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Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :

...and no, while I hate letting Jose down (pun), this isn't an onanism thread.

Spellforce is coming out. It calls itself a mix of my two favorite genres of games -- a role-playing strategy.

Whoo damn. I wonder if it'll live up to my expectations. And if it should, is anyone here interested in a battle in two or three weeks?

Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :

Well, no. Apparently it's coming out on the 24th, not the 13th as Amazon promised.

Damn them... They did this to me with the fourth book of A Song of Ice and Fire, too.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

But 3 1/2 months old in Europe. And Kama was complaining they didn't get ROTK until last week.

Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :

I dunno, the reviews look pretty half-hearted about it.

What I'm always on the look-out for is an RPG that is as non-linear as possible. I'd like to actually have a personality for the character that affects the game plot. At best, an RPG will give you two or three path choices, total, with side quests thrown in.

Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :

I was? [Confused]

It was in the theaters from January 1st.

Which is much later than in America, anyway.

Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :

The video available at Fileplanet is pretty unimpressive. I don't know, I think that Warcraft III and its followers (Knightshift, Spellforce) are taking the complete wrong approach to combining the RPG with the RTS. In an RPG, you focus a lot of your attention on the development of a single character or group of characters. But a large-scale RTS demands that you disperse your attention to an entire army, and treat them as pawns, rather than people. It kills the whole effect.

I'd rather see an RPG/RTS hybrid in which the entire character and style of your army shifts with the development of your invisible "general" character. If you're going to add RPG-like stats, progression, tradeoffs, etc, add them where they'll really matter to the player.

Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :

Personally, I'm playing an RPG/TBS hybrid — Silent Storm — and it's the best thing ever. They give you a high-powered machine gun, a pile of grenades, and some fully-destructible maps. It's like heaven.