I read up on this a while back when I was reading stuff about Private Division. I thought it sounded really cool and unique then and these impressions just reinforce that. Thanks for posting them OP.
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Project Wight (Monster RPG, "Dishonored-like") Demo Has Been Shown to Devs/Press and Impressions Are Glowing (UP: "Next week is going to be exciting")
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I wonder how Josh Scherr got invited to this. Seems like random to me but I don't know how the industry works.
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GDC Impressions
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I don't get why these "viking" games/movies show vikings with horns on their helmet.
2 minute of research will tell you that they did not have horns on their helmet.. It's so idiotic and ruins it for me every time.
I just typed in "viking helmet" in google and this is the first hit
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm
The second sentence on this page is: "Contrary to popular belief, there is little evidence that Viking-age helmets ever had horns".
2 minute of research will tell you that they did not have horns on their helmet.. It's so idiotic and ruins it for me every time.
I just typed in "viking helmet" in google and this is the first hit
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm
The second sentence on this page is: "Contrary to popular belief, there is little evidence that Viking-age helmets ever had horns".
This doesn't appear to be a game based on true events unless I'm missing something.
It's not, but when you show a viking in your game, at least do 2 minutes of research on how they look.
This isn't exclusive to this game either, there are so many that fall into that trap.
Then they could call them "unknown type of barbarians from a fantasy land" or something and not vikings.
Maybe put it in the Conan universe as they do have helmets like that there.
Well I'm not gonna rant too much here since this happens all over the entertainment sphere not just games.
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To be fair I don't believe The Outsiders themselves called it a Viking RPG. I got that from a Eurogamer article.
Not directly, it seems to be in the "old germanic" universe actually.
It looked like Yggdrasil was in the background in one of the shots but that story is much older than the Norse.
I just wish companies would stop perpetrating the myth that is the horned helmets. It's especially disappointing considering this is a Swedish studio.
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I've gotten to the point where I no longer mix up those two names in my head. It took a bit!
I'm impressed this is still around honestly. Feels like forever ago they released that super early look at the gameplay and then radio silence until now. This is sounding like more and more like a true blue monster game. I'm into it
Also anyone interested in this should read Grendel by John Gardner. It's this game basically. Beowulf from the monsters perspective.
Also anyone interested in this should read Grendel by John Gardner. It's this game basically. Beowulf from the monsters perspective.
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I've had that book on my list for a long while. I should really get around to cracking that open.
It's really very good. Fluctuates from very cerebral and nihilistic to super descriptive violence and "what is life even" kind of self reflection... of a monster.
I've reread it multiple times. Always a good time.
I love the design of male and female Skellige warriors in Witcher 3 - they are based on Nordic and Viking culture
There are some designs with hornes, but that's because only one of the 6 different clans use it
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The final name revealed and a video of the behind closed doors demo would be perfect.
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Wtf first time I'm hearing of this game
The premise is hella interesting ooo. That video is pretty neat
I love the idea of being in this RPG open world game but instead of playing the hero you play one of the monsters that lives in the world. I wish more people would make more games like this. Like you're a ogre in Skyrim and you see some asshole come around and kill your friend so you go on a rampage in the nearest town.
Fantastic idea.
Fantastic idea.
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so you come here to say this but not link the gameplay ? lol
Opsie dopsie here you go : https://www.gameinformer.com/preview/2019/04/01/project-wight-reemerges-as-darkborn
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