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GreedFall - Gameplay Overview Trailer
- Thread starter dex3108
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Never seen a Spiders thread get this much attention before ha ha. I'm glad though, their potential has always been there and this really looks like it's brining all their work together.
Focus Home is doing a great job with marketing. They always do.
I am starting to love focus home interactive. Their games and their marketing are incredible. Plague tale basically went viral
Oh agreed, they always put out great trailers often with great narration explaining things it's just normally in Era it might get two pages of conversation ha. Focus really nailing it with this, Plague Tale and the Surge 2 in quick succession.
I like the look of Kurt but I've read somewhere that he won't be romanceable? Hope that's not true. Not all that into Vasco, appearance-wise (but I guess if he's an interesting, well-written character, he might grow on me).
How many hours of content are we looking at? Also could you please describe a bit more "4k and HDR" support on consoles?
I've played every game of Spiders, I actually forgot they started with Faery Legends of Avalon. I tried the deom and had some interesting ideas on leveling up with tattoos so I picked it up.
Wishlisted this a few weeks ago, it looks so cool. Might go Day 1 with this because i really enjoyed the recent output of Focus Home (The Surge, Vampyr, The Council, Plague Tale) so this should be right up my alley.
I own that faery game
Maybe i should indulge myself into some early euro jank for prosperity's sake.
As time goes on the older ones will get harder and harder to go back to I imagine lol
So any one have any concerns on how pro colonial or pro imperialism this game is gonna be. Assuming Paragon path lets you find a happy balance
this looks really cool. I've heard of this game before but didn't expect to be surprised how fun it looks.
This looks better and better with each trailer. I think I'm going to wait for reviews but I'm so close to preordering.
Continues to look (and sound) great. Really looking forward to it.
We'll see how successful they are, but from the trailers, I'm not really concerned that it won't be at least trying to explore the topic in more depth and with more care than most games.
Yeah, the romance options are Aphra, Siora, Vasco (male) and Kurt, Vasco, Siora (female).
The only same-sex romance option for male characters is Vasco (and Siora for female characters).
It's a game that they say is designed to look critically at colonialism (rather than simply treating the invaders as saviors).
We'll see how successful they are, but from the trailers, I'm not really concerned that it won't be at least trying to explore the topic in more depth and with more care than most games.
Ah, that's a shame (and frankly a bit weird that all the same-sex options are also available as straight options but not the other way around). Haven't seen any official info on this, though. Do you have a source? Or are you an insider of some sort? In any case, if this is true, I just hope I'll like Vasco as a character. Otherwise it'll be a romance-less playthrough for me.
The CEO confirmed that Kurt is not a same-sex romance option. She also revealed that it would be 2 straight and 2 bi characters (with one same-sex option per gender), and we know all the romance options because of the trailers (and the achievements on Steam).
Kurt and Aphra are straight, and Vasco and Siora are bi (confirmed in the trailer in the OP).
Yeah, I also just found this article:
She specifically mentions native people (Siora) and sailors (Vasco) so that lines up with your deduction. I do like the idea of addressing societal attitudes towards homosexuality so if the game actually does reference those issues as part of the romance arcs (and the same-sex arcs aren't just copy-pastes of the straight arcs), then I suppose having fewer options will be an alright trade-off (at least to me, though I can certainly see good arguments to the contrary, too). If not, though, then that explanation will ring a bit hollow. The main issue I could potentially see with this is that being limited to one option means you might end up having to decide between supporting the companions/factions you want and being able to have a romance. I just hope Vasco isn't part of a faction I end up hating :p.
The trailer in the OP actually shows the same-sex options (we already knew it was Vasco when she said Kurt wasn't going to be an option because he was the other male romance, but the common thought was actually that Aphra would be the bi option—until the trailer showed Siora and a female De Sardet).
Well, the Nauts (Vasco's faction) are mainly concerned with seafaring and exploration, so I actually don't think he'll be as tricky to navigate (heh) as Kurt (who is part of the mercenary faction).
I don't expect the romances will be much different between the genders (that's typically how it works in most games). I think her explanation is more background on why the options are Vasco and Siora (which bothers me a little, because I don't think you need justification to have some gay people in there, especially in a game with giant walking plant monsters), and the limitation is more just a design decision.
I really hope that ends up being the case. A Plague Tale was truly something special. Hopeful that everything comes together for Greedfall.
It does seem like an odd place to draw the line. You can play as a female who's a trained fighter, one of the characters is a black woman who's a renowned scientist but same-sex relationships need to be historically accurate? I mean, I'll reserve judgement till I've actually seen how it's all implemented (and I do think that they're acting in good faith here) but it does feel like a bit of an arbitrary limitation at the moment.
This looks so cool. Hoping to grab it at some point in the future, and I hope it runs smooth and looks as good as that on my Xbox One X.
