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Title: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Fragamemnon on January 19, 2010, 11:21:09 AM
http://www.grimdawn.com/index.php

Basically a bunch of ex-Iron Lore folks got the rights to the TQ development assets and tech and are working on creating a new PC loot and levels game.

from the feature list:

Quote
-Combine any of five distinct skill classes each with multiple skill trees in which to specialize. Advance your class mastery up to 75 levels to unlock dozens of powerful skills and synergistic modifiers. New classes will be periodically released through downloadable content.
-Gameplay systems design for 200 levels of character progression, equipment, and enemies to fight makes for ridiculous amounts of replay value.
-Connect with old friends or make new allies in glorious multiplayer. Specially balanced multiplayer encounters will put your teamwork to the ultimate challenge.
-Collect blueprints that allow you to combine salvaged components into unique crafted items and then, later, use those basic crafted items with higher-tiered recipes to complete items of unprecedented badassness.
-Camera rotation enhances the three-dimensionality of the world and gameplay while levels are still designed so that players are not forced to rotate the camera.
-Refined loot system drops less junk items and ensures more consistent rewards from hero and boss monsters.
-Satisfying enemy damage and death effects with an option to enable blood and gore.
-The ability to spend money to reclaim skill and attribute points alleviates the fear and frustration of having to make early, uninformed decisions that could permanently nerf a character.

Sort of seems like another Indie take on the PC action RPG, but here it is sort of different since TQ is really the best game in its genre outside of genre titan Diablo 2. They are sort of going the route of releasing continuous paid DLC for new content + free base updates to the game that AI War does and that Paradox does for its products, which I think works really well and allows smaller developers to get their product out and refine it over time into something truly unique and remarkable.

They are looking to try to get enough pre-orders in to help get this over the finish line without having to go begging for publisher bucks-sort of the fan assisted financing model that got Mount and Blade out the door and is working for the Natural Selection 2 team. I'm in for the $32 option to get into the beta, but really it's more about supporting people who I know can deliver in a genre I enjoy to get a game I really want to play.

Anyway, figured some people here might be interested.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 19, 2010, 11:43:54 AM
 :hyper
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: archie4208 on January 19, 2010, 11:54:50 AM
Bookmarked.  Will donate when my finances improve. :hyper
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: BlueTsunami on January 19, 2010, 12:52:15 PM
An even more refined Titan Quest can only be amazingly awesome. Crafting sounds like a great addition.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Raban on January 19, 2010, 12:54:21 PM
Looks like a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi D2 clone. In other words:

:rock
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: BlueTsunami on January 19, 2010, 12:58:33 PM
Holy shat, I didn't even click the link. If this is Post Apocalyptic, I'll totally drop trow and go to town.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Draft on January 19, 2010, 01:00:59 PM
In the grim dawn future of 40,000 AD there is only grim dawness.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Raban on January 19, 2010, 01:01:22 PM
Holy shat, I didn't even click the link. If this is Post Apocalyptic, I'll totally drop trow and go to town.

 :teehee
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 19, 2010, 02:18:45 PM
:hyper
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: pilonv1 on January 19, 2010, 05:22:03 PM
Definitely interested, I hope they learned a few things from Torchlight (not necessarily design related either).

I'm a bit weary about paying for it without knowing an ETA even for the Beta. But I'd like to suport it.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Fragamemnon on January 19, 2010, 06:34:57 PM
If you're on the fence about contributing early they'll have some more information about the game up in a month or two with some media. Being an indie production on a tight budget they are getting the art done a bit later in the development process than you normally would so they can be sure they get only what they need since that stuff isn't cheap.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2010, 06:37:36 PM
Bet this will come out before Diablo 3.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 19, 2010, 07:16:52 PM
Day 1.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: pilonv1 on January 19, 2010, 07:21:42 PM
Bet this will come out before Diablo 3.

no doubt at all. once we get some more information i'll put down $30
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 19, 2010, 09:50:20 PM
Awesome. Hopefully it's the good talent from Iron Lore. :lol

Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Damian79 on January 19, 2010, 10:43:57 PM
Sounds awesome.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: chronovore on January 19, 2010, 11:20:35 PM
Holy shat, I didn't even click the link. If this is Post Apocalyptic, I'll totally drop trow and go to town.
This is making me wish I had a gaming PC. Or even a non-anemic netbook.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Bebpo on January 20, 2010, 10:32:13 PM
Forgot to post in here and say how I want this more than any other diablio-esque ever.

