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MollyMetroid posted:what do you think the scare quotes signify Maybe I should have used a word like 'gritty' or something. 'Realistic' like Game of Thrones, not realistic like Vermeer. Actually, strike that, 'realistic' like Dark Souls, not realistic like anything at all.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Dark Souls has fantastic art direction, though. Yeah but would you call its style realism? I wouldn't. But some people would, and they tend to reproduce gothic artistic exaggeration really badly, in the name of gritty realism. That mushroom monster is absolutely a Vileplume as one of those DS mushroom people, with additional 'vertical mouths are inherently intimidating, right?'
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Oct 28, 2018 06:14
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I think whoever designed those was very intentionally going for grotesque.
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Oct 28, 2018 06:20
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I think whoever designed those was very intentionally going for grotesque. They succeeded, though I don't know if it's in quite the way you mean.
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Mugaaz posted:Play Sword & Sorcery prologue today. Wow, I really love this game. See they have another KS starting on the 5th of November, will probably go all-in on that. Only of you've played through Gloomhaven first
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djfooboo posted:Only of you've played through Gloomhaven first I did a demo of Gloomhaven, IDK, I didn't get he hype. The card combat was very well executed, it was strategic, but it is so puzzley that it didn't give me a dungeon crawl feel at all. I felt like I was playing a puzzle game and the enemy standees were less immersive than minis. This game felt more like BattleCon than it felt like HeroQuest. Also, the gear in Gloomhaven was a bit sterile for me. I understand it was all newbie gear though, maybe it gets better. Overall, didn't feel all that compelled to play it more.
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The newbie gear in Gloomhaven is quite plain compared to some of the higher end stuff, although the Minor Stamina Potion you can buy right at the start remains strong forever. It's puzzle-y but that's the appeal for me (and a lot of people).
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandypuggames/americana-1 Americana has cleared $10k with 3 days left! 
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Awesome! Here's hoping Sandy Pug can get paid now.
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$2K and change to the next goal, 3 days to go ! e. And Strata, the Spire expansion, has unlocked the stretch goal for Strata KS posted:Can baking overthrow a city? The Ministry are hoping it will. Offering unprecedented access to the rich and powerful citizens of Spire, a popular high-class bakery has been acquired by revolutionary forces, and the player characters are placed at the forefront of a distribution network that sees them placing poisoned petit-fours in the perfumed palaces of politicians. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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Antivehicular posted:Awesome! Here's hoping Sandy Pug can get paid now. We did it, we hit our secret Nems Gets Paid goal ya'll! I'm not massively hopeful we'll hit the MIA goal, we hit that 48hrs window at noon tomorrow and we just got our last big pledge for the portraits, but stranger things have happened. I'm doing an AMA tomorrow on the livestream at 1 EST if anyone's interested in checking that out.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:We did it, we hit our secret Nems Gets Paid goal ya'll! I'm pretty selfish so now that the tokusatsu stretch goal's been hit (at its original pay-the-creators value) I'm perfectly content with things, but here's hoping the last 48 carries you across the final finish line.
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Anyone played Street Masters? It is getting a 2nd KS, wondering how it plays. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacklistgames/street-masters-aftershock/?ref=kicktraq
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mllaneza posted:$2K and change to the next goal, 3 days to go ! Yaaaasssss. That is my jaaaam. I will never get to play it but I will always cherish owning a book about a subversive bakery.
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Mugaaz posted:Anyone played Street Masters? It is getting a 2nd KS, wondering how it plays. It's a little fiddly with tokens, but not as much as Sentinels of the Multiverse (another game it's compared to). It follows the format of that game which is selecting player decks to fight a villain and stage deck but adds a physical board with a spatial positioning element. As an aside, the art company they hired for the character design combines and traces other famous characters for several pieces of artwork if you're concerned about that. It doesn't really bother me due to the parody style of the game and the fact that Kickstarter's pretty much the wild west in terms of IP infringement. CMoN Kickstarters always raises a ton of money with celebrity knock-off character stretch goals, too. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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JazzFlight posted:I like it a lot and there's an incredible amount of variety/content. The art looks like homage more than rip off to me, the game seems obviously trying to glorify 80-90s beat-em-ups. I'll admit the distinction can be pure opinion though. I'm leaning towards picking it up.
