the white guy is the protag and if he can straight romance the blonde without ifs buts quirks baggage past etc, as PATHETIC as it sounds, it will send tsunamis through the industry. Because it's normal.
i hope it does not run UE5 and if it does at least please optimize it and I hope it does not dwelve into multiplayer nonsense. just a single player, SEMI NOT FULL OPEN WORLD.
i am having some hope. i took everything for granted back in the 2000s and I don't want the 2k16+ shitfest to remain alive in any way shape or form

>>715079114

i should also point out that owlcat have been the only company to consistently make isometric CRPGs that rival the late 90s/early00s classics and i'm hopeful that they can do the job again when it comes to making game like mass effect.

>>715069102
We already covered this here >>715034156 and here >>715034217 Literally only a few posts below.

>>715032454 (OP)
>Thoughts?
Camina Dummer's ass

>>715079505
Given their history, it'll be buggy as hell at launch, but a worthy double-A effort come the complete edition. At least they won't have people trying to play on the highest difficulties not knowing the goddamn ruleset.

>>715081712
>double-A effort
From what we've seen so far it's going to be their first AAA project

>>715076537
kino taste, i would pre-order instantly

>>715081985
Then God help them, those poor Cypriot bastards.

>>715079114
Between this thing, Exodus, and whatever the hell Larian's working on, we might have a few options.

>>715081712

i've been playing games since about 1990. i remember when fallout, baldurs gate, arcanum etc were current. i played their unpatched retail editions from CDs. bugs are nothing in the face of SOVL. as long as they arent game breaking who cares desu

>>715054452
>Hopefully they'll hire someone skilled for the Expanse, a sci-fi setting could always benefit from having an interesting soundtrack
It's going to be okay as long as it isn't orchestral vomit. I hate orchestral music in video games so much it's fucking unreal

>>715083381
Hate to break it to you, but tasteful orchestral music and space opera/sci-fi go hand in hand. Problem is, it's nigh impossible to find a Williams/Silvestri-tier composer who'd be down for writing a video game soundtrack for some AA-studio from Cyprus

>>715083149
Troika games were littered with game-breaking shit, though. As good as they were, they still needed fan patches to function.

>>715083381
I hope they do what the series and do a bunch of covers from classic songs with belter lyrics

>>715032454 (OP)
>Your twin sibling will also be on board
hate it already

>>715068141
Yeah I expected to hate her but she was cool. Her cuck husband was way more annoying. And so was her dead gay friend

>>715083381
What about the OST for Endless Space 2, you hate that stuff too?

>>715069684
As long as all you want is a bland FF clone

>>715084439
You didn't play the game, asswipe

>>715032454 (OP)
I'm not reading anything you wrote but the cover and characters look like they belong to a korean match 3 puzzle game for mobile phones. And I played a little of Wrath of the Righteous from this developer and it was pure dogshit, not to mention woke as all fuck.

It would take a small miracle for me to buy this.

>>715053454
>pick up
it's a licensed game they were hired to do this

>>715070224
The scope of this universe is exactly right for an action RPG. You can't show a whole universe, Starfield tried and failed. In Expanse you don't have to, there's only a few space stations and a few colonies out there and that's it. You can show it all in the game, except for Earth I guess
And with protomolecule you can make a ton of weird monsters, sentient monsters even

>>715084639
how are owlcat games woke?

>>715084525
And I won't because I don't want a bland FF clone. Which is why I'm in this thread

>>715032454 (OP)
>More scifislop
I just want another game where I can be a good and pure hero and stab giant monsters to death with a magic sword and save the day
Talk shit about the pathfinder games but there are vanishingly few games on the market that let you live that fantasy and thousands of sci fi space shooters

>>715085121
Fantasysloppers need to fuck off. Literally every other game is a fantasy game. There's barely any actual sci-fi out there, with actual space exploration. Most sci-fi is just fantasy but with guns

>>715085002
>Ah yes, let me introduce the knight commander who is a strong independent masculine dyke and her "girlfriend" who is an actual tranny. Better let them hang out with your black woman paladin party member.
Because of shit like that.

>>715084741
Eh, how much interest can you create with a few space stations? I don't really care about the protomolecule stuff. I think it was pretty weak in the show. Miller carried it for me, and the moment he was out, I was out.

