The Age of Decadence

O/a Age of Decadence, our primeiro but hopefully not o/a último RPG, é/está agora available. If você've sido/estado following it or playing it in Early Access, você know o que to expect. If você've apenas discovered it, "stay awhile e listen". O/a mais commonly asked question é/está:O que Kind of Jogo é/está It?It’s a muito diferente jogo than anything você’ve ever played. I’m sure você’ve noticed aquele/aquela o/a RPG genre hasn’t really sido/estado explored yet e mais RPGs follow o/a formula aquele/aquela didn’t change in 20 years. While lá eram/estavam sempre jogos aquele/aquela strayed off o/a beaten path – Darklands, Planescape: Torment, King of Dragon Pass – such jogos eram/estavam o/a exceptions aquele/aquela apenas reinforced o/a rule. O/a Age of Decadence é/está an experiment, an attempt to explorar a diferente direction, taking você back to o/a PnP roots of o/a genre. It doesn’t mean aquele/aquela o/a jogo é/está incrível. In fact, lá é/está a bom chance aquele/aquela você won’t like it, precisely because we took também/muito muitos liberties com o/a established design. Tão O que Sets O/a Age of Decadence Apart De Outro Jogos?1. O/a SetupTraditionally, muitos fantasia RPGs são/está about killing things, clearing up dungeons, e being a hero. Lá é/está nothing wrong com mindless divertido e wish fulfillment, but we want to offer você something diferente. To quote Tom Chick (Quarter to Three's jogo critic):"But Age of Decadence wants nothing to do com kobolds, apenas as it wants nothing to do com Doo-dads of Unimaginable Power. O/a overarching idea é/está a crumbling society divided among three noble Houses, each fumbling around in its own version of darkness to comprehend o que destroyed o/a mundo. Aquele/aquela’s o/a central mystery. It plays out like noir in aquele/aquela você são/está o/a detective, piecing together o que really happened de differing accounts, todo/tudo vividly written com clear voices e efficient prose. E like a detective in a noir yarn, você pode’t help but become part of o/a central mystery, effecting an outcome você might not ter intended."O/a Age of Decadence é/está not a jogo about killing monsters or exploring mystical lands, but rather, surviving amid o/a greed e brutality of seu/sua fellow humans e carving out a name for yourself. Bom e ruim são/está purely relative. It’s a mundo of scheming e backstabbing in qual seu/sua words e actions ter o/a potential to forge alliances e sow discord, e seu/sua path é/está nunca certain.Você get to play com seven diferente factions: three Noble Houses e four 'professional' guilds: merchants, assassins, thieves, e o/a army, todo/tudo fighting for power or influence; over 100 named personagens, over 750 ‘generic’ personagens com único IDs taking part in violent take-overs, assassinations, e power grabs, e over 600,000 words of dialogue: a well-developed e thought through mundo, believable personagens, realistic motivations, but no elves, dwarves, magic, e wizards in fashionable, pointy hats.2. Combate difficultyAnother design aspect worth mentioning é/está combate difficulty. It’s a difícil jogo. Combate difficulty é/está integrated into o/a setting. Você pode’t say aquele/aquela o/a mundo é/está harsh e unforgiving e então let o/a jogador kill everyone quem looks at him or her funny. O/a jogo has to ser/estar difícil, dying should ser/estar fácil, e você should ter reasons to pick seu/sua fights.Você aren’t a poderoso hero quem pode derrotar anyone e salvar o/a mundo e it é/está o/a difficulty aquele/aquela reinforces este/esta notion. Make o/a jogo easier e we’re back to o/a poderoso hero setup. Tão unless você’re a natural born killer, watch o que você say e think before você act or você’ll end up dead before você pode blink.3. Choices & ConsequencesChoices são/está o que o/a jogo é/está todo/tudo about - crafting seu/sua own narrative via a variety of choices aquele/aquela alter o/a história, playing field, e seu/sua options down o/a road. De multiple missão solutions to branching questlines você'll ter plenty decisions to make e consequences of said decisions to deal com, qual é/está o que makes o/a jogo incredibly replayable.Starting o/a jogo as a mercenary e joining o/a Imperial Guards vai give a completely diferente experiência, diferente missões, diferente content e points of view than, say, playing o/a jogo as a merchant (menos buying low e selling high, mais scheming e plotting to gain advantages for o/a guild), a praetor serving a Noble House, or an assassin.O/a questlines são/está interwoven, forming a large, overarching história, tão playing o/a jogo apenas once vai ser/estar like witnessing events de a single perspective, qual é/está limited by default. Você vai ter to play o/a jogo several times to better understand o que’s going on, piece everything together, e see o/a full effect of o/a choices você make.O/a Grande Question: Should Você Buy O/a Jogo?Try before você buy. Até mesmo if everything I said sounds exactly like seu/sua kind of jogo, try o/a demo primeiro. Aquele/aquela’s o que it’s lá for. It gives você access to o/a primeiro Chapter, consisting of 3 locations e about 30 missões split between mutually exclusive questlines e decisions.