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No, the art they had in the first KS were direct traces of SF/MK/other fighting game franchises with small details changed. You can find comparison shots pretty easily.
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I gave them poo poo over it last time but now after seeing how loving stupid the actual Street Fighters Kickstarter went I've pledged all in for this. At least their miniatures are used for the actual game (and can be painted without extra work).
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:I gave them poo poo over it last time but now after seeing how loving stupid the actual Street Fighters Kickstarter went I've pledged all in for this.
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I am planning on doing a base game pledge at the very least. Looks pretty good and it has gotten good buzz from the solo community for sure.
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Tekopo posted:I thought the minis for the SF KS were also used for the game? I mean, the ruleset for the SF minis game is garbage in comparison to what is currently available already, but in the promotional videos they were using the minis. They seemed to infer the minis were more of a collector's item than an actual play piece during the interviews. It's been a while; I'd have to go re-read the KS and that requires 
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Affectionate: Cats and Cuddles - It's Treat Time! is an expansion to their base game Affectionate: Cats and Cuddles. This expansion adds new rules to make the game a little more complex. Goal remains the same: collect the most cuddle tokens to be the most affectionate cat! I really love kitties so I backed this one as soon as I saw it. 
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Carteret posted:I opened the link, my eyes got big, and then started to glaze over as I scrolled down. I then closed the page. The board game equivalent of Too Many Cooks.
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Carteret posted:I opened the link, my eyes got big, and then started to glaze over as I scrolled down. I then closed the page. Definitely one of the most extravagant mini-war-game kickstarters I've ever seen.
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These type of KS are like sweet nectar to me. This thread seems way more on the book side of game KS and less hot about any mini oriented KS. I rarely hear about mini related KS here, even when they are super popular. However, I will hear about every single RPG book KS that is currently funded to the tune of $2,700. This seems to cater to a different crowd. Which is completely fine.
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The $424 + shipping for a board game with shoehorned minis crowd
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alg posted:The $424 + shipping for a board game with shoehorned minis crowd There is a larger crowd for this stuff financially than most KS stuff.
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Things balance out a lot more when you sort by backer number rather than money made, since mini KSes tend to inflate their $$$ value due to larger pledge requirements. That being said, RPGs generally don't make as much, but there are definitely outliers. The big winners for Kickstarters are gimmicky, dumb card games, and those are definitely tops as far as "high backer count, high profit, low hobbyist engagement" goes.
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Mugaaz posted:These type of KS are like sweet nectar to me. This thread seems way more on the book side of game KS and less hot about any mini oriented KS. I rarely hear about mini related KS here, even when they are super popular. However, I will hear about every single RPG book KS that is currently funded to the tune of $2,700. This seems to cater to a different crowd. Which is completely fine. If more KS had train minis, they would be nectar here. Age of Steam reprint KS coming soon, get hype  Also, container with giant jumbo boat minis is amazing and the board game thread was hyped about it.
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The trains from the Empyreal Spells & Steam kickstarter looked really cool and it's too bad I can't paint worth a drat because I'd totally try to paint those train minis.
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Mors Rattus posted:Also, low quality card stock is cheap. Good thing the higher qualities make for an easy couple of stretch goals. 
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There's a huge market for people that don't care about rules, but do care about minis and that's it, and my favourite piece of evidence is this and this. Can anyone guess why the earlier KS didn't fund and the latter one did?
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With miniatures, it's much easier to know what you are getting ahead of time. Assuming the kickstarter delivers what's in the pictures, then you get the figures you wanted. With a card game or rpg, it's much harder to tell if it is going to be something you like unless you can playtest it or get in-depth reviews.
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Tekopo posted:There's a huge market for people that don't care about rules, but do care about minis and that's it, and my favourite piece of evidence is this and this. I think you linked to the same project twice. Didn't know Soda Pop did their own I Can't Believe It's Not Street Fighter! game.
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