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General discussionRelease: Barony: Cursed Edition(186 posts)(186 posts)
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Posted May 10, 2016
Just remember that death is not the end



<span class="bold">Barony: Cursed Edition</span>, a first-person dungeon-crawler that throws you inside a treacherous labyrinth, is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com, with a 30% launch discount.

If someone's been a pain in the backside while alive, you can bet they're going to be impossible after death. Such is the story of Baron Herx, who's come back as an undead lich, forcing your hero to dive into his lair and dispose of him for good. Thing is, the Baron is holed up inside a hardcore, procedurally-generated dungeon full of sinister traps and monsters, hidden passages, cryptic messages, and heaps of shiny loot. Frantically narrated perma-death lurks around every corner, but don't die alone - grab your friends and go about it in an up-to-4-player-co-op fashion.



Delve into an underground complex full of unpredictable dangers in <span class="bold">Barony: Cursed Edition</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 30% discount ends May 17, 12:59 PM UTC.
Posted May 10, 2016
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rgnrk: And anyway, I'm always in favour of every good game to be released here, even if I'm not personally interested in it. The problem is, as always, the limited slots. And the fact that many people interpret each release they don't want as a place taken away from a game they do.

... And then there are all those rejected games.
Yup, you've listed the main issues. :P
Posted May 10, 2016
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Tarm: Didn't you know? Every time GOG release a Indie game a Good Old classic Game release dies.
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Falkenherz: But every time GOG releases an indie game, all good old classic games that haven’t been released here become even more classic and older, upvaluing them? Maybe it just was the wrong week for an indie game release and every other indie released today would have spawned a similiar reaction regardless of it’s quality. Like standing at a street corner and getting run over by a Justin Bieber fan mob because he happened to stand 10 feet behind you. Not your fault, but dead you are nonetheless. (Does this metaphor make sense?)
Value is of no use if the game isn't on GOG. ;)

I don't even think there is any real reason or logic behind the sudden ire against a Indie game. It just seems to randomly happen here. :S
Posted May 10, 2016
Did anyone else look at the screenshots and go "Is this Doom in the Minecraft engine??"
Posted May 10, 2016
This game is actually pretty excellent and has a nice sense of atmosphere.
Posted May 10, 2016
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Bookwyrm627: Did anyone else look at the screenshots and go "Is this Doom in the Minecraft engine??"
No?
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fortune_p_dawg: This game is actually pretty excellent and has a nice sense of atmosphere.
After rewatching the video I must say it does seem like it has a decent atmosphere.
Is the music any good?
Post edited May 10, 2016 by omega64
Posted May 10, 2016
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rgnrk: And anyway, I'm always in favour of every good game to be released here, even if I'm not personally interested in it. The problem is, as always, the limited slots. And the fact that many people interpret each release they don't want as a place taken away from a game they do.

... And then there are all those rejected games.
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omega64: Yup, you've listed the main issues. :P
But instead of looking it from the negative side, they could look at it as an example that, any game could have a chance to show up here, eventually. So maybe your (my) favourite rejected one could be next.
Post edited May 10, 2016 by rgnrk
Posted May 10, 2016
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park_84: ^ Looks like an RPG made with Minecraft.
My thoughts exactly
Posted May 10, 2016
I will keep my eye on it and wait for some reviews first. It could be fun
Posted May 10, 2016
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Bookwyrm627: Did anyone else look at the screenshots and go "Is this Doom in the Minecraft engine??"
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omega64: No?
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fortune_p_dawg: This game is actually pretty excellent and has a nice sense of atmosphere.
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omega64: After rewatching the video I must say it does seem like it has a decent atmosphere.
Is the music any good?
Indeed. Mostly soft and/or ominous melodies, nothing particularly memorable but decent dungeon music. I bought this off IndieGameStand a while ago and have been very pleased. It has a nice '1980s D&D genero-fantasy' vibe that I totally dig.
Posted May 10, 2016
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phaolo: WTF? To see the game page properly now I have to add randomcode.cloudfront.net to Noscript.. this could be quite annoying.
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huan: It's an evil plot of marketers to get us to whitelist it, so that they can later replace a harmless script with ad spewing monster (and yes, it annoys me too, there are fewer and fewer sites that are viewable without whitelisting tens of random domains).
I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices this.
Posted May 10, 2016
● ... random dungeons...

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● Chock-full of secret areas...

'Behold this Emmenthal! It's chock-full of holes!' :P
Posted May 10, 2016
Ah, the usual comments for indie games. Good, good, I'd hate it if anything changed :)

In the meantime, maybe the two of you who aren't too busy angrily stomping your foot and shaking your fist towards Heaven (obviously, Poland) would like to try the demo?

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Beware though, it's an alpha demo, so if you'd like to see what the Cursed Edition looks like, see the link in radigram's post below. Spoiler: it looks better :) (but you don't care about graphics anyway, right? (I'm just kidding, I know you do (no, not you, you're cool)))
Post edited May 10, 2016 by hyperagathon
Posted May 10, 2016
@Vythonaut and a4plz: thanks both of you for the responses. Yeah, it has something to do with the game engine and/or optimisations.

Anyway, I found a solid review here:
Barony Review - HD by MMO Play

But to be fair, this is an updated gameplay of Cursed Edition:
Barony: Cursed Edition Update! - ep.1 "I Am Cursed"

... and the guys at Co-optimus made an video of the co-op gameplay:
Exploring the Dungeons of Barony: Cursed Edition
Post edited May 10, 2016 by radigram
Posted May 10, 2016
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Bookwyrm627: Did anyone else look at the screenshots and go "Is this Doom in the Minecraft engine??"
Nope. It looked more like a Lego Dugeon Crawler before I recognized the Minecraft look :)
Posted May 10, 2016
Time to jump on the invective bandwagon. I hate the things everyone else hates.
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