>>715085393
It starts off woke but you can ignore all of those woke characters after the intro.

>>715085052
>I'll buy a buggy discount ME clone instead
Whatever, asswipe

>>715085503
Yeah, I ignored the game after like 5 hours of play.

>>715085393
>oh no the game has a diverse well written cast
>OMG ITS WOKE; WOMEN ARE WOKE; DA GAYS ARE WOKE
another brain damaged woke rightist

>>715085372
Most fantasy is just post-apocalyptic sci-fi.

>>715085537
Yes because we didn't have any ME clones so far. But we've had about 15 FF clones every year for the past 3 decades

>>715085372
>There's barely any actual sci-fi out there, with actual space exploration. Most sci-fi is just fantasy but with guns
Yeah, and most fantasy games aren't epic adventures with ups and downs of a hero against overwhelming evil, but shitty mmo-lites ot beat-em-ups with shitty stats stapled on the side.
Looks like we both have a "shit games" problem, only my image of "good game" isn't a "set the autopilot on a straight path through nothingness for five minutes and then harvest resources from an uninhabited planet."

>>715085393
The half-orc isn't strong or independent. She gets captured, tortured, has a breakdown, and needs you to punch her in her stupid face to get her back into fighting. And the paladin was an honest-to-God hoodrat who got a paladin killed by stealing a helmet before a fight, and joined the order out of remorse.

>>715085746
Name all 75 FF clones that've been released from 2020 to 2025

>>715085825
>most fantasy games aren't epic adventures with ups and downs of a hero against overwhelming evil
That's like every JRPG ever and they're all fantasy. Even Star Ocean is fantasy. You don't explore the actual star ocean at all in Star Ocean

>>715086105
Bravely Default 2, Triangle Strategy, DioField Chronicle, Harvestella , Chained Echoes, Sea of Stars, Unicorn Overlord, Visions of Mana

thanks chatGPT that's enough, he gets it

>>715032454 (OP)
Cool, hope it's more like mass effect 1 than the later entries. Are those the companions? Look good

Ever noticed this shit company actively astroturfs it's games on 4chan? This game is years away yet artificial threads like this will always reach bump limit

>>715087868
or maybe they are the only good CRPG dev left and theres a semblance of pc gamers still roaming /v/?

>>715088535
Your shitty games dont need a general on v thats what vg is for. Fucking degenerate shill

>>715088535
Then why did they make the Shifter rep a big, burly bisexual gryphon bf instead of an eight-tiddy goth werewolf gf?

>>715085393
Owltrannies are in denial about the wokeness of their games for some reason

>>715032454 (OP)
>There are multiple romanceable companion among the ships’ crew
So who amongst them will be straight, bisexual, or gay? Or will Owlcat have the companions all be bisexual this time?

>>715043335
>Or that time Ursula le Guin wrote about an androgynous offshoot of humanity living on a winter planet to make a point about gender role ?
I got meme'd into reading that shit and I want 8 hours of my life back. Women should not be allowed to write, or talk for that matter.

>>715088535
no, they've been confirmed to post here
we even got DH leaks a while ago, like the bird companion's portrait

>>715032454 (OP)
>in their youth
I sometimes forget that I am 32 years old and the first Mass Effect came out 18 years ago.

>>715032454 (OP)
Unless the twin can be fraternal and you can romance them, I'm not interested

>>715089164
never said they werent woke, they just make good CRPGs

>>715090458
Theres even a rogue trader thread up right now thats essentially a general. A game that came out in 2023 and didn't even sell particularly well

Theyre not beating the shill accusations

>>715092280
That's a little more understandable, given the focus 40k vidya has been receiving recently. Some people are even revisiting Darktide to check out the Arbites.

>>715086479
>only 8
>half of them aren't even FF clones
I wholeheartedly accept your concession. Next time try to use a more elaborate bait

>>715032454 (OP)
>>715084273
twincest

>>715092280
>rogue trader
the game just got a massive patch fixing everything also DLC

>*exists*
How do you respond without sounding mad?

>>715034484
The TV series basically just gives up at the 6th book. 7, 8 and 9 would need an HBO budget to do any justice to them.

>>715064049
Fuck that was such a bad casting choice. Avasarala was meant to be a tiny Indian granny who swore like a sailor, not a tall, sultry GILF.