I liked it even with the problems, tbh....although the fixes were welcome.

I sometimes think... "Daikatana was an ok game".

Then my eye twitches and I remember the horror. Characters constantly getting stuck... squashed by elevators... having to return to the start of the level to find a character running against a wall... frequent crashes...

I'm frankly stunned reviewers were as kind to it back in the day as they were.

I'm saying they were TOO kind to the game at release. Daikatana was a buggy disaster. I missed the advertisements about Romero making people his bitch. Couldn't care less.

Agree. Greece really opened the game up and I loved the setting.

I have to give the music to episode 4 though...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQJY7OUmdg&list=PLujD0YTbg-wEhL04C6dVDmPDYSDpk80fQ&index

1. If they were more honest it might've been taken better as being more open about it's flaws or it might've bombed even worse.....we will never know.

And yeah imo the ads weren't as bad as some claim.

2. The ending was a bit of a letdown(the 2 boss fights and the twist betrayal) though.

I also somewhat liked the dystopian setting of the first episode a bit as well.

He totally 'borrowed' that twist from Time Cop! Not that I'm complaining... I love time travel stories and the idea of changing a person/timeline so they don't become a bastard.

The year... 2004! TIME TRAVEL IS A REALITY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPLHgw54h4

lol!

If the development build is the one the devs are using to get in, that is the only thing GOG staff can review. They could have tried getting in the GOG's early access system instead.

Later in the RPGCodex thread, it looks like the dev said the rejection consists of half "original" content like no shadows, while the other half is the "form letter"-style rejection given to other devs.

What I find a bit distressing is that games in early access are being curated out then and there. In theory, devs would have time to address the things GOG wants, but are being curated out prematurely.

(It's a moot point for this particular game, since the dev said in the thread he had no plan of adding shadows and other sorts of animations that he apparently felt would look too modern).

As for Daikatana discussion elsewhere in this thread, I still have a soft spot for Daikatana and its marketing. Imo many people use terms like "edgy" (elsewhere "grimdark") to hide their own insecurities (ironically what they would accuse those who like allegedly "edgy" and "grimdark" stuff). But that's a whole nother topic.

There's nothing wrong with sprites, in fact I'd love to see some indie RPGs using Daggerfall/Might&Magic6 style sprites, but you're right the sprites in this game are way too low pixel-count even for a low-budget indie RPG, you can barely even make out what kind of creature the sprite is supposed to represent, the enemies don't seem to have animations either, the monster sprite just "wiggles" when hit and just disappear when killed. These graphics are way worse than Isles of Terra in terms of color and detail. That said, I'll probably still buy it because I'm a blobber maniac and there's so few of these type of RPGs around nowadays.

I watched some video of the game and it doesn't look particularly good. It looks like a very lazily put together Bards Tale 1 clone with worse visuals and a worse interface. At the price they want for the game, I'm not surprised it was turned down.

I get GoG adding actual old games that most people would consider bad because of nostalgia for them among some people. But these devs putting out games like this don't understand how nostalgia works. People are nostalgic about the experiences they had with a specific game, not with bad interfaces and blocky graphics. For a new game to successfully mine nostalgia they need to understand what made the best of the genre at that time good, take that and expand on it. Games like Shovel Knight do that well and that's what makes them good. This game looks inferior to games that came out in the 80s.

While I like the visuals of the game, the fact it is an early access game with a hefty 20 euro tag is not very promising in terms of potential sales for such a niche game. Either way, gave +1 to the wishlist and I wish the dev good luck!

Someone on Steam asked the dev why it's so expensive, and he replied that it needs to be that expensive to make money. Someone should tell him that Spiderweb Software tried this approach for years and it doesn't work, you make more money by selling to a larger audience with a lower pricepoint, not by gauging a small audience repeatedly.

Good lord, I had forgotten about Daikatana. Romero was lambasted to hell and back for that game and rightfully so. Today it might be decent with mods but the same can be said for Aliens Colonial Marines but day one/at launch matters. Romero never really recovered from that.

Even though I created this thread and want this particular game on GOG, your point really resonates with me and its one I have made myself in other threads. I think what you are pointing out here is a HUGE problem within indie games. Contrary to popular belief that indie games are where all the innovation is, the deliberately blocky graphics are a sign of stagnation. As pointed out earlier in this thread, some old-school blobbers do have shadows and graphically look lightyears better than this game.

That said, GOG accepts many, many pixel games (ok I am struggling to think of one without shadows, but still, that seems like such an arbitrary criterion on GOG's part). To me GOG is where PC gamers go to buy old-school RPGs including the dungeon crawler blobber sub-genre. I feel games like this, even if they could maybe be better in areas like graphics, still belong (and I would argue GOG, or at least its original vision from years ago, was about "gameplay over graphics" anyway).

We also see how developers are with the singleminded obsession with Steam. In the RPGCodex thread, it was unclear if the developer would put the game on his own site despite people clearly asking for that/to put it on itch.io. My worry is that, like so many other games we have glimpsed over the years, it will just stay Steam-only. While it is DRM-free there, there are many of us who don't wish to purchase ANYTHING there. But even those who are DRM-free gamers would have to hold their nose and purchase there to get the only DRM-free version available anywhere.

My eyes hurt looking at the game. My eyes also hurt looking at the price. Tgis is a tier $1 or BTA bundle game at best