I mildly enjoy the Diablo genre.  They are undeniably fun games.  But the fact no one has taken the genre to a new setting has been incredibly disappointing.  Sure there is Titan Quest but at the end of the day you are still just swinging your sword at monsters.  They look different than the orcs but they're generally the same.

What the genre needs is sci-fi.  Diablo on a space station.  Loot is phazer pistols and made up grenades.  Enemies are giant robots like Voltron that split into smaller enemies and then combine like King Slime.  Something like that.

So even though this is not on a spaceship and it probably won't have giant transformable slime robots, at least being a post-apocalyptic wasteland game it should have guns and made-up-technology(tm) for loot and new enemy types and maybe a CAR.  Screw a dog.  Give me a CAR to drive over mobs.  But then it runs out of gas and I have to unearth fossils of ancient beings to extract oil and get it running again.

tl;dr - I am excite
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Raban on January 21, 2010, 01:13:42 AM
Forgot to post in here and say how I want this more than any other diablio-esque ever.

I mildly enjoy the Diablo genre.  They are undeniably fun games.  But the fact no one has taken the genre to a new setting has been incredibly disappointing.  Sure there is Titan Quest but at the end of the day you are still just swinging your sword at monsters.  They look different than the orcs but they're generally the same.

What the genre needs is sci-fi.  Diablo on a space station.  Loot is phazer pistols and made up grenades.  Enemies are giant robots like Voltron that split into smaller enemies and then combine like King Slime.  Something like that.

So even though this is not on a spaceship and it probably won't have giant transformable slime robots, at least being a post-apocalyptic wasteland game it should have guns and made-up-technology(tm) for loot and new enemy types and maybe a CAR.  Screw a dog.  Give me a CAR to drive over mobs.  But then it runs out of gas and I have to unearth fossils of ancient beings to extract oil and get it running again.

tl;dr - I am excite

I just thought of Dead Space with isometric view and loot-farming. Then I popped a boner.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 21, 2010, 09:44:14 AM
What the genre needs is sci-fi.  Diablo on a space station.  Loot is phazer pistols and made up grenades.  Enemies are giant robots like Voltron that split into smaller enemies and then combine like King Slime.  Something like that.

That's basically what Space Siege and Too Human are.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Too bad they're both terrible.
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Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: pilonv1 on January 21, 2010, 05:25:30 PM
Space Siege doesn't have any loot though does it?
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 21, 2010, 06:51:11 PM
Space Siege doesn't have any loot though does it?

I believe this is correct.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 21, 2010, 07:22:05 PM
How does it not have loot?

 ???

Very poorly.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 23, 2010, 03:18:48 PM
How does it not have loot?

 ???

Your body gets cybernetic implants (upgrades) that you can unlock as you collect enough space coins.

Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 24, 2010, 01:11:50 PM
It's actually a lot like Xbox Live.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: cool breeze on January 24, 2010, 01:20:17 PM
A good space loot game would be cool.  A time travel loot game would be even more cool.

I want loot from the year 3000 to fight cavemen.  Darkest of Days + Diablo 2.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: archie4208 on February 05, 2010, 02:06:33 PM
http://www.grimdawn.com/media.php

Screenshots. :drool
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Draft on February 05, 2010, 02:53:01 PM
Jeez, like 10 tiny ass shots of the same brown forest with barely any enemies or whatever.

Bargain development indeed.
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: duckman2000 on February 05, 2010, 03:00:40 PM
That's the worst gallery function ever
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: Raban on February 05, 2010, 03:02:09 PM
Looks like the game real Diablo 2 fans wanted ::)
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: demi on February 05, 2010, 03:08:55 PM
eh... i'll wait for the steam sale
Title: Re: Grim Dawn: ex-Titan Quest devs making another hack'n'slash
Post by: BlueTsunami on February 05, 2010, 03:17:31 PM
Jeez, like 10 tiny ass shots of the same brown forest with barely any enemies or whatever.

Bargain development indeed.

All the monies is being spent on developing the game. Can't spare a square for some ol' web developer :smug