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Grimoire: Cleve Blakemore is about to make you his bitch
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2012, 07:11:24 PM »
Dude is absolutely batshit.  

Seriously, read up on his shit: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vault-Co

Or go straight to the source: http://vault-co.blogspot.com/
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« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2013, 02:47:00 PM »
Although slightly^H^H^H^H^H a bit^H^H rather^H^H^H^H quite late compared to the promised November/early December date, we have got a public demo of this thing and I have played it a few hours! So here are my impressions so far:
  • this release (v1.2) doesn't like Windows 7. It crashed on my Win7 PC incessantly. However, trying it on an XP machine, it turned out to be rock solid with not a single bug tomention. It seems the old code has some sort of clash with the way Win7 handles permissions for system access. Otherwise...
  • essentially a charming, idiosynchratic take on Wizardry VII (which was strange enough) that feels genuinely nice to play;
  • some honestly good writing;
  • graphics out of the 90s; not high-res, but handcrafted and colourful in ways rarely seen;
  • wandering NPCs;
  • Wizardry's complex rules return with classes, spells, skills and multiclassing up the wazoo;
  • you can find a lot of different objects even during the demo;
  • starting characters are slightly stronger than in W7, but there are some relentlessly brutal battles in there;
  • during play, I killed hostile flowers, met a fairy, got one of my characters killed by a fish, explored two dungeons, rode on a boat in a dungeon, and even got to meet the dreaded Shiva-Han-Goromu and his team, who ended up fucking massacring me.
If I wanted to express it in one word, that word would be 'charming'. I'm feeling better about the $100 I spent on this. You, too, can support Neanderthal survivalists who are really good at blowing deadlines, and apparently also making games... in the NEW INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN!

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« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2013, 07:57:39 PM »
Holy SHIT I just watched Cleveland's pitch on Indiegogo and you were totally not exaggerating. The guy is certifiable! And somehow it's contagious. He's crazy, but you kind of want to be part of this type of crazy. The world needs insane people like this. I'm *this close* from pledging, actually. I must be nuts too. :D

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« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2013, 08:33:31 PM »
Cleve Blakemore is a racist piece of shit who subscribes to the worst, I mean the worst kind of disproven pseudoscientific "racial genetics" crap since the world was cursed by Josef Mengele.  His apprehension of history is at best laughable and mostly always despicable.   His "enthusiasm" is "contagious" much the same way Syphilis is, and has some of the same late-stage psychological symptoms.  Grimoire has been in development for what, nineteen years now? and is in no way going to be "released" on his "release date".  If any of you are so keen to give money to someone like that, why not just buy a copy of The Turner Diaries?  It's out now, and unlike software, can be burned straight away as soon as it arrives at your home.
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« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2013, 09:03:54 PM »
Well yeah, he *IS* buttfuck crazy. The contagious enthusiasm I was talking about was relating to the game, and the game alone, let's be clear.

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« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2013, 02:07:20 AM »
If I selected my entertainment based on whose politics I like and whose I don't, it would be very slim pickings. And it sure wouldn't include anything written by libertarians like Gary Gygax, or the range of extreme lefties and outright fascists who have made a substantial contribution to the arts and hobbies. It would be a dreary selection.

But I am not blaming anyone.
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