Tainted Grail

[DigDog]

So i've been playing Tainted Grail: The Unnecessary Subtitle.

It's not too far off from "Indie Skyrim", with more focus on fighting than on NPC interactions. Quests likewise seem a lot more limited to "kill X bandits" rather than "sneak into this house and replace this forged letter, then put the stolen ring on the other NPC's bed".
On the plus side, combat is harder than any Bethesda game, you are generally always at risk and need to progress carefully, although minmaxing still produces results.
I see influences of both various MMORPGs and of the Souls games. Your character can be strong if you are timing your parries accurately and always watching your mana and endurance meters, but the instant you mess up you get punished .. often by death.

It's .. cute. Anyone else into this kind of stuff?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Looks pretty interesting. Kind of like a DX7 game on steroids with high res textures but I can see that they worked hard on having lots of stuff for the player to do.

I don't know about the combat though. I think gaming will "improve" once we can "whisper" to our character on how to fight the enemy and just enjoy the show onscreen in games like this one. Sort of acting like a coach.

 

[Stg-Flame]

I enjoyed Spiffing Brit's video of this game, though I think I'm all "funned out" on the TES-style fantasy games at the moment. I can't even bring myself to get excited over the Oblivion remaster because all it reminds me of is that we don't have a Morrowind remaster and even if we do get that, Bethesda will inevitably dumb everything down for the Skyrim fans.